All episodes
Saturday, 7 September 2024
- 7:11 The new Māori Queen
- 7:16 Dr Joëlle Gergis: Pacific Island Forum was lacking in ambition
- 7:35 Grenfell Tower fire survivor says 'justice must be served'
- 7:50 How effective are our current Covid vaccines?
- 8:10 SIS agent turned freshwater champion Mike Joy
- 8:35 Te Māori exhibition 40 years on
- 9:05 Opera stars: Amitai Pati and Adela Zaharia
- 9:35 Giving a voice to children during family separation
- 10:05 Navigating an anxious world
- 10:35 Robert Harris: Precipice
- 11:00 Liam Dann: Low petrol prices, high business confidence
- 11:25 The History of music therapy
- 11:45 Saturday Lunch: Meatballs but fancy
Saturday, 31 August 2024
- 7:12 Julian Wilcox live from Turangawaewae
- 7:20 South Island Correspondent David Williams
- 7:35 Response to Kiingi Tuuheitia's death
- 7:40 Hone Harawira - Waitangi Tribunal claim
- 7:50 Sports with Jamie Wall
- 8:10 Native plants and story-telling
- 8:25 Gallantry star: SAS Commander Jamie Pennell
- 9:07 Vincent O'Malley reflects on Kiingi Tuuheitia
- 9:25 What should our cities look like?
- 9:50 Kiran Dass has the last word on WORD
- 10:05 Kate Atkinson: playing detective
- 10:35 Dad's Day brunch with Matt Heath
- 11:05 A woven legacy
- 11:25 Live music with Amiria Grenell
- 11:25 Live music with Amiria Grenell
- 11:30 Risk taker: Anke Richter
Saturday, 24 August 2024
- 8:10 Eggs, Evolution, and Life on Earth
- 8:45 Mpox 101 with Dr Chris Smith
- 9:05 Can music policy transform cities?
- 9:40 Surviving and thriving after a break-up
- 10:05 Playwright Dennis Kelly
- 10:30 Olympics photographer David Levene
- 10:45 Danyl McLauchlan: Why internet searches are serving up "AI slop"
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Jan Hellriegel
- 12:00 Saturday morning listener feedback
Saturday, 17 August 2024
- 8:10 How oral insulin could revolutionise diabetes treatment
- 8:35 Anti-methane vaccine could reduce impact of cow burps
- 8:45 Elspeth Sandys: The Body Politic
- 9:05 Amy Neff: Writing her success story
- 9:30 Veteran darts caller 'The Voice' at NZ Darts Masters
- 9:45 Kath Irvine: August garden tasks
- 10:05 Can you eat your way to beauty?
- 10:45 Īhaka Martyn: Am I Māori enough?
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Madeleine Sami
Saturday, 10 August 2024
- 8:10 Breaking down the physics of the Olympic's newest sport
- 8:30 Dana Johannsen: Paris Olympics latest
- 8:35 Imran Ahmed: Countering the online hate fuelling UK riots
- 9:05 Sam Gibson: the bushman sharing his love for the natural world
- 9:35 Katie Wolfe: The Haka Party Incident
- 10:05 Fintan O'Toole: We've been reading Shakespeare all wrong
- 10:45 Kate De Goldi: Reading for pleasure
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Carmel McGlone
Saturday, 3 August 2024
- 8:10 Money talks- but what about cash?
- 8:30 Northland going nuts for for peanuts
- 9:05 Catherine Taylor - The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time
- 9:35 Nico Dosenbach: how psilocybin changes the brain
- 10:05 Tits Up: Sarah Thornton
- 10:35 Heat energy from the earth: Graham Leonard
- 11:10 Sir Wayne McGregor - You can dance
- 11:35 Shiori Ito - Black Box Diaries
- 12:00 Saturday morning listener feedback
Saturday, 27 July 2024
- 8:10 UNICEF leader on protecting Pacific children as climate changes
- 8:30 Olympics Opening Ceremony: Nathan Rarere
- 8:45 Keith Wiffin: The fight continues for abuse in care survivors
- 9:05 Dr Jo Burzynska: Why books smell so good
- 9:35 The case for NZ to ban engineered stone
- 10:05 Melody Thomas: Talking about porn with your kids
- 10:35 Shilo Kino: All That We Know
- 11:05 Tom Turcich: The man who walked the world
- 11:35 Claire Mabey: The Raven's Eye Runaways
Saturday, 20 July 2024
- 8:15 Dan Ives: What is Crowdstrike?
- 8:20 How has the outage affected supermarkets?
- 8:25 Retail NZ
- 8:35 Acting PM David Seymour: outage's effect on government systems
- 8:40 Live from Crowdstrike HQ
- 8:50 Emergency Management Minister Mark Mitchell
- 9:05 Dr Moriba Jah: the increasing threat of space junk
- 9:25 Kevin Day: football didn't come home, again
- 9:45 Liam Dann: are interest rates falling fast enough to save small businesses?
- 10:05 Åsne Seierstad: The Afghans
- 10:35 How to be a Citizen - breaking rules to fix them
- 11:05 Lucia Osborne-Crowley: Lasting Harm
- 11:40 Larry Killip: an under-the-radar icon of NZ music history
Saturday, 13 July 2024
- 8:10 Helping the brain drain
- 8:40 Shaun Wallace: Chasing the All Blacks
- 9:05 Prof Josephine Quinn: How the world made the West
- 9:45 Kate De Goldi: Reading for pleasure
- 10:05 Prof Ian Hickie: busting the myths around depression
- 10:35 How to raise a good dog: Tips from the stars of The Dog House NZ
- 11:05 Playing favourites: Grant Robertson
Saturday, 6 July 2024
- 8:10 Lucy Jones on the "gnarly and hardcore" reality of motherhood
- 8:35 Norman Ohler: Nazis, drugs, and the CIA
- 9:05 David Finnigan: Scenes from the Climate Era
- 9:35 Antonia Murphy: The ethical pimp who inspired Madam
- 10:05 Ken Wylie: The guilt of surviving a deadly avalanche
- 10:45 Danyl McLauchlan: Silicon Valley's cult of tech utopianism
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Marlon Williams
- 12:00 Saturday morning feedback for 6 July 2024
Saturday, 29 June 2024
- 8:10 That Biden-Trump US presidential debate
- 8:20 Rob Watson: UK general election update
- 8:25 Easter Island 'ecocide' theory challenged
- 8:40 Massey's fake animals win big
- 9:05 Amor Towles: Table for Two
- 9:30 Lisa Blair: 'I only have to think about eat, sleep, sail'
- 10:05 The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
- 10:45 Lyndy McIntyre: The living wage movement
- 11:05 David Nicholls: new novel from 'One Day' author
- 11:40 Kath Irvine: how to prune raspberries
Saturday, 22 June 2024
- 8:10 Sequoia Schmidt: A life on the edge
- 8:40 Dr Hinemoa Elder: journalling, self-knowledge and Maramataka
- 9:05 'The Click Trap' doco exposes nefarious world of online ads
- 9:40 Graham Leonard: Is it ok to ski on an active volcano?
- 10:05 Temuera Morrison: 'These were powerful people back in the 1860s'
- 10:35 The Beatles in NZ: 60 Years on
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Mike McRoberts
Saturday, 15 June 2024
- 8:10 Sandy Inglis: Life as a surgeon in Southern Gaza
- 8:35 Dr Jo Cribb: how to thrive in the new world of work
- 9:05 James Comey: FBI director turned crime writer
- 9:40 Dr Andrew Faleatua: fusing jazz with Pasifika sounds
- 10:05 Cult expert Dr Janja Lalich: 'Don't jump into the first life-changing thing you come across'
- 10:40 Lisa Beauchamp: Activist and avante-garde artist Derek Jarman
- 11:05 Toby Manhire: Rogernomics and me
- 11:40 Kate De Goldi: Reading for pleasure
Saturday, 8 June 2024
- 8:10 Dennis and Judy Shepard: Harnessing grief to fight gay hate crime
- 9:05 Prof Beth Linker: In defence of slouching
- 9:40 The first 'millennial saint'
- 10:00 Tom Burgis: How the mega-rich warp the truth
- 10:35 Liam Dann: Inflation vs interest rates
- 11:05 Renee Gracie: From Bathurst to OnlyFans and back
- 11:35 World Choir Games bring 11,000 singers to Auckland
- 12:00 Saturday morning listener feedback for June 8th 2024
Saturday, 1 June 2024
- 8:10 The forgotten women's football world cup
- 8:40 Julia Whaipooti: Budget does not fulfil te Tiriti obligations
- 9:05 Prof Anna Wirz-Justice: Why winter makes us SAD and how light can help
- 9:30 Dr Christos Christou: the state of humanitarianism
- 10:05 Matt Heath: learning to love your own life
- 10:45 Historic swarm of cicadas disrupting the peace, and food chain
- 11:05 Trump the felon: what's next for the Republican party?
- 11:15 Max Miller: Tasting history one recipe at a time
- 11:40 Gore's Gold Guitars
Saturday, 25 May 2024
- 8:10 Should all drugs be decriminalised?
- 8:50 Blooming magic: Toby de Lacey - the Chelsea Flower Show
- 9:05 Matt Brown: What if Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis debated God
- 9:35 Opera director Simon Phillips: A new spin on 'Le comte Ory'
- 10:05 Pasi Vainikka: The next step in the food revolution
- 10:40 Aussie Lego Masters bring their RELICS exhibition to Auckland
- 11:05 Jake Adelstein: A unique view into Japan's seedy underbelly
- 11:25 The website revealing how much jobs might pay
- 11:40 Kate De Goldi: reading for pleasure
Saturday, 18 May 2024
- 8:10 New Caledonia unrest explained
- 8:35 Jonathan Rauch: Allowing free speech
- 9:05 Connie Walker: Stolen, murdered and ignored, Indigenous women
- 9:30 Vincent Deary: Why rest is vital to beat burnout
- 10:05 Joy Womack: the American ballerina who danced for Russia
- 10:45 Singer Hollie Smith unveils her debut art exhibition
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Dame Jane Campion
- 12:00 Saturday morning listener feedback
Saturday, 11 May 2024
- 8:10 Climate change from a wild animal's point of view: Adam Welz
- 9:05 Jordan van den Berg: the renters' Robin Hood
- 9:30 Madison Nonoa: singing her way from the Waikato to European opera houses
- 10:05 India's elections and the cost of colonialism: Dr Sashi Tharoor
- 10:45 The case for living on Mars
- 11:05 Nazeem Hussain: the totally normal comedian
- 11:35 Framing a life: Ans Westra
Saturday, 4 May 2024
- 8:10 The sinister side of the man who saved Rwanda: Michela Wrong
- 8:45 John Adams: stopping the Stonehenge road tunnel
- 9:05 Grace Blakeley: Vulture Capitalism
- 9:45 Edible Gardener Kath Irvine: everything asparagus
- 10:10 A curse and a genetic code: PM's Science Prize winners
- 11:05 Finn McCahon-Jones: letters between best friends
- 11:30 Colour instinct: the art of personal colour analysis
- 12:00 Saturday Morning feedback for 4th May 2024
Saturday, 27 April 2024
- 8:12 How to tell if your preschooler is autistic
- 8:50 Dr Matt Baker: en garde for the Olympics
- 9:10 Glenn Colquhoun: 'It's well past time Pākeha sung to Māori'
- 10:05 Alexi Mostrous: Who Trolled Amber?
- 10:45 Graham Leonard: New Zealand's B-list volcanoes
- 11:05 Christian Lewis: Finding Hildasay
- 11:40 Shaun Higgins: the dawn of NZ photography
Saturday, 20 April 2024
- 8:12 The burden of long covid
- 9:05 Elizabeth Kolbert: The A to Z of climate change
- 9:35 Carrie Sun: Private Equity memoir explores dark side of wealth
- 10:05 Grace Millane: New film The Lie explores shocking case
- 10:40 Liam Dann: are we witnessing the death of paper money?
- 11:05 Ngahuia te Awekotuku: a story of bravery
- 11:45 Kate De Goldi: reading for pleasure
- 12:00 Saturday morning feedback
Saturday, 13 April 2024
- 8:14 Mark Staufer and Neil Harding: The Lost Boys of Dilworth
- 9:05 Bonnie Garmus: how a bad day at the office sparked a glittering new career
- 9:40 Alice Taylor's adventures in cakeland
- 10:05 Prof Karen Willcox: The predictive power of digital twins
- 10:40 Prof Tim Ryley: the seaplane rises again
- 11:05 Deborah Frances-White: The Guilty Feminist
- 11:40 Leah McFall: books my friends borrowed and never returned
- 12:00 Saturday Morning listener feedback
Saturday, 6 April 2024
- 8:10 Nathan Thrall - A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
- 9:08 Simon Young - from Pickering to Pitcairn mayor
- 9:14 On a mission to change the 'archaic' 9 to 5 for parents
- 9:45 'Tepid response' to Oppenheimer in Japan
- 10:07 Richard Shaw: The Unsettled
- 10:40 Self-confessed taphophile: Deborah Challinor
- 11:05 Jason Gunn - playing favourites
Saturday, 30 March 2024
- 8:10 The need for a holistic approach to dementia
- 9:05 Viet Thanh Nguyen on being Vietnamese and American
- 9:40 Baron Hasselhoff's: the art and craft of great chocolate
- 10:05 Claire Keegan: Small Things Like These
- 10:35 Girls State: Imagining a world run by young women
- 11:05 Gwyneth Hughes: Mr Bates vs The Post Office
- 11:40 Kate De Goldi: reading for pleasure
Saturday, 23 March 2024
- 8:10 Prof Chris Barratt: male contraceptive pill enters human trials
- 8:10 Catherine, Princess of Wales announces she has cancer
- 8:35 Caro Claire Burke: The rise of #Tradwife social influencers
- 9:05 Escaping Utopia: What it takes to break free from Gloriavale
- 10:05 Kathy Lette: The Revenge Club
- 10:40 Jamey Stutz: Dating rocks in Antarctica
- 11:07 Fearless fighter for marginalised New Zealanders
- 11:40 Aboriginal artist and activist Richard Bell
