All episodes
Saturday, 7 April 2012
Victoria Davis on medicinal marijuana, Joyce Alberts on false memories, Greg O’Brien on art and poetry in Cork, the Kermadecs and Tonga, Doug Backhouse on resilient comminities, Playing Favourites with Hollie Fulbrook a.k.a. Tiny Ruins, Sonny Tilders on building animatronic dragons, Pietra Brettkelly on her films about Outward Bound and a Maori boy genius
Full episodeSaturday, 31 March 2012
Daniel Hamermesh on how beauty pays, Damon Salesa on solutions for the Pacific, Greg McGee on love and money, Mary Kisler on Vincent van Gogh, Lucinda Williams on songs and relationships, Sally Kabak on grandparents as caregivers, Margo Lanagan on selkies
Full episodeSaturday, 24 March 2012
Nicole Foss on global finance and peak oil, Roddy Doyle on middle aged men and teaching children, Claire Stent on the New Zealand Yearbooks, singer-songwriter Nick Lowe on his career reinvention, Tony Taylor on fishing and time, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Full episodeSaturday, 17 March 2012
Will Haughey on toys in Honduras, Catherine Syms on teaching ethics, Richard Davenport-Hines on the lives of those who sailed on the Titanic, Playing Favourites with architect David Mitchell, filmmakers Maramena Roderick & Julian Arahanga on their series about songwriting in prison, Gardening with Kath Irvine: fruit trees.
Full episodeSaturday, 10 March 2012
Gary Mulgrew on fraud and prison, Dr Craig Rodger on solar flares, Leonard Bell on the history of Jews in NZ, Mary Kisler on the Degas to Dali exhibition, Playing Favourites with director and producer Simon Bennett, actor Blythe Duff on beauty and boxing, “slipstream” writer Kelly Link.
Full episodeSaturday, 3 March 2012
Jess Hill on Saudi Arabia, Norman Harris on jogging and other sports, punk poet John Cooper Clarke, Jen Hay on filled pauses, Playing Favourites with musician Gerry Paul, Appalachian writer Ron Rash, Maureen Woodhams on maths and children.
Full episodeSaturday, 25 February 2012
Susan Orlean on Rin Tin Tin, Christopher Kennedy Lawford on drug addiction, Mike Shepherd of the Kneehigh theatre company, Playing Favourites with Daniel Beban, Chris Stringer on the origins of species, Richie Meyer on silent movies
Full episodeSaturday, 18 February 2012
Derek Handley on changing capitalism, Yvonne Shaw on death with dignity, Bella Bathurst on bicycles, Mary Kisler on Renaissance paintings, Playing Favourites with jewellery artist Lisa Walker, choreographer Hofesh Schecter on politics and dance, Kath Irvine on preparing the garden for autumn.
Full episodeSaturday, 11 February 2012
Robert Glennon on water, novelist Alan Hollinghurst, Playing Favourites with engineer Bob Norman, Sam Hunt and Dick Frizzell on words and pictures, Patrick and Patsy McGrath on Bali Aid.
Full episodeSaturday, 4 February 2012
Wael Ghonim on revolution in Egypt, Fredrik Heffermehl on the Nobel Peace Prize, Anthony McCarten on absent heroes, Richie Meyer on silent movies, Playing Favourites with Megan Salole, Atelier Ted Noten on jewellery, Kate de Goldi on the New York Review Children's Collection.
Full episodeSaturday, 28 January 2012
Kate Camp in Berlin,, Marcus Chown on tweeting the universe, Dr Sharad Paul on skin cancer and books, Playing Favourites with translator John Jamieson, Pacific artist Michel Tuffery.
Full episodeSaturday, 21 January 2012
Suzy van de Kwast on early cafe culture, John Waters on shock value, Playing Trombones with BonaNZa
Full episodeSaturday, 14 January 2012
Rob Hamill on his brother's murder, John Kendrick on birds, Playing Favourites with Mary-Annette Hay
Full episodeSaturday, 7 January 2012
Atul Gawande on medicine and the checklist, painter Robert McLeod, taxi driver David Ifill, Playing Favourites with Will and Annie Crummer.
Full episodeSaturday, 31 December 2011
Platon on photographing the powerful, Dr Caldwell Esselstyn on a plant-based diet, Playing Favourites with Joyce Fleming
Full episodeSaturday, 24 December 2011
Journalist and writer Christopher Hitchens, nightlife pioneer Carmen, saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins, Kate De Goldi and Laura Kroetsch discuss the year in books, Joe Schwarcz: on chemistry, food, sex and ageing.
Full episodeSaturday, 17 December 2011
Luke Harding on Russia, Future Scientist prizewinner Nina Huang, Julian Priest on time and wireless networks, Art with Mary Kisler: Palladio, Scarpa, Canova, Harry Christophers of The Sixteen on: period music, playwright Gary Henderson, Kath Irvine on summer gardening.
Full episodeSaturday, 10 December 2011
Iain Overton on exposing lobbyists, actor Sara Wiseman on her stellar screen career, Oren Gershtein on incubating innovation in Israel, Grant Sheehan on photographing ghosts in the landscape, Playing Favourites with troubadour Delaney Davidson, Jennifer McLagan on eating odd bits, Kate De Goldi on three children’s books.
Full episodeSaturday, 3 December 2011
Grant Morris in New Orleans, John Huckerby on wave and tidal energy, Professor Bernard Spolsky on saving languages, Robert Catto on Hollywood star Rupert Julian, Playing Symphonies with Peter Walls of the NZSO, Dr Julian Rayner on stopping malaria, Nick Carman on skiing the Silk Road
Full episodeSaturday, 26 November 2011
Jane Gleeson-White on double entry bookkeeping, Gerard Smyth on filming the Canterbury earthquakes, Andrew Clifford on sculpture in Waikato, Playing Favourites with guitarist and racer Bill Ward, Annabel Langbei on food and France, David Veart on archeology and food
Full episodeSaturday, 19 November 2011
Sigurbjörg Sigurgeirsdóttir on Iceland’s economy, Dusty Gedge on living roofs, Paul Bennett on surf, drugs and mental health, Playing Favourites with Neil and Sharon Finn, Rutherford Medal winner Christine Winterbourn on free radicals, author Colleen McCullough on her memoir.
Full episodeSaturday, 12 November 2011
Raf Manji on the economy and monetary dialysis, Jack Ralston on coaching champions, Richard Gough and experimental theatre and food, Playing Favourites with children’s media expert David Kleeman, Peter Graham on the Parker/Hulme murder, Jay O’Callahan on stories and science.
Full episodeSaturday, 5 November 2011
Ravi Batra on predicting crises, Michael Corballis on aspects of the brain, Mary Kisler on art in Venice, Flying Nun Favourites with Bruce Russell, Annie Potts on chickens and companion animals, Kate De Goldi with three new children's books
Full episodeSaturday, 29 October 2011
Guest presenter Paul Diamond interviews Fintan O’Toole on the Irish presidency, Brian Calhoun on retaking the Net, Kevin Prime on governance and action, Paul Hamer on Maori in Australia Playing Favourites with composer Jenny McLeod, Fiona Farrell on walking and the broken city, Edward Meyer on collecting weirdness
Full episodeSaturday, 22 October 2011
Thomas Friedman on globalisation and the USA, Sir Paul Callaghan on New Zealand’s future, Simon Wallace on dairying in Brazil, Playing Favourites with Garth Cartwright, Dame Kate Harcourt on her theatre life, Bruce Ansley on lost buildings of Christchurch.
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