Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:35 AM.End of year school prize givings can see every child receive a certificate. While all tamariki walk away with a smile, is there a downside? Kathryn Berkett has a Masters in Educational Psychology and… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Rohan Botica and Dr Anna Brooks have been researching how to diagnose, treat post-acute infection syndromes like Long Covid in NZ.

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9:35 AM.Every Friday morning, anyone can drop into the Pacific Vision Aotearoa Centre in South Auckland for advice on how to create gardens with a Pasifika twist.  Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Toby Wilkinson's new book The Last Dynasty - Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra is a definitive and thrilling account of the last great dynasty of ancient Egypt. Toby Wilkinson is an… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Home schooling conjures up images of kids around a kitchen table with mum and a few text books. But as The Spinoff series Home Education discovers, there are many different ways and many different… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Renowned clinical psychologist Professor Julia Rucklidge has spent decades researching the relationship between diet and mental health. Once a sceptic, she has consistently found vitamins and minerals… Read more Audio

7:52 AM.Our best loved gardening magazine, New Zealand Gardener is 80 years old. To mark the anniversary a special edition looks at New Zealand's horticultural history through the NZ Gardener archive. Editor… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.A new study has found 73 percent of online alcohol deliveries in Auckland are left at the door or delivered without requesting identification. Read more Audio

7:32 AM.This week Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka announced the number of families living in emergency housing had reduced by 68 percent under this government. The difference between a stable home and… Read more Audio

7:21 AM.With Christmas fast approaching, the pressure is on to start shopping. And it's hard not to be tempted by the idea of Black Friday sales or the option to buy now, pay later. Unfortunately, many people… Read more Audio

7:11 AM.After 13 months of fighting, now, there's a 60 day ceasefire to end the latest round of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Dame Julie Christie is one of New Zealand's most prolific television producers, often referred to as 'the Queen of reality TV'. She's been named the TV Legend of the Year at the NZ TV Awards for her… Read more Audio

10:49 AM.Seventy teams of eight from across the motu are vying for the title of smartest pub quiz team at The New Zealand Pub Quiz Championships. The three hour extravaganza is the brain child of Believe it Or… Read more Audio

10:34 AM.Rick Thorpe is co-founder of Xtreme Zero Waste, a community hub operating in Raglan, with a transformative approach to dealing with waste. The model has been adopted by communities across Aotearoa… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.New Zealand historian and author Dr. Monty Soutar's latest historical novel Kawai: Tree of Nourishment is an epic historical adventure examining the initial impact of colonisation on Maori. Set in… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Perrin Hastings is the co-creator and presenter of a new YouTube docuseries The Gender Agenda, a resource to bring gender identity with all its associated questions, fears, hopes and dreams, into the… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.While the risk of getting covid is still a part of our lives, for people with long covid it could be a life changer. Some people experience the symptoms of covid for many months or even years… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Who is leading and who is lagging in the fight for a sugary-drink-free Aotearoa New Zealand? Professor Robert Lustic is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at University of California. He thinks New… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.Human destruction of natural habitats and the impact this has on the animal and insect life they support has been well documented, and a new study from the University of Otago takes that impact a step… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Richard Chambers was appointed the new police commissioner this week and has already waded into discussing the controversial area of routinely arming police. He's taking over from Andrew Coster who… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.A whooping cough epidemic has been declared in Aotearoa. In the past four weeks, there have been 263 cases of whooping cough (Pertussis) - the highest number of cases over a month this year… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.This week within days of each other both the US and Russia made significant moves to influence the war in Ukraine. For the first time Ukraine has fired long range missiles deep within Russia after… Read more Audio