All episodes
Saturday, 10 April 2021
- 8:10 Buckingham Palace has announced the death of Prince Philip
- 8:24 Aye Min Thant: Myanmar in crisis
- 8:52 Chris Smith: Covid science update
- 9:06 Lisa Genova: The science of memory and the art of forgetting
- 9:40 Darren Byler: Big Brother vs China's Uighurs
- 10:06 John Baker: The search for Stalin's wine cellar
- 10:43 Georgia Rippin: the world of online sex work
- 11:06 Poet Johanna Emeney: exploring the felt realm
- 11:40 John Cockrem: Little penguins with big problems
- 11:55 Listener feedback 10 April 2021
Saturday, 3 April 2021
- 8:10 David Putrino: Covid's "Long Haulers"
- 8:30 Javier Blas: The World for Sale
- 9:05 Helen O'Hara: Women vs Hollywood
- 9:35 Vic Crone: Paul Callaghan's vision 10 years on
- 11:05 Kevin Roose: How to be human in the age of automation
- 11:40 Life's big questions: Jordan Peterson
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback
- 4:45 Playing Favourites with Florian Habicht
Saturday, 27 March 2021
- 8:30 Ex Bank of England Governor Mark Carney: building a human-values based economy
- 9:05 Booker Prize winner George Saunders shares his love for Russian short stories
- 9:40 Dr Stephen Curran: Avi Loeb, aliens and other 'utter crackpottery'
- 10:05 Caolan Robertson: Creating an off-ramp from the alt-right
- 10:30 Judy Melinek and TJ Mitchell: Husband and wife crime-writing duo
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Michael Baker
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 27 March 2021
- 6:10 Dr Tom Doyle: Church structure to blame for abuse
Saturday, 20 March 2021
- 8:10 Sally Weintrobe: The psychological roots of the climate crisis
- 8:35 Anita Lim: DIY at-home smear tests
- 9:05 Jill Nalder: the woman who inspired AIDS drama It's a Sin
- 9:35 Virologist Dr Chris Smith: Covid science
- 10:05 Steven McGregor: Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky
- 11:40 Kay Baxter: Autumn gardening
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback
- 5:05 Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler: Tourism post-pandemic
- 6:05 Accessibility leader Minnie Baragwanath: 'NZ's hang-ups on abilities and disabilities are holding everyone back'
Saturday, 13 March 2021
- 9:07 Actor Juliet Stevenson: Pandemic theatre
- 9:30 Jackie Clark and Moeroa Marsters: Surviving domestic abuse
- 10:06 Joey Hoofdman: discovering he was fathered by a fertility doctor
- 10:38 Amanda Symon: Protecting Māori rock art
- 11:05 Refugee and migrant advocate Dr Zhiyan Basharati
- 11:50 Actress & songwriter Chantal Claret
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 13 March 2021
- 5:12 The truth is out there: Top Harvard astronomer believes in extraterrestrial life
Saturday, 6 March 2021
- 8:40 Forests reach temperature tipping point
- 9:05 Carl Hart - Drug Use for Grown-ups
- 10:05 Isabel Allende: The Soul of A Woman
- 11:05 Claire Robinson: Savage Politics
- 11:40 Bidge Smith: Mervyn Thompson vs. Six Angry Women
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 6 March 2021
- 5:10 Conspirituality: Alt-health meets alt-right, wellness meets QAnon
Saturday, 27 February 2021
- 8:10 Sister Helen Prejean: Fighting to end the death penalty
- 8:40 Chris Smith: Covid science
- 9:05 Judy Belushi: The brilliance of John Belushi
- 9:35 Public policy founded on love for future generations
- 10:05 Black Panther artist marks Polynesian Panthers' milestone
- 10:35 Autonomous ship traces passage of the Mayflower
- 11:05 Janja Lalich: how normal people end up in cults like NXIVM
- 11:45 From Patea to Helsinki - circus star returns to Aotearoa
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 27 February 2021
Saturday, 20 February 2021
- 8:10 South Africa's Covid response: Fatima Hassan
- 8:30 Andrew Whitley: Flour to the People
- 9:05 Girl A author Abigail Dean
- 9:35 Cather Simpson: quantitative immunity testing
- 10:05 Australian prison podcast: Johanna Bell and Rocket Renae
- 10:40 Artist Kate Newby: turning galleries inside out
- 11:05 Julia Gillard: women and leadership
- 11:40 Kate's Klassics: The Talented Mr Ripley
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 20 February 2021
Saturday, 13 February 2021
- 8:12 Prof Lawrence Douglas: Donald Trump's second impeachment trial
- 8:35 Stuart Ritchie: Debunking Covid bad science online
- 9:07 Ian Urbina: investigative journalism on the high seas
- 9:40 Laura Jean McKay: winning Australia's richest literary prize
- 10:07 Ruth Coker Burks: caring for AIDS patients
- 10:35 Danyl McLauchlan: exploring life's big questions
- 11:05 NZ Wars: Stories of Tainui
- 11:35 What people over 65 need to know about Covid vaccines
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 13 February 2021
Saturday, 30 January 2021
- 8:10 Alexei Navalny vs Vladimir Putin
- 9:05 Simon Winchester: how land ownership shaped the modern world
- 10:05 Dr Chris Smith: Covid-19 vaccines and variants
- 10:30 Oscar Kightley: the story of Dawn Raid records
- 11:05 Sarah Johnston: archival recordings of our WW2 troops in battle
- 11:35 Stephanie Dowrick: Intimacy and Solitude
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback
- 4:35 Rebecca Mead: The metal detectors who struck gold, and trouble
Saturday, 19 December 2020
- 8:10 James Rebanks: is the future of farming the past?
- 9:05 Chris Smith: 2020 - the year of Covid
- 9:40 Having better festive gatherings: Priya Parker
- 10:40 Dr. Andrea Clavijo McCormick: plant communication
- 11:05 The 'singing vegan': animal welfare activist Sandra Kyle
- 11:40 Photographer Bruce Connew: NZ's colonial memorials
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback
- 3:35 Vincent Ward: filming in Ukraine
Saturday, 12 December 2020
- 8:12 The dogs of Chernobyl: Lucas Hixson
- 8:40 US wastewater testing reveals extent of asymptomatic Covid-19 spread
- 9:35 Denis Glover's life in letters: Sarah Shieff
- 10:06 Benjamin Ferencz: last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor
- 11:06 TEEKS has got soul
- 11:45 Kate's Klassics: Isabel Colgate's Orlando King
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning for 12 December 2020
- 5:06 US nuclear testing legacy lingers in the Marshall Islands
Saturday, 5 December 2020
- 8:11 Anne Wyllie: developing a cheap Covid-19 saliva test
- 8:35 What Australia can learn from New Zealand: Laura Tingle
- 9:40 High intensity training and the brain: David Moreau
- 10:05 The art of audio description: Judith Jones
- 10:40 Wombats' amazing armoured bums: Alyce Swinbourne
- 11:05 Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins
- 11:40 Mary Kisler: 18th century poster girls
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning for 5 December 2020
- 4:55 Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart: 'I grew up poor and queer'
Saturday, 28 November 2020
- 8:10 Alex Burns: Is Trump preparing to leave the White House?
- 9:05 Sir Michael and Mike Parkinson: Like Father, Like Son
- 9:40 Dr Chris Smith: Finish line in sight for COVID-19 vaccine race
- 10:05 Iris Eichenberg: medals for healthcare workers on the pandemic front line
- 10:30 Ben Lowings: unsung Pacific explorer David Lewis
- 11:05 Semicolons; the most misunderstood punctuation mark
- 11:40 Cory Newman: Sit Down in Front(man)
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback
- 12:55 Francesca Goodman-Smith: tackling supermarket food waste
Saturday, 21 November 2020
- 8:42 A World History of Bluff: Dr Michael Stevens
- 9:42 Doug Wilson: Learning to live older
- 10:06 Kirsten Johnson: Dick Johnson is Dead
- 10:45 Colin Maclaren: The Man On The Island
- 11:05 Hirini Kaa: Te Hahi Mihinare
- 11:43 Diane Stoppard: Whangarei's giant pinhole camera
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 21 November 2020
- 3:03 Dolly Parton: 'I’m proud to be an example for a strong woman'
- 5:10 Can dogs learn language?
Saturday, 14 November 2020
- 8:11 Chris Smith: how exciting is Pfizer's vaccine news?
- 8:38 Tim Harford: How to Make the World Add Up
- 9:05 Marlon Williams: 'A very blessed time to be able to share with family'
- 10:16 James McIntyre: singing dogs and intersex pigs
- 11:06 Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje: how a Black British kid ended up in a skin-head gang
- 11:45 Kathy Baughman McLeod: naming heat waves like hurricanes
- 11:55 Listener feedback from 14 November 2020
- 9:38 Golriz Ghahraman: finding her place in Aotearoa
Saturday, 7 November 2020
- 8:12 Evan Osnos: can Joe Biden unite a divided America?
- 8:35 Virologist Chris Smith: UK lockdown latest and Q+A
- 9:06 Sports broadcaster whose lockdown canine commentary went viral
- 9:30 Midnight Oil returns to champion indigenous rights
- 10:07 Scottish poet laureate Jackie Kay
- 10:42 Populism and the pandemic: law expert Campbell McLachlan
- 11:08 Remaining erratic: Martin Edmond's Red Mole theatre days
- 11:46 Presidential pets: Andrew Hager
- 11:55 Listener feedback 7 November 2020
Saturday, 31 October 2020
- 8:10 Legal scholar Kim Wehle: the path to a US election result
- 10:05 Unjoo Moon: director of Helen Reddy biopic
- 11:05 Emmy winning cinematographer Baz Idoine
- 11:30 Max Quinn: The life and times of a polar film maker
- 12:00 Feedback from Saturday 31 October
- 2:30 Neil Finn: Crowded House to tour NZ and release new album
- 5:25 Dr Fran Priddy: 'Transformational nine months' as scientists race to find Covid-19 vaccines
- 7:05 Bill Bailey's secrets to happiness
Saturday, 24 October 2020
- 8:13 The week in US politics: April Ryan
- 8:40 Kristie Amadio: improving treatment for eating disorders
- 9:10 Masha Gessen: Surviving Autocracy
- 11:05 Ben Harper: "just me and my lap steel guitar"
- 11:36 Archaeologist Mary O'Keeffe: digging our past
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 24 October 2020
- 4:55 Matthew McConaughey: Searching for green lights
- 5:10 The right to whakapapa: Jade Morgan
Saturday, 17 October 2020
- 8:10 The week in US politics: Nicholas Fandos
- 8:35 Esther Woolfson: loving our pets to death
- 9:05 Nobel Prize winning auction expert Paul Milgrom
- 9:35 Binnie O'Dwyer: lawyer fighting for Aboriginal rights
- 10:05 Feminist philosopher Judith Butler: why gender still causes trouble
- 10:35 Sarah Kessans: proteins in space
- 11:05 Poet Mohamed Hassan: Islamophobia, Aotearoa and me
- 11:35 Mary Kisler: The Art of Artemisia Gentileschi
- 12:00 Kim reads listener feedback
Saturday, 10 October 2020
- 8:40 Petra Straight: Pharmacist on the frontline
- 10:06 Being green to the extreme: Activist Rob Greenfield
- 10:35 Nathan and Kevin Haines: father and son on their love for jazz
- 11:09 Boy Swallows Universe author Trent Dalton on his new novel
- 11:40 Doug Wilson: Keeping your brain healthy as you age
- 4:06 Graham Norton - his new book, dogs, and wine
- 4:50 Norman Swan: How Australia is coping with Covid-19
Saturday, 3 October 2020
- 8:12 Donald Trump has Covid-19 - What next for America?
- 8:20 Virologist Dr Chris Smith: Covid-19 latest, and your questions
- 9:05 Alastair Campbell: How I learned to survive depression
- 10:05 Wind of Change: Did the CIA write a power ballad to bring down the USSR?
- 10:43 Catherine Chidgey's new book Remote Sympathy
- 11:35 President Trump heads to hospital
- 11:50 Kate's Klassics: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 3 October 2020
- 1:15 Aigagalefili Fepulea'i-Tapua'i: Speaking up for South Auckland students
- 4:26 Kinetic artist Theo Janssen: the evolution of Strandbeests
Saturday, 26 September 2020
- 8:10 A volatile week in the US: April Ryan
- 8:40 First Nations' taxman Manny Jules
- 9:10 Whakapapa through portraiture: Taaniko Nordstrom
- 9:30 Priming the primary sector: Rachel Taulelei
- 10:30 Arts Laureate Ariana Tikao: the power of pūoro
- 11:35 NZ-born officer Matiu Ratana fatally shot in England
- 11:40 Craig Silvey: "Jasper Jones" author on his new book "Honeybee"
- 4:10 Life inside the NBA Bubble: Ben Golliver
- 5:05 Victor Steffensen: How burning could heal Australia
Saturday, 19 September 2020
- 8:13 How better building design can fight the spread of Covid-19
- 9:07 Representing the reprehensible: Australian criminal lawyer Andrew Boe
- 9:37 Protest and professional sport: Douglas Hartmann
- 10:07 Patrick Skene: Pacific and Maori influences on the NRL
- 11:06 Flying with swans: Conservationist Sacha Dench
- 11:46 A silver bullet against bacteria? nanotech anti-microbial coatings
- 4:31 Death, mana and Peter Ellis: lawyer Natalie Coates
- 5:40 Revitalising te reo a three-generation process: Prof Rawinia Higgins
Saturday, 12 September 2020
- 9:35 The voice of Criminal: podcaster Phoebe Judge
- 10:08 Merlin Sheldrake: the mind-bending majesty of the fungal kingdom
- 11:06 Barbara Sumner: opening up about the pain of 'closed' adoption
- 11:35 Dame Anne Salmond: artefacts at the heart of history
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning for 4 September 2020
- 2:46 The urgent need for mass climate change action: Jane Fonda
- 4:35 Chris Smith: Covid-19 vaccine trial pause shows it's no 'rush job'
- 5:09 Resurrecting North & South magazine: Rachel Morris
