All episodes
Saturday, 12 August 2023
- 8:10 Dr Ratu Mataira: Kiwi physicist joins the nuclear fusion race
- 9:05 Gabriel Krauze: raw writing from the streets of London
- 9:45 Megan Dunn: worshipping art
- 10:05 Celebrating hip hop's golden anniversary with Darryl Leigh Thomson
- 11:05 Jared Davidson: how prison labour built New Zealand
- 11:30 Prof John Plotz: finding new meaning in old books
- 12:00 Listener feedback for August 12 2023
Saturday, 5 August 2023
- 8:10 Gez Medinger: an insider's guide to Long Covid
- 9:11 Former US Judge Nancy Gertner on Trump's charges and chances
- 10:05 Dr Roderick Mulgan: How to boost your immunity to disease
- 10:30 Dr Cady Coleman: the loneliness of life in space
- 11:10 Anna Funder: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 5 August 2023
- 6:00 Emojis expert tells all: Characters and their alternative meanings
Saturday, 29 July 2023
- 8:10 Prof Peter Ditlevsen: crucial ocean current system heading for collapse
- 9:05 Alice Sherwood: the fashion for authenticity in a world of fakes
- 9:40 Marie Darrieussecq: reflections on insomnia
- 10:05 Deborah Hunt: the romance of Red Mole
- 10:45 Dr Alyssa Lie: could eye drops replace reading glasses?
- 12:00 Saturday morning feedback
- 4:06 How pain affects our pets' behaviour
- 3:05 Playing favourites with Joel Tobeck
Saturday, 22 July 2023
- 8:10 Gaia Vince: mass climate migration is inevitable
- 9:05 Prof Danny Altmann: the burden of long COVID
- 9:40 Volcanologist Graham Leonard: the magma under Auckland
- 10:05 Filmmaker Nicolas Philibert on the art of patient observation
- 10:45 Aesha Scott: the reality of life below deck on super yachts
- 11:05 'Survived the test of time': Vegemite spread still popular 100 years on from invention
- 11:30 Thomasin Sleigh on The Words For Her
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 22 July 2023
Saturday, 15 July 2023
- 8:10 Rokhaya Diallo: how racist policing is fueling unrest in France
- 8:30 Caitlin Moran: saving men from the patriarchy
- 9:49 Te Rangi Huata: lighting Matariki bonfires for Mahuika
- 10:05 Lucy Hone: coping with devastating grief
- 10:40 Patsy Carlyle: the Barbie Collector
- 11:06 Alice Englert: "Bad Behaviour"
- 11:40 Poet Jenny Bornholdt: A Garden is a Long Time
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 15 July 2023
- 2:05 Ben Smith: How clicks, likes and shares ruined digital news
Saturday, 8 July 2023
- 8:10 Prof Susan Rossell: Australian psychiatrists can prescribe MDMA and psilocybin
- 9:05 Lisa Cortés: Little Richard and the queer Black origins of rock'n'roll
- 9:35 Andrew Paul Wood: the history of the occult in Aotearoa
- 10:05 Antony Loewenstein: Palestine a testing ground for war tech
- 10:40 Organic gardener Kath Irvine: winter gardening wisdom
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Roseanne Liang
- 12:00 Listener Feedback
- 4:30 'Happiness is elusive' - Bill Bailey on the joys of ambling and rambling
Saturday, 1 July 2023
- 8:10 Emily Hanford: are we teaching reading all wrong?
- 9:05 Justin Gregg: when orca teach themselves to attack
- 9:35 Gerard Hindmarsh on Rarotonga’s pub "Trader Jack" Cooper
- 10:05 Suzanne Heywood: how a family sailing trip became a nightmare
- 10:40 Danyl McLauchlan: why politicians love to invoke dystopias
- 11:05 Serhii Plokhy: the history and future of the Ukrainian war
- 11:45 Ankita Singh: Aotearoa's kickboxing anime-loving playwright
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 1 July 2023
Saturday, 24 June 2023
- 8:10 Nick McKenzie: Ben Roberts-Smith - the war hero turned criminal
- 9:05 Naomi Oreskes: how Big Business made us love the free market
- 9:35 Musician Jordyn with a Why: Who gets to learn Te Reo Maori?
- 10:35 Painters Euan Macleod and Geoff Dixon create over Facetime
- 11:05 Judy Blume: 'I am very happy with my life'
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 24 June 2023
- 7:05 Pamela Clark: don't make the tip truck cake
Saturday, 17 June 2023
- 8:12 Jenny Nguyen: 'Sports Bra' bar supporting women's sports
- 9:04 Isabel Allende on forced immigration and family separation
- 9:28 Dagan Wells: babies born using three-person IVF
- 10:08 Are humans the smartest animal, or the dumbest?
- 10:47 Jock Scott on the endangered sport of outdoor curling
- 11:05 Lucinda Williams’ rock’n’roll life
- 11:45 Megan Dunn: the fine art of winning prizes
- 12:00 Listener Feedback
Saturday, 10 June 2023
- 8:12 Vinod Balachandran: mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer
- 8:31 Stewart Lansley: finally time for the universal basic income?
- 9:08 Margaret Meyer: stories behind the UK’s deadliest witch-hunt
- 9:40 Prof Philippa Gander: sleeping in line with our rotating planet
- 10:08 Kiwa Hammond: reviving Moriori culture
- 10:42 Hayden Tee: the extra-ordinary director of Next to Normal
- 11:06 Kevin Morby: finding songs in family photo albums
- 11:35 Prof Matt Baker: kitty contraception, flying DNA & brain-body bridges
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 10 June 2023
Saturday, 3 June 2023
- 8:10 Thomas Hertog: Stephen Hawking's final radical theory
- 8:45 Tom Barraclough: are your social media threads under threat?
- 9:05 Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: Using iconicism and satire to combat violence
- 9:35 Samuel Mehr: thinking differently about music
- 10:05 Dame Penelope Wilton: Downton Abbey star’s new film
- 10:35 Adventurer Thor F. Jensen: circumnavigating New Guinea
- 11:05 Suzie Miller: legal injustice against women centre stage
- 11:40 Organic gardener Kath Irvine: time to plant fruit trees
Saturday, 27 May 2023
- 8:12 Prof. Simon Chapman: What the history of smoking should warn us about vaping
- 8:42 Sam Sachdeva: navigating New Zealand's relationship with China
- 9:40 Alison Ballance: the rediscovery and recovery of the takahe
- 10:05 The lives and times of musician Tim Finn
- 11:06 Rachel Ward's farm: from climate despair to hope
- 11:43 Supervolcano unrest under Lake Taupo
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 27 May 2023
- 2:08 Dr Rachel Zoffness: Managing chronic pain is about treating entire body
Saturday, 20 May 2023
- 8:40 Catherine Chidgey: Ockham winner's new novel 'Pet'
- 9:10 Doron Semu: making siapo and a space for queer Pasifika youth
- 9:35 Falconer Noel Hyde: rescuing karearea, ruru and barn owls
- 10:05 Playing favourites: Stuart McKenzie & Miranda Harcourt
- 11:05 Robert Bartholomew: what caused Havana Syndrome
- 11:40 Danyl McLauchlan: Hannah Arendt and the loneliness of modernity
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 20 May 2023
- 3:00 Dr Jonathan Howard: why US doctors spread Covid disinformation
Saturday, 13 May 2023
- 8:14 Mstyslav Chernov: Pulitzer prize winner on Mariupol atrocities
- 9:07 Liv Sisson: Aotearoa’s fascinating and freaky fungi
- 9:42 Sameena Zehra: immigration is a serious laughing matter
- 10:06 David Good: the remarkable gut life of the Yanomami people
- 10:40 David Lawrence: binge-reading Shakespeare’s plays in order
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Russell Brown
- 11:55 Listener feedback 13 May 2023
Saturday, 6 May 2023
- 8:10 Rob Watson: London on the eve of the coronation
- 8:36 Dr George Gross: coronations - the good, the bad, and the ugly
- 9:05 Emma Espiner: a life less ordinary
- 9:35 Sean Collins-Smith: why American late night TV has gone dark
- 10:05 Jonathan Kennedy: how germs made history
- 10:45 Megan Dunn: the kinky and the kooky lurking in public art
- 11:06 Playing Favourites with Liz Mellish
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 6 May 2023
Saturday, 29 April 2023
- 8:10 Reem Abbas on the situation in Khartoum and hopes for Sudan
- 8:26 Paddy Manning: the real Succession with the Murdochs
- 9:07 Compost king Liam Prince on life with less waste
- 9:40 NASA's new head of science Dr Nicola Fox
- 10:07 Curtis Sittenfeld: rehabilitating the image of the rom-com
- 10:30 Richard Fidler: in the footsteps of medieval wanderers
- 11:05 Alie Benge: writing about a concept of home
- 11:37 Kerryn Fields: a folk and country music star finally back home
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 29 April 2023
Saturday, 22 April 2023
- 8:10 Laura Tingle: is Australia still learning from Aotearoa?
- 8:20 Anthony McCarten: writing biopics of the fascinating and famous
- 9:05 Jac den Houting: why everything you know about autism is wrong
- 10:06 Rebecca Struthers: the preciousness of time
- 10:40 Jason Te Mete on finding community in the Bay of Plenty
- 11:08 The metabolic origins of Alzheimer's disease
- 11:45 On the road with organic gardener Kath Irvine
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 22 April 2023
Saturday, 15 April 2023
- 8:10 The Wagner Group: doing Russia’s dirty work in Africa
- 8:30 William Sitwell: dishing up the history of dining out
- 9:05 Sarah Gregorius: fighting for equality for female footballers
- 9:30 Josh Baker: how a London school girl ended up an ISIS bride
- 10:06 Claire Dederer: admiring the art of monstrous men
- 11:05 Michele Leggott: celebrating unsung 1860’s artist Emily Harris
- 11:40 Matt Baker: beat bopping rats and feathered dinosaurs
- 11:59 Listener feedback for 15 April 2023
Saturday, 8 April 2023
- 8:12 David Mitchell: Brexit's impact on the Good Friday agreement
- 8:36 Meg Smaker: the most controversial film of 2022
- 9:07 Poet Michele Leggott: waiting for a miracle
- 9:40 Dr Fatima Cody Stanford: Obesity vs Ozempic
- 10:06 Daniel M Lavery: the awkwardness of gender transition
- 11:05 John Ross in Taiwan
- 11:35 Danyl McLauchlan: why we vote the way we do
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Listener Feedback
- 3:00 Nanny Pura Whale: a life of service to the Maori Wardens
Saturday, 1 April 2023
- 8:10 Brian Christian: AI’s ethical alignment problem
- 8:40 Simon Hall: creating NZ’s largest private conservation estate
- 9:06 Nguyen Phan Que Mai: Vietnamese stories behind the war
- 9:35 Actor Yvette Parsons: representing real women on screen
- 10:05 Peter Frankopan: how climate shapes history
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Far North Mayor Moko Tepania
- 11:59 Listener feedback for 1 April 2023
Saturday, 25 March 2023
- 8:12 Adharanand Finn: Zane Robertson and Kenyan running culture
- 8:39 Dr Ellen Nelson: local hero who helped evacuate Afghan colleagues to NZ
- 9:07 Author Bonnie Garmus on her debut bestseller "Lessons in Chemistry"
- 9:40 Jai Grewal: pickleball - the best sport you've never heard of
- 10:05 Chloe Gong: #BookTok and the remarkable rise of a writer
- 10:40 Fire vs ice: volcanologist Graham Leonard on Tongariro
- 11:06 Playing Favourites with artist Judy Darragh
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 25 March 2023
Saturday, 18 March 2023
- 8:10 Sam Neill releases revealing memoir
- 9:05 Tom Bateman: protest and the future of Democracy in Israel
- 9:30 Kat Tua: young Māori designer turning fashion heads
- 10:05 Prof Peter Deardon: the genetic secrets of the velvet worm
- 10:30 Evana Belich: how to get fired
- 11:06 Gordon Collier's magical home gardens
- 11:36 Megan Dunn on art: looking at crocodiles
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 18 March 2023
Saturday, 11 March 2023
- 8:12 Gulchehra Hoja: speaking out for the Uyghur
- 8:32 Jon Tunnicliffe: releasing waterways from a stranglehold
- 9:09 Peter Meihana: putting privilege in check
- 9:38 Holli McEntegart: the art of postpartum care
- 10:09 Simon Armitage: the UK poet laureate on why poetry matters
- 10:38 Peter Lynn: a legend of kite design
- 11:05 Victoria Finlay: How Fabrics are woven into our lives
- 11:35 The Fan Brigade: unlikely unruly librettists
Saturday, 4 March 2023
- 8:10 Dr Bessel van der Kolk: how to heal trauma
- 9:07 UMO's Ruban Nielson: "I Killed Captain Cook"
- 9:35 Ann-Helén Laestadiu: Sami, the reindeer people
- 10:06 AI ethicist Timnit Gebru: why we can't trust Silicon Valley
- 10:40 Whare Timu: building on mātauranga Māori
- 11:05 Playing favourites with yeehawtheboys’ Daniel Vernon
Saturday, 25 February 2023
- 8:10 Stephen Glassey: weather update
- 8:15 Prof Jonathan Boston: how to manage managed retreat
- 8:50 Hawke's Bay Civil Defence update
- 8:55 Julian Wilcox: live from Te Matatini
- 9:05 Strippers unite to fight for employment rights
- 9:35 Claire Harman: all sorts of love for Katherine Mansfield
- 10:45 On the road with organic gardener Kath Irvine
- 11:10 John Miller: a life behind the lens at protests
- 11:40 Dancing the stories of Australia's great desert regions
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 25 February 2023
- 2:05 Lydia Millet: 'You have to seek out hope by engaging with the world'
