Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:35 AM.Anyone who has or knows someone with ME, chronic syndrome fatigue or long covid knows that being believed is one of the toughest parts of having the condition.  Read more Audio

10:05 AM.New York Times bestselling author, historian and White House correspondent Lynne Olson's new book The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück tells of defiance in a notorious women-only Nazi concentration camp.  Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Voted one of America's best photographers, Colorado-based Kirsten Lewis spent 15 years capturing the complex yet fulfilling roller-coaster ride of parenting.  Read more Audio

9:30 AM.When you think of bellringing in an old cathedral, the first thing that comes to mind probably isn't today's youth. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Sharon Van Etten's latest album is her seventh and first with her group The Attachment Theory. Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Professor Natalie Waran has been recognised for her lifetime's research into improving the lives of horses.  Read more Audio

8:11 AM.For some of us, a day or an hour disappears in the blink of an eye. For others it might feel much longer. But why?  Read more Audio

7:53 AM.One of people who had a hand in deciding when we mark Matariki is Māori astronomer Victoria Campbell and she's had a busy year from partnering with Minecraft to creating unique stamps with NZ Post.  Read more Audio

7:47 AM.For schools delivering the lunches themselves, there have been serious cost pressures. But one Taranaki high school says they've managed to have small surplus operating under the $4 per lunch budget.

7:36 AM.The Prime Minister has wrapped up a whirlwind three-day trip in China. Jason Young, the director of the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre dissects it. Read more Audio

7:28 AM.Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has slammed New Zealand for what he calls a "patronising" approach over its China deal. This week it was revealed that nearly $20m of New Zealand funding to the… Read more Audio

7:21 AM.President Trump has said he will decide if the US will get directly involved in the Iran-Israel conflict within the next fortnight.  Read more Audio

7:11 AM.The recent upsurge in conflict between Israel and Iran continues to build. European foreign ministers have been holding talks with Iran to try to restore a diplomatic path over its nuclear programme. 

11:38 AM.A question everyone must ask themselves at some point: what does a life well lived look like? Tyler J. VanderWeele is co-director of the five-year Global Flourishing Study. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Legendary author Witi Ihimaera is the man behind Whale Rider and Pounamu Pounamu. Already a celebrated master of the pen, at the age of 80 he felt a yearning to master something new and learn te reo… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.On discovering indigenous groups world-wide have traditionally derived 30-80 percent of their calories from saturated fat, Kay Baxter found it impossible not to question her existing assumptions.  Read more Audio

10:06 AM.The real-life stranger-than-fiction story of serial killer Reg Christie rocked London in the 1950s.  Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Issa Amro is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year for his decades of work advocating for peaceful resistance against settlements, which are illegal under international law, advocacy which has… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist and author of New York Times bestseller The Outlaw Ocean, Ian Urbina is director of non-profit The Outlaw Ocean Project based in Washington D.C… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Next week the GDP figures will be released, providing a snapshot of the performance of the economy, so what are experts predicting?  Read more Audio

8:32 AM.Most people fit into one of two categories when it comes to the great debate of the best time to shower. But science is adding fuel to the debate. Read more Audio

8:11 AM.Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris's 2024 documentary Separated explores the US government's family separation policy at the southern border during the first Trump administration, when an estimated… Read more Video, Audio

7:50 AM.Award-winning artist Julia Holden has invited pets and pet lovers to her exhibition, Best in Show 2025, showing in Auckland.  Read more Audio, Gallery

7:44 AM.A charitable trust is partnering with schools to support neurodiverse students in our country's growing Asian population.  Read more Audio

7:38 AM.Protests over President Donald Trump's immigration raids have spread from California to other US cities, with hundreds of nationwide demonstrations planned for Saturday.  Read more Audio