Summer Weekends Podcast Options

11:40 AM.To preview the party, Flamingo Pier's Luke Walker, Dom Jones and Brad Craig joined Susana in the Auckland studio. Read more Audio

11:31 AM.Voting has opened for New Zealand's Bug of the year! There are 21 contenders in the popularity contest - organised by the Entomological Society of NZ. Last year's winner was the elegant and beautiful… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Attitude Check is a book about living a more purposeful life, written by Wayne Benton.  Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Novelist Jenny Pattrick is best known for her historical fiction, and before her writing, for her jewellery.  Read more Audio

9:25 AM.Olympian and Rugby World Cup-winning Black Fern Ruby Tui is currently preparing for the new season but called for a chat.  Read more Audio

11:33 AM.Susana caught up with Oreti Surf Lifesaving Club captain, Sam Webster. Read more Audio

11:33 AM.Auckland-based musicians Rei and Huia are performing together at Music in Parks Festival programme in Auckland this Sunday.  Read more Audio

11:17 AM.Catherine Boniface says this year's Shakespeare in the Park shows are action-packed and for everyone - especially those who think Shakespeare is 'stuffy'. Read more Audio

10:38 AM.Peter Gordon is the pioneer of fusion food and for 40 years he's gathered ingredients, textures and techniques from the kitchens of the world.  Read more Audio

10:24 AM.From Friday, Christchurch's streets, venues, and public spaces will be filled with performing artists from around the globe.  Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Meg Lay is the first-ever female groundskeeper at the famous Lord's cricket ground in London and is back in New Zealand for the holidays. Read more Audio

9:32 AM.Sir Graeme Dingle has undertaken innumerable adventures around the globe, including hundreds of mountaineering, rock climbing and adventuring firsts. Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Dame Lynley Dodd's stories have captivated generations of children and adults selling more than 12 million copies worldwide.  Read more Audio

11:25 AM.For the past decade, aspiring authors have been gathering in Auckland each January for the Summer Fiction School. This weekend, the 2025 intake of would-be writers are having an intense introduction… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Every summer shark sightings are reported - mainly because so many of us are at the beach or out on the water. This year however there seem to be fewer sharks around than usual and that's worrying for… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Neville Peat has published more than 40 works of natural history, environmental writing and biography, including regional natural histories, histories of Antarctica, and studies of native birds… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.January 2025 marks a number of things for us all - from resolutions that go hand in hand with every changing Gregorian year to gatherings for anniversaries and birthdays taking advantage of our… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Kiwi marathon runner Stefan Ozich is running the length of Aotearoa - twice - and he could be the first to do so, making a world record. He's hoping to raise $1,000,000 for The Last Chance Project, a… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Wellingtonian Tim O'Brien has made Los Angeles his home for more than 20 years and before that he studied at university in LA in the 1990s. The images coming out of Los Angelese are gut-renching - the… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Today we're travelling to South Taranaki to meet Jasmine Jones - Jasmine's embraced small-town living after moving there from the capital. Home is Patea - which many of us know from the Patea Maori… Read more Audio