Summer Weekends Podcast Options

11:35 AM.For today's independent bookseller we're heading to a tiny shop in a tiny town in the Mackenzie District of Canterbury. Read more Audio

11:15 AM.Broadway start Joshua Henry has been in New Zealand inspiring young people hoping to make it in the world of musical theatre at the Christchurch International Musical Theatre Summer School. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Self-described 'bird nerd' Elizabeth Werner is working to eradicate predators in her Wellington neighbourhood. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

10:25 AM.Our music feature today is about the songs that have been the voice of protest all over the world. Our guest is Matariki Williams - curator of Matauranga Maori at Te Papa Museum in Wellington.  Read more Audio

10:06 AM.She beat the odds of not only making the New Zealand team but defying a badly injured knee to take home a bronze medal at the 2018 Gold coast Commonwealth Games. Now women's boxer Troy Garton has her… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.After a breakdown eight years ago, Frank Jansen decided he'd never work in an office again. He now creates gardens for people with mobility or sensory issues and is head gardener at Katherine… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

9:06 AM.It is without doubt one of the most haunting of our bird calls - that of the North Island kokako, less poetically also known as the blue-wattled crow. Ecologist and kokako specialist Dave Bryden is… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:45 AM.A kea with lead poisoning, seven owls and just as many kereru, a baby kingfisher and an underweight spoonbill are among the summer patients at Christchurch's Wildlife Hospital, during its busiest time… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:30 AM.Today for our series on lifesavers we're talking to Myles Taylor from Fire and Emergency New Zealand. Myles is the principal rural fire officer in Northland - where a total fire ban was put in place… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.After the death of UK backpacker Grace Millane in 2018, award-winning investigative reporter Kirsty Johnson expressed her anger for the first time. Becoming better acquainted with grief makes crime… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.We speak to RNZ Pacific reporter Jamie Tahana about the impact of the storm, and where it's headed next. Read more Audio

11:45 AM.The 2010s have been declared the decade of leggings. That was coined by US fashion writer Maya Singer in which she says about half of New York women seem to be wearing them out and about not just in… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:40 AM.For today's trip around booksellers of the country, we head to Nelson, to Volume and speak to Stella Chrystostomou. Read more Audio

11:20 AM.New Zealand Summer Olympic karate hopeful Andrea Anacan learnt the martial art in part to save herself if she was kidnapped when her family was still living in the Phillippines.  Read more Audio

11:04 AM.They make fishbones out of toothpicks, potato chips from the seeds of capsicums - can turn almost any object into something that can be used in the tiny worlds they create. Miniature makers are people… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:15 AM.Now to our music feature, and this time we're crossing the ditch to Australia to speak to a ska band with a difference - namely its sheer size.  Read more Video, Audio

10:05 AM.Samantha Hughes is a young designer who's identified a need in the healthcare system for a new approach to designing equipment that's often impractical.  Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Lynn Freeman talks to members of the Ashley-Rakahuri Rivercare Group, who are working to protect endangered wildlife living on the braided river. 

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9:30 AM.Our lifesavers series continues with to a member of the St John ambulance team. Leisa Tocknell is Lakes Territory Manager, and area which covers Murupara, Reporoa, Taupo, Turangi and Omori. Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Watching three Afghani mothers kissing their childrens' graves was almost too much for Paula Penfold, after more than two decades of investigative reporting. The Stuff Circuit journalist added New… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Dr Peter Petchey and Professor Hallie Buckley from the University of Otago have worked with the communities, family descendants and local runaka as they've excavated the Milton's St. John's Anglican… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:15 AM.The JOIDES Resolution is a research ship that drills into the ocean floor, taking samples then studying those sampes to see what secrets they reveal.  Read more Audio, Gallery

8:09 AM.Animals fleeing the devastating Australian bushfires were like a tsunami, a New Zealand volunteer rescuing wildlife in New South Wales says.  Read more Video, Audio

11:30 AM.Nepal rivals India when it comes to wildlife, though it's neighbour has been in the safari business for much longer and has a much bigger profile. Lynn Freeman went on safari in Nepal in August, with… Read more Audio, Gallery