Summer Weekends Podcast Options

10:35 AM.If we say cabaret what does that mean to you? A musical about the growing power of the Nazi Party in the Weimar Republic? It's also a thriving art form with a strong presence in Aotearoa. Emma Vickers… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.How do you sleep? We getting told we need "full 8 hours", but where does that phrase come from? We're constantly being given advice on how to sleep, apps are geared to "unwind" our minds, you can buy… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Liam McIlvanney is one of the most distinguished British crime fiction writers around these days. He also happens to be a Scotsman who lives in Dunedin.After his first novel, All the Colours of the… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Dr Karam Shaar is an economist, a consultant on Syria and the middle east, a policy adviser and a lecturer on middle eastern politics. He lives in Karori in Wellington, a long way from where he grew… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2021 was vaccine, but it could just as easily have been 'misinformation'. This nebulous thing has been front and centre since the dawn of the pandemic; most… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.In 1928 Lewis Eady started the first purpose built music store in Queen St, selling sheet music and pianos, and the rest really was history. It was the beginning of a musical dynasty in Auckland which… Read more Audio

11:22 AM.We're going on a journey into Aotearoa's past now! We're continuing our series 'Who Lived There' this morning, it's based on a book of the same name which came out last year. Jane King took the… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Now quick pop quiz. Who said this - Logan Roy from Succession or King Lear? "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!" Well yes, it's King Lear. But they were both played by the same actor… Read more Audio

10:32 AM.Over the summer months we've been taking a few trips around the country with the former Prime Minister, head of the UN's development programme, and tramping enthusiast Helen Clark, who after many… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.There's a pub closing down in County Cork in Ireland and a very special photo has turned up in the process. It appears to be of an All Black visit to the pub in the 1970s. Do you know who is in this… Read more Audio

9:47 AM.It's been a pretty tough time for the performing arts industry over the last two years, but the show must, Covid-19 settings allowing, go on. Actor, singer, performer and director Vanessa Stacey is… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Does the language we speak affect the way we think? The way we act, the way we behave? Can it explain variations in subsets of people? This might seem like an odd question, but it's one with… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.Changes to the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act (CCCFA) regulations came into effect in December and the headlines this month have been dominated by anecdotal stories of issues they have… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.Tensions have been rising in Ukraine over the last few weeks, and international discussions have been escalating as a result. Russia has gathered 100,000 troops near the Ukranian border but the… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.Every year a list comes out. It's a special list of recordings and books which have entered the public domain and are no longer covered by copyright! This year a raft of cultural products from 1921… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Dr Fiona Cross loves spiders. She loves their webs, the mini eyes, their mini legs. She is an arachnologist, that is, as the name might suggest, one who studies spiders. Although as she told Emile… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Most people, were you to ask them, would say they love animals. Yet it's also statistically likely those same people, and I include myself in this, also eat the flesh of animals, wear their skin… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.We're going on a journey into Aotearoa's past now! We're continuing our series 'Who Lived There' this morning, it's based on a book of the same name which came out last year. Jane King took the… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.The pacific region is continuing to assess the impact of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha apai underwater volcano eruption. The Nationall Weather Forecasting Centre in Nadi is reporting the eruption is… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.When you think of central Otago, what do you think? Arid, tussock-covered hills and wilding pines, drenched in sun, rolling into the distance? It was not always thus, according to a fascinating new… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.News broke earlier this week that A US man has become the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig. Doctors in Maryland acknowledged what they were doing was… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.Scientists are predicting that Tonga's main island, Tongatapu, could be blanketed in ash this morning. Auckland University volcanologist Professor Shane Cronin says the magma type erupted is what's… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Communications are still down with Tonga, but the Tongan community in Aotearoa is gathering this morning to send their support to their whānau in the Kingdom. Pakilau Manase Lua is part of the Tonga… Read more Audio