Summer Weekends Podcast Options

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

8:11 AM.We begin this morning in Tonga, where a massive eruption of the Tonga-Hunga Ha apai underwater volcano has sent dust and debris into the stratosphere. A 1.2 metre-high tsunami struck the Tongan… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.What exactly is counter culture? Were Baby Boomers ever actually cool? Musician, historian and critic Nick Bollinger has been on a mission to find out what the cultural moment of the late 1960s and… Read more Audio

10:43 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

10:21 AM.Over the next summer months we'll be 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

10:07 AM.There has been a lot of discussion over the previous year about what role Mātauranga Māori can have in Aotearoa New Zealand. There was the famous letter to the Listener in which 6 academics argued… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.What three things would you want for a prison escape? Would a ouija board, a strong imagination and a credulous captor be on your list? They were key tools in 1916 for two prisoners of war in the… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Was 2021 the worst year on record? With Covid-19, lockdowns and economic and environmental turmoil, a lot of people have been saying they thought it was a real annus horribilis. Latif Nasser went on a… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.Foreign affairs commentators are optimistic a combustible situation in Kazakhstan has stabilised. Over the past couple of weeks Al Jazeera reports Kazakh security forces detained almost 10,000 people… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.It feels like every week is a busy one in British politics, but this was an especially full one. Downing Street was forced to apologise to Buckingham Palace for two staff parties in No 10 on the night… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.The story of the tennis player, the vaccine mandate and the federal government continues to twist and turn in Victoria. Novak Djokovic is set to be detained by Australian immigration officials again… Read more Audio