Noelle Mc Carthy
The Panel pre-show for 21 July 2015
Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio
Listener Feedback to Saturday 18 July 2015
Noelle McCarthy reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 18 July 2015. Audio
Jon Baxter: buildings and light
Jon Baxter Director of Perceptual Engineering, and a pioneer of projection mapping in New Zealand, who designed the 3D interactive light show in Parliament grounds for the free Big Birthday Party, a… Audio
Iris Apfel: style icon
Interior designer who came to prominence in 1950s New York, when she and her husband founded a company specialising in hand-woven historic textiles, and furnished nine White Houses. Now a 93-year-old… Video, Audio
Southern theatre and Chunuk Bair
South Island theatre director of a new production of Once on Chunuk Bair by Maurice Shadbolt, which is being staged at the Air Force Museum in Christchurch, to coincide with the 100-year anniversary… Audio
Hamish McKeich: conducting the capital
Hamish McKeich International freelance conductor who will conduct the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for three performances for Capital 150, celebrating Wellington's 150 years as New Zealand's capital… Audio
Nick Shymansky: managing Amy
Nick Shymansky Senior A&R manager at Island Records and original manager of Amy Winehouse between 1999 and 2006, who features in a new documentary about the singer, screening at the New Zealand… Video, Audio
Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins: Impression, Sunrise
Arthur Tompkins District Court Judge, and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group with a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces, discussing the 1985 theft of Impression… Audio
Jennifer Peedom: sherpas and Everest
Australian filmmaker known for her intimate portraits of people in extreme circumstances. Her latest documentary, Sherpa, is screening at the New Zealand International Film Festivals. Audio
Public interest journalism and paywalls
Editor and publisher of Scoop Media, which runs the independent news source Scoop.co.nz as a free service for the public, supported by a range of premium services and a new "Ethical Paywall"… Audio
Gareth Porter: the Iran nuclear deal
Independent investigative journalist, historian, and author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discussing the nuclear and sanctions deal between Iran and the United… Audio
Listener Feedback to Saturday 11 July 2015
Noelle McCarthy reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 11 July 2015. Audio
Mary Brennan: domination and submission
Professional dominatrix (as Mistress Mariah) who since 2006 has owned one of New Zealand's most successful fantasy and full-service brothels, and author of Some Kind of Fantasy: the Amazing Life Story… Audio
Playing Favourites with Murray Gray
Former bookseller in Titirangi, Auckland, and founder and programme director of the Going West Books and Writers Festival, celebrating its 20th anniversary. Audio
Stefan Andreas Meyer: open source electric car
Driving force for the past few years behind a project to design and build an open source electric car, which he details at Blitz Conversions Limited. Audio
Deborah Cameron: language and gender
Deborah Cameron Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University who is visiting New Zealand to deliver two lectures: Our Tremendous Opportunity: a Look at the Hidden History of BBC… Audio
Anna Guenther
CEO and co-founder of equity crowdfunding platform PledgeMe, which has just celebrated its third birthday. Audio
Listener Feedback to Saturday 4 July 2015
Noelle McCarthy reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 4 July 2015. Audio
Martin Edmond: notable emigrants
New Zealand author of over 30 publications and screenplays, who has been awarded 2015's $100,000 Michael King Writer's Fellowship, to research and write a biographical study of four largely unknown… Audio
Tewodros Melesse: sexual health and contraception
Ethioipian economist and Director-General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, who has been visiting New Zealand to discuss the role of men and boys in ensuring gender equality in the… Audio