All episodes
Saturday, 18 July 2020
- 8:10 Brazil's coronavirus catastrophe 'little flu' kills 75,000
- 9:05 "Into The Wild" author Jon Krakauer on adventure and risk
- 10:05 Suicide and survival: doco director Leanne Pooley
- 10:35 Justin Kurzel:True History of the Kelly Gang
- 11:05 NZer working to protect Lebanon's migrant maids
- 11:40 Doug Wilson: protecting our elderly if Covid-19 returns to NZ
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 18 July 2020
- 5:30 Alice Procter: getting real about 'colonial loot' in museums
Saturday, 11 July 2020
- 9:35 Celebrating trans experiences: Rurangi director Max Currie
- 10:05 Novelist David Mitchell on his new book Utopia Avenue
- 10:35 Kathy Sullivan: from outer space to deep under the sea
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Dennis O'Brien from Slow Boat Records
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday 11th July
- 3:10 Anand Giridharadas: Beware of billionaire 'do-gooders'
- 5:05 The unknowns behind a Covid-19 vaccine: 'It's an unwritten book' - Dr Chris Smith
Saturday, 4 July 2020
- 8:10 Tracking down the Golden State Killer: Paige St John
- 8:30 Epidemiologist Adam Kucharski: the rules of contagion
- 9:05 Before Everest: exploring Hillary's rocky relationship with Earle Riddiford
- 9:35 New Arts Icon Sandy Adsett
- 10:05 The history and mystery of the brain: Matthew Cobb
- 11:00 Underwater sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor
- 11:40 Wrap artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude
- 12:00 Listener Feedback from Saturday July 4
Saturday, 27 June 2020
- 8:10 Vincent Gaffney: Stonehenge's hidden landscapes
- 8:30 Mark O'Connell: Notes From An Apocalypse
- 9:05 Jess Hill: power, control and domestic abuse
- 10:05 Dr Alexy Karenowska: the smell of history
- 11:05 Roger Michel: Waka versus Anglo-Saxon longboat
- 11:40 Indigenous film-maker Bird Runningwater
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday 27th June
- 4:40 Aotearoa needs to debate colonisation, racism - new commissioner
- 5:20 Great to meet ewe: Introducing sheep via Zoom to fans worldwide
Saturday, 20 June 2020
- 8:30 Lotta Dann: how the alcohol industry targets women
- 9:05 Jesca Hoop: American-born singer/songwriter
- 9:40 Andrew Wilson: what can you do with the fifth state of matter?
- 10:05 C.K. Stead on his second memoir You Have a Lot to Lose
- 10:40 Peter McComb: studying the giant waves of the Southern Ocean
- 11:05 Tiffany Field: the power of touch in a socially distant world
- 11:40 Human Hand: Fiona Amundsen and Tim Corballis
- 11:59 Saturday Morning Feedback
- 3:12 How police reform changed one of US’s most violent cities
Saturday, 13 June 2020
- 8:12 Will US protests prompt NZ police reform?
- 8:35 Historian Charlotte Lydia Riley: Is it OK to topple statues?
- 9:07 Economist Robert Frank: The positive power of social pressure
- 9:36 Jesse Eisenberg on playing mime artist Marceau in "Resistance"
- 10:06 Pip Adam on her new novel "Nothing to See"
- 10:36 Sophie Ballagh: adventuring through Antarctica
- 11:06 Caroline Criado Perez: Invisible Women
- 11:46 Kate's Klassics: Defoe's "A Journal of The Plague Year"
Saturday, 6 June 2020
- 8:10 How does cannabis use affect New Zealanders' health?
- 8:30 Chris Smith: Covid-19 Q and A
- 9:05 Dr. Kari Nadeau: fighting to end food allergies
- 9:30 Ruth Shaw - Manapouri's "Two Wee Bookshops"
- 10:05 Imagining decolonisation in Aotearoa
- 10:30 Former Vogue UK editor Alexandra Shulman on why clothes matter
- 11:00 Playing Favourites with Tamatha Paul
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Tamatha Paul (Podcast version)
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback
Saturday, 30 May 2020
- 8:10 Evan Osnos - US/ China relationship dangerously unstable
- 8:30 Chris Smith - Covid-19 - testing and treatment
- 9:05 Director Kitty Green on her new film, The Assistant
- 9:40 Architect Judi Keith-Brown: the future of NZ homes
- 10:40 Mary Kisler: artists' gardens
- 11:05 Pete Paphides: playing favourites
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday 30th May
- 4:55 Professor Elizabeth Loftus: how memory is made
Saturday, 23 May 2020
- 8:00 Listener Feedback for 23 May
- 8:10 Robert Fisk: reporting from the frontline
- 9:45 Wendy McCulloch: Kiwi vet helping New York pets
- 10:05 Virologist Dr Chris Smith: Covid-19 update
- 10:35 Ian Wedde on his new novel "The Reed Warbler"
- 11:05 Photographer Judith Crispin: exposing life and death
- 11:35 Doug Wilson: how older people are feeling about the pandemic
- 1:05 'The Wire' creator David Simon: 'America finds itself in a very ugly place'
Saturday, 16 May 2020
- 8:10 Kashmir Hill - Police use of software Clearview AI
- 9:06 Virologist Chris Smith answers Covid-19 questions
- 9:40 Shaun Bythell: Scotland's biggest second hand bookshop
- 10:08 In defence of bats: disease ecologist Jonathan Epstein
- 10:40 Keke Brown: disability as artistry
- 11:06 Barbara Ewing on her coming of age memoir
- 11:45 Peter Warner: 'Lord of The Flies' rescuer
- 3:00 Toby Ord - What is the greatest threat to humanity?
Saturday, 9 May 2020
- 8:00 Listener Feedback for Saturday 9 May
- 8:10 Donald McNeil: US facing a dystopian Covid future
- 8:35 Anil Seth: exploring the complexities of consciousness
- 9:05 Chesa Boudin - progressive DA and 'de-carceration' advocate
- 9:30 John Grant: US singer's Iceland life
- 10:05 Maria Ressa: Filipino journalist vs Rodrigo Duterte
- 11:05 Vanessa Beavis: How NZ hospitals prepared for Covid-19
- 11:35 Julie Leask: How to talk to anti-vaxxers
Saturday, 2 May 2020
- 8:12 Anushri Anandaraja: health workers’ champion in NYC
- 8:30 Adam Rutherford: How To Argue With A Racist
- 9:05 Rory Truell: social work through the pandemic
- 9:25 Dr Chris Smith: Sustained immune response 'likely'
- 10:05 Deborah Feldman: inspiring Unorthodox
- 11:05 Climate scientist Andrea Dutton
- 11:45 Graham Swift: Booker prize winner's latest novel
Saturday, 25 April 2020
- 8:12 Dr Chris Smith: virologist on latest Covid-19 science
- 8:43 Lachlan Paterson & Angela Wanhalla: Maori Home Front
- 9:07 Christina Lamb: bearing witness to war crimes against women
- 10:06 John Darnielle: Mountain Goats' new lockdown album
- 10:42 Sam Forbes: baking bread, breaking bread
Saturday, 18 April 2020
- 8:10 Katy Watson: Brazil and coronavirus
- 8:30 Philippe Sands: The Ratline
- 9:05 Ann Patchett: The Dutch House author
- 9:35 Chris Smith: Virologist on latest Covid-19 science
- 10:10 Peter de Jager: overcoming the Y2K crisis
- 10:35 Andrew Solomon: depression, anxiety and the virus
- 11:05 Johanna Knox: lockdown food foraging
- 11:25 Australian working on Singapore’s Covid-19 offensive
- 11:45 Craig Potton: conservationist and publisher’s lockdown life
Saturday, 11 April 2020
- 8:15 Amy Goldstein: COVID-19 in the Land of the Free
- 8:35 Colin Thubron: travel writing off the beaten track
- 9:10 Chris Smith: COVID-19 science
- 9:30 Whaitiri Poutawa: The "Maori Thor" bringing kapa haka online
- 10:10 Ken Burns: doco director's epic histories
- 11:10 Trent Dalton: Tales from the Bunker
- 11:30 Tangaroa Walker: dairy farming during lockdown
- 11:40 Gregory O'Brien: poetry in isolation
Saturday, 4 April 2020
- 8:00 Kim's intro for Saturday 4 April 2020
- 8:15 India's 1.3 billion person lockdown
- 8:35 Dr Michael Mosley: the secrets of a good night's sleep
- 9:15 Chris Smith: coronavirus science latest
- 9:50 Greg Woods: marble racing commentator
- 10:12 Jane Patterson: government messaging in the Covid crisis
- 10:40 Dr Diana and Mark Kopua: Maori mental health
- 11:10 Mary Kisler: art and museums online
- 11:30 Steph Miller: new short film Rat Man
- 11:45 Kate Camp: literature for the lockdown
Saturday, 28 March 2020
- 8:07 Anu Partanen: why is Finland so happy?
- 8:40 Coronavirus causing unheard of reduction in air pollution
- 9:08 Jaimee Perrett: Nelson teacher's enforced Ghana stay
- 9:30 Dr Chris Smith: lockdown science
- 10:08 Ed Caesar: hunting huge diamonds
- 10:35 Harlan Coben: novelist's big on Netflix
- 11:07 Steve Wratten: plants to please bees
- 11:35 Doug Wilson: the lockdown and the elderly
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 28 March
Saturday, 21 March 2020
- 8:10 Laura Spinney: the search for a vaccine and the 1918 flu
- 8:30 Dr Chris Smith: 'surface anxiety' and COVID-19 treatment trials
- 9:05 Mark Jenkin: director of Bait
- 9:30 Robert Macfarlane: the #CoReadingVirus global reading group
- 10:05 Arielle Kilker: Cheer co-director's feelgood hit
- 10:35 James Hadfield: NZ phylogeneticist tracking COVID-19's spread
- 11:05 Steven Taylor: the psychology of pandemics
- 11:35 Michele Bannister: interplanetary passions
Saturday, 14 March 2020
- 8:10 Chris Smith - COVID-19 pandemic update
- 8:40 Life after COVID 19 - how the pandemic could shape the future
- 9:05 One year since March 15: Dr Maysoon Salama
- 9:40 Ancient pollen as a window into the past
- 10:05 Author Hilary Mantel completes her Wolf Hall trilogy
- 11:05 Pádraig Ó Tuama: The Poetry & Politics of Kindness
- 11:40 Kate's Klassics - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday 14 March
Saturday, 7 March 2020
- 8:10 Damian Barr: Maggie & Me author on his debut novel
- 8:45 Serhii Plokhy - Chernobyl: History of A Tragedy
- 9:05 Laurie Anderson
- 9:35 Bret McKenzie
- 10:05 Director and choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan
- 10:35 Black Ties co-director Rachael Maza
- 11:05 Cormac Begley - Concertina player
- 11:15 Rajorshi Chakraborti - Shakti
- 11:35 Carl Bland - Mr Red Light
Saturday, 29 February 2020
- 8:10 Dr Ashley Bloomfield on New Zealand's first case of COVID-19
- 8:30 David Quammen: How animal diseases spread to humans
- 9:07 Anne Enright: on her latest novel "Actress"
- 9:49 Josh Bailey: electric music maker
- 10:07 Covid-19: Q and A with Virologist Chris Smith
- 10:48 Songwriter Ria Hall "upholding the mana of Aotearoa reggae"
- 11:08 Mosque shooting widower Farid Ahmed shares "Husna's story"
- 11:43 Peter Sellars: genre-defying director stages Canadian opera
Saturday, 22 February 2020
- 8:10 Can Michael Bloomberg's billions buy the Democratic nomination?
- 8:30 Moral philosopher Professor Peter Singer vs cancel culture
- 9:05 Katherine Eban: Fraud in the generic drug industry
- 9:40 NZer of the Year Jennifer Ward-Lealand: 'The stage is my place that I let te reo be heard'
- 10:05 Namwali Serpell: Author of "The Old Drift"
- 10:35 Surgeon Sanduk Ruit on helping 130,000 people see again
- 11:05 Guy Garvey: lead singer of UK band elbow
- 11:40 Stanley Makuwe: Sir Garfield Todd's African legacy
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 22 February 2020
Saturday, 15 February 2020
- 8:10 Prof Raina MacIntyre - Corona virus / Covid-19 update
- 8:35 How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality
- 9:10 Heart surgeon Samer Nashef: The Angina Monologues
- 10:06 Katie Paterson: Future Library
- 10:30 Actor Nathaniel Lees on The Legend of Baron To'a
- 11:05 Playing favourites with The Front Lawn
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 15 February 2020
- 11:55 The Front Lawn plays favourites (podcast version)
Saturday, 8 February 2020
- 8:10 The week in US Politics - Nicholas Fandos
- 8:35 Claudia de Rham: cosmologist considers 'massive gravity'
- 9:05 Francis and Kaiora Tipene on life and the business of death
- 9:45 H G Parry: novelist on The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
- 10:05 Rain Dove - Activist and "gender capitalist" model
- 10:30 Documentary director Tony Sutorius: Helen Kelly -Together
- 11:05 Newtown Festival director Martin Hanley plays favourites
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 8 February 2020
Saturday, 1 February 2020
- 8:10 Virologist Chris Smith: Wuhan coronavirus latest
- 8:35 Kat Arney: Does fidgeting help us focus?
- 9:05 Adam Minter on the global economy of secondhand goods
- 10:05 Gladys Knight: "Empress of Soul" tours NZ
- 10:30 Doug Wilson on ageing and happiness
- 11:05 Trent Dalton: I was put on this earth to write Boy Swallows Universe
- 11:40 Wrangling maggots to reduce food waste
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday 1 February