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Gardening with Kath Irvine Gardener and tutor who runs Edible Backyard workshops from her garden in Ohau, discussing summer gardening and watering. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gary Henderson - on the Peninsula New Zealand playwright, theatre director and teacher, whose play Peninsula will be staged during the New Zealand International Arts Festival 2012. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Harry Christophers - period music Founder and conductor of The Sixteen, one of the world's great period endembles (comprising both choir and period-instrument orchestra). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Art with Mary Kisler - Palladio, Scarpa, Canova Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery - Toi o Tamaki, discussing the work of the Italian architects Andrea Palladio and Carlo Scarpa, and sculptor Antonio Canova. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Julian Priest - time and wireless Co-founder of the early wireless network community in the UK, director of the Green Bench project room in Whanganui, and creator of a time zone that responds to movement for a group show at The Dowse in Lower Hutt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nina Huang - science focus Student at Diocesan School for Girls who has won the Royal Society's Realise the Dream competition, and the $50,000 Prime Minister's Future Scientist Prize. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Luke Harding - Russia Former Moscow correspondent for The Guardian, and author of the book Mafia State. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Kate De Goldi talking about Monacello the Little Monk by Geraldine McCaughrean, The Christmas Eve Ghost by Shirley Hughes, and Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jennifer McLagan: eating odd bits Toronto-based Australian chef and writer talking about her new book, Odd Bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Delaney Davidson Delaney Davidson is a a New Zealand musician who has been touring the world constantly for the last ten years, and is playing gigs in New Zealand in support of his new album, Bad Luck Man. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Grant Sheehan: photographing ghosts New Zealand photographer and publisher whose new book is Ghosts in the Landscape. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Oren Gershtein: incubating innovation CEO at Van Leer Ventures Jerusalem, one of Israel's leading high-technology incubators. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sara Wiseman: wicked acting New Zealand screen actor who won Best Supporting Actress 2011 for the film Matariki, and is currently onscreen in new film Rest for the Wicked. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Iain Overton: exposing lobbyists Managing editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism which has published an undercover investigation into the activities of one of Britain's top lobbying firms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nick Carman: skiing the Silk Road Structural engineer, who is off on a ski trip with nine friends following the Silk Road across asia, the Middle East and Europe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Julian Rayner: stopping malaria Leader of a group at the Sanger Institute Malaria Programme that recently published research on the prospect of developing a vaccine against malaria. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Symphonies with Peter Walls Retiring chief executive of the New Zealand Sypmhony Orchestra, who will conduct the NZSO in two free musical workshops on how to listen to a symphony. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Robert Catto: Rupert Julian Wellington photographer talking about Rupert Julian, New Zealand's least-known world-famous Hollywood star. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bernard Spolsky: saving languages World-renowned linguist who was keynote speaker at a recent symposium focusing on the survival of Maori and Pasifika languages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Huckerby: wave and tidal energy Chair of the international collaborative body Ocean Energy Systems, who is also involved with marine energy advocates Awatea, and energy industry consultancy Power Projects Limited. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Grant Morris in New Orleans New Zealand writer based in New Orleans, who hosts the Happy Hour webcast, and produces business show Out to Lunch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener feedback Kim reads emails and text messages from listeners of the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | David Veart: Archaeology and food Programme manager, Historic, at the Department of Conservation, guest speaker at the NZ Food History's 5th Symposium for Food History, and author of the new book Digging Up The Past: Archaeology for the Young and Curious. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Annabel Langbein: Free range and France Cook, author, publisher and television presenter whose new book, Free Range in the City, has just been published. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Bill Ward Guitarist for 60s group The Human Instinct who now builds custom guitars and drag-racers. He has a land speed record from the Bonneville Salt Flats, and is planning another attempt in 2012. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Andrew Clifford: Sculpture in Waikato Curator of the outdoor art exhibition, Summer: Sky Above, Earth Below, for the Waikato Sculpture Trust, at the Sculpture Park in Waitakaruru Arboretum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gerard Smyth: Quakes on film Christchurch filmmaker who has made more than 60 documentaries; his latest is When A City Falls, about the Canterbury quakes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jane Gleeson-White: Double-entry bookkeeping Fiction editor of the Australian literary journal Overlander; her third book is Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Colleen McCullough: thorny life Australian author, best known for her 1977 novel The Thorn Birds, who has just published a memoir, Life Without the Boring Bits. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Christine Winterbourn Free radicals Biochemist, and director of the Free Radicals Group at the University of Otago, Christchurch, and 2011 winner of the Rutherford Medal, New Zealand's top science and technology honour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Neil and Sharon Finn Crowded House leader and his wife, who formed a new group, Pajama Club, as a fun musical project at their home earlier this year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paul Bennett Surf, drugs, redemption Top New Zealand surfer who tells how his life was wrecked by drug and alcohol abuse, in his book Walking with the Taniwha, recently reissued in a revised version covering issues of mental health, addiction and rehabilitation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dusty Gedge: living roofs British naturalist, ecologist and ornithologist touring New Zealand to talk about living roofs - planting gardens on the top of urban buildings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sigurbjörg Sigurgeirsdóttir Iceland Lecturer in public policy at the University of Iceland, and former government strategic policy adviser, discussing the crash and recovery of the Icelandic economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jay O'Callahan: stories and science Internationally renowned storyteller and solo performer, who will visit New Zealand for the inaugural Science Teller Festival in Dunedin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Peter Graham: crime and punishment Former Hong Kong barrister who returned to New Zealand to write about crime, and has just published So Brilliantly Clever: Parker, Hulme and the Murder that Shocked the World. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with David Kleeman President of the American Centre for Children and Media, Advisory Board Chair for the international children's television festival Prix Jeunesse, and guest speaker at the annual SPADA conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Richard Gough: experimental theatre Artistic Director of the Centre for Performance Research in Aberystwyth, Wales, who was the 2011 Canterbury Fellow at Te Puna Toi, and collaborated with the Free Theatre company in Christchurch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jack Ralston: coaching champions International sports coach and CEO of Gymnastics NZ who has just published his memoir, The Sports Insider: a Life Among Champions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Raf Manji: money and the economy Former London investment banker who moved to Christchurch and founded the independent policy development space, The Sustento Institute. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Kate discusses three new books: The Apothecary, Stuck in the Muck, and I spy NZ Art: New Zealand art from the collection of Auckland Art Gallery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Annie Potts: chickens Associate Professor and Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at Canterbury University, and author of the new book, Chicken. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Flying Nun favourites with Bruce Russell Archivist, user experience consultant, member of the Dead C., and music writer, who has curated a new Flying Nun archival compilation, Time to Go. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Art with Mary Kisler: Venice Senior curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki talking about her art tour of northern Italy, including the Michael Parekowhai exhibition at the Venice Bienalle, and the architect Carlo Scarpa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Michael Corballis: mind pieces Professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Auckland and author of Pieces of Mind: 21 Short Walks Around the Human Brain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ravi Batra: predictions and politics Professor of economics at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and the author of the 2008 book, The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Paul Diamond reads emails and text messages to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Edward Meyer: collecting wierdness Vice President of Exhibits & Archives for Ripley Entertainment, Inc., the company that operates more than 80 attractions, in 11 countries worldwide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fiona Farrell: walking and the broken city Writer of novels, short stories, plays, poems and non-fiction, and Robert Burns fellow 2011 at the University of Otago. Her new travel book of essays and poems is The Broken Book. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Jenny McLeod New Zealand composer whose new opera, Hohepa, will receive its world premiere with the New Zealand Opera staging at the 2012 New Zealand International Arts Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paul Hamer: Maori in Australia Senior Associate of the Institute of Policy Studies at Victoria University whose specialist area of knowledge is the migration of Maori to Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kevin Prime: governance and action Farmer and forester in Motatau, Northland, who has been an Environmental Commissioner with the Environment Court since 2003, and involved with many boards and committees for the last 20 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Brian Calhoun: retaking the Net Recent New Zealand citizen who is trying to recreate the best parts of San Francisco in Wellington, and has co-founded Retake The Net to help keep the internet free and open. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fintan O'Toole: the Irish presidency Writer for The Irish Times, whose most recent book is Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic. He discusses the Irish presidential election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bruce Ansley: lost Christchurch Long-time journalist and author; his new book is Christchurch Heritage: a Celebration of Lost Buildings and Streetscapes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dame Kate Harcourt: driving on Professional actor for stage, film, radio and television since the 1960s, who has a role in the new play, Sex Drive, at Circa Theatre in Wellington. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Garth Cartwright New Zealand-born, London-based writer on music and culture; his new travelogue memoir is Sweet As: Journeys in a New Zealand Summer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Simon Wallace: dairying in Brazil Director and general manager of Leitissimo, a New Zealand-owned company that runs the largest pastoral dairy farm in Brazil. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sir Paul Callaghan: facing forward 2011 New Zealander of the Year, Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences at Victoria University, Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College Cambridge, and a part of the team staging the 2012 Transit of Venus Forum - Lifting our Horizon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Thomas Friedman: globalisation and the USA Writer for the New York Times and author of the new book, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gardening with Kath Irvine Ohau gardener who runs Edible Backyard workshops, talking about preparing beds for tomatoes and growing salads during the summer months. Plus Kim goes in depth about the creepy crawlies in her garden. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Poetry with John Adams Judge of the District and Family Courts in Auckland and poet, on his first collection; Briefcase. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nicky Saker Committee member of the Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society Inc., which has organised the exhibition Behind the Mask: Rediscovered Portraits of Katherine Mansfield in Wellington. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Chris Guise Weta Workshop's Lead Conceptual Designer on the upcoming Steven Spielberg movie The Adventures of Tintin and author and art director of The Art of the Adventures of Tintin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pat Deavoll One of the world's top mountaineers on her memoir Wind from a Distant Summit: the Story of New Zealand's Leading Woman Mountaineer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kate Camp Author of four collections of poetry and 2011 recipient of the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency who is currently at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kiran Martin Founder of social development project Asha, which operates in the slums of West Delhi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim reads emails and text messages from listeners Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kate De Goldi : literary touring Author of a number of books, including The 10pm Question which won the 2011 Corine International Book Prize Young Readers Award, who has been speaking at the Edinburgh Festival and touring the UK researching for a book on children's literature. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tony Parker: design execellence Head of Massey University's Institute of Design for Industry and Environment, President of the Designers Institute of New Zealand, and convenor of the product judges at this year,s Best Design awards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Mikee Tucker Founder of record label Loop Recording Aot(ear)oa, which is celebrating its ten-year anniversary, and executive producer of the concert show Fly My Pretties Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Niki Harre: psychology and sustainability Deputy Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Auckland, whose new book is psychology for a Better World:Strategies to Inspire Sustainability Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Costas Panayotakis: youth in revolt Associate professor of sociolgy at the New York City College of Technology and author of the forthcoming book, Remaking Scarcity:From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tom Keneally: famine Australian writer whose recent book, Three Famines: Starvation and Politics, looks at Ireland,Bengal and Ethiopia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gardening with Kath Irvine Gardener who runs Edible Backyard workshops from her garden in Ohau, talking about hot boxes, and how to grow asparagus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | James Lee Burke : evil and redemption American crime writer based in Montana and Louisiana; his thirtieth novel is Feast Day of Fools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Whirimako Black New Zealand singer best known for her albums sung in Te Reo Maori, though her new recording, The Late Night Plays, features English renditions of some of her favorite songs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paul Brewer : Anatoly Kuchumov Director External Relationships for Regional Facilities Auckland, and active supporter of the project to restore the historic Alexander Palace near St Petersberg in Russia, talking about the work of Anatoly Kuchumov. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Duncan Watts : common sense and society Principal research scientist at Yahoo Research whose new book is Everything is Obvious Once You Know the Answer : How Common Sense Fails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Peter Lineham : rugby as a religion Regional Director for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Associate Professor of History, at Massey University, talking about rugby as New Zealand's surrogate religion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Luke Harding : Russia Guardian journalist who recounts his experiences in his new book, Mafia State : How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Stephen Jenkinson: companion animals in urban life Pet behaviour counsellor visiting Christchurch for a seminar, A City Good for Dogs is Great for Humans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kevin McCloud: grand designs Architectural historian, designer and broadcaster best known for the television series Grand Designs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kevin McCloud: grand designs Architectural historian, designer and broadcaster best known for the television series Grand Designs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with four opera stars Simon O'Neill, Jonathan Lemalu, Madeleine Pierard, and Sarah Castle are performing in four cities with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and guest choirs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites Opera singers performing in four cities with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and guest choirs in Odes to Joy (Beethoven's 9th Symphony, and a new work from Gareth Farr). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Martyn Myer: Wanaka and philanthropy Businessman and philanthropist who, with his wife Louise, built the Whare Kea Lodge in Wanaka 15 years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nancy Andreasen: creativity and mental illness World-leading schizophrenia researcher, and Director of the Mental Health Clinical Research Center at The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nancy Andreasen: creativity and mental illness World-leading schizophrenia researcher, and Director of the Mental Health Clinical Research Center at The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paul Diamond: murder and the mayor Curator, Maori at the Alexander Turnbull Library and resident scholar at the Stout Research Centre for NZ Studies, where he is writing a book about Charles Mackay, the secretly homosexual mayor of Whanganui. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paul Diamond: murder and the mayor Curator, Maori at the Alexander Turnbull Library and resident scholar at the Stout Research Centre for NZ Studies, where he is writing a book about Charles Mackay, the secretly homosexual mayor of Whanganui. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Yasmine Ryan: Tunisia New Zealand journalist working for Al Jazeera English, who has been covering the Arab uprisings since the protests first erupted in Tunisia in December. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dieter Paulmann - ocean action German philanthropist who has been committed to ocean conservation for 30-years and organised the recent Pacific Voyagers journey to San Francisco by six canoes from Pacific Islands. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Libby Hakaraia - in the bag Film and television producer who is about to start filming the fourth series of It's in the Bag for Maori Television. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Joyce Fleming National vice-president of Free Beaches NZ, who tells her life story in her book, Defying Convention: the Truth About Tony and Me. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Michael Bendall - youth parliamentarian President of Te Putairiki: Maori Law Students' Association at the University of Canterbury, who represented New Zealand at the Fourth Commonwealth Youth Parliament. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caitlin Moran - feminism British broadcaster who writes three columns a wekk for The Times, and has just published her second book, How to Be a Woman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Carlin - Rafael Nadal Award winning British journalist and co-author of 'Rafa: My Story', the biography of Rafael Nadal, winner of nine grand slam tennis singles titles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Michael Watts - Africa, oil, poverty Director of African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley who has published widely on African development, social movements and oil over the past three decades. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners of the Saturday Morning show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gardening with Kath Irvine Kath Irvine has spent years teaching permaculture and edible gardening to schools and community groups, and now runs workshops on how to grow food and create edible backyards from her garden on the Kapiti Coast. Today's topic is composting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Anne Salmond: William Bligh Anne Salmond is one of NZ's most distinguished anthropologists and historians. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, and the author of a number of award-winning books. Her new book, Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas, explores Bligh's three Pacific voyages on the Resolution, Bounty, and Providence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Darcy Nicholas Darcy Nicholas is a respected painter, sculptor, writer, and curator who has exhibited internationally. His current exhibition, Land of My Ancestors, is at the Expressions Art and Entertainment Centre in Upper Hutt and features paintings, sculptures, and jewellery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mary Kisler: Art Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She talks about the new Auckland Art Gallery, three Maori dimension commissions and two international commissions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cheryl Sucher: New York Cheryl Sucher is a former New Yorker who experienced 9/11 first-hand. She's now based in Havelock North but has headed back to the Big Apple for a couple of months to finish a novel. She talks about Havelock North, writing, and 9/11 ten years on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Waters: This Filthy World American filmmaker, actor, writer, and shock auteur John Waters rose to fame in the early 1970s with a string of cult films. He's still making films, and is coming to NZ for the first time to perform his one man show This Filthy World. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Elizabeth Iorns: Outsourcing Science Elizabeth Iorns is a New Zealand-born breast cancer researcher and entrepreneur based in Miami who has founded an online marketplace for outsourcing science experiments. She is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | David Haywood, Jen Hay : post quake experiences David Haywood is an engineer and writer and his partner, Jen Hay is the director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour at the University of Canterbury. They describe their experiences since the September quake in Christchurch last year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Donald Leggett : rowing Donald Leggett has coached a crew from the Cambridge University Boat Club in the annual boat race against Oxford University for many years and this year he's back in New Zealand with a Cambridge crew to compete against the University of Waikato. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Alan Hall : recreating disaster Alan Hall is a producer with Dunedin based documentary film company NHNZ. His latest programme, I Survived, features interviews with 9/11 survivors and recreations of events. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Johnny Moore : playing favourites Johnny Moore is the owner of the Goodbye Blue Monday bar in Christchurch, which has been closed since the 22 February earthquake. He talks to Kim about the turbulent times since then and his career in the hospitality industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nicky Hager : Author Nicky Hager is an investigative journalist and author of five books including The Hollow Men. His latest publication, Other People's Wars, New Zealand In Afghanistan, Iraq and the war on terror has just been published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the states. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tom Scott : Documentary , Rage Tom Scott is a cartoonist, satirist, author and playwright. His latest project is a television docu-drama centred on the controversial 1981 Sprinkbok tour of New Zealand. Rage is the story of two star-crossed lovers, one a young maori policewoman, the other a student protestor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Andrew Holden : One year on Editor of The Press Andrew Holden talks about the twelve months since the September quake hit Christchurch, the nature of community in Christchurch after the quakes and the divided experiences of the city, east vs west. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Poetry with Peter Bland The well known broadcaster, actor, co-founder of Wellington's Downstage Theatre and poet talks about his new collection Coming Ashore and receiving a 2011 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | David Eagleman: the unconscious brain Neuroscientist, writer and director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action in Texas, who has recently published Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Jeff Smith One time member of New Zealand bands Naked Spots Dance and The Newmatics, who has a new documentary out, Rumble & Bang, about the 1960s garage rock group, Chants R&B. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Banas: Underbelly NZ Script writer, actor, director and teacher who most recently has written the script for Underbelly New Zealand: Land of the Long Green Cloud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bruce Hayward: volcanoes Geologist and marine ecologist who co-authored Volcanoes of Auckland: the Essential Guide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pepe Escobar: Libya Brazilian journalist who writes for Asia Times Online and is currently focusing on the Great Arab Revolt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maria V. Snyder: weather and dystopia American writer who worked as a meteorologist before writing a number of best-selling fantasy books and is visiting Auckland as a guest at the Romance Writers of New Zealand conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Parker: ceramics and design Ceramic artist, and collector of all manner of objects, and designer for theatre and opera - most recently the set for NZ Opera's double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Simon Reynolds Los Angeles-based English writer who has written extensively about music, particularly on the topics of dance music and drugs. His latest book is Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Art with Mary Kisler Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki discusses the exhibition, Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams currently showing at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ann Andrews: Parkinson's Television and theatre producer, researcher, teacher and crisis counselor who wrote the new book Positively Parkinson's, after being diagnosed with the disease. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Buck: dynamic governance Chief Executive of Governance Alive and coauthor of the book We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy, who is currently visiting New Zealand to run workshops about dynamic governance or sociocracy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Harry Sinclair: life in L.A. Co-founder of The Front Lawn, screen actor and film director whose 1996 debut Topless Women Talk About their Lives has just been released for the first time on DVD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi Kate discusses four new books - Life: an Exploding Diagram by Mal Peet, Only Ever Always by Penni Russon, The Carbon Diaries 2015 and The Carbon Diaries 2017 by Saci Lloyd. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gardening with Kath Irvine: chickens Kath Irvine runs Edible Backyard workshops from her garden in Ohau. She is talking about chickens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Justin North: master chef Chef and proprietor of a number of Sydney restaurants, who will return to New Zealand for the French Lessons session at the Fisher & Paykel Master Class during Wellington on a Plate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Vincent Heeringa Director of Tangible Media Ltd, co-founder of Idealog, director of AUT Media, and a member of the advisory board of the Science Media Centre. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Kendrick: bird watching Ornithologist for 85 years and recordist of many New Zealand bird calls, some of which are collected on a CD as part of the book, New Zealand Bird Calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Norman Hammond: Mayan civilisation Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at Boston University, who is visiting New Zealand to present the 2011 New Zealand Aronui Lecture, The Mysterious Maya: an Ancient American Civilisation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paul Lewis: the British riots Special Projects Editor for the Guardian who has been reporting this week on the civil unrest in Britain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Luke Wood :national grid Freelance graphic designer, lecturer and musician based in Lyttelton, and co-editor of The National Grid magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ian Wedde : rules of verse Poet, fiction writer, critic, essayist and art curator who has just been appointed New Zealand Poet Laureate 2011 - 2013. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with the Yeastie Boys Brewer Stu McKinlay and beer hunter Sam Possenniski, who won the Morton Coutts Trophy for Innovation this week at the 2011 Brewers Guild of New Zealand Awards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Yuan Ping : fencing Winner of the gold medal for the Individual Woman's Foil at the 2010 Commonwealth Fencing Championships. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rebecca Cann : out of Africa Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, and member of the International Scientific Advisory Panel of the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution. She co-authored the influential study which showed modern humans evolved from a single African population. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Joyce McKinney : tabloids and truth Subject of the Errol Morris documentary Tabloid; she has taken issue with how she is represented in the film. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Terry Eagleton : Marx, faith, evil Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, and Professor of Cultural Theory at the National University of Ireland, and author of Reason, Faith and Revolution, On Evil, and Why Marx Was Right. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Chris Bourke: music history Author of 'Blue Smoke: the Lost Dawn of Popular Music in New Zealand, 1918-1964', which won the General Non-Fiction award, Book of the Year award, and People's Choice award, at the New Zealand Post Book Awards 2011. He also chats about Randy Newman's current tour of Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fiona Campbell: art on the road Philanthropist and art curator who created the Real Art Roadshow, a touring contemporary New Zealand art collection that brings art to school students in geographically isolated or challenging locations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Paul Wolffram Ethnomusicologist and film maker whose new documentary, Stori Tumbuna: Ancestors' Tales, is about the Lak people in the rainforest of Papua New Guinea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Brad Argent: genealogy Content director for Australia and New Zealand at Ancestry.com.au, part of a global network of websites offering members access to millions of searchable family history records. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Frank Bowden: pathogens Professor of Medicine at the Australian National University Medical School, specialist in the field of infectious disease, and author of 'Gone Viral: the Germs That Share Our Lives'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Yves Smith: the US economy Editor of the Naked Capitalism blog and author of ECONned, on the political standoff in the USA over the debt ceiling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Errol Morris: tabloids and truth American documentary filmmaker (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War), whose new film is about a former Miss Wyoming who became a newspaper headline sensation in 1970s England. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gardening with Kath Irvine Kapiti Coast gardener who runs workshops on permaculture and creating edible backyards, talking about getting ready for the growing season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Michael Smythe : product design Design enthusiast and practitioner, and author of New Zealand Design : a History of New Zealand Product Design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paul Theroux : travel and writing Prolific American travel and fiction writer, whose latest book is the anthology, The Tao of Travel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Julian Robins : Washington DC Radio New Zealand political reporter, in Washington DC reporting on Prime Minister John Key's visit to the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Peter Donnelly : genes and statistics. Australian mathematician and Professor of Statistical Science and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in the University of Oxford, visiting New Zealand to deliver his talk, The Gene Revolution : Opportunities and Challenges. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | James Marsh : chimps and humans Film director who won an Academy Award in 2008 for his documentary Man on Wire. His new film is Project Nim, about a chimpanzee brought up as human. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Harris : phones, the press and politics British journalist and author who writes regularly for the Guardian on the recent phone hacking scandal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: three new books Kate discusses 'Press Here' by Herve Tullet, 'A Bit Lost' by Chris Haughton, and 'The Vanishing Act' by Mette Jakobsen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Adam Mansbach: parenting, comedy, race Novelist, hip hop artist and former Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University, New York, whose new parenting comedy book, 'Go the F**k to Sleep' has been an unexpected bestseller. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Bill Sheat OBE, CNZM Former partner with law firm Gibson Sheat, who has been involved in the New Zealand arts community for more than 60 years, particularly with Downstage Theatre, the QEII Arts Council, the New Zealand Drama Council, Playmarket, the State Opera House, the Summer Shakespeare Trust Board, and the New Zealand Film Commission. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Diane Pivac: NZ film history Director of public programmes at the New Zealand Film Archive Nga Kaitiaki O Nga Taonga Whitiahua, and co-editor of 'New Zealand Film: An Illustrated History'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gerald Seymour: thrills and terror British writer Gerald Seymour worked for many years as an international news reporter. His first thriller, 'Harry's Game', was published in 1975; he has since written a further 25 bestsellers. His new book is 'A Deniable Death'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tyler Cowen: economic stagnation Dr Tyler Cowen is an economist, academic, and writer who is co-author of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution, and author of new book 'The Great Stagnation'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Michael Wolff: Rupert Murdoch Founder of Newser.com, editorial director of AdweekMedia, and author of 'The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Adam Pruden: airborne communication Research Fellow for the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he oversees the Flyfire project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Simon Ngawhiki: voyager Sailed from New Zealand to Hawaii as a crew member of Te Matau a Maui - Maui's Fish hook, one of seven Polynesian double-hulled ocean voyaging canoes on the Pacific Voyagers journey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Simon Ngawhika: voyager Sailed from New Zealand to Hawaii as a crew member of Te Matau a Maui - Maui's Fish hook, one of seven Polynesian double-hulled ocean voyaging canoes on the Pacific Voyagers journey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Damien Wilkins Author, poet, playwright, short story writer and essayist who is also the singer, guitarist and songwriter for The Close Readers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nick Hedley: visualising data Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and founding director of the department's Spatial Interface Research Lab. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Erin Bigler: the brain and autism Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Brigham Young University, Utah visiting New Zealand for the Neurological Foundation of New Zealand's Annual Appeal series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Vana Manasiadis: turmoil in Athens New Zealand writer who resides in Crete, but is currently in Athens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Andrew Rossi:the New York Times Director of the documentary Page One: a Year Inside the New York Times, which will premiere at this year's New Zealand International Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi A Bigger Digger, by Brett Avison and Craig Smith; Marshall Armstrong is New to our School, by David Mackintosh; The Bear and the Wildcat, by Kazumi Yumoto and Komako Sakai; My First Car Was Red, by Peter Schossow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Anthony Menginie: prodigals and Pagans Former Philadelphia chapter president of the Pagans Motorcycle Club whose new book is Prodigal Father, Pagan Son. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Len Lye Favourites with Tyler Cann Len Lye curator at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth where All Souls Carnival, the largest retrospective of Lye's work, launches in September 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Art with Mary Kisler: power animals Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki discusses Michael Parekowhai, Venice, and symbols of animals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rob Hamill: brother number one Marathon rowing champion Rob Hamill features in Brother Number One, a documentary about the torture and murder of Rob's brother Kerry by the Khmer Rouge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rachel McKee: sign language Programme Director of Deaf Studies at Victoria University who was involved in producing the Online Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Susan Saladoff: hot coffee and tort law Lawyer Susan Saladoff whose documentary Hot Coffee will premiere at this year's New Zealand International Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jeffrey Paparoa Holman: earthquakes and kamikazes Waikato University 2011 writer in residence, who is writing a collection of post-earthquake poetry, and a memoir about his father, for which he travelled to Japan to research kamikaze pilots. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Florian Habicht: loving New York Auckland director whose new documentary fiction film, Love Story, was shot in New York and will open this year's Auckland Film Festival Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Carla Russell Executive director of the New Zealand Art Show, the biggest art show in the country Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Peter Toohey: boredom Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary, and author of Boredom: a Lively History. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Philip Lane: PIGS economies Professor of International Macroeconomics at Trinity College, Dublin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Roger Dennis: magnetic south Christchurch innovation consultant on Magnetic South, an online idea-generating game designed to help explore the future of Christchurch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nicholas Shaxson: tax havens Writer and researcher for the Tax Justice Network, and author of Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jeremy Randerson: online wierdness New Zealand actor and entrepreneur who has an online alter ego as "web wunderkind" Simon Peter, and is co-creator of new web series Wolvesblade. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Amitav Ghosh: language and opium Novelist whose first two books in a planned trilogy - Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke -are set against the backdrop of the 19th century Opium War. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Mary-Annette Hay Promotions Officer for the New Zealand Wool Board between 1948 and 1965 who became known as the Queen of Wool. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ngila Dickson: location, location Academy Award-winning costume designer who worked recently on big budget Hollywood film Green Lantern, and the adaptation of the Lloyd Jones novel Mr Pip. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maureen Bisognano: changing health care President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, who is visiting New Zealand next week for the opening of the Ko Awatea facility Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Matt Ridley: rational optimism Author of a number of popular science books, most recently The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Douglas Lloyd Jenkins: dressing up Director of the Hawke's Bay Museum & Art Gallery and co-author of The Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion Design Since 1940. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Martin Nowak: co-operation 11:05 Martin Nowak: co-operation Professor of Biology and Mathematics at Harvard University, and co-author of Super Cooperators: Evolution, Altruism and Human Behaviour (or Why We Need Each Other to Succeed). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Doug Jerebine New Zealand guitarist who left the music industry to pursue life as a Krishna monk, and whose 1969 'lost' album will be released later this year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Platon: photographing the powerful Staff photographer for The New Yorker magazine, whose new book, Power, is a collection of intimate portraits of over 100 world leaders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cornel de Ronde: the Pink and White Terraces Principal scientist with GNS Science and project leader of the team that has been 3D mapping the bottom of Lake Rotomahana, near Rotorua Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Geraldine Brooks: reporting and imagining Australian author and journalist on her new novel, Caleb's Crossing, language, the American Civil War and Martha's Vineyard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ibrahim Elmetri: Libya and Gaddafi Libyan exile and international aquatic science consultant on the state of affairs in his home country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Greg O'Brien: the Kermadecs Poet, painter, writer and curator at large who was one of nine artists from the South Pacific region who travelled to the Kermadec Islands, the most remote part of New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Robert McLeod: art and commerce Glasgow-born artist who has been painting and teaching in Wellington since the early 1970s. A new book of his work, Dandini Comes Clean, previews a new exhibition, Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide, which will feature at the Auckland Art Fair in August. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Chris Hart Managing Director of the Real Groovy record store in Auckland, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this weekend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Alan Broadbent: key player New Zealand composer, pianist and arranger, who is musical director for the Canadian singer Diana Krall, and has returned to New Zealand for a tour with Roger Fox and the Wellington Jazz Orchestra. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bill Macnaught: libraries National Librarian of New Zealand, responsible for the Alexander Turnbull Library and providing support for libraries and researchers throughout the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Errol Wright and Abi King-Jones: Operation 8 Feature documentary filmmakers whose latest film, Operation 8: Deep in the Forest, is about the 2007 police raids. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Harvey Wasserman: nuclear power Editor of Nukefree.org, and author of Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth, AD 2030. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Kate discusses three new books: The Dream of the Thylacine, Small as an Elephant, and Matchless. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dale Williams: youth in Otorohanga Mayor of Otorohanga, which has had great success in recent years with its youth programmes, minimising youth offending and unemployment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing Favourites with Kate Camp Author of four collections of poetry, the essay On Kissing, and Kate's Klassics, a selection of her discussions with Kim Hill on classic literature. Kate is the 2011 recipient of the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Language with Jen Hay: motherese Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, and director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, talking about the universal language of motherese. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | James Gleick: too much information American author (Chaos, Faster) and biographer (Richard Feynman, Isaac Newton) whose new book is The Information: a History, a Theory, a Flood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Michael Morrissey: manic depression Auckland writer who has published twenty books of poetry and fiction, and details his experience of manic depression in the memoir, Taming the Tiger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bryan Caplan: serenity parenting Professor of economics at George Mason University, blogger at EconLog, and author of Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than you Think. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: AC Grayling: good words Professor of Philosophy at the University of London, and prolific writer and broadcaster, whose latest work is The Good Book: a Secular Bible. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Cameron Sinclair: optimistic architecture In New Zealand briefly for a TED conference in Christchurch approaching the re-imagining of the city. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Monring show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Clive Neeson Adventurer, scientist, environmentalist, film-maker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tasmin Little: naked violin Acclaimed British violinist who's bringing her Naked Violin project to New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Michael Morpurgo: horses and war English author of over 120 children's books, whose 1982 novel War Horse has been made into a stage play and film. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tarell Alvin McCraney: brothers, sisters Leading young voice of the African American theatre, and international writer-in-residence to the Royal Shakespeare Company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Susan Freinkel: plastics American science, health and environment writer whose latest book is Plastic: a Toxic Love Story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Margo Lanagan: fantasy and feuds Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction; her latest collection is Yellowcake, and she contributed to the Zombies Vs Unicorns short story collection. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: A. A. Gill: travel and food Restaurant and television critic for the Sunday Times, contributing editor to Vanity Fair, GQ and Australian Gourmet Traveller, and author of new collections Here and amp; There, and A. A. Gill is Further Away. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Rives Performance poet, storyteller, paper engineer and author of pop-up books for children Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mary Kisler and Sarah Hillary: art conservation Discussing the recent conservation of paintings from the collection at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Barbara Strauch: brain secrets Science Editor of The New York Times in charge of health and medical science, and author of The Primal Teen, and Secrets of the Grown-Up Brain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: James Hansen: climate science Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's Earth Institute, and one of the best-known climate scientists in the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jeffrey Paparoa Holman: kamikazes and quakes Historian and poet who is pursuing two projects as Waikato University's 2011 writer in residence: a collection of post-earthquake poetry, and a memoir about his father, which he has is currently researching in Japan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Mitchell: writing and stammering British novelist, and patron of the British Stammering Association. His latest book is The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Trombones with BonaNZa New Zealand's premier trombone quartet, featuring Tim Sutton, Douglas Cross, Matthew Allison, and David Bremner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sonny Rollins: saxophone colossus American bebop saxophone player, who visiting here New Zealand in June for the Wellington Jazz Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Fred Allendorf: evolution and the future Professor of Biology, whose research focuses on the application of population and evolutionary genetics to problems in conservation biology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Atka Reid and Hana Schofield: Sarajevo Yugoslavian sisters who were separated after the declaration of independence by Bosnia and Herzegovina and ensuing war of 1992; a story they tell in the memoir Goodbye Sarajevo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tariq Ali: Pakistan Editor of New Left Review, and author of seven novels and more than 20 books on world history and politics, discussing Pakistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Rugby with Spiro Zavos Rugby columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Roar, and author of the new book, How to Watch the Rugby World Cup 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dane Mitchell: tangible intangibles One of New Zealand's most prominent artists who has the first part of his three-part solo project Radiant Matter showing at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing (Country) Favourites with John Newton Teacher in the English Programme at the School of Humanities, University of Canterbury, JD Stout Fellow 2010 at Victoria University of Wellington, and member of country band The Tenderizers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kevin Parker: saddleback dialects Biologist at the Institute of Natural Sciences, Massey University, whose research shows how saddlebacks have developed diverse dialects over the past 50 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mandrika Rupa: hidden apartheid Director of independent New Zealand documentary film Hidden Apartheid: A Report on Caste Discrimination. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Harriet Lamb: banana wars and fairtrade Chief Executive Officer of the Fairtrade Foundation since 2001, and author of Fighting the Banana Wars and other Fairtrade Battles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kim's intro Kim Hill introduces programme and guests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Poetry with Airini Beautrais Pukerua Bay poet discusses her new collection Western Line. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Herman Knippenberg Retired Dutch diplomat who was instrumental in building the case against notorious serial killer Charles Sobhraj. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Feedback Kim reads feedback from listeners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Mary Coughlan Irish jazz and folk singer and actress who has released her autobiography, 'Bloody Mary: My Life and Times' and is playing at the National Jazz Festival in Tauranga, a Quake Benefit Concert in Christchurch and at the Southland Festival of the Arts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Taggart Siegel: bees Film director and co-founder of Collective Eye Inc., on his latest film about the global bee crisis Queen of the Sun. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Greg Cross: the business of cycling Entrepreneur and Business Director of PureBlack Racing which aims to become the first international UCI ProTour road cycling team from New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: James McPherson: the American Civil War Professor of American History, Emeritus, at the University of Princeton with his perspectives on the Civil War in the now United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate de Goldi: three new books Kate discusses young adult novel Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool, picture book Waiting for Later by Tina Matthews, and fantasy novel The Travelling Restaurant: Jasper's Voyage in Three Parts by Barbera Else. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kay Craddock: antiquarian bookselling Melbourne bookshop owner who was a pioneering figure in the antiquarian book trade; her story is told by Stuart Kells in Rare: a Life Among Antiquarian Books. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with evolutionary geneticist Paul Rainey James Cook Research Fellow at the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study at the Albany Campus of Massey University, who has been made a Member of Germany's most prestigious academic institution, the Max Planck Society. Music has been removed for copyright reasons. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mary Kisler: Christchurch collection Mary discusses some of her favourite works from the collection at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: James Frey: reality and fantasy American writer who fabricated elements of his 2003 best-seller, A Million Little Pieces, and has just published a new novel, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Richard Denniss: shopping and waste Australian economist and executive director of The Australia Institute, who has just released new research about the value of things we buy and throw away without ever using. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Chris Slane: comics and illustration Auckland cartoonist (for Metro, The Listener and the NZ Herald) who has illustrated the new book, 'Nice Day for a War: Adventures of a Kiwi Soldier in World War 1'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tom Bower: Bernie Ecclestone Investigative historian, broadcaster and journalist, discussing his book about Bernie Ecclestone, the billionaire developer of Formula One Racing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Ruth Carr Vocalist for New Zealand electronic band Minuit, and author of new words and pictures collection, 'I Felt Like a Fight, Alright'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Liz Mitchell: high fashion Leading NZ couture and ready to wear designer whose new collection is featured at iD Dunedin Fashion Week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Hone Kaa: spiritual journey Anglican Archdeacon, senior lecturer at Te Rau Kahikatea Theological College, St John's, and chairperson of Te Kahui Mana Ririki. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Frances Walsh: housewife history Auckland writer whose new book is called 'Inside Stories: A History of the New Zealand Housewife 1890-1975'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Pepe Escobar: Arab alliances Brazilian journalist who writes The Roving Eye column for Asia Times Online, talking about the Great Arab Revolt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Maria Tatar: fairytales Professor at Harvard University who chairs the Programme in Folklore and Mythology and teaches courses in German Studies, Folklore, and Children's Literature. She visited the University of Auckland to deliver the talk, Fairy Tales in an Age of Electronic Entertainments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: James Samuel: low-energy futures Waiheke resident who is involved in the Transition Towns relocalisation movement and the Auckland Food Alliance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Will and Annie Crummer Playing Favourites with Will and amp; Annie Crummer Rarotongan musician who played a major role in Auckland's 1960s music scene, and with his daughter Annie and other musicians has just recorded his first album in four decades. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Cassandra Treadwell: a school in Kenya Cassandra Treadwell: a school in Kenya Executive Director of the non-profit organisation Global Volunteer Network Foundation Australia, which funded the building of a primary school in Nakuru, Kenya. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Cliff Abraham: the brain and Alzheimer's Cliff Abraham: the brain and Alzheimer's Professor in Psychology and Director of the Brain Health Research Centre at the University of Otago, and international authority on brain mechanisms of memory and Alzheimer's research. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Layton Duncan: apps from Christchurch Layton Duncan: apps from Christchurch Director of Christchurch software development company Polar Bear Farm, and founder of mobile health service provider Sense Medical, and the Epicentre workspace in Christchurch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Erik Conway: merchants of doubt Historian of science and technology at the California Institute of Technology, and author of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Kate De Goldi discusses new books The Dreamer by Pam Munoz and Peter Sis,and The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jean Auel : prehistorical romancing Author best known for her 1980 novel The Clan of the Cave Bear, and the subsequent Earth's Children series set in prehistoric Europe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favorites with David Vann Creative nonfiction and fiction teacher, currently International Guest Writer at Victoria University of Wellington, and author of new novel Caribou Island. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mary Kisler : White Night Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, discussing the Auckland Arts Festival 2001 event White Night, which saw museums and galleries staying open till midnight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Pamela Ronald : genes, seeds, and weeds Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of California, and Director of Grass Genetics at the Joint Bioenergy Institute, and author of Tomorrow's Table : Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food, with her husband, organic farmer Raoul W Adamchak. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alex Gibney : sex and politics Documentary film maker, whose latest films, Client 9 : the Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer, and Freakonomics, will screen here during the World Cinema Showcase. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Siddharta Mukherjee : cancer Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Centre, and author of The Emperor of All Maladies : A Biography of Cancer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Poetry with Johanna Emeney Poet and English teacher whose poem, Radiologist's Report, is one of three shortlisted in the international category of Britain's prestigious Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Simon Sebag Montefiore: Jerusalem British biographer, novelist and journalist whose latest book, Jerusalem: The Biography, is a history of 3000 years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tim Robbins: music and movies Actor, producer, director and screenwriter in films such as The Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River, Dead Man Walking, and Bob Roberts, and singer/songwriter, coming to New Zealand with his Rogues Gallery Band. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ric LaPlastrier: Futuna Australian architect, visiting New Zealand to deliver The Dulux Futuna Lecture as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations for Futuna Chapel in Wellington. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John McBeth: reporting Asia New Zealand journalist who has been based in Asia for four decades, who tells his story in the memoir, Reporter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tariq Ali: Islam, the US, China Editor of New Left Review, novelist, author of over 20 books on world history and politics, and the 2011 Sir Douglas Robb Lecturer at Auckland University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Wellington author, publisher and broadcaster discussing books set in and around Christchurch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Civil Defense update The latest from Civil Defense. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Civil Defense update The latest from Civil Defense. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Civil Defense update The latest from Civil Defense. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Conor Lovett Irish actor renowned as one of the world's foremost interpreters of the works of Samuel Beckett, bringing two productions, First Love and The End, to the Auckland Arts Festival 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Civil Defense update The latest from Civil Defense. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Civil Defense update An update from Civil Defense. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Michael Parekowhai One of New Zealand's most important contemporary sculptors, whose installation, On first looking into Chapman's Homer, will be exhibited at the 54th Venice Biennale in the Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore from 4 June 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Civil Defense update The latest tsunami information from Civil Defense. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Young Founder of Fisheye Films, and The Last Ocean Charitable Trust, promoting the sanctity of the Antarctic Ross Sea regarded by scientists as the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Civil Defense update The latest tsunami information from civil defense. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Helen LaKelly Hunt Author and activist, and founder of Women Moving Millions, an initiative for the advancement of women's lives through a massive change in giving to girls and women. She also co-founded the Institute for Imago Relationship Therapy and has co-authored several bestsellers with her husband, Harville Hendrix. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alan Merry Cardiac anaesthetist and chronic pain specialist, who is Head of Department for Anaesthesiology at the University of Auckland's School of Medicine, and currently chairs the board of New Zealand's Health Quality and Safety Commission. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dianne Alpers New Zealander Dianne Alpers has been working as a career counselor at the International School, Tripoli, for the last two years. She left Libya on 21 February, and is now in the UK, staying with family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tsunami warning update The latest Tsunami warning information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kevin Kamps: nuclear emergency Radioactive Waste Watchdog and specialist in nuclear waste at Byeond Nuclear, talking about the problems at the Fukushima atomic power plant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Civil Defense Update The latest from Civil Defense. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kohei Murayama Kohei Murayama is the Chief Editor of the World Services section of the Kyodo News in Tokyo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback for 5 March 2011 Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Vicki Hyde: Linwood College Orchestra Christchurch science writer and editor and mother of one of the members of Linwood College Orchestra, a 65-strong group invited to play at Westminster Abbey on Anzac Day as part of their invitational tour of Europe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Fear is the Enemy Acoustic"tribal punk folk-core"group formed by philosopher and singer Marcelo Lopez and his guitarist brother Luis, with New Zealander and German violinist Nikita Seiber. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Charles Drennan Parish priest of St Anne's Woolston, Christchurch, and Administrator of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament which was partially destroyed during the February earthquake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Heinz Wolff Scientist, TV and radio presenter, and Emeritus Professor of Bioengineering at Brunel University, calling for a revolution in the way society looks after its elders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Atul Gawande American surgeon and writer for the New Yorker, and author of three books, most recently The Checklist Manifesto. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Simon Morton: mucking in Host of the Radio New Zealand programme This Way Up, currently assisting friends in Christchurch affected by the earthquake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Haywood and Jen Hay: relocation Author of the books My First Stabbing, The New Zealand Reserve Bank Annual 2010, and (with illustrator Peter Adamson, The Hidden Talent Of Albert Otter, all available at Public Address Books. Jen Hay is the director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour. They are the parents of Bob and Polly, and until Tuesday lived in a house in Christchurch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Laurie Johnson: reconstruction Researcher who has studied most of the world's recent major urban disasters, including the 2010 Chile and 2008 China earthquakes, 2005 and 2004 US hurricanes, World Trade Center collapse, and the 1995 Kobe and 1994 California earthquakes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Lou Sanson: CEO of Antarctica New Zealand CEO of Antarctica New Zealand, talking about the problems faced in closing the season on the ice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: An email from Dave Dave asks a question we all do, can I be of help? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Roger Dennis: innovation and strategy Christchurch consultant in foresight and innovation, supporting government bodies and companies across Asia and Australasia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nat Torkington: the Christchurch Recovery Map Technologist The Christchurch Recovery Map Technologist, and part of the volunteer team that created the Christchurch Recovery Map, listing community information by citizens for citizens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Craig Nevill-Manning: Google Person Finder Director of New York Engineering for Google, talking about Google Person Finder, developed after the 2010 Haiti earthquake to help locate missing friends and family members. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: www.LetsFixIt.co.nz Fina out how you can register to help with plumbing problems in Christchurch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sven Baker: design and plumbing Group CEO of Designworks, which is teaming up with the New Zealand plumbing industry to help fix domestic water and sewerage for affected residents in Christchurch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Win Clark: earthquake engineering Retired structural engineer, and executive officer of the New Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Fiona Parks: Rangiora Quake Express Asking Christchurch residents to provide hot food that can then be delivered by helicoptor to badly affected areas such as Bexley and Wainoni. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Hamish Campbell: earthquake geology Geologist and paleontologist at GNS Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Introduction Kim outlines what will be covered this morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Merlin Mann : creativity and productivity Writer, speaker, broadcaster and creator of 43folders.com visiting Wellington for the annual Webstock conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Augustina Driessen : children and attachment Nurse and psychotherapist who established the Family Attachment BASE SAFE Trust which runs in several schools in the Bay of Plenty area. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favorites with Lennie James British writer and actor who is collaborating with theatre group Massive Company on Havoc in the Garden at the Auckland Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mary Kisler Mackelvie Curator of International Art at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki discussing work by artists Emily Valentine, Denis O'Connor and Fiona Pardington amongst others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Sunde : file-sharing and micropayments Scandinavian hacker, entrepreneur and DJ best known for co-founding The Pirate Bay and guest speaker at the annual Webstock conference in Wellington. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: James Stewart : arms and international crime A New Zealander based at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law whose research includes the liability of arms vendors for international crimes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Richard Hurt : big tobacco and nicotine dependence The director of the Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Centre, visiting New Zealand for the Inaugural International Cancer Symposium organised by the University of Otago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads emails and texts from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Poetry with Bill Manhire Director of the International Institute of Modern Letters, whose latest book of poetry is The Victims of Lightning, discussing why so many poems are sad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David McCandless: making information beautiful Author, data-journalist and information designer for print, advertising, television and the internet, who visualises ideas, issues, knowledge and data with the minimum of text. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Annabel Alpers New Zealand electronic/folk/vocal musician, who performs and records as Bachelorette, and is now based in New York. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sir Richard Friend: commercialising chemistry Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, who visited New Zealand to launch the International Year of Chemistry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nubar Hovsepani: Egypt's future Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Chapman University, California. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Michael Hunter: 17th century science Leading historian of English science, who has worked particularly on Robert Boyle, the most influential British scientist of the late seventeenth century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Pratap Chatterjee: Egypt and the USA Senior fellow at the Centre for American Progress, and columnist for the Guardian, discussing Egypt's militaty-industrial complex and its links to United States interests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi : Rosemary Sutcliff Winner of the 2011 Storylines Margaret Mahey Medal and Lecture Award, New Zealand's top award for children's writers and illustators, discussing the work of British writer Rosemary Sutcliff. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ray Hilborn : fish stocks Professor in the school of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, specialising in natural resource management and conservation, who also advises several international fisheries commissions and agencies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favorites with Tobias Cole One of Australia's most successful counter-tenors, who takes the title role in the NBR New Zealand Opera season of Handel's Xerxes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ant Sang : shaolin and bro'Town Auckland artist, designer and writer who designed the characters and locations for bro'Town, self-published comic series (Filth, the Dharma Punk) and created new graphic novel, Shaolin Burning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Fernando Nottebohm : birds and brains Director of the Laboratory of Animal Behavior at Rockefeller University (USA); his research involves the biology of neuronal replacement, which intertwine in the song system of songbirds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: James Fallows : the future of coal National correspondent for The Atlantic magazine, and author of the article, Dirty Coal, Clean Future, which looks at the use of technology by China and the US to develop sustainable ways of using coal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Luke Harding : Wikileaks and Julian Assange Guardian correspondent, and co-author, with David Leigh, of new book Wikileaks : Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Donald Sturrock: Roald Dahl British writer, producer and director who is artistic director of the Roald Dahl Foundation, and author of the authorised biography, Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Karli Thomas: the decline of tuna Oceans campaigner with Greenpeace since 2005, discussing the worldwide and local decline of tuna and other fishing stocks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Danny and Florence Mulheron Danny is an actor, writer and director for television, film and the stage, most recently with new comedy, The Motor Camp, the cast of which includes his daughter, Florence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alison Ballance: saving the kakapo Biologist, film-maker, writer and broadcaster whose latest book is Kakapo: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Innes Asher: the ISACC research programme Head of Paediatrics at the School of Medicine, University of Auckland, chair of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC), a unique worldwide epidemiological research programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: William Hague: Britain abroad Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State in Britain, and former leader of the Conservative Party. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Seif Da'Na: Middle East unrest Associate professor of sociology and international studies at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, discussing the protests in Tunisia and Egypt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Members of the NZSO Vesa-Matti Leppanen (violin), David Bremner (trombone), Robert Ibell (cello), Victoria Jones (double bass), Bridget Douglas (flute), Leonard Sakofsky (percussion). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Paul Callaghan Professor of Physical Sciences at Victoria University, founder of Magritek, and shortlisted for 2011 New Zealander of the Year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Kate Camp will discuss Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the 1974 novel by John le Carre. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate Parker: giant leaps Theatre artist, educator and co-director of Red Leap Theatre Company, whose most recent production is the multi-award winning The Arrival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: James Williamson: the Stooges Guitarist with Iggy and the Stooges in the 1970s; now returned to the band after a corporate career in electronic engineering. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Marcus Chown: space science Cosmology consultant of the New Scientist, author of a number of books and the Solar System iPad App. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Kate discusses two new books for very young readers, a chapter book for junior readers (and the very old), and a novel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Keith Bulfin: undercover in Mexico Australia-based New Zealander who went to prison for fraud in the 1980s and was recruited to operate a covert banking operation in Mexico for the drug cartels. He fictionalised his experiences for the new novel, Undercover. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Makerita Urale Playwright, producer and documentary director, recently returned from a Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer's Residency in Hawaii. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Language with Jen Hay Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, and recent recipient of a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sean Egan: Coronation Street British writer specialising in popular culture; his latest book is 50 Years of Coronation Street: the (Very) Unofficial Story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Pat White: memory and longing Poet, essayist and artist whose new memoir, How the Land Lies, has just been published; he's now working a biography of West Coaster Peter Hooper Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: James E Young: memory and memorials Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, whose work extends to examining the symbolism of memorial structures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Fritz Eisenhofer: dome home Architect responsible for many Wellington landmarks, whose Kapiti Coast dome home features in a new book about NZ architects' houses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Debra Granik: movies and meth American independent film maker Debra Granik, whose acclaimed second feature, Winter's Bone, is set around the rural methamphetamine subculture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Don Letts: punk and reggae Musician, DJ, writer, broadcaster and film maker credited with introducing reggae music to the 1970s London punk scene, who will perform at WOMAD Taranaki in 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Hamish Spencer: cousin marriage Professor of zoology at the University of Otago, discussing cousins and marriage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads a selection of emails and texts from listeners to Saturday Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Suzy van der Kwast: cafe pioneer Dutch migrant who opened Suzy's Coffee Lounge in Wellington in 1964. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Edmund Weiner: the OED online Deputy editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, the authoritative recorder of the language since 1884, which has just re-launched online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ton-Nu-Thi Ninh: Vietnam President of the Founding Committee at Tri Viet International University, and one of the public figures identified most with the interests of young people in Vietnam. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Will Martin: tenor star New Zealand-born singer, touring whose contemporary take on classical music made him the youngest tenor to debut at Number One in the UK Classics Charts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dan Nocera: the future of energy On the development of inexpensive catalyst materials that can be used to produce hydrogen fuel using only water and sunlight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Ian Gwynne Robson Doctor at Te Omanga Hospice and organiser of Ain't No Mountain High Enough: A Wellington Hospices Concert, taking place at the Opera House in Wellington on 28 November. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mary Kisler: Ron Mueck Discussing the exhibition by sculptor Ron Mueck at the Christchurch Art Gallery, running until 23 January 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Andrew Coy: Magnetic Research Physicist and CEO of New Zealand technology company Magritek, and awarded the 2010 Prime Minister's prize for research into magnetic resonance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Caldwell Esselstyn: Plant Based Diet Surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic and author of 'Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease', visiting New Zealand to speak at the biennial Coronary Health Improvement Programme summit in Rotorua. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Allen Say Kate De Goldi discusses the work of Japanese-American picture book artist and author Allen Say. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ian Mune: acting up One of the most important figures in the last 50 years of New Zealand theatre, television and film, who tells his story in Ian Mune: An Autobiography. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Fane Flaws Musician, author, animator, artist, and designer, who is currently preparing the debut album for The Living Hamsters and has just been inducted into the Massey Design Wall of Fame. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Howard: running Australia Australian politician who spent 11 years as Prime Minister, and tells his story in Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political Autobiography. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Joel Salatin: influential farming Owner of the pasture-based Polyface Farm in Virginia, USA, who is visiting Havelock North to present a two-day workshop, Making the Family Farm Hum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Michael Bennett: Matariki and marathons Screenwriter, script consultant, script doctor, and marathon runner whose debut feature film as director, Matariki, is released this coming week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kristine Tompkins: Patagonia Former CEO of California outdoor clothing company Patagonia, and founder of Conservacion Patagonica, a trust focused on conserving land within the Patagonia region of South America Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Julie Anne Genter: parking management Transportation planning consultant, who has assisted numerous cities in New Zealand and Australia to develop strategic parking strategies Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Robin Maconie: musicologia New Zealand composer, pianist and writer, and world expert on the composer Stockhausen, and the science and acoustics of music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Rutherford Medal winner Warren Tate Internationally renowned molecular biologist who has been awarded New Zealand's top science and technology honour, the Rutherford Medal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Redmer Yska - NZ Truth Wellington writer and historian who began his career as a reporter for NZ Truth, and has written a history of the pioneering tabloid newspaper, Truth: the Rise and Fall of the People's Paper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Battle: faith, prisons and the Big Society Former British Labour MP for Leeds West, and Tony Blair's envoy to the faith communities (2001-2007). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emma Larkin: Burma Journalist who has been visiting Burma under a pseudonym for close to 15 years, and author of Everything is Broken: The Untold Story of Disaster Under Burma's Military Regime. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Tim Bowler Kate discusses the work of British author Tim Bowler, including Midget, River Boy, Shadows, Storm Catchers, and new eight-part series Blade. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alex Monteith: surf, planes and art Artist and surfing champion, whose large-scale video installation, Accelerated Geographies, is currently showing at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing favourites with Kevin Milne Recently retired host of television consumer affairs programme Fair Go, and author of the memoir The Life and Times of a Brown Paper Bag. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Reva Singh: wine in India Publisher and editor of Sommelier India, the country's first and only magazine dedicated to wine and wine lovers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alan Webber: better business US author, business editor and design thinker who launched Fast Company magazine in 1995, and has authored several books including Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning in Business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Steve Price: warriors and bulldogs Australian footballer who plays for the New Zealand Warriors and Sydney's Canterbury Bulldogs in the National Rugby League until retiring in June after a heel injury. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Suzuki: a sustainable future Canadian scientist, educator, broadcaster and activist, who will visit New Zealand for talks based on his new book, The Legacy: An Elder's Vision for a Sustainable Future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Peter Quinn Photojournalist and author of the new book, New Zealanders in Focus: the Documentary Photography of Peter James Quinn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads a selection of texts and emails from listeners to Saturday Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: Candide Kate Camp discusses the 1759 satire, Candide, or Optimism, by the French philosopher Voltaire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tim Winter: Britain's most influential Muslim British Muslim researcher, writer, columnist and teacher, who is also known as Shaikh Abdal-Hakim Murad, and regarded as one of the world's leading Islamic scholars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Grant Morris: California cannabis New Zealand writer and webcaster discussing California's Proposition 19, also known as the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Andrew Fraser: cocaine, cops, corruption Melbourne criminal lawyer who was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on a cocaine charge, and has since written three books about his prison experiences and police corruption. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ruth Pretty: hospitality in Shanghai Wellington caterer returned recently from setting up the VIP Hospitality suite at the New Zealand Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo in China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Patrick Evans: gifted writers English literature Professor at the University of Canterbury whose third novel, Gifted, imagines the 1955 relationship between Janet Frame and Frank Sargeson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Janet Frame-Cutmore: family relations Daughter of George Frame, brother of New Zealand writer Janet Frame; she spoke at the Autism NZ conference in September. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dudley Benson: music of the birds Composer and singer whose second album, Forest: Songs by Hirini Melbourne, is a reworking of waiata by the renowned Maori musician. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tanya Jade: farewelling Misery Auckland artist best known as"Misery", who will leave behind that persona before departing to the border of Burma and Thailand as part of the Little Lotus Project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mary Kisler: angels and aristocrats Mackelvie Curator of International Art at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, and author of Angels and Aristocrats: Early European Art in New Zealand Public Collections. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Donelan: Benoit Mandlebrot Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research, talks about Benoit Mandlebrot and fractal geometry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Stephen Fookes: wool renaissance Chair of the National Council of New Zealand Wool Interests, and recently returned from Wool Week in London. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jack Yan: politics, fashion and the Internet Founder of online and print fashion magazine Lucire, director of international brand strategy agency Jack Yan and amp; Associates, and board member of the think tank, Medinge Group. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Geoff Blackwell: Nelson Mandela Director of the publishing company PQ Blackwell; its latest book is Conversations with Myself, by Nelson Mandela. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gordon Glass: global parliament Global leadership guru on his campaign for the establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly by 2020. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Jane Ussher Leading New Zealand photographer whose new book, Still Life, documents the Antarctic huts of Scott and Shackleton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Language with Jen Hay: vowels Director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, discussing New Zealand vowel sounds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tim Flannery: arguing hope Professor in the division of Environmental and Life Sciences at Macquarie University, and chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council, talking about his new book, Here on Earth: an Argument for Hope. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Anton Garland: designing cars One of nine applicants worldwide accepted into the 2011 Masters Class in Transportation Design at the Umea Institute of Design in Sweden. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Doug Saunders: arrival cities European Bureau Chief for The Globe and Mail, and author of Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping Our World. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: four new picture books Kate discusses 'Hill and Hole', 'Mirror', 'Eric', and 'It's a Book'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Karen Dawn: advocating for animals Founder of the animal advocacy group DawnWatch.com, and author of Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Chris Bourke Writer, journalist, editor, music historian and radio producer whose new book is Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music, 1918-1964. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gin Wigmore New Zealand singer-songwriter who won four awards at the NZ Music Awards, and is about to embark on a national tour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Joy Cowley: navigating words Author of more than 600 titles for children and adults; she tells her own story in Navigation: a Memoir. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Carolyn King: small mustelids International authority on all stoats, weasels and ferrets, and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement at the Hamilton Science Excellence Awards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bhupendra Chaubey: India Television journalist based in Delhi as National Bureau Chief for CNN IBN. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Saker: pinot noir Freelance writer and author of the 2005 book, How to Drink a Glass of Wine, and new title, Pinot Noir: the New Zealand Story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dean Poole: design Creative director of Alt Group, and recipient of the John Britten Award for the person who has contributed most to NZ design on the national and international stage, at the Best Design Awards 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Mike Nock and Norman Meehan New Zealand jazz pianists and composers: Norman is also author of Serious Fun: the Life and Music of Mike Nock. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells Kate Camp discusses the 1897 novel The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jesse Conklin: godwits Ecologist at Massey University who spent two years studying godwits in the Alaskan tundra and is observing birds tagged with geo-locators that have returned to the Manawatu River Estuary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Cordelia Fine: gender and discrimination Psychologist and author of Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Richard Wolff: unions in Europe Professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts and author of Capitalism Hits the Fan, discussing union activity in Europe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Cycling team may be medals prospect for Delhi Games To the Games itself now where the New Zealand cycling team is hoping to bring home medals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Fashion with Laurie Foon Founder of fashion company Starfish, which opened the tenth New Zealand Fashion Week with the first ever eco-show. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Goldie: acquired tastes Samuel Hall Chair in Philosophy at the University of Manchester, who turned to philosophy in 1990 after a 25-year business career in the City of London. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Farouk al-Kasim: oil and Norway Iraqi petroleum geologist who is credited with being instrumental in Norway's success in becoming the world's third leading oil producing country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Lublin: tea party activism Professor at the School of Public Affairs, American University, in Washington D.C., discussing the rise of the"tea party"movement in the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Carolann Murray: self-sufficiency Former organic beauty therapist who moved to the country to live a self-sufficient life; a story she recounts in her book, Mastering the Art of Self-sufficiency in New Zealand Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Lucas Remmerswaal: Buffet for kids Whangarei investment advisor and author of The Tale of Tortoise Buffett and Trader Hare, a children's book for the iPad, inspired by billionaire Warren Buffett's no- investing principles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sister Sheila O'Toole: Vietnam nun Part two of the interview with New Zealand nun who was in Saigon during the Vietnam War, and is the most decorated New Zealander in relation to Vietnam. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dickie Landry: sax, art and swamp-pop Louisiana saxophonist and pioneer of conceptual art and installations, visiting New Zealand with swamp pop group Lil' Band O' Gold. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Language with Jen Hay Director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour discussing the production and perception of vowels in New Zealand pop music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ian Barber: first contact and food Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Otago, who is presenting new evidence on two of New Zealand's most iconic violent first-contact encounters between indigenous people and Europeans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jason Thomas: Afghanistan elections Former regional manager for the Central Asia Development Group, implementing a USAID program in south-east Afghanistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Baroness Onora O'Neill: trust Professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge who is visiting New Zealand to give the inaugural Royal Society Aronui Lecture Series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Janice Marriott and Virginia Pawsey: kitchen conversations Two schoolmates who have written two books of collected letters; the latest, Common Tables, traces their lives through the seasons of their kitchens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sister Sheila O'Toole: Vietnam nun The most decorated New Zealander in relation to Vietnam, who went to Saigon during the Vietnam War, was held hostage in a POW camp, and was one of the last people to depart from the US Embassy in 1975. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate De Goldi: Canterbury quake Saturday Morning's commentator on children's books talks about being in her old home city of Christchurch last Saturday during the earthquake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Trinity Roots: reunited Warren Maxwell, Rio Hunuki-Hemopo and Riki Gooch formed the reggae, soul and jazz influenced group TrinityRoots in 1998, and have reuinted after five years to release a CD /DVD package and perform concerts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Michod: fraternal crime Australian film writer and director, whose debut feature, Animal Kingdom, is a thriller revolving around a Melbourne criminal family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Cath Tizard: reflective dame Former mayor of Auckland and New Zealand's first woman Governor General, whose memoir, Cat Amongst the Pigeons, is published this month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sal Khan: YouTube tutor Founder of the Khan Academy, whose homemade tutorials on YouTube are the most popular educational resource on the web. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tony Blair: Iraq, Gordon Brown and faith Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who now provides strategic advice through Tony Blair Associates, and has just published his memoir, A Journey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Judith Binney: Tuhoe revisited Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Auckland, and author of several books including Encircled Lands: Te Uruwera 1821-1920, awarded the NZ Post Book of the Year 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Richard J. Aldrich: spies and surveillance Professor of International Security at the University of Warwick whose main research interests lie in the area of intelligence and security communities, and author of GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Kate Camp discusses the 1860 gothic novel The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Barbera Trapido: sex, Stravinsky and South Africa British author of seven novels, including the semi-autobiographical Frankie and Stankie, and Sex and Stravinsky. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Warwick Smith Senior Siemologist at GNS Science dcomments on this morning's earthquake in Canterbury. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Diana Noonan: gardening for children Catlins-based author who has written over 100 books for young readers, and co-author of new illustrated guide, The Tui New Zealand Kids Garden. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Fernando Peire: The Ivy Restaurant consultant, and director of The Ivy Restaurant and The Club at The Ivy in London. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jennifer Higdon: popular composition One of the most successful living composers in America, who was awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto, and the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Don Eigler: moving atoms Physicist and IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center, California, who was the first person to manipulate individual atoms with atomic-scale precision. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Celia Lashlie: mothers and agencies Researcher and social justice advocate Celia Lashlie has managed Christchurch Women's Prison. Her new book, The Power of Mothers: Releasing Our Children, looks at offenders, mothers and state agencies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Val McDermid: crime and journalism Scottish writer and former journalist who was the 2010 recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Steven Talley: terracotta warriors Documentary producer and director who has produced or supervised eleven programmes in China for Dunedin-based NHNZ, most recently, Secrets of the Ghost Army. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jessica Rudd: stranger than chicklit Brisbane-raised, Beijing-based writer whose novel, Campaign Ruby, includes events similar to those that happened to her father Kevin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Tim Albery Theatre and opera director who has worked with many of the world's top companies - and is the director of the NZ Opera season of Verdi's Macbeth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Matt Burgess: prediction markets Economic consultant and Chief Executive of online prediction market iPredict. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Christopher Vogler: myths and movies One of Hollywood's top consultants and author of the 1992 book, The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Andrew Dubber in Finland Reader in Music Industries Innovation at Birmingham City University - and a lecturer, author, consultant, public speaker, broadcaster and blogger. He's in Helsinki for the 9th Nordic Jazz Conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Richard Wiseman: self-help science Professor of Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire and author of 59 Seconds, a self help guide based on science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Puffins Kate discusses 70-years of Puffin books. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Whiteford: John Mulgan Head of the School of English Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington and editor of the republished edition of Report on Experience, the wartime memoir of John Mulgan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Rowan Simpson Software developer, business person and investor who sold his website flathunt.co.nz for shares in TradeMe and became its third employee. He's now involved in a number of other technology start-ups including Xero, Fishpond, Sonar6 and Vend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mary Kisler: local revolutionaries Mackelvie Curator of International Art at the Auckland Art Gallery - Toi o Tamaki discussing selected works from the gallery's exhibition, Local Revolutionaries: Art and amp; Change 1965-1986. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Rob McBrearty: sponges and cancer Commercial Manager of Pacific Marine Bioactives, a company that is developing new microtubules to aid scientists in creating the building blocks for a cure for cancer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Fatima Bhutto: Pakistan Journalist and commentator whose father was killed by the police in 1996 during the premiership of his sister, Benazir Bhutto. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Scott Bregmen: working with disability Senior Tutor for WelTec's Community Education and Vocational Learning Skills programme; he has extensive knowledge and experience in working with people with disabilities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Harold Fromm: veganism University Associate in English at the University of Arizona and author of the 2009 book The Nature of Being Human: From Environmentalism to Consciousness, discussing his recent philosophical article on veganism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Tracey Collins Visual artist and designer for performance and drama with a long list of stage and screen credits including new TV ONE series This is NOT My Life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Kate Camp discusses One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by the Russian riter Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Cindy Gallop: micro-actions Former chair of a leading New York advertising agency, who left the industry and started IfWeRanTheWorld, a web platform designed to turn good intentions into action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nesrine Malik: wearing the burqa Sudanese-born writer and commentator who works in a London-based private equity firm and has become accustomed to wearing an abaya. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Simon Singh: alternative medicine and libel Author, journalist and TV producer, specialising in science and mathematics, who successfully defended a libel action taken against him by the British Chiropractic Association. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kathy Marks: multiculturalism in Bennelong Sydney-based Asia-Pacific correspondent for the Independent, and author of Mixing it up in Bennelong: a Recipe for Australian Multiculturalism, in quarterly magazine Griffith Review. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Lydia Wevers: Victorian farm fiction Director of the Stout Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington, and author of Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing favourites with Donna Dean Auckland musician currently touring the country in support of her new album What Am I Gonna Do? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Robyn Bargh: Publishing Te Reo Managing Director of independent New Zealand publishing company, Huia Publishers, whose work includes a Maori language publishing programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kathryn Schulz: wrongology American journalist and author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Joe Randazzo: the Onion Editor of The Onion, the world's most popular satirical newspaper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Justice Edwin Cameron: AIDS and South Africa Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and former judge in the Supreme Court of Appeal, and High Court. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Elizabeth Frood: ancient Egypt Professor of Egyptology at Oxford University who is about to depart to Egypt for a new project at the Karnak temple complex in Luxor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Erica Miller: channelling Elvis Dunedin grandmother about to release her first record, Reconsidered, a collection of songs first performed by Elvis Presley. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Feedback Kim reads Listener's emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Mark Simos American songwriter and professor in the Songwriting Department at the world renowned Berklee College of Music. He is visiting Auckland to present songwriting seminars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Language with Jen Hay: intensifiers Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, and director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, discussing intensifiers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Healy: drugs and depression British writer and historian of ideas who is a visiting scholar at New York University and a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Anthony Gottlieb: voting systems British writer and historian of ideas who is a visiting scholar at New York University and a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Andy Dennis: Iceland New Zealand guide for hiking trips in north-east Iceland since 2001, talking about the volcano, politics, and island nations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Gary Schmidt Discussing the works of Gary D. Schmidt, an American children's writer of nonfiction books and young adult novels. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Robyn Hughes: art in prison New Zealand artist who has been teaching art to inmates at Auckland Prison for the last 17 years, and is the recipient of the Big 'A' Prison Arts Leadership Award 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to Saturday Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with David Kilgour Member of seminal Dunedin band The Clean and solo artist, and collaborator with poet Sam Hunt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mary Kisler Discussing selected works from the exhibition European Masters: Stadel Museum, 19th - 20th Century, at the National Gallery of Victoria. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: James Brabazon: mercenaries British frontline journalist and documentary filmmaker whose book, My Friend the Mercenary, tell the story of the attempt to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kinky Friedman: Texas American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dan McIlrea: slinky solutions CEO of specialist connection company Puku Ltd, which has been attempting to get its solution to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico adopted by BP. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tom McFadden: rapping science American molecular biologist who communicates scientific concepts to children and senior students through rap. He is a guest at the New Zealand International Science Festival in Dunedin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jane Smiley: private lives American writer who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992, and has just published her thirteenth novel, Private Life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Philip Fierlinger Award-winning designer, currently Head of Design at online accounting service provider Xero, whose father Paul directed the 2009 animated film My Dog Tulip, screening at this year's NZ International Film Festivals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Andrew Greensmith: plastic surgery Cranio-facial surgeon at the Melbourne Institute of Plastic Surgery who was part of the team that seperated conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: To Kill a Mockingbird Kate Camp will discuss the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbrd by Harper Lee, which celebrates it's 50th anniversary on 11 July. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Andrew Greensmith: plastic surgery Cranio-facial surgeon at the Melbourne Institute of Plastic Surgery who was part of the team that seperated conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Briar March: rising oceans Auckland documentary filmmaker whose new film, There Once Was an Island, looks at sea level rises on the remote Pacific island of Takuu, and screens at this year's NZ International Film Festivals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Grant Morris: oil and heat New Zealand writer who has been living in New Orleans for nearly 20 years, discussing the aftermath and politics around the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate de Goldi: Virginia Hamilton Discussing the work of black American children's novelist Virginia Hamilton, who came to prominence in the 1970s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bobby Crush: Liberace British pianist, songwriter and actor discusses his upcoming Liberace Live From Heaven soon to tour the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Father Michael Mahoney: mountainous priest Parish priest, and member of the first New Zealand expedition to Mount Everest in 1977 who was based in Bahia, Brazil for almost 30 years, before returning home to New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Julie Woods: blind dining A blind motivational coach and speaker, taking part in a Dining in the Dark experience at the New Zealand International Science Festival in Dunedin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads email messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Arturo Arias: Guatemala Guatemalan novelist and academic whose fiction writing is heavily influenced by Maya culture, discusses the history of his country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Daniel Ellsberg: most dangerous man Former marine and military analyst is the subject of new documentary, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, screening at the New Zealand International Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Black: acupuncture Linguistics graduate who has studied Traditional Chinese Medicine since the early 1980s, including over six years study in China, and now practices in Nelson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Katherine Mowbray: cheesemaking Craft cheesemaker who has been making cheese for 20 years, and shares her knowledge and love of cheesemaking at courses around New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Bill Bailey British comedian, musician and actor currently touring New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Lucy Walker: trash art and nukes British filmmaker whose documentary, Waste Land, examines how art has changed the lives of scavengers at the world's largest landfill in Rio de Janeiro. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Pat Schwass and Anthony Lorigan: breaking cycles Child advocate for MSD, and worker with the Hamilton Abuse Intervention Project and her son. have confronted the intergenerational brutality in their family and made a new start. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gillian Turner: magnetism Senior Lecturer in Physics and Geophysics at Victoria University, and author of North Pole, South Pole: the Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth's Magnetism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gillian Armstrong: love, lust, lies Australian director (My Brilliant Career) whose new documentary is the fifth in a series that has followed three working class Adelaide girls since they were 14 in 1976. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Receipient of the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship to research and write a book about NZ historian, writer and researcher Susan Price. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ayaan Hirsi Ali : Islam Activist and author who was raised in northern Africa, escaped to the Netherlands, and helped found the AHA Foundation to protect and defend women in the West against militant Islam. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favorites with Greg Fleming Writer, poet, songwriter, and member of The Trains, with a new retrospective collection featuring his music from 1993-2003. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mary Kisler Mackelvie Curator of International Art at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki discussing work by artists Andrew McLeod and Roger Mortimer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Maass: Oil Contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, and regular contributor to many other magazines, on his new book Crude World: the Violent Twilight of Oil. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tanemahuta Gray: Matariki dance Dancer and choreographer just back from the Shanghai Expo, who has co-curated the inaugural Kowhiti Matariki Festival of Maori Contemporary Dance at Te Papa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tim de Lisle: how sport got so big Editor of British quarterly magazine Intelligent Life and rock critic at The Mail on Sunday, talking about the growth of sport in business and media around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Fiona Jack: memorial halls Lecturer at the Elam School of Fine Arts, and the Govett-Brewster New Zealand Artist in Residence, whose latest exhibition is an archival project on memorial halls throughout New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Anthony Bordain: raw cook New York chef, traveler, writer, and TV presenter, who recently published Medium Raw, the sequel to his 2000 memoir, Kitchen Confidential. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Wanda Jackson: rocking on Oklahoma-based singer and guitarist, known since the 1950s as the Queen of Rock-a-billy. She has just recorded a new album with producer Jack White, and will play shows in Wellington and Auckland later this month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Language with Jen Hay Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, and director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, discussing how metaphors relating to spatial movement can manifest bodily. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ted Kaptchuk: the placebo effect Oriental Doctor of Medicine and Associate Professor at the Harvard Medical School, where he researches the placebo effect. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Roz Savage: crossing the Pacific British environmentalist who rowed solo across the Atlantic, and is the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean. Last Friday she finished the final leg of the three-stage journey, designed to raise awareness about climate change and plastic debris polluting the ocean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alex Bellos: numbers and football English writer and broadcaster, who has written two books about football, and a new book about mathematics: Alex's Adventures in Numberland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's books with Kate de Goldi Kate De Goldi discusses two books by Doug Cooney (The Beloved, and I Know Who Likes You), and one by Kathi Appelt (The Underneath). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sylvie Haisman - the wreck of the Strathmore Writer and performer, whose new creative non-fiction book, This Barren Rock, tells the story of the 1875 wreck of the Strathmore, survived by her great-great-great-grandmother. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites - Maryrose Crook Musician in South Island group The Renderers and painter since the mid-1990s, returned from time in Berlin and Beijing for a new exhibition, Inland Sea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tatiana Novaes Coelho - choreology Brazilian choreologist in New Zealand to oversee the dance notation for Dutch choreographer Didy Veldman's ballet of Bizet's Carmen for the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Michael Shapiro - Cornelius Ryan Contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review, and teacher at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, discussing how the 1959 book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan marked the beginning of journalism as literature. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sophie Howard - transmuting sludge General Manager of the Commercialisation team at Viclink, and manager of the development of the Wetox wet air oxidation clean technology project, converting liquid organic sludge into usable by-products. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Neil McKay - dyslexia and autism One of the world's foremost thinkers on dyslexia, and creator of Britain's Dyslexia Friendly Schools concept, visiting NZ to present workshops to teachers, and meet with the Ministry of Education with representatives from Autism New Zealand and the Dyslexia Foundation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Salman Akhtar: animals, space, time, God Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia, author of many non-fiction books and six volumes of poetry in English and Urdu. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with William Taylor Former teacher, principal and mayor, who has written more than 35 books for young people and a memoir, Telling Tales: a Life in Writing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: Around the World in 80 Days Kate Camp discusses the 1873 novel Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, translated by Michael Glencross. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ian McKellen: good to Godot British stage and screen actor (Gandalf in Lord of the Rings), currently on tour with a production of Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot, visiting NZ in June and July. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Susan Horwitz: developing cancer drugs Member of the National Academy of Sciences and former president of the American Association for Cancer Research; her work played a vital role in the development of a multi-billion-dollar anti-tumor drug. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Hamish Keith: oil and Lanterns in New Orleans Writer, blogger, art curator and consultant, and self-styled cultural curmudgeon columnist for the Listener magazine, currently visiting New Orleans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Kate discusses Fearless by Tim Lott, Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson and The Death-Defying Pepper Roux by Geraldine McCaughrean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sarah Adams: sweet life Granddaughter of Ernest Adams who worked her way up through the family firm and relaunched Queen Anne Chocolates in 1998. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Finns with Jeff Apter Former music editor at Australian Rolling Stone magazine and author of a number of biographies including new book Together Alone: The Story of the Finn Brothers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Christopher Hitchens: contrarian Writer for Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic Monthly and many other publications who has just published Hitch-22: A Memoir. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tom Henderson: shelterboxes Former Royal Navy search and rescue diver who created the ShelterBox, described by the Red Cross as the best form of primary aid for disaster victims seen in decades. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Paul Offit: vaccination Infectious diseases specialist and expert on vaccines, immunology and virology. He's the author of Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine and the Search for a Cure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Rick Gekoski: bibliomemoirist Rare books dealer in modern English, Irish and American literature, chair of the judges for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, and author of Outside of a Dog: a Bibliomemoir. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Carey: William Golding Professor of English at Oxford University, critic, reviewer, broadcaster, Booker judge and the author of many books, including the biography William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Charlie Higson Pop singer, TV programme creator (The Fast Show), and author of adult thrillers, the Young Bond series and new youth vs zombies series, The Enemy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mary Kisler Mackelvie Curator of International Art at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, discussing the work of artists Richard Bell and Tom Wilkinson at the 4th Auckland Triennial. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Thomas Keneally: Australia Australian novelist (Schindler's Ark) whose most recent work is the first in a three-volume history series, Australians: Origins to Eureka. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Julien Smith: social media Author, consultant, and speaker who has been involved in online communities for over 15 years, and was one of the first people on the web to use podcasting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Adrian Woolridge: faith and globalisation Management editor for The Economist, and co-author of God is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith is Changing the World. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails Kim reads listeners emails Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Philip Pullman: Jesus and Christ British author best known for His Dark Materials triogly, whose latest book is The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Kay: obliquity British economist and columnist for the Financial Times; his latest book is Obliquity:How Our Goals Are Best Pursued Indirectly Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Rhian Sheehan New Zealand musician, whose work has appeared on TV programming and commercials, movie trailers, short films and planetarium shows; he has a new show based on his new album, Standing in Silence Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Language with Jen Hay Director of the New Zealand Institute of Language,Brain and Behaviour, discussing multimodel speech perception. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Fiiona Pardington: snapping busts Leading New Zealand photographer with shows in Wellington,Auckland and Sydney of photographs of head-and-shoulder busts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Julian Glover: UK elections Chief leader writer for The Guardian newspaper since 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Freeman: ruled by email Editor of Granta magazine and guest at the 2010 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival.His first book is Shrinking the World: the 4,000-Year Story of how Email Came to Rule our Lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jeffrey Mogil: men, women and pain Professor of Pain Studies at McGill University in Canada who is a keynote speaker at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists in Christchurch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Robert Oliver: Pacific Cooking NZ-born, Fiji-raised chef who has run restarants around the globe, and travelled to many Pacific islands to research his book Me'a Kai: the Food and Flavours of the South Pacific. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Helen Medlyn Jazz chanteuse, dancer, actress, musical theatre performer, caberet entertainer whose latest role is Marcellina in the Nz opera production of The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Wil Anderson: dissecting ads Comedian, author and columnist who has been appearing at the NZ International Comedy Festival, and hosts the ABC TV series about advertising, The Gruen Transfer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Charlotte Madison: flying Apaches Britain's first female Apache helicopter gunship pilot, who served three tours in Afghanistan. She tells her story in the memoir Dressed to Kill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Antony Loewenstein: Israel and blogging Journalist and author who co-founded Independent Australian Jewish Voices and the author of The Blogging Revolution and My Israel Question. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ashley Ekins: ANZAC writings Head of the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra who contributed the introduction to the third edition of The ANZAC Book, originally published in 1916. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Julian Clary: camping out Comedian, novelist and television host visiting here with his Lord of the Mince show at the 2010 NZ International Comedy Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mark Seabrook-Davison: conserving biodiversity PhD graduate whose thesis makes a case for nationally coordinated legislation to protect the country's native plants, fish, birds, insects and mammals listed as threatened with extinction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Christine Vachon: indie filmmaking Independent film producer whose Killer Films company has produced Boys Don't Cry, Happiness, Infamous, Far From Heaven, One Hour Photo, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, I Shot Andy Warhol and many others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: Eugene Onegin Kate Camp discusses Eugene Onegin, the 1833 novel in verse by Russian writer Alexander Pushkin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sheena Iyengar: choice Professor Sheena Iyengar is a world expert on choice, and the author of The Art of Choosing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bob Rigg: nuclear disarmament Chair of the Disarmament Challenges panel at the international disarmament conference, Nuclear Energy for All, Nuclear Weapons for None, held in Tehran from 17-18 April. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mark Urban: the SAS in Iraq British journalist who covered the Iraq campaign from start to finish, and is the author of Task Force Black: the Explosive True Story of the SAS and the Secret War in Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Kate discusses three new young adult fiction titles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Colm Toibin: Irish stories Irish novelist, critic, short story and non-fiction writer who will be a guest at the 2010 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival in May. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Karen Hunter Singer-songwriter who teaches popular music at the University of Auckland and is taking her new Scrapyard Cabaret show to the ERUPT Festival in Taupo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tommy Tiernan: comedy of controversy Irish comedian who is second only to U2 for live ticket sales in Ireland, and holds the Guiness World Record for the longest stand-up comedy show by an individual. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Natasha Walter: sexism and feminism Writer, broadcaster and campaigner whose new book, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, recasts some of the issues raised in her 1998 book, The New Feminism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kitty Kelley: Oprah Author of many unauthorised biographies (Elizabeth Taylor, Frank sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the Bush family); her latest subject is Oprah Winfrey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Barry Thomas: films and alcohol Artist and filmmaker making a series of short films with around 60 young people about their experience of the impact of alcohol in their lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Neil Cross: criminals and spies Suspense novelist (Burial, Captured) and screenwriter (Spooks, Luther). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Stephanie Bennett Documentary Filmmaker whose musical subjects have included Chuck Berry, Roy Orbison, Joni Mitchell, The Beach Boys, The Everly Brothers and The Beatles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Language with Jen Hay: kiwis and kangaroos Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury talking about how stuffed toys can alter the way people speak. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ray Avery: medical solutions Scientist, social entrepreneur and 2010 New Zealander of the Year award for his medical inventions which have helped millions in the developing worlds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Johnathan Moses: war crimes Judge at the District Court in Manukau who spent nearly eight years in Tanzania helping prosecute crimes against humanity, and war crimes committed in Rwanda. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alexander Cockburn: Obama and the U.S. Political Journalist and co-editor of political newsletter CounterPunch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bill Barton : maths and the pleasure principle Associate Head of the Mathematics Department at Auckland University, President of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, and coordinator of the Klein Project to illuminate the mathematics sciences for secondary school teachers worldwide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Angela Lassig : 30 years of NZ fashion Former Senior Curator of History at Te Papa, and author of a new illustrated book that profiles 25 contemporary New Zealand designers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favorites with Paterson Riley Founder of the rock 'n' roll jewellery business, The Great Frog, in Carnaby Street in the early 1970s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mary Kisler : triennial risk-taking Mackelvie Curator of International Art at the Auckland Art Gallery, discussing the 4th Auckland Triennial : Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Barbara Ehrenreich : the cult of cheerfulness Journalist and author whose new book, Smile or Die, was conceived when she became ill with breast cancer, and explores the tyranny of positive thinking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Norbert Hoeller : biomimicry Director of BioDream Machine, a California non-profit organization with the mission to bring the benefits of bio-inspired design to public and private education in the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bryan Bruce : who killed Jesus? Presenter and producer of TV show The Investigator, and author of new book, Jesus : the Cold Case. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bee Dawson: gardening in NZ Social historian whose new book is A History of Gardening in New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: C.K. Stead: short story success New Zealand writer whose short story, Last Season's Man, has won the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads a selection of emails and texts from listeners to Saturday Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dame Malvina Major: a life in song New Zealand singer who maintains an active international career, and is Professor of Voice at the University of Canterbury. Her show, My Life in Song, travels to a number of South Island centres in April. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dr John: talking 'bout Louisiana Singer and pianist who has been a key figure in New Orleans rhythm and blues since the 1950s. His most recent album, City that Care Forgot, deals with various aspects of post-Katrina New Orleans, and he and his band the Lower 911 play three concerts in NZ in April. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: Virgil's Aeneid Kate Camp discusses The Aenbeid by the Roman poet Virgil, translated and with an introduction by David West. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dee Boersma: penguin survival Wadsworth Endowed Chair in Conservation Science at the University of Washington whose research over the past 27 years on Magellanic penguins in the South Atlantic has led to her being described as"the Jane Goodall of penguins". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Lloyd Jones: a library for Bouganville Author of the prize-winning Mister Pip, and chair of the Bouganville Library Trust which has been set up to work with local people in Bouganville to build, stock and fundraise for a community library. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Martin Lord Rees: science and society English cosmologist and astrophysicist who has been Astronomer Royal since 1995, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2004, and President of the Royal Society since 2005. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Haydn Green Sports blogger Hydan Green talks cricket, football and the Mexican wave. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Hadyn Green Sports blogger Hydan Green talks cricket, football and the Mexican wave. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Frisky and Mannish Also known as Laura Corcoran and Matthew Jones. Two talented performers from the UK, performing at this years International Arts Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Lyle Lovett Texan musician, Lyle Lovett is soon to perform on these shores. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing favourites with Chris Parry Chris drummed for the Fourmyula in the 60's and went on to help launch the careers of the Jam, the Cure and other bands. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bobo Pani Sardinian-born choreographer is currently touring production Good Morning Mr Gershwin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Chris Chitty Chris Chitty is Technician and Senior Tutor at the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University Albany. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Sutton Australian social anthropologist and linguist. Dr Sutton is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide and the South Australian Museum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Daryl Copeland - guerilla diplomacy Daryl Copeland is an analyst, writer and educator on international policy, global issues, diplomacy and public management. He is research fellow at the University of Southern California's Centre on Public Diplomacy and senior fellow at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Language with Jen Hay: ordering names Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, on how we order names. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads selected emails and text messages from listeners to Saturday morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Amanda Palmer: punk cabaret American musician, artist, writer and political activist visiting New Zealand for solo performances in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Neil Gaiman: gods and graphics Prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama who is visiting Wellington for Writers and Readers week at the NZ International Arts Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Catherine Healey: debating decriminalisation National Co-ordinator of the NZ Prostitutes Collective who was part of the winning team for the debate on the decriminalisation of prostitution at the Oxford Union in Britain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bob Buckley: superconductivity Manager of the High Temperature Superconducting programme at Industrial Research Limited, and joint winner of the inaugural Prime Minister's Science Prize. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Zandra Rhodes: fashion British fashion designer who emerged during the London punk era, visiting New Zealand as guest designer at iD Dunedin Fashion Week 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dr John Sentamu: Archbishop of York The second most senior Anglican leader in the Church of England, and its first black archbishop. He is visiting New Zealand for the consecration of a cathedral in New Plymouth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Elaine Dyer: Children's Day Co-organiser for the Toddler Day Out and Great Parenting Fair at the Trusts Stadium in Henderson on Sunday 7 March, part of the nationwide celebrations for National Children's Day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Geoff Dyer: creative non-fiction Novelist and writer of creative non-fiction who is a guest at Writers and Readers week during the New Zealand International Arts Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Don McGlashan New Zealand musical performer, recording artist, film composer and producer, who is appearing at the New Zealand International Arts and WOMAD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Feedback Kim reads emails and text messages from listeners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Daniel Fallshaw: stolen children Australian documentary filmmaker whose latest film, Stolen, about slavery in North Africa, is screening at the Documentary Edge Festival 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sir Christopher Frayling: arts evangelism Historian and broadcaster who has chaired the Arts Council of England, the British Design Council and the Royal Mint Advisory Council, and world expert on the spaghetti western. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Hallward: Haiti Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, editor of the journal Radical Philosophy, and author of Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Richard Blaikie: seeing small Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, and Professor of Microelectronics and Nanofabrication at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Margo Lanagan: dark fiction for young readers Australian writer of young adult fiction whose books include a trilogy of short story collections and the novel Tender Morsels. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dean Wareham: playing to Warhol New York-based NZ musician bringing the film/live music performance, 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests, to the New Zealand International Arts Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Feedback Kim reads emails and text messages from listeners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Barbara Sumner Burstyn: a family's life Independent low-budget filmmaker. Her latest film, This Way of Life, received a prestigious Jury prize at the recent Berlin Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Van Maanen: how communities work Organisational theorist and visiting Hood Fellow at the University of Auckland, who researches the ethnography of occupational groups by living with them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jack Heinemann: GM, agriculture and food Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, and Director of the Centre for Integrated Research of Biosafety at the University of Canterbury. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ken Auletta: Google Writer for the New Yorker, and author of Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mary Kisler: interpreting ballet Mary talks about artists who have created works in response to ballet, including a contemporary work by Sriwhana Spong. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ian Dunbar: disciplining dogs Veterinarian, animal behavourist, dog trainer, and writer, whose research in hierarchical social behaviour and aggression in domestic dogs broke new ground. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Saturday Morning feedback Kim Hill reads a selection of texts and emails from listeners to Saturday Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Hone Kouka Playwright, short story writer, poet, children's writer, actor and director, his production of He Reo Aroha will play at the 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: Franny and Zooey Kate Camp discusses Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, originally published as short stories in The New Yorker, then as a collated book. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: James Crampton: fossil hunting Geologist who heads the GNS Science Programme, Global Change Through Time, and co-author of The Kiwi Fossil Hunter's Handbook. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dr Peter Gill: forensic DNA International expert in forensic DNA profiling, who chairs the International Society Of Forensic Genetics DNA Commission. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Adrian Raeside: Winter Olympics New Zealand cartoonist who lives in Whistler, Canada, looking at what's going on behind the news at the Olympics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Maths with Gavin Martin - Fractals Professor in Pure Mathematics at Massey University discussing fractals and the geometry of nature. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mark Pesce - future gaze Inventor, writer, educator and futurist who is speaking at Webstock 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing favourites with Nick Bollinger Musician, producer, broadcaster and music writer discusses his latest book 100 Essential New Zealand Albums. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Amanda Wright - festival wrangling Co-director of the biannual summer music festival Splore, in Auckland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Robert Connolly - Balibo Filmmaker whose latest feature, Balibo, is set during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Brook - Theatre and tolerance Innovative director of stage and screen, his new production, '11 and 12', will play at the 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sefton Darby - Extractive transparency International development consultant whose work focuses on transparency and anti-corruption in the oil and mining sector. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Pita Paraone: Waitangi National Trust Pita Paraone, MNZM, is the chair of the Waitangi Trust Board. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Daniel Morrison: anthems Daniel Morrison is a quantity surveyor and opera singer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mike Pannett: policing Waitangi Detective Superintendent Michael Pannett has been in the police force for 29 years and has policed Waitangi Day commemorations for 25 years. In 2009 he was appointed manager of intelligence, operations, at police national headquarters, and was made a Member of the NZ Order of Merit at this year's New Year's honours. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Liz Marsden: the tino rangatiratanga flag The tino rangatiratanga flag. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Keith Anderson: navy bandleader Lieutenant Commander Keith Anderson is director of music for the Band of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sam Chapman: local hero Haami (Sam) Tutu Chapman is a youth and community worker based in Otara, Auckland. Earlier this week in the New Zealander of the Year Awards, he won the Local Hero category. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Language with Jeanette King Dr Jeanette King is Senior Lecturer at the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, University of Canterbury. She discusses the influence of Maori language on New Zealand English pronunciation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Andrew McRae: waka launching Andrew McRae reports from Waitangi on the waka launching. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sam Kaelin: history student History student from the Waikato region. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads a selection of emails from listeners to Saturday Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Joe Conrad: waka captain Joe Conrad is a waka kaihoutou and Nga Waka Federation member of Toi Maori Aotearoa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Hector Busby: waka builder Hekenukumai (Hec) Busby, MBE, is a master waka carver and master navigator who has carved 26 waka and passed on his knowledge to keen sailors the world over. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: library troves Kate will discuss books on the children's shelves of the Canterbury Public Library by authors Franciso X Stork, Richard Peck, Gloria Whelan and Karen Cushman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Fariba Hachtroudi: Iran Iranian-born writer now living in Paris; a critic of the current regime in Iran, she is the French writer in residence at the Randell Cottage in Wellington. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Eddi Reader Scottish singer Eddi Reader was a member of Fairground Attraction, and has recorded many solo albums; she will perform at this year's WOMAD festival in Taranaki. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Philip Hoare: whale tales British writer whose most recent book, Leviathan or, The Whale, won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction; visiting NZ in March for Writers and Readers Week at the NZ International Arts Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Lucien Johnson: Haiti Multi-instrumentalist and composer who spent three months last year in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, working on a theatre project at the city's cultural centre, destroyed in the recent quake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nina Federoff: genes and food Molecular biologist who is Science and Technology Adviser to US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and to the US Agency for Independent Development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Chris Knox Musician, writer and artist Chris Knox suffered a stroke in 2009. In this interview from 2006, he plays some favourite music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sam Hunt: a poet's life Sam Hunt has worked for 40 years as a full-time poet. His recently published memoir is Backroads: Charting a Poet's Life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bub Bridger: a poet's life Bub Bridger was a poet and short story who died at her home on 8 December 2009, aged 85. She spoke to Kim in 2005. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: great books Kate de Goldi discusses what makes great children's books, using the example of Geraldine McCaughrean's 2001 book, Stop the Train. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jubilation: gospel choir singing Members of the New Zealand a capella gospel choir, who released their album Shout and Never Get Tired this year join the programme for songs and chat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Greg Broadmore: fun with guns Weta Workshop conceptual designer (District 9), and author and illustrator of Dr Grordbort's: Victory! He visited China to help stage The Exceptional Exhibition - Weta Workshop Introduces the World of Dr Grordbort's, aiding relief efforts for the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan province. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tom Bailey: dub traveller Musician, producer, film-maker and artist who led British band The Thompson Twins and currently works under the name International Observer, touring here in support of new album, Felt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads a selection of email and text messages from listeners to Saturday Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mary Kisler: restoration Mackelvie Curator of International Art at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki,discussing the (sometimes controversial)restoration of artworks in Italy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Vann: boats and suicide Teacher of creative nonfiction and fiction, magazine writer and author of the memoir A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea and much-hailed short story collection, Legend of a Suicide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Paul Callaghan: surviving 2009 Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, and author of Wool to Weta: Transforming New Zealand's Culture and Economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Marcus Chown: light, the universe and everything Award-winning writer and broadcaster, cosmology consultant for New Scientist, and former radio astronomer; his new book is We Need to Talk About Kelvin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Valerie Browning: living Afar Australian nurse who went to Ethiopia in the 1970s, married an Afar nomad clan leader, and now lives in one of the harshest places on earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads a selection of email and text messages from listeners to Saturday Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Maths with Gaven Martin: infinity Distinguished Professor in Pure Mathematics at Massey University and the founding director of the NZ Institute for Advanced Study, discussing infinity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Martin Perna: Fela on Broadway Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and leader of the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, which recreates the music of Nigerian afrobeat originator Fela Kuti in the show about his life on Broadway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: The Big Sleep Kate Camp discusses The Big Sleep, the 1939 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Richard Faull: brain research Director of the Centre for Brain Research and Professor of Anatomy at the University of Auckland, and Director of the Neurological Foundation of New Zealand Human Brain Bank. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Daniel Kruger: sex and shopping Evolutionary psychologist at the University of Michigan who has just published the paper: Evolved Foraging Psychology Underlies Sex Differences in Shopping Experiences and Behaviours. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Anne C. Heller: Ayn Rand Magazine editor, journalist and author of Ayn Rand and the World She Made, a biography of the controversial exponent of laissez-faire policies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Colin Gibson: hymns Emeritus Professor of English at Otago University, member of the New Zealand Hymnbook Trust, writer of hymns and musical settings, and Australasian editor for the upcoming Dictionary of World Hymnody Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim reads a selection of emails and text messages to Saturday Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Carole King and James Taylor: together again American singer/songwriters whose 1970 debut show at the Troubadour in Los Angeles helped propel them both to the world stage; they have joined forces again for a tour which visits Auckland next April. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Maths with Gaven Martin: counting Distinguished Professor in Pure Mathematics at Massey University and the founding director of the NZ Institute for Advanced Study. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jenny Uglow: the Restoration British biographer, critic and publisher whose latest book is a study of the tumultuous first decade of the return of Charles II to the throne. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Simon Kuper: soccernomics Sports columnist for the Financial Times, and author of a number of books, including Soccernomics; speaking in the wake of the draw for the World Cup 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kamila Shamsie: Pakistan Pakistani author of five novels (the most recent is Burnt Shadows), visiting next year for the New Zealand International Arts Festival 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads email and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: new books Kate De Goldi discusses Cowshed Christmas by Joy Cowley and Gavin Bishop, The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo, and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, illustrated by PJ Lynch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Adrian Raeside: Scott and the Antarctic New Zealand cartoonist living in Canada, and author of a book about his grandfather and Robert Scott's expedition to the South Pole. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Lawrence Arabia Joint winner of the APRA Silver Scroll, who recently released his second solo album, signed international recording deals, relaunched the APOLLO-13: Mission Control show, and is about to embark on an NZ tour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Language with Jen Hay Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury and principal investigator of the Origins of New Zealand English project, discussing 'lazy' pronunciation, and changes to intensifiers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Judith Binney: Tuhoe Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Auckland, and author of Encircled Lands: Te Urewera 1821-1920, which documents 100 years of the Tuhoe people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Steve Jones: chasmology Professor of genetics at University College London, leading expert on the evolution of snails, and notable science populariser, discussing chasmology - yawning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Roger Donaldson: Burt Munro Filmmaker who has told the story of Invercargill racing driver Burt Munro in Offerings to the God of Speed and The World's Fastest Indian, and in a new scrapbook with DVD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Hunter: body modelling Biomedical engineer who was presented with New Zealand's top science honour, the 2009 Rutherford Medal, by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with David Burton: kina Food writer, and who has revised and expanded his 1982 history of New Zealand Food and Cookery. He discusses and consumes kina with Kim. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads a selection of email and text messages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jarvis Cocker: pulp fiction Former front man for the British band Pulp, now a solo artist who has worked on movies and as a broadcasting host and cultural critic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassics Kate Camp discusses the 1877 novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Richard Gage: architecture of destruction Member of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, a collaboration of over 800 professionals who are re-examining the high-rise collapses of the World Trade Centre buildings in the light of scientific evidence that the collapses of the Twin Towers and WTC Building 7 were not adequately explained by the official theories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Rod Carr: revenue in Canterbury Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canterbury, which is launching a philanthropic listed bond issue to raise revenue, and seeking projects with the potential to earn millions of dollars for the Canterbury region. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tom Feiling: cocaine and Columbia Writer and documentary film-maker who recently published his first book, The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over the World. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Alison Uttley Kate De Goldi will discuss the work of prolific British writer Alison Uttley, creator of Little Grey Rabbit, Sam Pig and many other much-loved characters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Hugh Fletcher: century of building Former chief executive of Fletcher Challenge (following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather), and board member of the Reserve Bank and many prominent companies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Matthew Weiner: Mad Men man Creator and executive producer of the award-winning television series Mad Men, a multi-layered 1960s period drama set in the world of advertising in New York. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Paul Trotman: donation and dissection Dunedin doctor, health columnist, and documentary maker; his new film, Donated to Science, features interviews with people who planned to donate their bodies to the Otago Medical School. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nomi Prins: backroom bailouts Journalist, and former employee of Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns; her new book is It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Simon Schama: USA, past, present, future Historian, author, broadcaster, and cultural critic, whose most recent book is The American Future; he will headline Writers and Readers Week during the New Zealand International Arts Festival 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jeremy Pope: travel and transparency Founding managing director of Transparency International, who has just updated, with his wife Diana wrote the best-selling NZ travel guides they wrote in the 1970s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Walter Mischel: the marshmallow test Professor of psychology who specialises in personality theory and social psychology; his famous“marshmallow experiment”and subsequent research has shown how preschool delay of gratification ability links to development over the course of life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Reg Mombassa New Zealand artist and musician; a founder member of the Australian group Mental as Anything, his designs were instrumental in the success of surfwear company Mambo Graphics, and he has an ongoing career as a globally acclaimed fine artist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mary Kisler: five works for a week Mackelvie Curator of International Art at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, discussing five works by Picasso, Braque, Dalí, Derain and Matisse that have never been exhibited before in New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Robert P. Kirshner: accelerating universe One of the world's leading astronomers, whose scientific research has resulted in significant breakthroughs on the nature of the universe, visiting here as the Royal Society of New Zealand Distinguished Speaker for 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Garth Smith: luo han New Zealand plant physiologist and managing director and a co-founder of the BioVittoria company, extracts a highly concentrated organic, zero-calorie sweetener. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Greg Browne: dinosaur footprints Sedimentologist who has discovered the first dinosaur footprints in New Zealand, and the only evidence of dinosaurs in the South Island. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Matt Elliot: Billy T James Stand-up comedian and writer, and author of the new biography, Billy T: the Life and Times of Billy T James. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sebastian Sylwan: making 3D movies Head of Research and Development at Weta Digital, who has worked at digital effects and software companies stereoscopic 3D technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kirk Torrance: flintlock muskets Stage and screen actor (Outrageous Fortune), and playwright; his new play, Flintlock Musket, opens in Auckland next month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ruth Reichl: mothering magazines American food writer and editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine (until it closed unexpectedly in early October), and author of four books of memoirs including Not Becoming My Mother . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Maths with Gaven Martin: differential equations Distinguished Professor in Pure Mathematics at Massey University and founding director of the NZ Institute for Advanced Study, discussing differential equations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Perriam: Bendigo and Shrek Co-owner of historic high-country sheep station Bendigo Station in Central Otago, home to Shrek the sheep. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tino Tabak: cycling and cheating Professional cyclist in the 1970s who tells his story in Tino Tabak: Dreams and Demons of a New Zealand Cycling Legend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Daniel Knorr: incarceration and art Romanian artist based in Berlin, who is currently visiting Auckland and working with prison inmates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads a selection of email and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: three new books Kate will discuss Yummy, by Lucy Cousins; Reflections of a Solitary Hamster, by Astrid Desbordes and Pauline Martin; and Friends: Snake and Lizard, by Joy Cowley and Gavin Bishop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Temple: truth and consequences Australian crime writer and former print journalist and editor, who has won widespread acclaim for his novels The Broken Shore and Truth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Sue Paterson Executive director of the New Zealand International Arts Festival, and former manager of Limbs Dance Company and the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company, Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Language with Jen Hay: T and L Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, talking about New Zealand language usage of T and L, and associated vowel sounds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mark Harris: counterfeiting and trade Information technology consultant and member of the Creative reedom Foundation, who blogs at On the Gripping Hand and is on Twitter as nzlemming, discussing the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Isaac Mao: blogging, sharism and censorship in China Venture capitalist, software architect, entrepreneur and researcher in learning and social technology, who has been called"the godfather of Chinese blogging". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Phillip Darnton: cycling in the UK Chairman of Cycling England, who will visit here in November to speak at the seventh annual New Zealand Cycling Conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Te Taka Keegan Maori language activist and senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Waikato, who has assisted in the development of the Google Translator Toolkit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Paul Barry: James Packer Australian print and broadcast journalist who has written biographies of Kerry Packer and James Packer, who nearly lost the fortune bequeathed to him by his father. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads a selection of emails and text messages to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Jan Hellriegel Singer/songwriter who is back in the music industry after 12 years with a self-released collector's edition album package that includes signed and numbered CDs, a vinyl LP, pictorial booklet, and two tickets to the launch concert. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Hare: political staging British playwright (Plenty, Knuckle, Pravda, Stuff Happens), screenwriter (The Hours, The Reader), and theatre and film director. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Leslie: the fall of the Wall Victoria University representative on the executive board of the New Zealand European Union Centres Network who was working as a television news producer for NBC in East Germany on the night of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alan Walker: active ageing Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology at the University of Sheffield, and director of the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme, the UK's largest ever research programme on ageing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dick Frizzell: expressionist pop New Zealand artist, based in Hawke's Bay, who tells his story in the book, Dick Frizell: The Painter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mike Whittaker: tsunami honeymoon Creator of the Scary Washing Machine phenomenon on TradeMe who was honeymooning at Lalumanu Beach in Samoa when the Tsunami hit the island. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads selected emails and texts from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Tim O'Brien American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who is touring New Zealand with Irish and New Zealand compatriots as Two Oceans Trio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic Kate Camp will discuss Inferno by Dante Alighieri, the first part of his epic poem The Divine Comedy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Stephen Page: Faber and Faber Chief executive of the British publishing house Faber and Faber, which celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Matt Latimer: working with"W" Former speechwriter for George W Bush who writes about his disillusionment with the administration in Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bridget Kendall: Russia and the Forum Diplomatic correspondent for the BBC and former Moscow and Washington correspondent, who hosts The Forum on the BBC World Service. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Marti Friedlander: photographing NZ Renowned photographer, whose life and work is examined in a new book by Leonard Bell, and has 50 photographs appearing in the exhibition, Looking Closely. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Peter Gordon New Zealand chef and food writer Peter Gordon is involved with restaurants in London, Istanbul and Auckland; his sixth book is A Culinary Journey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Feedback Kim Hill reads a selection of emails and texts from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Ian Chapman aka Dr Glam Musician, writer, academic and 1970s cultural fetishist; his memoir of the era is Glory Days: from Gumboots to Platforms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mark Amery: public galleries and Maori artists Director of Playmarket, and art writer for the Dominion Post and Listener, discussing the relationship between Maori artists, public galleries, and the Maori and Pakeha-driven art worlds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Richard Stallman: digital freedoms Software freedom activist and developer, visiting here for events including delivering the keynote address on copyright vs community at the LIANZA conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gaven Martin: pure mathematics Distinguished Professor in Pure Mathematics at Massey University, and the founding director of the NZ Institute for Advanced Study. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mark Goodwin: managing bees Leader of the Bee Unit at Plant and amp; Food Research, who has just been awarded an NZ Science and Technology Medal for his work on honey bees and crop pollination practices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads emails and texts from listeners to Saturday Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Christine Fernyhough Former Auckland businesswoman and philanthropist who moved to the high country of the South Island and wrote The Road to Castle Hill and new book Ben and Mark, Boys of the High Country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Annabelle Langbein One of New Zealand's most celebrated food writers; her latest book is Anyone Can Cook: Fresh Ideas for Busy Lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Rob Matthews Rob Matthews was blind by the age of 20, found inspiration in running, and has won 29 international gold medals. He tells the story in the memoir Running Blind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nick Hornby: writing, movies, music and autism Bestselling novellist and essayist; his new novel is Juliet, Naked, and he recently adapted Lynn Barber's memoir An Education into the film of the same name. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Muriel Watt: solar power Australian solar energy expert who is visiting New Zealand to present the 2009 IPENZ Pickering lecture: The Future of Solar Energy: Developments in Photovoltaics and Opportunities for New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tobias Harris: Japanese Government Japan and East Asia specialist, who worked for a member of the DPJ in the upper house of the Diet in 2006-2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: new picture books Kate De Goldi discusses three new picture books: Isabella's Garden, Stuck, and A Bit of Company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Procter: cows, earth and cosmos New Zealander who has led a biodynamic farming revolution in India; his story is told in the documentary film One Man, One Cow, One Planet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener Feedback Kim Hill reads selected emails and texts from listeners to Saturday Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Jonathan Owen Welsh actor who co-produces and stars in the online episodic drama series Svengali, about the manager of a band trying to break into the big time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: James Belich: settler revolution Research Professor of History at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies; his new book is Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld, 1783-1939. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Marko Cunningham: bodysnatching New Zealand teacher who was in Thailand during the 2004 tsunami, and retrieved bodies of the dead. He tells his story in his book, Sleeping with the Dead. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Suzanne Gordon: changing nursing Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, and Assistant Professor at the San Francisco School of Nursing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads a selection of emails and texts from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gardening with Sally Cameron Cook and gardener, and author of Grow It, Cook It, and the Tui Vegetable Garden. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Chris Rojek: celebrity culture Specialist in celebrity, culture, tourism, popular music and leisure, who is the visiting Hood Fellow at The University of Auckland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Richard Chen See Dancer for the Paul Taylor Dance Company in New York, professional wilderness guide and kayak instructor, staging a work for the New Zealand School of Dance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jen Hay: changing vowels Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, who will discuss changing and merging vowels in New Zealand English. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sir Martin Evans: stem cells and gene therapy British scientist credited with discovering how to culture embryonic stem cells, and for his work in the related technology of gene targeting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Michael Cathcart: Australia and water Writer, broadcaster and historian whose latest book is The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jenny Weston: the Mongol Derby Four-star endurance veterinarian, who took a support role on the 2009 Mongol Derby, the longest horse race in the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Kate De Goldi discusses the work of British illustrator and author Charles Keeping (The God Beneath the Sea, Joseph's Yard, Through the Window, Willie's Fire Engine). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gary Taylor: polyamory George Matthew Edgar Professor of English, and director of the History of Text Technologies programme at Florida State University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Listener feedback Kim Hill reads emails and texts from listeners to Saturday Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Graham Reid Journalist and critic who writes extensively about music, travel and the arts, and runs the Elsewhere website. His new travel book is The Idiot Boy Who Flew. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Leonhard Emmerling: art without borders Director and curator of St Paul Street Gallery of AUT, and curator of the exhibition by Judy Millar at the Venice Biennale. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dana Beal: ibogaine and addiction Long-term activist in the Youth International Party, or Yippies, and major organiser of the Global Million Marijuana March. He is visiting New Zealand as a proponent of the use of the drug ibogaine as a treatment for cocaine and methamphetamine addiction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Allan Pease: men, sex, women and love Relationship expert who, with his wife Barbara, is best-selling author, most recently withWhy Men Want Sex and amp; Women Need Love. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Angela Kearney: child safety and trafficking Head of the UN Children's Fund post in Indonesia, who has served with UNICEF in a number of postings including Angola and Afghanistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jo Randerson: death Playwright, author and performer whose new production, Good Night - The End, opens its world premiere season at Downstage Theatre on 11 September. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Amy Whitehead: saving the Whio Overall runner-up at the 2009 MacDiarmid Young Scientists of the Year Awards who is researching conservation of the whio, or blue duck. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Meredith Kirton: edible gardens Australian writer and broadcaster on gardening and horticulture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Allistar Cox Founder of ALLISTARCOX Architecture, responsible for many awarded hospitality venues and residential projects across New Zealand Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: An Angel at My Table Kate Camp discusses Janet Frame's three volumes of autobiography, posthumously reprinted in 2008 as An Angel at My Table. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Marilynne Robinson American author of three acclaimed novels (Housekeeping, Gilead, Home) and non-fiction works The Death of Adam, and Mother Country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Rolf de Heer: canoes Australian filmmaker (Bad Boy Bubby, Ten Canoes) who is visiting New Zealand for seminars and sessions with local filmmakers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tim O'Brien: US health care New Zealand journalist based in California, with personal experience of the US health system,discussing President Obama's public health care proposals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nancy Brunning: strength and water Finalist in the Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Film category at the 2009 Qantas Film and Television Awards for her role in The Strength of Water, releasing nationwide next week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Alexa Johnston Freelance art curator and author of Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking, and the sequel, A Second Helping: More from Ladies, A Plate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of Saturday Morning emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Liam Finn and Eliza Jane Barnes Singer/songwriters with famous dads who have a new five-track EP release and a tour with Lawrence Arabia and Connan Mockasin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Melanie Johnston-Hollit: the Square Kilometre Array Leader of the radio astronomy group at Victoria University of Wellington, and chair of the New Zealand Square Kilometre Array Research and Development Consortium. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emory Douglas: Black Panthers Former Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers visiting New Zealand as the 2009 Elam International Artist in Residency with an exhibition of graphic art work and free public lectures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Rod Dunbar: cancer and vaccines Director of the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, his research focusses on vaccines for cancer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Professor David Menashri: Iran Director of the Center for Iranian Studies, and Dean of the School for Overseas Students at Tel Aviv University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Franny Amstrong: age of stupid Independent British filmmaker of McLibel, Drowned Out, and new drama-documentary about climate change, The Age of Stupid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Paul Mercurio: judging beer and dance Dancer, actor and Dancing with the Stars judge who now hosts food and travel TV programmes, has his own beer brand in Victoria, and is visiting here as a judge for the BrewNZ Beer Awards and Beervana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of Saturday Morning emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bill Culbert: walking in light Artist best know for his light sculptures, back in New Zealand for three exhibitions, and the launch of a new book on him by Ian Wedde. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bob Harvey: mayors for peace Mayor of Waitakere, recently appointed Vice President of the General Conference of Mayors for Peace, aiming to achieve a nuclear free world by 2020. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Charlotte Paul: unfortunate experiment revisited Professor in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Otago, and medical advisor to the Cartwright Inquiry, discussing Linda Bryder's book, A History of the 'Unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate Hunter: hunting Historian, former tramper, and author of Hunting: A New Zealand History. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Andy Dennis: Iceland update New Zealander who wrote his PHd on The Laws of Early Iceland, and has been guiding two-week hiking trips in north-east Iceland since 2001. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kim reads listener feedback Kim Hill reads a selection of listener emails and texts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: John Burningham Kate discusses the work of the British writer and illustrator, author of over 60 books since 1963. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: J. Anderson Little: changing courts Litigator and mediator who has been instrumental in changing the court system in his home state of North Carolina. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Pinchas Zukerman: violin master Violinist, violist, conductor, teacher and chamber musician visiting here to perform with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Zukerman Chamber Players. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mark Amery: arts festivals Director of Playmarket discussing arts festivals in New Zealand, focusing on current festivals in Christchurch and Taranaki. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Linda Bryder: unfortunate experiment revisited Associate professor of history at the University of Auckland, and is the author of A History of the 'Unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Matt Mullenweg: blog king Photographer, jazz musician and entrepreneur who co-founded popular open-source blogging software and hosting service WordPress. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Henry Porter: taking liberties Novelist and UK editor of Vanity Fair magazine, whose new thriller is based around the erosion of civil liberties. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Brad Knewstubb: Apollo 13 Industrial designer and co-creator of interactive theatre production, APOLLO 13: Mission Control. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Eric Anderson: space tourism Astropreneur president and CEO of Space Adventures,Ltd, and advocate of commercial space transportation, private space exploration and space tourism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of Saturday Morning emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Helen Henderson Southland-raised singer/songwriter now based in Los Angeles, who has just released a new album, Twisting Wind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dempsey Woodley: train of pain Web producer for Radio New Zealand National who commutes between the Kapiti Coast and Wellington. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Garth MacIntyre: up the Nile New Zealand adventurer Cam who embarked with two friends on a journey from sea to source, up the Nile River in Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Hill: the Parthenon Marbles Australian archaeologist and author who is president of the International Association of the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jim Stanford: economics in Canada Economist who works for the Canadian Auto Workers union and writes a regular economics column for national newspaper the Globe and Mail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Vera and Bill Cleaver Kate De Goldi talks about books by American writers Vera and Bill Cleaver, including Where the Lilies Bloom, Grover, and The Mock Revolt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Laura Fair: crockpots Chef, food writer and stylist who has cheffed at Auckland and London restaurants, and now works in the Maggi Test Kitchen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Hanlon: music undammed Successful New Zealand singer-songwriter, who left his 1970s music career here for an advertising career in Australia, and recently returned to music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mandy Patinkin: screen, stage and song American actor and tenor vocalist visiting Auckland with fellow Broadway star Patti LuPone for a one-off concert showcasing songs from great musicals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jo Randerson: advertising and stuff Playwright, author and performer discussing the online animation The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard, and the work of British documentary maker Adam Curtis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Neil White: leprosy incarceration Editor, publisher, and advertising executive who served time for fraud in a Louisiana prison that was home to the last people in the continental United States disfigured by leprosy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Christopher Reid: Ted Hughes and Martian poetry Award-winning British writer who co-founded the 'Martian School' of poetry, and a former editor at Faber and amp; Faber, where he edited the letters of Ted Hughes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Luke Harding: Natalia Estemirova The Guardian's Moscow correspondent, on the murder of Russian human rights campaigner Natalia Estemirova. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Glen Levy: stunts and ninjas New Zealand martial arts instructor, motivational speaker and comedian who is now a professional Hollywood stuntman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ursula Le Guin: Virgil, fantasy and feminism Fantasy writer whose first adult novel for a decade, Lavinia, re-imagines the last six books of Virgil's Aeneid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with George Henderson Leader of Dunedin group The Puddle, on their first NZ tour since the early 90s in support of new album The Shakespeare Monkey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic : Interpretation of dreams Kate Camp will discuss the 1899 book The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Fred Kaplan - 1959 Writer on politics and culture, and author of 1959: The Year Everything Changed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Peryer Photography Photographer who has been exhibiting his work in New Zealand and overseas for over three decades. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: George Lakey Founder of the strategic non-violence group Training for Change, who is currently writing a book about Norway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Rod Gibson: fab pre-fabs Web-only interview. Gordon Harcourt talks to designer Rod Gibson, the founder and director of Habode, a New Zealand company building pre-fabricated dwellings in China. (www.habode.com) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Melinda Szymanik: choice were-nanas Winner of the Children's Choice Award at the 2009 NZ Post Book Awards for her picture book The Were-nana (Not a Bedtime Story). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emily Perkins: London and art Auckland writer who is a Montana Book Awards fiction finalist for Novel About My Wife. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Graeme Tuckett: Barry Barclay Writer and director of The Camera on the Shore, a documentary about the life of New Zealand director Barry Barclay. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails Gordon Harcourt reads a selection of emails and text messages from listeners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Colwyn Trevarthen: music and children NZ psychologist and pioneer in the study of the musical nature of the relationships infants have with their parents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mary Kisler: Salvador Dali Discussing Liquid Desire, an exhibition of over 200 of Dali's works, at the National Gallery of Victoria. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Engwicht: traffic calming International leader of efforts to reduce the negative impacts of motor vehicle traffic in urban areas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Chris Amon: Formula One Former motor racing driver who was active in Formula One racing during the 1960s and 70s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Austin Mitchell: MPs and expenses Labour MP for Grimsby in Britain since 1977. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Kate De Goldi discusses the children's classic novel and the sequel by Geraldine McCaughrean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Janene Tomelty: Botox Cosmetic advisor and author of Relax... It's only BOTOX. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of Saturday Morning emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Gary Henderson Auckland-based playwright, director and teacher, whose new play for young audiences, Stealing Games, looks at the privatisation of children's play. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jennifer Sturm: Anna Kavan Auckland writer and researcher on two years in the life of experimental writer and artist Anna Kavan, in 1940s New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Scott Horton: torture Law professor and writer on legal and national security affairs, discussing the US administration's continued use of torture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Armando Iannucci: spin doctoring Scottish writer, performer, producer and film director, whose debut feature film, In the Loop, will screen in the upcoming Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Frances Kennedy: Silvio Berlusconi New Zealand journalist based in Rome discussing the controversy surrounding Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Clarke: swine time New Zealand comic genius based in Melbourne, Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ian Morden: wine and the law Former commercial lawyer who is now estate director at Cloudy Bay Wines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of Saturday Morning emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Michael Hill: diamonds and the tough Entrepreneur, jeweller, violinist and author of the memoir/business book, Toughen Up: What I've Learned About Surviving Tough Times. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Allen: Post man Departing Chief Executive of New Zealand Post Group. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Macinnis: evil lawns Australian botanist, science writer and broadcaster, and author of social history The Lawn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Neil Strauss: pick-ups and survivalism Author of pick-up artist handbook The Game, and new title, Emergency, about survival preparedness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Lynn Barber: an education British journalist whose memoir of her teenage years has been made into a film. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ilona Rodgers: stations and the gloss Actor best known for her role in 1980s TV series Gloss, who returns to the stage in Station to Station, a new play by Michael Galvin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Janette Murray-Wakelin: marathons,fruit and cancer Marathon runner who was diagnosed with breast cancer, and refused conventional treatment, choosing to follow a holistic approach to treatment which included a raw food diet and running. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kim reads emails What listeners have to say Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Mike Whittaker Industrial designer, whose listing on TradeMe for a"scary washing machine"has been one of the site's most popular auctions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kim reads emails What listeners have to say about the future of the book Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: On the road Kate Camp will discuss the largely autobiographical novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sean Davison: voluntary euthanasia Professor of biotechnology whose new book is an autobiographical account of his return to New Zealand to be with his mother, a prominent woman doctor with terminal cancer who has had enough of life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Stephen Zunes: Iran Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, and frequent visitor to conflict areas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Warwick Thornton : passion and petrol Aboriginal director of feature film Samson and amp; Delilah, which was awarded the Camera d'Or prize for best first film at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Kate De Goldi discusses books by American novelist Richard Peck, who has had 35 books for young adults published since 1972. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bruce Connew: images and censors New Zealand photographer whose essay, Cutting off Dissent, appears in the Spring 2009 issue of Granta magazine, and has just self-published the photography book, I Must Behave. The exhibition of the same name is showing at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of Saturday Morning emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Richard Adams Violinist and frontman for the quartet Nairobi Trio, and collaborator with multi-string player Nigel Gavin (most recently on the album, Recent Works). He is also an established abstract artist who has been exhibiting internationally for over 25 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Eleanor Catton: writing rehearsal Author of debut novel The Rehearsal, which has been sold to publishers in the UK, the USA, and Europe, and is a finalist in the Fiction and First Book categories at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sherman Young: the future of books Author of The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book, and guest speaker at the upcoming conference, The Future of the Book, in Auckland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Julian Glover: pirates and parliaments The chief leader writer for The Guardian, on the European Parliament, and the Swedish Pirate Party. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Edward Peck: Middle East dialogue Retired career United States diplomat who served in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Elizabeth Knox : angels and Hollywood Finalist in the Biography section of the 2009 Montana NZ Book Awards,and author of new novel The Angel's Cut. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Colin Tudge : fossils and links British biologist whose latest book,The Link,tells the story of the discovery of the most complete early primate fossil. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Jim Wilson Founder of Christchurch-based Phantom Billstickers,a nation-wide postering and printed matter distribution firm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mark Amery : dealer galleries Director of Playmarket and writer on art for the Dominion Post and the NZ Listener,discussing dealer galleries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Hilary Mantel : Thomas Cromwell Author of the 2003 memoir,Giving Up The Ghost.Her new book,Wolf Hall,is a historical fiction about Thomas Cromwell Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ben Goldacre : bad science and lawsuits Ben Goldacre has written the weekly Bad Science column in the Guardian since 2003,and the 2008 book Bad Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jamil Anderlini : currency and censorship in China Beijing deputy bureau chief for the Financial Times newspaper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Scott O'Dell Kate De Goldi discusses the books of American historical fiction writer Scott O'Dell, author of The Island of the Blue Dolphins, The King's Fifth, The Black Pearl, Sing Down the Moon, Black Star, Bright Dawn and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art Veno: bikers, crime and clubs Former director of Monash University's Centre for Police and Justice Studies, and Australia's foremost expert on outlaw motorcycle clubs, who is the author of The Brotherhoods, and Biker Chicks: The Magnetic Attraction of Women to Bad Boys and Motorbikes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Ross Harris Composer of over 150 works, including operas, songs, chamber music, electronic music, symphonic music, jazz, and klezmer, who is one of five NZ composers who have donated works for SOUNZtender. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Justin O'Sullivan: sequencing DNA Molecular biologist from the Institute of Natural Sciences at Albany, who has won an international prize with his colleague that will let them analyse 20 billion DNA sequence bases in a bid to understand what makes healthy cells turn bad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dorothy Butler: bookshops and readers International authority on children's books and reading, innovative bookseller and author of two volumes of memoirs: There Was a Time, and All This and a Bookshop Too. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Muhammed Musa: African football sheds Lecturer in Mass Communication and Journalism at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Canterbury, who recently returned from East Africa, where he has been researching the phenomenon of huge audiences watching UK and European football on satellite dishes in sheds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Geoffrey Miller: the psychology of consumerism Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico, and author of Spent: Sex, Evolution and the Secrets of Consumerism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Amy Dixon: saving the orangutan Team leader of primates at Auckland Zoo, recently returned from assisting with the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Juliette Veber: tough schooling Short Film Manager at the NZ Film Commission, and director of the documentary Trouble Is My Business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of Saturday Morning emails Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bryn Terfel: valley high Welsh opera singer, who visits New Zealand next month for a four-concert tour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassics: Edgar Allen Poe Kate Camp discusses three works by Edgar Allen Poe: The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Purloined Letter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nikolien van Wijk and Dr Anne Meade: schemas Parent-educator at Wilton Playcentre and educational consultant discuss learning and play in early childhood education. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Fintan O'Toole: crash of the Celtic tiger Columnist and assistant editor for The Irish Times, talking about the dramatic financial collapse of the Irish economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Richard Thaler: libertarian paternalism Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, and co-author of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Iggy McGovern: physics and poetry Associate Professor of Physics at Trinity College, Dublin, whose poetry has been widely published in anthologies and journals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sonya Renee: slam performance National and international Poetry Slam Champion, HBO Def Poet, and international touring artist championing social causes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of Saturday Morning emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Will Sheff Leader of the band Okkervil River; singer/songwriter, guitarist, pianist, banjo and harmonica player, and film and music critic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: M.T. Anderson: complex epics for kids American author of picture books and novels for young adults, whose books include Thirsty, Burger Wuss, and Feed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: James Surowiecki: wise crowds Staff writer on business and finance at The New Yorker, and author of The Wisdom of Crowds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Hendrik Hertzberg: political dispatches Senior editor, staff writer and chief political commentator at The New Yorker, and author of Politics: Observations and Arguments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Michael Carter: running water in Africa Raglan farmer on his way to Ethiopia and Eritrea as field hydrologist for the Red Cross, after postings to Darfur and Liberia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: historical US fiction Discussing historical American fiction for children and young adults, and titles by Elizabeth George Speare and Irene Hunt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Andrew Lih: Wikipedia An administrator of the English edition of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, and author of The Wikipedia Revolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of Saturday Morning emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Barnaby Weir and Dick Weir Musician frontman for The Black Seeds and Fly My Pretties, and his storyteller father, collaborating for the third FMP event. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mary Kisler: space and place Discussing installation works by Fiona Connor and Anish Kapoor, and a major art announcement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Robert Wade: the Iceland meltdown Professor of Political Economy and Development at the London School of Economics, on the financial crisis in Iceland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bronwen Markham: nursing in danger zones Wellington nurse who has worked in PNG and Afghanistan, and recently returned from a suspected flu outbreak in Tokelau. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Marcus Chown: science and space Cosmology consultant and former radio astronomer, and author of Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Robyn Salisbury : sex and relationships Clinical psychologist and director of Sex Therapy New Zealand Ltd,and author of new book Staying In Love. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Robert Wallace : the NAFTA flu Visiting professor in the department of geography at the University of Minnesota,and writer about the farming of pathogens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with John Newton Author of the forthcoming book,The Double Rainbow : James K Baxter,Ngati Hau,and the Jerusalem Commune. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ranginui Walker : eyes of a warrior Former Professor and Head of Maori Studies at the University of Auckland,and member of the Waitangi Tribunal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Monica Ali : London lanes and kitchens Author of Brick Lane,and new novel In The Kitchen,visiting Auckland later this month for the Readers and Writers Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Paul Talalay: cancer,broccoli,supplements Cancer researcher and founder of the Brassica Chemoprotection Laboratory,visiting NZ for a conference on scientific research. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: Notre Dame de Paris Kate Camp discusses the 1831 novel by Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alex Hedley and Robin Kay: Maadi Camp, World War 2 Author of Fernleaf Cairo, about Maadi Camp in Egypt, with an artist and archivist stationed at Maadi Camp from 1940 to 1944. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Shakespeare scholar Gary Taylor Alice Griffin Shakespearean Fellow, on the bard’s lost play Cardenio, playwright Thomas Middleton, castration, and polyamory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Paul McGeough: Mossad and Hamas Australian journalist, on his book Kill Khalid: Mossad's Failed Hit and the Rise of Hamas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Deborah Challinor: Vietnam Veterans Writer and historian, who has been researching New Zealand's involvement in the Vietnam War since the late 1970s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Scott Horton: torture and accountability Law professor and writer, on the revelations of the approval of torture by the previous US administration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Discussing new books by M.T. Anderson and Mal Peet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of Saturday Morning emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John L. Simpson: men talk feelings Producer of independent Australian film Men's Group. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Kristen Darragh Finalist in the Lexus Song Quest 2009 and singer in the opera The Italian Girl in Algiers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Colin Bull: sneaking into America Geophysicist, glaciologist and cook who tells the story of four VUW scientists in the book Innocents in the Dry Valleys. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jonathan Lyons: Islam and the West Author and journalist whose new book tells how the Arabs transformed Western civilisation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Urmas Paet: Estonia Foreign Minister of the Eastern European country of Estonia, which regained independence in 1991. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Amber Marks: animal spies Former criminal barrister and author of Headspace, about the use of animals in the surveillance industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jo Randerson: festivals Writer, performer, and dramaturg for dance production Carnival Hound, discussing the role of festivals in human society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Paul Brewer: Te Papa and after Director Marketing and Communications at Te Papa since 1998, who is about to move to The Edge in Auckland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kim reads emails Kim Hill reads a selection of emails from listeners and comments on matters arising. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Bodanis: the Ten Commandments Author of Electric Universe, E=mc2, and Passionate Minds, who is working on a book about the Ten Commandments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Discussing the work of American writer Patricia MacLachlin, best known for her 1985 book, Sarah, Plain and Tall. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kim reads emails Kim Hill reads a selection of emails from listeners and comments on matters arising. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sinead Cusack: building bridges Irish actress visiting New Zealand as part of The Bridge Project, a double-bill of The Cherry Orchard and A Winter's Tale. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alex Ross: 20th century music Author of The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. (NB. music not included for copyright reasons.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mark Amery: one-day sculptures Director of Playmarket, and writer about art, discussing the series of one-day sculptures around the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Joyce Fleming: naturism National vice-president of Free Beaches New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jacques Rogge: the Olympics Belgian orthopaedic surgeon, athlete and Olympic yachtsman, who is now President of the International Olympic Committee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Yemma: the Christian Science Monitor Editor of the Christian Science Monitor, which recently replaced its daily US newspaper print edition with a website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Margaret Long: gardens and culture Christchurch-based operator of gardening and cultural tours, and publisher of quarterly magazine The Gardener's Journal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Anne Thorp: cookery and cancer Cooking show host on Maori TV whose new book, Kai Ora, provides healthy recipes and details her experience with breast cancer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Lady Dusha Bateson: Emma Darwin Historian, food enthusiast and author of Mrs Charles Darwin's Recipe Book, a social history based on Emma Darwin's notebooks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic Kate Camp discusses the 1969 novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dr Frans de Waal: human and primate behaviour Ethnologist and biologist who writes on the social intelligence of primates in the books Chimpanzee Politics and Our Inner Ape. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Andy Matheson: biofuel and other energy futures Renewable Energy GM at Solid Energy, responsible for wood pellets, biomass, solar water heating and biodiesel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Naomi Allen: women and alcohol Cancer epidemiologist at Oxford University who led a study linking alcohol consumption by women to increased cancer risk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Stuart Devenie: rendering penguins Acclaimed New Zealand actor, who is touring the one-man show, Hatch, or The Plight of the Penguins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Geoff Waterhouse: vehicles and waste oil Operator of a taxi/tour company which runs vehicles on waste vegetable oil, and is committed to sustainable tourism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Lisa Matisoo-Smith: DNA and Pacific settlement Biological anthropologist, and Principal Investigator at the Allan Wilson Centre of Molecular Ecology and Evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Terence Davies: Liverpool British film director, whose most recent film, Of Time and the City, is a paean to his hometown of Liverpool. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mary Kisler: Yinka Shonibare Discussing the exhibition by Yinka Shonibare, MBE, and the historical precedents of Henry Raeburn and Francisco Goya. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Philip Temple: mountains and chance Dunedin-based mountaineer and author of 31 books, whose memoir, Chance is a Fine Thing, has just been published. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gareth Edwards-Jones: food miles Principal investigator on a study of the comparative merits of consuming vegetables produced locally and overseas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ann Wright: voice of dissent Former US Army colonel, who resigned from the US State Department in March 2003 in opposition to the war in Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bob White: climate change and Christianity Professor of Geophysics at Cambridge, a director of the Faraday Institute, and Fellow of the Royal Society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Robert Jedicke: killer asteroids Manager of the Pan-STARRS moving object processing system in Hawaii that is discovering new asteroids and comets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dawn French: fun, fame and farewells British comedy actress best known for her TV series The Vicar of Dibley, and as half of the duo French and Saunders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Selina Tusitala Marsh: Pacific poetry First Pacific Islander to get a PhD in English from the University of Auckland; author of poetry collection Fast Talking PI. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Paul Callaghan: wool to Weta Professor of Physical Sciences, Victoria University; author of Wool to Weta: Transforming New Zealand's Culture and Economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Wayne Lochore: the financial crisis Private market consultant, who started writing warnings in 2005 about the impending global financial crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Zia Mian: Pakistan Director at the Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton; member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Paul Fleischman Kate discusses the novels, poetry and picture books of the prolific American children's writer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dave Brown: children's theatre Artistic director of Adelaide's Patch Theatre Company, which has produced over 100 children's theatre works. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kim reads emails 2 Kim Hill reads and comments on emails from listeners about male urination, and monarch butterflies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Roberto Fonseca: Cuban jazz Pianist for the Buena Vista Social Club, and world-jazz star, visiting New Zealand for the Wellington Jazz Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Vikas Swarup: from Q and A to slumdog millionaire Member of the Indian Foreign Service, whose debut novel, Q and A, was adapted for the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Isaac Julien: moving pictures British installation artist and maker of feature films and documentaries, visiting New Zealand for Auckland Festival 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kim reads emails 1 Kim Hill reads and comments on emails from listeners about Patrick Holford and nutrition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jasvinder Sanghera: forced marriages and honour crimes Co-founder of UK community project combating domestic violence, and author of the memoir, Shame, and sequel Daughters of Shame. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Park: earth and space CEO of the Geospatial Research Centre, within the NZ ICT Innovation Institute at the University of Canterbury. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Matt Frei: Washington D.C. The BBC's Washington correspondent on his book, Only in America, about"the Rome of the 21st century". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Denis Dutton - the art instinct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cantebury, founder of Arts and Letters Daily, and author of The Art Instinct. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gudrun Gut - the Berlin underground Former member of Einsturzende Neubauten and Malaria!, visiting New Zealand for live electronic media events. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with David Haywood Christchurch writer and former research scientist. His book, My First Stabbing, collects some of his blogs from PublicAddress. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Patrick Holford - addiction and nutrition British nutritionist, his new book, How to Quit Without Feeling S**t, looks at the links between addiction and nutrition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kim reads emails and texts A selection of feedback from listeners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Susie Orbach - modified bodies Psychotherapist and author, her new book, Bodies, considers the societal pressures behind body enhancement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Discussing the work of American writer Charlotte Zolotow, who has published more than 70 books for young readers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Reid Ewing - smart urban growth Professor of city and metropolitan planning at the University of Utah, and Fellow of the Urban Land Institute. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Andrew Dubber New Zealand author,speaker,producer and broadcaster,who lectures on music industries at Birmingham City University Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: E-Mails Kim reads e-mails Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mark Amery - children and galleries Director of the playwrights agency, Playmarket and writer on art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic American futurist writerand his wife,a Serbian activist and writer,visiting NZ for the Webstock conference Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Deborah Peterson Small:prohibition and drug reform Executive director of US organisation Break the Chains,which works to reverse the negative effects of punitive drug policies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Baroness Scotland QC:law,government and the individual Attorney General for England and wales and Northern Ireland;the first female and ethnic minority person to hold office. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of emails from Saturday morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Lama Ole Nydahl: Buddhist life and conscious death Danish founder of Diamond Way Buddhism, a world-wide organisation of Karma Kagyu Buddhism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Malcolm Rogers: Monet, museums and money Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, touring the Monet and the Impressionists exhibition at Te Papa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Drumming Brazilian Batucada Favourites Members of the Wellington Batucada drumming troupe and Carnival Queen Clo Mudrik, live in session. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: Rabbit, Run Kate Camp will discuss the 1960 novel Rabbit, Run by recently deceased American author John Updike. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alan Dixson: sexual attraction Professor of Biological Sciences who studies reproductive biology and the evolution of sexuality in primates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mike Morwood: the hobbit Archaeologist who discovered the remains of the hobbit-like human species Homo floresiensis on an Indonesian island. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Seth Godin: dips and tribes Marketing guru, blogger and author of business books The Dip (about quitting) and Tribes (about leadership). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Victoria Davis: naked biking One of the"Bag Ladies of Golden Bay"who is co-ordinating the Golden Bay leg of the annual World Naked Bike Ride. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Joseph Churchward: a life in type Retired type designer, born and raised in Samoa, who has over 600 original fonts to his name. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of Saturday Morning emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Haggis Hague Literacy teacher and flamenco guitar player who has self-published a book about becoming a father, fitness and food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Harry Kroto: nanotechnology and nuclear weapons One of the co-recipients of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of fullerene, currently visiting New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jim Scott in Sri Lanka Journalist, designer and film-maker making a documentary about a coconut plantation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alison Ballance: Rangi the Kakapo Producer of Our Changing World reports from Codfish Island on a kakapo discovery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: George Andrews: the life of Allan Wilson Producer of a documentary about the New Zealand-born scientist who revolutionised the field of evolutionary biology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate De Goldi: Madeline L'Engle Discussing four books by American science fiction and fantasy writer Madeleine L'Engle, including the classic A Wrinkle in Time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alice Russell: golden soul English soul singer visiting New Zealand who has just released her new album, Pot of Gold. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Byrne: talking head Founding member of the band Talking Heads, who works in many other media and visits NZ for concerts in February. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Feedback Kim reads listeners e-mails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Anna Gsell: kakapo dissection Biology researcher at Massey University who will be first in the world to dissect the brain of the kakapo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jane McGonigal: serious play Director of game research and development at the Institute for the Future, and designer of large-scale alternate reality games. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Hilary Pearse: Canada's constitution revisited Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Victoria University, Wellington, discussing Canada's ongoing constitutional problems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Poetic e-mail Kim waxes lyrical about Leonard Cohen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Professor Michael Stuermer: Putin's Russia German historian and chief correspondent for the German newspaper Die Welt, and author of Putin and the Rise of Russia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alun and Helen Bollinger: love and film stories Respected New Zealand cinematographer and his wife who feature in film festival documentary Barefoot Cinema. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate De Goldi: The influence of Ursula Nordstrom Discussing the American children's book editor and her stable of authors and illustrators. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dr Jill Bolte Taylor: Stroke and recovery Neuroanatomist who experienced a stroke in 1996, and has been successfully rebuilding her brain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Murray Bail: Australian Pages Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction; his new book, The Pages, is his first novel in ten years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Graeme Downes Senior lecturer in contemporary rock music at the University of Otago, and a founding member of The Verlaines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Chris Brickell : NZ's gay male history Lecturer in gender studies,and author of Mates and Lovers,the first New Zealand gay male history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jim Lindner : saving magnetic memories Authority on the preservation and migration of magnetic media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites: Lenny Henry British television, radio, film and standup comedy performer who is about to tour New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Discussing the influence of editor Ursula Nordstrom on Louise Fitzhugh and Mary Rodgers, pioneers of the young adult genre. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alice Waters of Chez Panisse Founder of pioneering Californian bistro Chez Panisse, and author of eight books, most recently The Art of Simple Food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of Saturday Morning emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gaylene Preston and the Woolshed Sessions Film maker Gaylene Preston is joined by the eight musicians who recorded a CD in her Takaka woolshed late last year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sister Loyola Galvin NZ Gargener of the year 2008, from the Home of Compassion in the Wellington suburb of Island Bay. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Michael Wolff: media mogul Rupert Murdoch Vanity Fair media columnist, founder of Newser.com, and author of the Rupert Murdoch biography, The Man Who Owns The News. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Anton van Helden: squid, cetaceans, magic Te Papa's Marine Mammals collection manager, magician and Wellington Improvisation Troupe performer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Niall Ferguson: cents and sense Scottish historian and author, whose latest book is The Ascent of Money: a Financial History of the World. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gill Pittar: Milly and Molly Gisborne grandmother who has written around 80 children's picture books, published around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Carol Drinkwater: the history of olives Actor from the TV series All Creatures Great and Small, and author of four memoirs based on olive harvesting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of Saturday Morning emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Darnielle of Mountain Goats Leader of the independent and prolific American music group who tour New Zealand next week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales Kate Camp discusses Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Susan Schenk: ecstasy and agony Lecturer on neuropsychology at Victoria University who is studying the effects of ecstasy and other drugs on the brain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Hilary Pearse: Canada's constitutional crisis Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Victoria University, who has spent the last five years in Canada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Malcolm Gladwell: outliers New Yorker staff writer magazine whose new social science book is Outliers: The Story of Success. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Russell Hoban Ongoing discussion on the influence of editor Ursula Nordstrom on Russell Hoban, his children's novels and picture books. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ian Brodie: travel Prolific photographer and author; his latest book is Ian Brodie's New Zealand: One Man's Love Affair with his Country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sophie Gray: giving frugally The"destitute gourmet", with frugal ideas for the holiday season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of Saturday Morning emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Philip Norman: John Lennon Music biographer of the Beatles (Shout!, from 1981) and new book John Lennon: The Life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Karl Maughan: painting gardens Internationally recognised New Zealand artist who concentrates on painting gardens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Lord Bingham: what is the law? Recently retired as Senior Law Lord, a position he has held since 2000 in the House of Lords, the UK's highest court of appeal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Leonard Cohen: an announcement Kim invites listeners to assist with securing an interview with Leonard Cohen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mark Thomas: Coca Cola world Author of Belching out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca Cola. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Fatcat and Fishface - nasty but nice Musical duo who describe themselves as the outlaws of New Zealand's children's music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alan Breslau - phoenix founder Engineer who spent five years in hospital being treated for burns after an airline crash, then set up a burn support network. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Steve Katz Musician and producer (and now professional photographer), who has rejoined Blood, Sweat and Tears after 35 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Frances Hill - virtual classrooms Education consultant and former principal, who set up the Alpha eLearning Facility in South Canterbury. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Margaret Atwood - the big payback Canadian poet and writer whose new book is Payback, Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Geoff Steven - capturing heritage Photographic editor and photographer for the first official world heritage photo databank, Our Place the World's Heritage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gary Marcus - the brain as kluge Professor of Psychology at New York University and author of Kluge, the Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Kate De Goldi discusses new books by Gavin Bishop,Dylan Owen,Martin Bailey andJ.L.Brisley Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: E-mails Kim reads out your emails Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Jennifer McLagan : eating fat Chef,food stylist and writer whose new book is called Fat;an appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient,with recipes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: The Old Spice Boys : comic swing Australian trio ( ukulele,snare drum,tea chest bass) touring New Zealand and playing at the second NZ Ukulele Festival Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Caitlin Smith : singing 007 Jazz singer and vocal coach who will perform at the showcase event The Music is Bond;James Bond Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Mary Kisler : enchanted gardens The Mackelvie Curator of International Art at the Auckland Art Gallery discusses upcoming exhibition The Enchanted garden Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sir Roger Moore : being 007 TV and movie star( The Saint,James Bond ),who was awarded a knighthood for his work for UNICEF Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Barbara Anderson : a life in words New Zealand author who had her first book published when she was 63,and has since enjoyed internatoinal success as a writer Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Raj Nahna:volunteering for Obama Wellingtonian who quit his legal job to volunteer ar a policy analyst in Missouri rof the Democratic presdential campaign Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sarah-Kate Lynch: tea, cakes and chocolate Journalist, novelist and NZ Women's Weekly columnist; her new novel is On Top of Everything. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of Saturday Morning emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Simon Gault Master chef for the Nourish Group of restaurants, which includes Euro, Pasha, Shed 5 and Pravda. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Stephen Bain: underground theatre Founder of Auckland theatre group Winning Productions; his new production is an adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gerry Fialka: lo-fi video and culture jamming American media ecologist, film curator and culture jammer, who is a speaker at Blow '08, the Creative Arts Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: Call of the Wild Kate Camp discusses The Call of the Wild by Jack London, which was first serialised in the Saturday Evening Post in 1903. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Terry Heiler: water and irrigation CEO of Irrigation NZ, international consultant in water management, and owner of a farming business in central Canterbury. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Harvey Wasserman: electoral reform Journalist and author who helped break many of the major stories on the theft of the 2004 presidential election in Ohio, USA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alan Duff: debt, dads and dreams New Zealand author who founded Books in Homes and is currently in France, where he wrote his latest novel, Dreamboat Dad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: the I Can Read series The 1950s and 60s series featuring authors Else Holmelund, Syd Hoff, Arnold Lobel, Peggy Parish, Russell and Lillian Hoban. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Warwick Broadhead: grand visions Performing artist whose life and work is recorded in the documentary film Rubbings from a Live Man. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kim Reads Emails Kim reads feedback from listeners to this week's programme and previous programmes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Anthony McCarten Novelist, playwright and filmmaker whose latest novel and film is called Show of Hands. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Glyn Harper: images of war Former army officer and military historian whose book Images of War: World War One features photographs taken by soldiers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Lawrence Lessig: copyright and corruption Advocate of free copyright laws, and co-founder of Creative Commons, who now works to reform Congress in the USA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mary Fowler: geophysics and Rutherford Geophysicist and great-grand-daughter of Ernest Rutherford who is the 2008 Royal Society of New Zealand Distinguished Speaker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jamil Anderlini: business and freedom in China New Zealand journalist who is Beijing deputy bureau chief for the Financial Times newspaper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Margaret Mahy: fantastic life One of New Zealand's most acclaimed writers; her new book is young adult novel The Magician of Hoad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selction of emails from this morning's programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with David Geary Writer in Residence at Victoria University who is working on a play about Mark Twain's 1895 lecture tour of New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Barbara Gibson: networking and authenticity Chair of the International Association of Business Communicators, a network that spans over 70 countries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Anne Glover: science in Scotland Chief Scientific Advisor for Scotland in 2006 and keynote speaker at the second Running Hot Conference in Wellington. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Cheryl Sucher in New York Writer who works at the McNally Jackson bookshop on the impact of the recession, and New York and American politics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nicholas Pearson: chimps and typewriters Publishing director at Fourth Estate, who commissioned Me Cheeta, the"autobiography"of the chimpanzee movie star. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Garth Williams Discussing the work of the illustrator who worked with authors E>B White, George Seldon, and Russell Hoban. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Trubridge: planes and boats and chairs Furniture designer based in Hawkes Bay who exhibits and lectures on his work around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Saturday Morning emails Eamils from this morning's programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sister Loyola Galvin: the gardening nun 86 year-old organiser of community gardening, who has been named national NZ Gardener of the Year 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bill Oddie: from Goodies to depression English actor, writer, TV presenter and musician who tells his life story in One Flew into the Cuckoo's Egg. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mark Amery: art criticism Director of the NZ playwrights' agency Playmarket, whose column of art criticism was recently cancelled by the Dominion Post. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Penny: biology and genetics Evolutionary biologist and research director of the Allan Wilson Centre at Massey University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Steve Dublanica Author of the Waiter Rant blog since 2004, detailing front of house experiences in New York. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Martin Lindstrom: buyology and neuromarketing Marketing guru and author of Buy-ology: How everything we believe about why we buy is wrong. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Sophie Gray The"destitute gourmet"whose new book, Delicious, includes gluten-free and dairy-free recipe variations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jane Goodall: primates and ethics UN Messenger of Peace, primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist, best known for her study of chimpanzee society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Brian Butler The outgoing director of Artspace, one of New Zealand's pre-eminent non-collecting contemporary art institutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: The Count of Monte Cristo Kate Camp discusses the 1840s novel, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Anne B. Young: neurodegenerative disease Expert in Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases and founder of the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Derek Lardelli in the USA Ta moko artist on the Celebration of Maori Art and Culture in San Francisco, and the Whales Tohora exhibition in Washington DC. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Marr: the Henson Case One of Australia's most respected journalists, and author of a book about the controversial Sydney exhibition by Bill Henson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's books with Kate De Goldi: Maurice Sendak Discussing the collaborative and solo work of illustrator and author Maurice Sendak. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Tony Astle of Antoines Chef and owner of Auckland restaurant Antoine's, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Pauline Grogan: 500 letters Former nun and educationalist, now a motivational speaker and celebrant, who is touring her solo show around NZ. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jackson Browne: music and politics Californian musician who mixes personal and poitical issues in his music; currently on a world tour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach: digital learning Education provider for over 20 years as a classroom teacher, technology coach and digital learning consultant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alan Lightman: physics, literature, humanity Physicist, essayist, novelist, humanitarian and educator visiting NZ as the 2008 Hood Fellow at the University of Auckland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Karl Maddaford: Afghanistan Former New Zealand Army captain currently in charge of a project to build police check points on the Afghan/Pakistan border. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Blume: running on ethanol Ecologist, farmer and author of Alcohol can be a Gas! Fuelling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mark Young: Sheep and Genetics Geneticist at Sheep Improvement Ltd, a genetic evaluation service for the sheep industry run by Meat and Wool New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Pete Gawron Adelaide chef who relocated to Arrowtown and now runs the Saffron restaurant, a pizza parlour, and a bar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Rob Burns English bass guitarist who plays with Latin jazz fusion group subject2change, and lectures in music at the University of Otago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Rod Noble: Singing Solidarity Coordinator of the Newcastle People's Chorus in New South Wales, one of a network of 11 trade union-based choirs in Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: James Flynn: Race and Class in the USA Expert on IQ scores, and author of Where Have All the Liberals Gone? about race, class, and ideals in the USA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Roger Ridley-Smith: Prostitution in Paris Former GP who has just completed the translation of an 1837 manuscript, Prostitution in the City of Paris. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Claudette Werleigh: Haiti The first female Prime Minister of Haiti; Secretary General of the Catholic peace movement Pax Christi International. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Talking about influential children's books editor Ursula Nordstrom, and the novels of Meindert DeJong. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Fleur Sullivan South Island cuisine champion for nearly 40 years with Oliver's in Clyde, and now Fleurs Place, in Moeraki on the Otago coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Brenda Wallace: Mobile Technology Wrangling Builder of mobile systems for telecos, who supports open source communities and women in computing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Steven Berkoff: The Heart of Man and Dog Actor, director and writer for 40 years on the British theatre scene who returns to NZ with his two-part solo show, One Man. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Rhys Morgan: Truth and Gravy Writer, director and editor of the Truth, the animated segment of creative culture television show The Gravy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Lonnie Thompson: Ice Cores at 18,000 Feet Paleoclimatologist who drills ice cores from mountain glaciers and ice caps in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sue Coutts: Wastebusting Manager of Wanaka Wastebusters, part of the Community Recycling Network. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Andrew Dalziel: Cycling To Shanghai Photographer and sound engineer who has been cycling through Japan and China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alanna Mitchell: Sick Seas Canadian writer whose new book is Seasick: The Hidden Ecological Crisis of the Global Ocean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alanna Mitchell Alanna Mitchell's new book is 'Seasick: the Hidden Ecological Crisis of the Global Ocean'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Roger Beattie: Pearls, Kelp, Sheep and Weka Canterbury entrepreneur and conservationist who farms blue pearls, giant kelp, wild Pitt Island sheep and wekas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Aidan Lang, Opera Manager General Director of NBR New Zealand Opera, which is presenting Janacek's opera Jenufa in Auckland and Wellington. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Kate Camp will discuss the 1961 novella The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alastair Thompson: Politics and Pilgrimage Co-founder, co-editor and general manager of independent online media organisation, Scoop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Michael Brooks: The Placebo Effect and Other Anomalies British quantum physicist whose book 13 Things That Don't Make Sense, will be published in New Zealand next year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nomi Prins: Nightmare on Wall Street Former investment banker, who now writes about corporate governance, economic policy, and the regulatory environment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Four new picture books: Bubble Trouble, Who's Hiding, Special Kev, and The Baby in the Hat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Arthur Meek: buckwhips and the PM A Lonesome Buckwhip, and performer of On the Conditions and Possibilities of Helen Clark Taking Me as Her Young Lover. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of today's emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Tony Simpson Social and cultural historian whose 1999 book, A Distant Feast: a History of New Zealand's Cuisine, has just been republished. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Rebecca Priestly: science stories Editor of the Awa Book of New Zealand Science, and co-author of Atoms, Dinosaurs and DNA: 68 Great Scientists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Hamish Keith: life for art's sake Creator of the book and TV series The Big Picture, about New Zealand's art heritage, and author of the memoir, Native Wit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dr Stephen Shore: aspergers and autism Keynote speaker at Making the Connections, the National Conference on Autism Spectrum Disorders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Eduardo Giannetti : Brazilian economics Brazilian economist and author who is the New Zealand Prime Minister's Fellow under the Latin American Strategy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Wendy Davie: getting organised President of the Australasian Association of Professional Organisers who is involved with inaugural National Organising Week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Brian Cox: The Large Hadron Collider Contributor to the Atlas Project at CERN to build the Large Hadron Collider, which will be switched on next week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A selection of emails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with 'Mad Mike' Banks Detroit-based producer who formed militantly political electronic techno collective Underground Resistance in the late 1980s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nic Twaddle: African adventurer One of 4 friends who crossed the length of the African continent by motorcycle, and made the documentary, African Odyssey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate Atkinson: love and loss Acclaimed British crime writer (her latest is When Will There be Good News?), visiting NZ for the Christchurch Writers Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Simon Winchester: unlocking China's secrets Author of Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Grant Morris in New Orleans New Zealand writer who has been living in New Orleans for 17 years and was evacuated in advance of Hurricane Gustav. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi : three modern classics Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan,The Church Mouse by Graham Oakley,My Place by Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Paul Whelan : high-flying bass singer Bass baritone who is singing the lead in Bluebeard's Castle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Alexa Johnston : traditional home baking Freelance art curator,and author of Ladies,A Plate:Traditional Home Baking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites Co-owner of fashion business world,and author of tell-all memoir,All That Glitters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Anton van Helden : melon-headed whales Te Papa's Marine Mammals collection manager,and top sleight of hand magician. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Michael Braungart : design beyond sustainability Professor of Process Engineering and co-principal at McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Joanne Drayton : Ngaio Marsh Biographer of Dame Ngaio Marsh,whose books have sold more copies than any other New Zealand author. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nick Davies : media manipulation Award-winning journalist,and author of Flat Earth News,a book about falsehood and distortion in the media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ian Hunter Business historian and lecturer, his new book, Imagine, looks at the lives of innovators throughout history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Nicky Owers A vegetarian cook for over 24 years who runs classical and modern vegetarian cookery workshops from her home in Lower Hutt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with David O'Donnell (No music) Award-winning theatre director, author, and teacher of theatre history, practical theatre and directing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic Kate Camp discusses Franz Kafka's 1925 novel, The Trial. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Judge Jerry Paradis Retired Canadian judge and member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tui de Roy One of the world's great wildlife photographers, and co-author of the book, Albatross: Their World, Their Ways. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nicholas Carr Author of the books Does IT Matter and The Big Switch, and the article Is Google Making Us Stupid? in The Atlantic Monthly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emails A variety of the many and varied emails and text messages of the morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Clarke: Fred Dagg at 60 Writer and performer whose early work has been collated on The Fred Dagg All-Purpose DVD and Music CD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mark Morris: muscular movement American choreographer, modern dancer and director whose dance group visits Auckland later this month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Graham Reid: Analysing Brian Wilson One of New Zealand's most versatile journalists who writes about music, travel and more at www.elsewhere.co.nz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Brian Wilson: Lost in LA Principal songwriter for The Beach Boys on his new album, That Lucky Old Sun. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: JJ Joseph and Celia Lashlie: male violence Author of a confessional book about violent offending, with the author of books about men and violence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Colquhoun: Lovelock's Journals Curator of manuscripts at the Alexander Turnbull Library, and author of As If Running On Air: The Journals of Jack Lovelock. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Griffin: September 11 Conspiracy Exponent of process philosophy and theology, and leading critic of the attacks of September 11 2001. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Roi Colbert: sport and other stuff Dunedin writer about sport and music, talking about the Olympics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kim Reads Emails Kim Hill reads feedback from the listeners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gerald Melling: houses and homes Winner, with Allan Morse of Wellington's Melling Morse Architecture, of the Home New Zealand Home of the Year 2008 award. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Dave Murphy New Zealand blues musician who just released his first album (with accompanying DVD) after 35 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dr Phil Bishop: why care about frogs? Senior lecturer in Zoology at the university of Otago and co-leader of the New Zealand Native Frog Recovery Group. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: James Flynn: IQ Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Otago, who discovered the continued rise of IQ scores. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Richard Stallman: Freedom Software freedom activist visiting New Zealand to help promote the use, dissemination and ideals of free software. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ali Foster: Elwyn Welch and the takahe Masterton Author of a children's story about the man who raised takahe chicks in secret for the Wildlife Service, in the 1950s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Kennedy: Blind Painters and the Brain Psychologist who researches perception and cognition, specialising in tactile pictures drawn by the blind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Gin Wigmore Auckland singer based in Sydney, who won the 2004 International Songwriting Competition and just released her first EP. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Grant Davidson: Design Vice-President of Philips Design in the Netherlands who recently received an honorary doctorate from Massey University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Cherie Blair Queen's counsel, and wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, on her autobiography Speaking For Myself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: William Lane Craig Christian philosopher who is visiting New Zealand from the United States for a series of public lectures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Lindsay Diggelmann: Magna Carta Lecturer at the History Department of the University of Auckland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Writer's Block: Emily Perkins - Novel About My Wife The NZ writer has recieved terrific reviews in the UK for her book Novel About My Wife. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Texts and Emails Text and Email response to today's show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Paul Tobin and Daniel Falconer : The Crafting of Narnia Authors of the new book, The Crafting of Narnia: The Art, Creatures and Weapons from Weta Workshop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jay Rayner : Great Restaurants British journalist, broadcaster and restaurant critic who ate at expensive and extraordinary restaurants around the globe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Greg Clydesdale : Immigration, The Beatles and Bach Economist who wrote a controversial paper on the impact of immigration from different cultures on the NZ economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jedi Thian : Alternative Rugby Alternative Rugby Commentary and Rugby Round Table host, who also coaches for the Poneke Rugby Club. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Reynolds : Art and Text One of New Zealand's foremost painters and printmakers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Leilani Rickard : Weaving Rotorua-based Weaver who has been making piupiu since the 1970s, and has written How to Make a piupiu. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Alan Hart : Peak Oil Nelson-based geologist who has worked on the frontline of the oil industry for over 30 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Feedback A sample of the many and varied emails and text messages of the morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Bridget van de Zijpp: Revenge Author of the novel Misconduct and member of the Wellington Regional Arts and Cultural Development Board. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Emma Featherstone: big school bands Director of Music at King's School, Auckland where all boys learn and play a musical instrument of their choice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Michael Hurst Director, actor and writer, making his directorial opera debut with the New Zealand Opera tour of Hansel and Gretel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: Mrs Dalloway Kate Camp discusses the novel of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Stephen Parke: neutrinos Theoretical physicist who is one of the world's leading experts on the smallest know particles, neutrinos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nicholas Rasmussen: amphetamines The author of On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mario Andretti: racing legend The only racing car driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500, and the Formula One World Championship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate de Goldi: new Australian fiction Three new books by Australian writers: Waiting for Mummy, Requiem for a Beast, and What Faust Saw. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tina Matthews: hatching an egg Author and illustrator of Out of the Egg, which won the Best First Book award at the 2008 New Zealand Post Book Awards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Roi Colbert: global pop music contests Dunedin Writer on American Idol and the Eurovision Song Contest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jason Blume: Writing Songs Songwriter and teacher whose songs feature on albums that have sold more than 50,000,000 copies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Simon Phillips: Directing Priscilla Artistic Director and CEO of the Melbourne Theatre Company, and director of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; The Musical. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jan McLeod and Graham Jackson: the China earthquake Residents of the Mianyang area of Sichuan province, severely affected by the country's worst natural disaster in 30 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Max Gimblett: Painting in NYC One of NZ's most internationally prominent and successful artists, living and working on the Bowery in New York. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Stuart Dryburgh: shooting the Stones NZ cinematographer (The Piano) recruited by Martin Scorsese to help film his Rolling Stones concert movie, Shine a Light. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Foreign Correspondent: Luke Harding Bureau chief in Moscow for The Guardian. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Janet Street-Porter : why life is too f***ing short Broadcaster, journalist, and author, who has been a constant British media presence since 1973. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Temple: top Australian crime writer Former journalist and lecturer who has won five Ned Kelly Awards for crime fiction, most recently for The Broken Shore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tusiata Avia: Poetry Idol judge Poet, performer and children's book writer who will release a new volume of poetry, Bloodclot, later this year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Steve Abel Auckland singer-songwriter who records and performs with the Chrysalids; his new album, Flax Happy, is out next week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Junot Diaz: Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Dominican-American prose writer whose 2007 debut novel won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Simon Sebag Montefiore: Stalin and other Russians Historian and novelist; his most recent biography is Young Stalin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Loretta Napoleoni : Rogue economics and terrorism Italian author with a PhD in terrorism from the London School of Economics, who consults to governments on counter-terrorism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Maher Mughrabi : the Middle East Scottish-Palestinian journalist who is Foreign Desk News Editor for The Age in Melbourne. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Relationships with Suzanne Innes-Kent: Making Big Changes Counsellor and long-time Saturday Morning contributor, who is relocating to Singapore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: William Marks: Water Advocate for the protection of water, who writes about its biological, historical, environmental and spiritual significance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ron Hanson: Fungus, Dairy and Art Co-publisher and co-editor of the experimental global arts magazine White Fungus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Cameron: Sudoku and Mathematics Professor of Mathematics in London, and the 2008 Forder Lecturer touring New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Neil Gemmel: The Platypus Genome Leader of a team of NZ researchers helping decode the genome of the platypus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Hermione Lee: Biographer Professor of English Literature at Wolfson College Oxford, and biographer of the writers Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Terry Hicks: Father of David Hicks Father of the Australian man who was incarcerated by the United States Government at Guantanamo Bay. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kathy Marks: Pitcairn Island - Paradise Lost One of six journalists permitted to live on Pitcairn Island while reporting on the sexual abuse trials there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gregory O'Brian,on painting for the young Painter, poet, curator and writer, his latest book is Back and Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young and Curious Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Mani Bruce Mitchell, on being intersex Counsel for the Intersex Trust of Aotearoa New Zealand, who is profiled in the exhibition Assume Nothing at The New Dowse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Jason Dell : gravalax and olive oil Executive chef at Blanket Bay Lodge in Glenorchy and guest presenter at the wine and food event Savour New Zealand 2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Rob Stewart, on shooting sharks Canadian filmmaker who visited 15 different countries over four years to make the award - winning documentary Sharkwater Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kim reads emails Kim reads emails from listeners Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Antoinette Halloran, opera singer Australian soprano who stars in the NBR New Zealand Opera,s forthcoming season of La Boheme Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kim reads emails Kim reads emails from listeners Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate,s Klassic : Doctor Zhivago Kate Camp discusses Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Eric Wilson,on melancholy and happiness Professor of English from North Carolina,and author of Against Happiness : In Praise of Melancholy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Glen Lauder, on Gandhi and the environment Recently returned from facilitating a meeting at the Satyagraha Project in New York Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Foreign Correspondent : Thomas Kohnstamm Travel writer who caused a storm within the industry with his book Do Travel Writers Go To Hell Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Discussing dolls' house stories, focusing on books by Rumer Godden and Pauline Clarke/Helen Clare. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gemma Gracewood: on Art, TV and Ukuleles Producer of the TVNZ6 programme New Artland, and founding member of the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Helen Leach: The Mighty Pavlova Culinary anthropologist talking about her new book, The Pavlova Story: A Slice of New Zealand's Culinary History. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Brendan McFarlane New Zealand born, Paris-based architect, who is one of the judging panelists of the Home of the Year award. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Harvey Benge: on Homage Photography Camera artist who works from Auckland and Paris; new book is A Short History of Photography. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Gray: on the Death of Utopia Political philosopher and author; his most recent book is Black Mass. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Helen Garner: on Death and Friendship Australian novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist, talking about her first novel for 15 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Foreign Correspondent: Pramod Parajuli on Nepal Social movements scholar and sustainability educator, on the new Maoist government in Nepal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Henry Rollins , hardcore provocateur American spoken word artist,author,actor,publisher,and singer and songwriter with Black Flag and Rollins Band. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Jane Webster Melbourne cook who took over a grand but neglected French chateau to establish a cookery school. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nigel Brown , on art and Antarctica South Island artist who was part of the inaugural Artists to Antarctica scheme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nicole Stott , on space travel NASA flight engineer who is scheduled to take part in the Expedition-19 mission to the International Space Station next March Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sandy Callister , on WW1 Photography Leading brand and communication strategist,and author of The Face Of War : New Zealand's Great War Photography. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Stanislas Dehaene , on numbers and the brain Mathematician and cognitive psychologist from the National Institute for Health and Medical Research near Paris. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Te Maire Tau , on Ngai Tahu and the Carrington Text Historian of Ngai Tahu descent,and co-author of Ngai Tahu : A Migration History Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Foreign Correspondent : Frances Kennedy New Zealand journalist based in Rome,talking about the election victory of Silvio Berlusconi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate de Goldi Discussing the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, a distinctly American take on the family story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Janice Marriott and Virginia Pawsey Children's author and occupational therapist who rekindled their friendship after 40 years with a year-long correspondence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Greg Broadmore, on his Contraptions Weta Workshop conceptual designer, and author and illustrator of Doctor Grordbort's Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Suzi Quattro, Rock Star Bass player and singer who exploded onto the UK pop scene in the 1970s; she has just published her autobiography, Unzipped. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Eric Arnold on Winemaking American writer who learnt how to make wine in Marlborough and wrote about it in his book, First Big Crush. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Joanna Woods, on Charles Baeyertz and the Triad Biographer from Wellington; her latest book tells the story of pioneering magazine Charles Baeyertz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Janna Levin, on Kurt Godel and Alan Turing Professor of physics and astronomy in New York; her debut novel intertwines the lives of two maths legends. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Foreign Correspondent: Jill Worrall Travel writer, currently in Bhutan, where the first elections for a democratically elected parliament were recently held. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Paul Hasegawa-Overacker,on Cindy Sherman Co-director of the documentary film Guest of Cindy Sherman,about his former lover and the art scene in New York. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Farmer John Peterson Stalwart of the organic and seasonal food movement,and subject of the documentary film,The Real Dirt on Farmer John. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favorites Allan Thomas is a former lecturer in ethnomusicology at Victoria University,who brought gamelan music to NZ in the 1970's Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gary Dexter,on book titles Editor of Chambers Concise Biographical Dictionary,and author of Why Not Catch 21?.The Stories Behind the Titles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic:Catch 22 Kate Camp discusses the acclaimed anti-war novel Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jed Mercurio , creator of Bodies Doctor and pilot who adapted his debut novel,Bodies,into an acclaimed BBC TV series.His new book is titled Ascent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jill Trevelyan, on Rita Angus Author of Rita Angus:An Artist's Life,and co-curator of the exhibition Rita Angus:Life and Vision,at Te Papa from July. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Foreign Correspondent Raed Jarrar on Iraq Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate de Goldi The Thing with Finn by Tom Kelly; Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins; Juicy Writing by Brigid Lowry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Russell Brown on the Digital Future of TV Journalist and broadcaster; his new TV show, Media7, debuts next week on TVNZ 7, the ad-free 24-hour news and info channel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Sarah Hodge Co-owner of Spa Horrobin and Hodge on the Kapiti Coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Peter Calder on Theatre Criticism New Zealand journalist and critic, currently in New York city. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with NZTrio Violinist Justine Cormack, cellist Ashley Brown, and pianist Sarah Watkins are one of NZ's most acclaimed chamber groups. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Professor Martin Silink: Diabetes President of the International Diabetes Federation, visiting NZ for the seventh IDF Western Pacific Conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Brenard Beckett: School Teacher and Author English and drama teacher; the UK rights to his young adult book, Genesis, have just been sold for 100,000 pounds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Annie Goldson: Murder In Fiji Award-winning documentary director; her new film is An Island Calling, about the 2001 murder of John Scott and Greg Scrivener. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Foreign Correspondent: John Powers Reader at the Centre for Asian Studies at the Australian National University speaks from Delhi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sally Rippin, on censorship of young adult literature Australian writer and illustrator whose debut novel Chenxi and the Foreigner, has just been republished. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Anna Broinowski, on the lies of Norma Khouri Director of the documentary Forbidden Lies, about the author of Forbidden Love. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Frederick Kaufman: The American Stomach American food writer whose new book, A Short History of the American Stomach, explores the extremes of American eating. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Norman Jay MBE British DJ whose Good Times Sound System is a major attraction at the Notting Hill Carnival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Rex Munday, on beneficial brassicas Toxicologist at AgResearch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Lisa Harrow and Roger Payne American scientist and New Zealand actress in New Zealand for one performance of their new show, SeaChange: Reversing the Tide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Oliver Driver: actor, director, TV presenter Creative director of the Alt TV station and director of Rabbit, the first play at the Silo's new Auckland location. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Foreign Correspondent: Pauline Horrill Wellington GP who has worked with Medecins Sans Frontieres in countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, Sierra Leone and Sudan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Williams: Guitarist Acclaimed classical guitarist, who makes wide-ranging collaborations in other areas of music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Christian Bok: Poet Canadian poet, whose innovative and experimental work has reached best-selling status in his homeland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Green Fire Islands Irish music mainstay Donal Lunny, taongo puoro master Richard Nunns, singer Iarla O'Lionaird and poet Glenn Colquhoun. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Don Thompson: On the art of business Harvard economist and author of The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art and Auction Houses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ruth Reichl: Food writer Editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine and former chief restaurant critic for The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Amotz Asa-El: On Israel President of BusinessWeek Israel, and the former executive editor of the Jerusalem Post. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate's Klassic: All Quiet on the Western Front Kate Camp discusses All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sir Jackie Stewart Scottish race car driver who won 27 Grand Prix races and was world champion three times on the Formula One circuit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: James Meek British journalist and author of 'The People's Act of Love' and 'We Are Now Beginning Our Descent'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Foreign Correspondent: Sameh Habeeb in Gaza Palestinian journalist based in Gaza City. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate de Goldi: Betsy Byars Kate continues her 'family stories' discussion, and profiles a living American legend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gregory Maguire - Wicked Writer Author of four novels for adults and more than a dozen for children. His 1995 novel 'Wicked' was developed as a Broadway musical. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Sebastien Soldevilla - Circus Ringmaster Ringmaster of Canadian troupe Les 7 Doigts de la Main, who present two NZ International Arts Festival shows: 'Traces', and 'La Vie'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Duncan Sarkies Playwright, screenwriter (Scarfies), stand-up comic and author; his first novel, 'Two Little Boys', is about to be published. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Anita Amirrezvani - Women in Iran Her debut novel, 'The Blood of Flowers', is set in 17th century Iran. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Roz Savage - Marathon Rower She crossed the Atlantic in 2006, and is now bidding to be the first solo woman to row across the Pacific Ocean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tim Harford on Economics Author of two books; 'The Undercover Economist', and 'The Logic of Life - Uncovering the New Economics of Everything'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Foreign Correspondent: Earl Ofari Hutchinson Acclaimed US author and analyst, whose new book is 'The Ethnic Presidency: How Race Decides the Race to the White House'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ursula Dubosarsky: children's book author Sydney-based writer of books for primary and young adult readers, including, Abyssinia, The Red Shoe, and The Word Spy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Linda Shaw on resilience education Former corporate manager who now promotes the environmental and conservation message of mecology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Tony Rabbit (Music not included) Theatre production designer and Segway enthusiast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Art with Dr Dick Quan Australian art collector and patron who is an enthusiastic supporter of new media art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Francois Girard: stage and screen director Director of a double bill production from the Opera National de Lyon at the 2008 New Zealand International Arts Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jody Williams: anti-landmine campaigner Nobel Peace Prize winner, visiting New Zealand for the Conference on Cluster Munitions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Foreign Correspondent: Dr Stephen Zunes on Kosovo Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco, who recently visited Serbia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Fane on Bro'town and Where We Once Belonged This multi talented actor, writer and director tells us of his shows in the NZ International Arts Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nathan Rarere on Super 14 TV and Radio broadcaster gives his well informed take on the Super 14. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dominic Roskrow on whisky Former journalist and editor of Whisky magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Taylor of Duran Duran Duran Duran will be playing one New Zealand show at the Vector Arena on March 26th. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Jermaine Clement One half of the comical composers 'Flight of the Conchords' chooses his favourite songs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jum Nakao on fashion and the avant garde Creative director of the Brasil Institute of Art and Fashion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Rich Frank on Disney and mobile content The former chairman of Disney Television. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Cris de Groot on hothousing innovation Dr Cris de Groot is a senior lecturer at Unitec's School of Design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ruud Kleinpaste, on saving the kiwi 'The Bug Man' talks about his kiwi breeding programme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Foreign Correspondent: Peter Heller Peter joins us from Mexico aboard the Whale Warriors ship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Banned Children,s Books,with Don Long and Kate de Goldi Discussing the banning,burning,challenging and self-censoring of children,s books in New Zealand and overseas Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Annabel Langbein The author of Eat Fresh talks about the cook,s tool kit Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Stephen Schwartz,composer American lyricist and composer of the musicals Godspell,Pippen and current hit Wicked Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kate,s Klassic:Beowulf Kate Camp discusses the translation by Seamus Heaney of the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Kim reads emails Feedback from listeners Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury Writer and illustrator of the long-running syndicated comic strip. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Wiltshire, on dark energy Lecturer in physics and astronomy, who has a new solution to Einstein's theory of general relativity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Foreign Correspondent: Duncan Fallowell London author of controversial travell book,Going As Fast As I Can Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Regan and Rachel Cunliffe Creators of Throng Media, a network of TV community websites in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the U.K. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David ten Have Founder of Ponoko, a company which lets users design, manufacture and sell their own creations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Food with Dorothy Anderson Dorothy Anderson is involved wiith the slow town and slow food movement and farmers market in Matakana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Adam Hyde Social entrepreneur and educator who develops collaborative community projects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Andy Linton and Richard Naylor Richard Naylor started the high-speed CityLink fibre network. Andy Linton is a long-time internet builder. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Hugh Gladwell Hugh Caldwell is one of the trustees of the Jane Gifford Restoration Trust. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Liz Calder, Founder of Bloomsbury Publishing Liz Calder co-founded Bloomsbury Publishing in 1986. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Nat Torkington and Ian Wright live from Kiwi FOO Camp Nat Torkington consults for O'Reilly Media; Ian Wright's company is developing"cleantech supercars". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Children's Books with Kate De Goldi Kate De Goldi discusses the Ramona series of books by Beverly Cleary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Gaynor Parkin, on how to deal with stress Gaynor Parkin is a practising psychologist and teaching clinician at Victoria University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Anton van Heldon on whale strandings and social cohesion Anton van Heldon is a specialist in the study of beaked whales. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites: Salmonella Dub Playing favourites with Andrew Penman who formed the roots/dub/electronic group Salmonella Dub. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell British astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars whilst working at Cambridge University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: David Mitchell British novelist David Mitchell has been described as Britain's reigning master of postmodern fiction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Foreign Correspondent: Frances Kennedy Foreign Correspondent - Frances Kennedy in Rome. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Julia and Malcolm Donaldson, on children's books The author of many books, most famously The Gruffalo, is joined by her pediatrician husband. From 10 March. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tim Flannery, Australian of the Year Writer, scientist and explorer whose latest book is The Weather Makers. From 11 August. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Tim Bollinger on Tintin Wellington comic artist and historian, on the life, work and comic creations of Belgian author Herge. From 19 May. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: John Cale, music legend Former member of the Velvet Underground, solo artist and producer. From 10 November. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Harry Ricketts, Chris Price and Andrew McCallum, on Bob Dylan Three Dylan fans - a professor, a poet and a policy analyst?talk about the man and his concert. From 11 August. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Jackie Collins, best selling novelist Best selling novelist whose 25th book is titled Drop Dead Beautiful. From 12 May. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg reators of the movies Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. From 10 March. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Playing Favourites with The Topp Twins The yodeling duo celebrate a quarter century of performance and the recovery of Jools from breast cancer. From 22 Sept. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Science with Paul Callaghan: Sound part 2 The second of two discussions on sound, with Professor Callaghan and his orchestra). From 28 April. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Science with Paul Callaghan: Sound part 1 The first of two discussions on sound, with the Alan MacDiarmid professor of physical sciences. From 24 March. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Michael Pollan, on food and the industry that surrounds it Author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, and new book In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Ngahuia te Awekotuku Cultural activist and writer discussing the world of Maori tattoo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RNZ SAT: Foreign Correspondent The author of Going Dutch in Beijing discusses cross-cultural misunderstanding. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |