Saturday Morning Podcast Options

9:45 AM.A Welsh man has won the waiata category in the Compose Aotearoa! national choral composition competition - for works with substantial Te Reo Maori content. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Renowned British brain scientist Gina Rippon delves into emerging science in The Lost Girls of Autism.  Read more Audio

8:40 AM.No one looks forward to a dirty nappy, but poo samples collected by parents for the UK's Baby Biome Study are proving to be a valuable source of information on our immune systems. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The final season of Stranger Things features 14 year old London-based Kiwi actor Nell Fisher. Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Lego's USS Enterprise is now out, and Pete Robson from the Wellington Lego User Group is desperate to get his hands on one! Read more Audio

7:45 AM.A first-of-its-kind indigenous economic summit aimed at bringing together business and investment leaders is taking place today.  Read more Audio

7:35 AM.Feral cats are now being added to the predator free 2050 list, and one scientist at the Bioeconomy Science Institute is determined to figure out how many of them are out there. Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Labour is holding its AGM in Auckland this weekend. Read more Audio

7:20 AM.Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff has resigned following an anti corruption raid on his home.  Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Delving into the most significant changes to regional councils in decades. Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Kate de Goldi is a novelist and the Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador. This week she's talking Irish literature with Guyon Espiner. Read more Audio

11:15 AM.New Zealand Photography Collected: 175 Years of Photography in Aotearoa spans nearly two centuries in more than 400 pages, exploring our identity as a nation.  Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Recreational fishermen from around the country are converging on Auckland this morning in protest of The Hauraki Gulf Marine Protection Act.  Read more Audio

10:35 AM.With the eminent close of one year and start of another, it's a time when many of us start to take stock of where we are in life and where we want to go next.  Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Patrick McGuigan and Carlos Yescas are two cheese connoisseurs, who together set out in search of the world's best 100 cheeses. Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Hugh Mackay explores twenty-five profound quotes from some of the world's greatest thinkers, from Confucius and Plato to Susan Sontag and Gloria Steinem. Read more Audio

9:06 AM.How good is your memory? Are you more 'memory like a sieve'? Photographic or somewhere in the middle? And have you ever wondered why that is?  Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Dr Lassiter works primarily with marginalised communities at a time when the US no longer feels like a safe or welcoming place for many.  Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Sir Tony Robinson is perhaps best known for playing dogsbody Baldrick in British sitcom Blackadder. But that's just one highlight of his 50-year acting career. Read more Audio

7:53 AM.Not only are New Zealand's cycle trails helping get more and more people outdoors but they are also boosting the economy by $1.28 billion a year.  Read more Audio

7:45 AM.A world-first study by the University of Auckland contributes to the growing body of evidence that climate change effects the likelihood of earthquakes.  Read more Audio

7:35 AM.The government has put the brakes on the use of puberty blockers which delay the onset of puberty in children and young people experiencing gender dysphoria.  Read more Audio

7:25 AM.As the UN Security Council voted to adopt a plan by US President Donald Trump for Gaza, Israel launched a strike and Trump hosted the Saudi Crown Prince.  Read more Audio

7:20 AM.This weekend people from Tai Tokerau will gather in Kaikohe for a hui with MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. She was expelled from Te Pāti Māori last week.  Read more Audio

7:12 AM.MMP is all about compromise but it appears some serious rifts are appearing in our coalition government.  Read more Audio