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Saturday Morning
Presented by Susie Ferguson and Mihingarangi Forbes. In-depth feature interviews, current affairs and news across a broad range of topics on RNZ National and online.
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Jordan With a Why on her love for the Pasifika Festival
Jordan With a Why is a South Auckland-based R&B and neo-soul artist who blends Maori and Samoan heritage into her music. She joins Mihi live from the...
Preparing your winter garden with Hannah Zwartz
Gardening expert Hannah Zwartz teaches us about the optimal times for planting winter veges, pruning stone fruit and how to cultivate a thriving garde...
Championing Niue's growing organic farming sector
Live at the Pasifika Festival: Mihi talks to Chair of NIOFA, Jamal Veidreyaki about Niue's climate-resilient agriculture movement.
RBG: One woman, many voices
Heather Mitchell stars in the hit one-woman play RBG: Of Many, One about US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Live at NZ's biggest Pacific Festival
Mihi's reporting live from Auckland's Pasifika Festival happening this weekend in Auckland's Western Springs. Jep Savali is Group Manager, Tataki Auck...
The Dead Speak: My life in forensics
Thomas Coyle MNZM is one of New Zealand's most seasoned forensic experts. He joins Susie to talk about his new memoir, The Dead Speak: My Life in Fore...
Wellington City Library's grand opening
The Wellington City library has officially re-opened after being closed for almost seven years due to earthquake risks. RNZ reporter Krystal Gibbons r...
Paul Kilgour: Tramping through life and loving it!
A legend in tramping circles, Paul Kilgour has "bagged" over 1200 huts and walked the length of the South Island. He talks to Mihingarangi about the c...
Lisa Taouma: Taking Pasifika to the world
Papali'i Lisa Taouma is an award-winning documentary maker, writer, director and producer, recognised for bringing the essence of Pasifika communities...
David Szalay - Flesh
2025 Booker Prize winner Canadian-Hungarian author David Szalay is appearing at the Auckland Writer's Festival in May. His acclaimed novel Flesh tells...
The history of Anglo-American involvement in Iran
Author Roham Alvandi breaks down the history of Anglo-American involvement in Iran through three critical events, the 1953 coup, the 1979 Iranian Revo...
What to look out for at this year's Oscars
The 98th Oscars ceremony is taking place this coming Monday. RNZ cinephile Sam Hollis has watched the best film contenders and shares what to look out...
Joachim Trier: Sentimental Value
Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value is nominated for nine Oscars, including best picture and best director. He's known for The...
Lachlan Harper: 10,000 hours and still messing up
The NZ Festival of the Arts is in full swing and includes a show embracing Malcolm Gladwell's idea that it takes ten thousand hours to master any skil...
She Who Tastes, Knows: Afghan food with Durkhanai Ayubi
A memoir of life as a first-generation migrant, told through food and ingredients that offers a new perspective on an often-misunderstood land.
Leah McFall: Obsession and control
What are the things you obsess about? What things are just right or just plain wrong?
Graham Leonard: New earthquake fault lines
New earthquake faultlines have been discovered across the motu.
Charlotte Grimshaw: The Black Monk
A part psychological thriller and part family saga that examines themes of shame, addiction, truth and the stories we tell to survive.
Climate agony: Martha Jeffries
In a week of climate bombshells, Martha Jeffries is gearing up to be a climate agony aunt!
Kevin Toolis: You Never Forget Your First Corpse, Do You?
Bafta award-winning filmmaker Kevin Toolis grew up on a remote Irish island where death and dying were an everyday part of life.
Middle East analysis
US President Donald Trump has said he will accept nothing less than Iran's 'unconditional surrender'.
Professor Robert Sapolsky: Life Without Free Will
Is there such a thing as free will or are our actions pre-determined by our genes and the environment?
David Klein: For the love of birds (and Wellington)
Calling all bird lovers! In a celebration of our feathery friends, David Klein shares fun scientific facts with a dollop of silly at the Wellington Fr...
Liam Dann: The green shoots of economic growth
Regular commentator and Business Editor at Large for the NZ Herald, Liam Dann joins us to discuss the latest signs of economic recovery, whether we ca...
Douglas Boyd: Say your stories
Sit down and listen to your nanna! Interviews are a precious form of oral history: a combination of remembering and forgetting, story and silence. So...
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor: Behind the headlines
This week Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his Waitangi medal. Andrew Lownie is a British historian and royal biographer who has scrutinised...
Snow Widows
In 1910 two teams raced to be the first to the South Pole. One was led by the Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen and the other by British naval offic...
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel: Ignore the wellness rules and live longer
From "fibermaxxing" to cortisol hacking, are you sick and tired of the over-prescribed wellness industry? Author of Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rul...
The largest US military build-up in Iran since 2003
This week US and Iranian delegations failed to make a breakthrough that could avert potential US strikes amid a massive military build-up. The threat...
Gracie McGonigal: Bridgerton goes bionic
As Bridgerton fans around the world binge on part two of its fourth season this week, the Regency era romance has continued to make a statement about...
Gardening in foul weather with Hannah Zwartz
Gardens around the country have faced a battering in the wild weather of late but there are ways to deal with weather effects and changing temperature...
Sorry Not Sorry: David Williams
Apologies come in all forms. But how often are they sincere? A participatory performance show Sincere Apologies examines famous apologies.
Doug Allan: Life Behind the Lens
His lens provided the pictures for Sir David Attenborough's words.
Vampire love stories with blind author Steffanie Holmes
Stepping into the world of medieval sword collections and vampire love stories, Steffanie Holmes is the author of over 50 books and she's legally blin...
Gyles Beckford on Trump's tariffs
President Donald Trump has been left fuming over the U.S Supreme Court ruling that he didn't have the power to introduce his controversial global tari...
Percival Everett: Reimagining Huckleberry Finn
When Stephen Spielberg adapts your novel for the big screen you know it's the big time!
Michaela Brake and Lisa Burd: No Tears on the Field
No Tears on the Field is the latest film from award winning documentary maker Lisa Burd.
Dr Hilary Cass: Puberty blockers
The four-year Cass Review, carried out for NHS England recommends limiting the use of puberty blockers to research settings for children and adolescen...
Dr Neil Melvin: 4 years of war in Ukraine
The war between Russia and Ukraine is grinding towards its fourth anniversary.
KT Tunstall's generation defining sound
Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall went viral before going viral was even really a thing.