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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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The 2026 Lynley Dodd Children’s Writers Award
This week Claire Mabey was announced as the winner of the Lynley Dodd Children's Writers Award. Claire's she's the founder of Verb Wellington, LitCraw...
Jemima Jones: tackling hard to recycle plastics
Grassroots Recycling is a volunteer-run scheme that has diverted more than 200,000 food and beverage cartons from landfill in the Nelson region. Since...
Antarctica's volcanic landscape
When you think of Antarctica it's more likely that cold and ice come to mind than magma and ash; but the continent is home to the largest volcanic reg...
A body needs a body - para-athletics
The Commonwealth Games are underway in Glasgow, one of those rare tournaments celebrating para-athletes in tandem with other competitors. For tetraple...
90's Icon: Macy Gray
90's icon, Macy Gray is heading to New Zealand. Since breaking out with the 1990's megahit 'I try', Macy's gone on to sell millions of albums, earn nu...
Macbeth - the same skulduggery today: Ben Kilby-Henson
Shakespeare's OG thriller Macbeth is as relatable today as it was 420 years ago. And it's coming to Auckland. In-demand director Ben Kilby-Henson's Ma...
Death with Dignity, Fergus Wheeler
A funeral in New Zealand can cost between $8,000-15,000, and it keeps getting more expensive. So, can death be done with dignity, without debt, and wi...
Jimmy Paul, turning Scotland's crime stats upside-down
New Zealand and Scotland have a similar population size, but while our youth prison population hovers around 130 to 160, Scotland's is currently zero....
H is for Hawk flies onto the big screen
Dealing with grief? Have you tried training a hawk? Reckoning with her dads death, historian Helen Macdonald, did just that. It became the subject of...
Quake Update - Weston Kirton
A strong and shallow earthquake jolted the central North Island at 4.51am, around five kilometres southwest of Taumarunui, Measuring 5.9, and only nin...
Remembering Emmy & BAFTA winning wildlife cameraman Doug Allan
The cameraman behind award-winning images that helped to bring Sir David Attenborough's conservation work to life, is being remembered in a special ch...
Cheap warming winter meals
Chef and food waste expert Del Holland is back to share her tips on getting savvy in the kitchen, without compromising on taste.
Contemporary ballet - keeping us on point
Dunedin born Sarah Foster Sproull is one of New Zealand's top choreographers. Her work 'Ultra Folly' is making its way around the country as part of t...
A record of the Bounty that keeps giving
For generations, the story of the Bounty has been told as an adventure - a dramatic clash between Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian. But for the de...
Celebrating Sam
This week we lost a screen legend, and according to all accounts - a top bloke. Sam made a huge impact on stars of our stage and screen in their own r...
The kiwi behind the world cup grass
Last month we spoke with FIFA's Head of Pitch Infrastructure, Ewen Hodge. He's responsible for some of the most important grass in the world. He's joi...
Peter Hambleton: from Hobbit hole to local library
Peter Hambleton is perhaps better known as Glóin in The Hobbit trilogy. But he's ditched the Dwarf costume and put down his axe to do battle with peop...
Welby Ings - fighting for gay rights
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform Act. Welby Ings is a queer activist, who in the early 1980s established Gay Rights...
Bird Flu and our native birds
The bird flu's now in New Zealand - what could it mean for our native bird populations? The Pukorokoro Shorebird Centre's Keith Woodley explains the r...
World Cup wrap
The Football World Cup is in its final throes this weekend with the play-off for 3rd and 4th between France and England tomorrow at 9am.
How to skip the Small Talk and go Big
Kalina Silverman is the founder of a global movement Big Talk; she wants everyone to skip the small talk to make room for big conversations
Matariki Gardening with Hannah Zwartz
Our resident gardening expert is back, this time to talk about all things Matariki. Hannah Zwartz has over 30 years' experience gardening professional...
Majic Paora: Music for Matariki
Majic won Best Maori Female Solo Artist at the Waiata Maori Music Awards in 2015 and she's putting together a concert which is next weekend to mark Ma...
Architecture from Cape to Bluff
From a home perched impossibly on the side of hills, to a flat pack build that needs only three people to put together - our landscape hosts some rath...
They're NUMBER ONE! Patea Maori Club
Poi E is right up there with iconic Kiwi songs. The chart-topping waiata is 42 years old and still going strong. The Patea Maori Club is still going s...
Katie Deare: The Winter 31 Club
Now, granted, it is a long weekend - and you have every right to put your feet up and relax - but if you're worried about becoming a winter couch pota...
Mihi Forbes: Launching the latest NZ Wars doco
The Doc Edge Festival is on at the moment with screenings at all the main centres. There's even a Virtual Cinema launching at the end of the month - s...
Cameron Bennett: Bringing our stories to the screen, NZ Wars
Veteran war correspondent Cameron Bennett joins Paddy to talk about the NZ Wars documentary: Stories of Waerenga-a-Hika. Cameron's directed the doco a...
Takahe released onto Farewell Spit
Two things you'll find in Golden Bay are horopito and takahe, and they're two things that father daughter duo Peter and Lucy Butler have put together....
The mysterious networks of fungi right under our feet
A recent study has revealed that there are vast and mysterious underground networks of fungi right under our feet. These organisms are so small they c...
Move that body!
Those of us who sit at a desk for most of the day know the importance of taking a break. New research has figured out exactly how often we should get...
David Howman: Insight into the dark world of sports doping
One of the most senior figures in global anti-doping is a New Zealander. David Howman is Chairman of the International Athletics Integrity Unit which...
TALA: the Samoan cuisine making Michelin history
Auckland's TALA has received the first-ever Michelin Star awarded for Samoan food.
Kate de Goldi: Bookworm reviews
Kate de Goldi, our resident reader, is back with her latest picks.
Dogs of the World
Craig Turner-Bullock has spent almost a decade travelling the world, taking photos of dogs. He talks to Susie about capturing canines - and finding th...
Antarctica through a te ao Maori lens
Matariki became a public holiday in 2022 largely thanks to the mahi of Professor Rangi Matamua who last year decided he would do Matariki in Antarctic...
Carol Guzy: Snapping ICE
Four-time Pulitzer Prize winning photo-journalist, Carol Guzy, on documenting ICE.
Alien water and black holes with Dr Michelle Thaller
Black holes, glittery images and alien water on an interstellar comet - the infinite possibilities of space!
Kate Daly: Divorcing well
There's no doubt divorce can be messy, but according to divorce expert Kate Daly, it doesn't have to be!
Lenny McAllister: The US at 250
This July fourth in the USA marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. As it reaches this milestone, we take a loo...