Saturday Morning

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.

Episodes

July 18, 2025 54 mins
Literary festival director and music aficionado Kiran Dass plays some favourite tunes and shares what it's like running WORD Christchurch.
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A group from the Lake Ōmāpere Trust in the Far North led by 93-year-old kuia Ani Martin, will present their plan for restoring its ecological health at the World Lake Conference.  
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July 18, 2025 18 mins
Auckland is known for its volcanic cones - and while an eruption is very unlikely to happen, the volcanic field is technically still active.
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Three deaf couples navigate love, parenting, and identity in the deeply personal documentary A Quiet Love - their stories all told in Irish Sign Language. 
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Space may be the final frontier, but it is also an increasingly viable one for New Zealand as our scientists partner with NASA to engage in mutually beneficial research. 
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July 18, 2025 21 mins
"Can you ever really know your kids?" That's the question at the heart of Sameer Pandya's new novel Our Beautiful Boys. 
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Chicago is coming to Auckland with its celebrity cocktail of murder, media and music. 
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July 18, 2025 18 mins
Excavators have begun work at St. Mary's Mother-and-Baby Home in Tuam where unmarried pregnant women were sent to give birth from 1925 to 1961. 
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Emojis are the world's newest language - but where did they come from, where are they going, and what do they mean? 
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Tauranga based Trimax Mowing Systems is Exporter of the Year for the Bay of Plenty. Their designs are used on PGA golf courses and even at Windsor Castle!
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It's Wills Week and a Taupo mum and her 13-year-old son have created a list of wishes to help families have those difficult conversations before it's too late.
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One of New Zealand's oldest European artifacts, an anchor from a French ship, has been found in Doubtless Bay. Its captain's actions are another story.
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A week on from last week's devastating storm and locals in Nelson Tasman are still cleaning up and beginning to count the cost. 
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July 18, 2025 7 mins
 On the ground in Gaza, Médecins Sans Frontières - Doctors Without Borders, describes the situation as "human carnage".
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July 18, 2025 6 mins
Education Minister Erica Stanford has said after years of government flip-flops it will now only build single-cell classrooms. 
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July 11, 2025 13 mins
 Auckland Museum's DIVA exhibition explores some of the world's best-known divas; from opera goddesses to Hollywood legends and today's global megastars. 
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July 11, 2025 14 mins
Kate de Goldi reviews Under a Fire-Red Sky by Geraldine McCaughrean; Homework by Geoff Dyer; and Broadsword Calling Danny Boy by Geoff Dyer.
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July 11, 2025 16 mins
International bestselling author for middle-grade readers Stacy Gregg's latest book The Last Journey was inspired by the Auckland Anniversary weekend floods.
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July 11, 2025 23 mins
Dr Ian Schipper has combined state of the art tools with a traditional double-hulled waka to reach remote and under-studied active volcanoes. 
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 Award winner Chelsea Winstanley on how her documentary about an Auckland Art Gallery exhibition put her at the centre of a modern day stand for sovereignty. 
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