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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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00:08:54

Māori business on the big stage at summit

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/14

Representatives of more than 100 companies, from 15 countries have been in Auckland this week for the government's Infrastructure Investment Summit.

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00:08:58

Ukraine war: Will the ceasefire go through?

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/14

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky has accused his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of dragging out the ceasefire process.

en

00:08:47

Six years since Christchurch mosque attacks

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/14

Anjum Rahman, from Inclusion Aotearoa Collective Tahono, and former spokesperson for the Islamic Women's Council of New Zealand reflects on six years since the Christchurch mosque attacks.

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00:12:05

Mr Meatballs - Michael Dearth

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

The 13th Hawkes Bay Food and Wine Classic festival is set to get stomachs rumbling with the inaugural Hastings Meatball Festival.

en

00:14:04

Scottish Ballet: pirouetting to NZ

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

The Scottish Ballet is sharing the stage with the Royal New Zealand Ballet, making its first visit to the South Pacific for performances in Wellington and Auckland.

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00:18:08

Carla Houkamau and Robert Pouwhare

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

From Polynesian navigators to contemporary business, Mana Moana documents the remarkable story of Maori fishing.

en

00:12:47

Autumn gardening with Hannah Zwartz

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

Autumn is a season of fruitfulness - but it's also the season for blights, mildew, rust, shield bugs and passion vine hoppers.

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00:16:15

Malia Johnston: A performance of air

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

Malia Johnston is a renowned director and creative. Her latest work Belle - A Performance of Air is a mesmerising melding of lights, aerial performance and theatre at the Auckland Arts Festival this month.

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00:24:06

The Beths - how to survive a music festival

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

Beloved Kiwi indie rock band The Beths are set to headline the main stage at WOMAD next weekend, ahead of their upcoming Australian tour.

en

00:04:39

Live from the Pasifika Festival

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

This weekend, Pasifika Festival returns to Auckland's Western Springs park in all its vibrancy. Mihi speaks with RNZ Pacific reporter Coco Lance who's there for the whole event.

en

00:15:12

Russia will get what it wants: Oval Office fallout

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

World leaders have started to pick up the pieces after a trade war started by the US, and a shock showdown in the Oval Office between Zelensky and Trump.

en

00:30:33

Ruby Wax: finding the funny side

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

Following a sell-out West End run and UK tour, Ruby Wax's critically acclaimed show I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was is coming to New Zealand in April. Based on her bestselling book, Ruby shares her deeply personal journey trying everything she can to help manage her mental health and subsequent breakdown.

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00:16:47

Andrew Darby's ancient tree odyssey

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

Prize-winning nature writer Andrew Darby takes us on an island odyssey to discover the world's oldest surviving trees in his latest book The Ancients.

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00:27:18

Nigel Marchant: Lockerbie: A Search for Truth

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning producer Nigel Marchant (Downton Abbey) is back with his latest mini-series Lockerbie: A Search for Truth starring Colin Firth leading a dogged investigation after Britain's worst terrorist attack, the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people.

en

00:11:06

Waka 'most important' find of all time in New Zealand

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

A waka discovered on Rekohu / Chatham Islands has been described by one expert as the most important discovery in New Zealand, possibly Polynesian archeology.

en

00:05:09

The Gene Technology Bill

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

RNZ's explainer editor Katie Kenny explains what's been happening with the new gene technology legislation, announced by Judith Collins last year.

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00:07:17

The latest on Ukraine

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

This week European leaders scrambled to respond to unprecedented moves by the new administration of US President Donald Trump.

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00:08:48

School lunches and potential further cuts

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

An apology and the launch of a nationwide investigation were needed this week after a child received second degree burns from an over-heated school lunch.

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00:09:23

Hamas rejects Trumps threats over hostages

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

Hamas has rejected threats by Trump - saying it will only free hostages in return for a lasting truce. The BBC Middle East correspondent Sebastian Usher explains.

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00:04:25

Cyclone Alfred makes landfall

Saturday Morning ·

2025/03/07

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is bearing down on Moreton Island just off Brisbane, with gale force winds are now lashing the area and up to 800 millimetres of rain expected.

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