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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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00:08:28

Update on Israel and Gaza

Saturday Morning ·

2025/08/08

In a major escalation, Israel's security council has approved a plan to take control of Gaza City.

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00:23:49

Chris Tse: Poetry Dating Show

Saturday Morning ·

2025/08/01

NZ's Poet Laureate Chris Tse is hosting Love At First Line: A Poetry Dating Show, where for one night only dating apps are ditched and poets woo with just their words.

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00:26:44

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

Saturday Morning ·

2025/08/01

This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, with celebratory events in England and now a French rom-com.

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00:28:30

JAWS 50 years on

Saturday Morning ·

2025/08/01

It was the first ever blockbuster, capturing an entire generation, becoming a cultural phenomenon and turning 50 this year!

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00:24:39

Intimacy - a basic human right

Saturday Morning ·

2025/08/01

We all have an innate need to be desired and loved. But what if you don't fit the popular culture stereotypes of what "desirable" looks or feels like?

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00:21:42

Motuhaketanga: Wahine Maori, Incarceration

Saturday Morning ·

2025/08/01

A new intimate two-part documentary delves into the transformative journeys of three wahine Maori as they prepare to leave prison and begin the process of rebuilding their lives, while addressing the past. In Motuhaketanga: Wahine Maori, Incarceration and Life Outside the Wire we follow the three wahine at the centre of the story, Arohatonu, Tristin, and Lesley, both inside the wire, as they prepare for release and unpack the traumas that landed them there in the first place; and outside the

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00:26:42

Jack Fairweather - The Prosecutor

Saturday Morning ·

2025/08/01

In The Prosecutor, award-winning author and former war reporter Jack Fairweather brings to life the remarkable true story of Fritz Bauer, a gay German Jew who survived the Nazis and made it his mission to force his countrymen to confront their complicity in the genocide, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past. His journey took him deep into the heart of West Germany, where his fight for justice set him against his own government and a network of former Nazis

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00:14:25

Waste not, want not in the kitchen

Saturday Morning ·

2025/07/25

Chef Del Holland shares her tips for turning scraps into snacks, reducing food waste in the kitchen and making delicious fuss-free food.

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00:15:06

Booktowns saving towns: Peter Biggs

Saturday Morning ·

2025/07/25

Arts and culture can help revitalise a once prosperous town - Featherston, Aotearoa's only Booktown and one of 23 worldwide, is the living proof.

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00:22:41

Hi Viz Manaaki: The story of our Maori Wardens

Saturday Morning ·

2025/07/25

Maori Wardens have a long and proud history in Aotearoa providing advice, support and aroha to the communities they don't just serve - but help to build.

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00:19:13

Moss Patterson - Home, Land & Sea

Saturday Morning ·

2025/07/25

Where we come from, who we are now, and who we are becoming as a nation are pretty deep questions. They're being asked in a never before seen collaboration between the Royal New Zealand Ballet and The New Zealand Dance Company, in a production called Home, Land & Sea, combining 6 dancers from each company.

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00:29:10

More diversity, better ideas: Dame Athene Donald

Saturday Morning ·

2025/07/25

Leading British physicist Professor Dame Athene Donald discusses the factors that drive women to give up on a career in science.

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00:11:20

Giving autistic jobseekers a chance

Saturday Morning ·

2025/07/25

New statistics across Australia and New Zealand reveal that autistic people are being left behind in the workplace. Employees with autism often go unrecognised, as they hide their autistic traits to get by. Dr Dana Ott is a Senior Management Lecturer from the University of Otago and is on a mission to help autistic employees not just survive, but flourish. She's developed a new guide for Australia, that she hopes to replicate here in Aotearoa, it's called the Autism Employment Playbook and is

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00:12:31

Forget the spade: why you should try no-dig gardening

Saturday Morning ·

2025/07/25

What's going on in our soggy backyards this time of the year? If you haven't been out there lately, don't stress, our resident gardener Hannah Zwartz reckons it is the perfect time to step back and assess the bones or the structure of our gardens before spring kicks in. Hannah talks to Mihi about soil-biology and why she's been converted to no-dig gardening.

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00:22:06

The power of ditching the diet: Casey Johnston

Saturday Morning ·

2025/07/25

A mash-up of memoir, science writing and cultural critique, Casey Johnson's new book is a take-down of diet culture. A Physical Education - How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting explores the science of rebuilding mental, emotional, and physical strength. It's the story of a woman finding joy in a body that, for so long, she considered her enemy, as she was trying to "get healthy" but was actually making her body weaker. Casey Johnston took a deep breath and stepped into

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00:16:47

Niall Williams: Four Letters of Love

Saturday Morning ·

2025/07/25

After decades of writing novels, bestselling author Niall Williams has turned his hand to the screen, adapting his first novel into a star-studded movie.

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00:27:41

Designing with nature in mind

Saturday Morning ·

2025/07/25

Award-winning architect Amanda Sturgeon doesn't just design buildings, but rather sustainable spaces that connect people with nature.

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00:08:18

Changes to our voting laws

Saturday Morning ·

2025/07/25

The Government has proposed an overhaul of NZ's electoral laws. It wants to get rid of same-day enrolments and for voters to be registered 13 days ahead of the ballot day.

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00:06:25

Dolphins: whistlers of the ocean

Saturday Morning ·

2025/07/25

AI has been revolutionising the fields of medicine and science, but now, it's also helping to decode animal communication.

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00:07:43

Former Black Fern Cheryl Waaka on facing cancer

Saturday Morning ·

2025/07/25

At just 55, former Black Fern Cheryl Waaka is facing a stage four bowel cancer diagnosis. She's too young to have been screened and the drug she needs is not funded.

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