RNZ: Saturday Morning

Olivia McCord's The Floral Dream features advice, seasonal tips and simple techniques for foraging, cultivating healthy soil and sowing seeds that flourish in Aotearoa's climate.

How do you turn food scraps into pantry staples? Chef Del Holland has the answers.

Counting the Beat is a new four-part series that tells New Zealander's stories - by the numbers. Hosted by Tamati Rimene-Sproat, it explores what the latest data tells us about ourselves.

Food and style icon and MasterChef Australia's Melissa Leong is laying it all on the plate in Guts: A memoir of food, failure and taking impossible chances.

Earth Sciences New Zealand principal scientist, Graham Leonard is back this week looking at the role of social science in the delivery of disaster warnings. 

With a growing number of divorces occurring between people aged in their 50s and older, adult children are being impacted in a way that is less well understood. 

Trent Dalton is a journalist and Australia's #1 bestselling author. His new book is about the stories we want to tell the world - and those we shouldn't. 

It's World Space Week (4-10 October) and this year's theme is Living in Space. 

U Thant was the UNs' longest-serving Secretary-General and ranked the sixth 'most admired man' in America in 1971. So why he is largely forgotten today? 

Success can mean different things to different people and while most of us strive for it - not everyone achieves it. James Laughlin says it doesn't have to be that way. 

After a week of meetings to try and break the deadlock, the fate of coach Dame Noeline Taurua is still up in the air. 

AI-generated actor Tilly Norwood has sparked heated controversy across the film industry. 

Researchers say millions of children around the world with asthma could benefit from a new study led by Kiwi scientists. 

This week the first ever Overshoot Conference was held in Austria to discuss the likelihood of the earth warming by more than 1.5 degrees celsius. 

US president Donald Trump has given Hamas a deadline of noon on Monday New Zealand time to accept his peace deal or face "all hell". 

A leader of the Toitu Te Tiriti movement, Eru Kapa-Kingi announced it was severing its ties with Te Pāti Māori. 

Dr Michel Nieuwoudt is a finalist in this year's KiwiNet Awards for her work on developing a diagnostic tool that can identify skin cancers within seconds. 

What happens when a UK foreign policy adviser discovers an abandoned newborn hare during the quiet of lockdown? 

Kate de Goldi joins Susie to discuss The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman and A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews.

Child and adolescent psychiatrist, Dr Hinemoa Elder, has returned with Ara: A Maori Guidebook of the Mind offering comfort for those trying to deal with the chaos of life. 

Back in the 1990s, Dr Timothy Lenton started studying tipping points - those critical thresholds where small changes can lead to massive transformations.

If you like your cup of tea with a side of murder, chances are, you're a fan of The Thursday Murder Club. 

 A doctor for over 35 years, Lucy O'Hagan says so much of what it means to be a good GP stems from the patient/doctor relationship. 

Sport fans are spoiled for choice with the Silver Ferns, All Blacks and Black Ferns all in action - the latter fighting it out for 3rd place at the Women's RWC.

Most crashes on New Zealand roads are caused by human error so could removing the driver from the equation make our roads safer? 

Specialist care for pre-term babies isn't equally available across NZ so the Carosika Community of Practice was set up to help close that gap. Now its funding has run out. 

New Zealand's decision on whether to recognise a Palestinian state is being revealed later this morning in a speech at the United Nations. Foreign minister Winston Peters is expected to give details in an address to the General Assembly in New York expected from around 10.30am - of course we'll keep you across it here on RNZ. It comes on the heels of a tumultuous week in the US, following President Trump's comments to the UN and on autism, the memorial to Charlie Kirk and yesterday's indictment of former FBI director James Comey. US correspondent Mitch McCann joins Susie live with the latest from New York.

A big week for the economy with the appointment of a new Reserve Bank Govenor, a softening New Zealand dollar and worse than expected GDP figures. 

The eighth paramount chief of Tuwharetoa, Sir Tumu Te Heuheu passed away on Tuesday aged 84 years. 

Award-winning composer Victoria Kelly's latest requiem commissioned by the NZSO is an interpretation of a thirteenth-century liturgy in a modern context.

The 2025 WOW Supreme Award Winner is American design duo Dawn Mostow and Ben Gould for their latex creation 'Tsukomogami'.

Evana De Lune is one of Australia's most well-known burlesque performers. She talks to Mihingarangi about the contemporary appeal of burlesque.

Amidst growing concerns about artificial intelligence and its implications for how we engage with the world, AI is also being put to use in remarkable ways. 

Jen Campbell is an award-winning poet, bestselling author of fourteen books and a disability rights advocate. 

Lolo Heimuli is a legend in the boxing world. Lolo has trained over 100 national champions and ten world champions. 

Patricia Lockwood is an American poet, novelist, and essayist (AKA the poet laureate of X, previously known as Twitter). 

What sets the tuatara apart from other reptiles in the wild? Cam Hoffbeck can tell you - she's the first person ever to study the tuatara's gut biome. 

For some people, identifying familiar faces can be a struggle. At the extreme end, this is known as face blindness while other people are 'super recognisers'. 

Adam Kay is a British TV writer, author, comedian and former doctor. A Particularly Nasty Case is his first novel, a darkly comic mystery.

Tough semi-final sees the defending World Champs Black Ferns go down to Canada 34 - 19.

Creative and podcaster, Chey Milne is attempting to keep the transition of te reo intergenerational in his own whare - and beyond - with some cool kaupapa!

The New Zealand Dental Association says that while there is a decrease in the number of children who are overdue for their annual check-up, the numbers are still far higher than before covid.