Saturday Morning

Listed on the YWCA's Y25 women and gender-diverse community changemakers for 2026, Mariner Fagaiava is a journalist, broadcaster and youth advocate who has been proudly telling the story of South Auckland's Pasifika and rainbow communities. She joins Saturday Morning to tell us about her mahi helping the young, the trans and the Pasifika to see themselves reflected in the media and positions of leadership.

In the next 25 years, $1.6 trillion is predicted to pass to the next generation Fair to say, there are plenty of us out there who are either writing our wills or being written into one. But how much does the average Kiwi understand about the legal labyrinth of succession law? To help us chart our way through, we've got lawyer Holly Egerton - she's a general practice lawyer but also helps demystify the legal world through social media.

Famed opera The Pearl Fishers by Georges Bizet is coming to New Zealand this month with a modernised update from New Zealand Opera in partnership with State Opera South Australia. Lead players Madison Nonoa and Anthony Robin Schneider join Saturday Morning to talk about what it takes to perform at this level and what The Pearl Fishers means to people in 2026.

She was approached by an undercover recruiter in a Canberra bookshop in 2011, and within months she was deep in the belly of the beast of the Providence movement, a Korean religious group that's been accused of cult-like behaviour. Now on the other side of her time with Providence, Liz Cameron has written books and spoken publicly about what it's like to be brainwashed. She speaks with Saturday Morning ahead of her appearance at Decult 2026 in Christchurch next month.

Scientists in Australia are using CRISPR technology, which allows them to edit out specific genes to open up the treatment options for people with blood cancer. Professor Marco Herold and his team at the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute have been focused on helping patients who're resistant to lymphoma drugs, and now, they think they've achieved something that could help alleviate the lives of millions of people.