All episodes
Saturday, 3 May 2014
Scott Stossel on surviving anxiety, Rod Moss on art and aboriginal life, Michael Burge on asylum seekers and free speech, Hollie Fullbrook aka Tiny Ruins, Steve James on basketball and film, Greg O’Brien on poet John Pule
Full episodeSaturday, 26 April 2014
Linda Colley on union and disunion, Jim Al-Khalili on physics and paradoxes, Mary Kisler on artists Felix Kelly and Greer Twiss, David Ward and Peter Daubé on their Wheel of Experience show, Alison McCullock on war remembrance, Lillian Grace on Wiki New Zealand , David Haywood on reneable energy and electric vehicles
Full episodeSaturday, 19 April 2014
Francis Spufford on books, boffins and Christianity, Lee Dugatkin on the evolution of goodness, Classical Music with Davinia Caddy: texture, Alice Walker on dashed dreams and hope, Jonathan Mills on the Edinburgh Festival, Playing Favourites with Sharon O’Neill.
Full episodeSaturday, 12 April 2014
Don Brash on his Incredible Luck, Nicholas Wood on touring Ukraine, Susan Krumdieck on transition engineering, Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins: The Ghent Altarpiece, Catherine DeAngelis on medical journals and big pharma, Nigel Beckford of Sven Olsen’s Brutal Canadian Love Saga, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Full episodeSaturday, 5 April 2014
Nancy Andreasen on creativity, Jeff Milchen on campaign financing, Rebecca Mead on Middlemarch, Playing Favourites with Navy Band musical director Owen Clarke, Yannis Simonides on Socrates, Gregory O’Brien on poet Alan Brunton.
Full episodeSaturday, 29 March 2014
Elizabeth Kolbert on the sixth extinction, Nick Agar on enhancement and ethics, Mary Kisler on Aboriginal and Maori art, Playing Favourites with Tami Neilson, Richard Roxburgh of TV’s Rake, David Haywood on exergy and anergy.
Full episodeSaturday, 22 March 2014
Robin Grimes on nuclear energy, Nicolai Petro on Crimea, A. M. Homes on her novels and memoir, Classical Music with Davinia Caddy: harmony, Playing Favourites with Irish musician Damien Dempsey, Niall McLaughlin on architecture, Kate’s Klassic: The Go-Between.
Full episodeSaturday, 15 March 2014
Max Porter on editing and publishing, Vivien Maidaborn and Richard Bartlett on collaborating online, Alex Taylor on crows and intelligence, Rollo Wenlock on video and SXSW, Australian chronicler Don Walker, Paul Bayly on Dr Livingstone, Gregory O’Brien on poetry and painting.
Full episodeSaturday, 8 March 2014
Broadcast live from the NZ Festival, St James Theatre, Wellington, during Writers Week. Kim Hill talks to Marcus Chown on the universe and health, Jennifer O’Sullivan on fringe spirit and women in comedy, Alison Bechdel on dykes and comics, Dylan Horrocks on his short comics collection, Kate Camp on The Quiet Volume, Joe Blossom and Duncan Sarkies on music and demolition, Aidan Dooley on Tom Crean, Caoilinn Hughes on her poetry collection, Rhys Morganon his cabaret drag career, Ulf Stark and Julia Marshall on Sweden, childrern’s books and translation, Liam O'Maonlai on Irish song and dance.
Full episodeSaturday, 1 March 2014
Nikolai Petro on Ukraine, Sandor Katz on fermentation, Gina Grimshaw on emotional biases, Donald Shaw on Scottish music, Playing Favourites with filmmaker Hugh Macdonald, Kirsten Reynolds on Power Plant, Tony Morrison on football and culture kicks.
Full episodeSaturday, 22 February 2014
Spencer Wells on sampling DNA, Vladimir Hachinski on stroke and recovery, Davinia Caddy on melody and pitch, Playing Favourites with architect Peter Marshall, Stephen Shafer on anaesthesia and academic misconduct, David Haywood on what energy is.
Full episodeSaturday, 15 February 2014
Jung Chang on the woman who changed China, Stuart McNaughton on reading and literacy, Jason van Genderen on making pocket movies, Playing Favourites with mixologist Jacob Briars, Liza Kindred on fashion and commerce, Kate Camp on the classic memoir, We Will Not Cease.
Full episodeSaturday, 8 February 2014
Riley Elliott on saving sharks, Lindsey Horne and Leander Schulz on rating flats, Richie Meyer on silent stars and fake cinema, Anne Helen Petersen on celebrity gossip, Playing Favourites with Valerie Davies, Terry Castle on critical writing, Kate De Goldi on Golden Books.
Full episodeSaturday, 1 February 2014
Chris Hadfield on life in space and on earth, Kayla Iacovino on volcanoes and North Korea, Mary Kisler on Frances Hodgkins, Playing Favourites with David Hepworth, Lemi Ponifasio on his theatre of power, Gregory O’Brien on summer poetry
Full episodeSaturday, 25 January 2014
Graham Murdock on internet surveillance, Willard Wigan on making microscopic art, Classical Music with Davinia Caddy, roots rocker Steve Earle, theatre creator Robert Lepage, Energy with David Haywood.
Full episodeSaturday, 18 January 2014
Summer Selections from Saturday Morning with Kim Hill 2013, featuring repeat interviews with designer David Trubridge, documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer, young science orator Hadleigh Frost, Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Eleanor Catton, cheese-maker Lisa Harper
Full episodeSaturday, 11 January 2014
Summer Selections from Saturday Morning with Kim Hill 2013 featuring repeat interviews with Eleanor Learmonth on disaster and survival, Jeremy Scahill on America’s dirty wars, singer/songwriter Peter Skellern, Quuinn Berentson on the moa
Full episodeSaturday, 4 January 2014
Summer Selections from Saturday Morning with Kim Hill 2013 featuring repeat interviews with John Lennox on science and god , Mary Ruefle on poetry and life, physics combatants Ollie Hughes, Jared Lee and Lily Mason Mackay, singer Rick Bryant, chemist Roald Hoffmann
Full episodeSaturday, 28 December 2013
Summer Selections from Saturday Morning with Kim Hill 2013 featuring repeat interviews with Hordur Torfason on Iceland, Pavan Sukhdev and global economics, Evan Brenton Rule on invasive species, children’s author Ted Dawe, novelist Graeme Simsion, and Lorde
Full episodeSaturday, 21 December 2013
Felix Salmon on the Internet and media revolution, Ben Schott on miscellanies and German words, Dan Collyns on Chile and free education, Playing Favourites with Sarah Longbottom of Nga Rangatahi Toa Creative Arts Initiative, Kate De Goldi and Laura Kroetsch on books in 2013.
Full episodeSaturday, 14 December 2013
Robert Harris on the Dreyfus scandal, Carl Zimmer on the end of flu, Nicholas Wood on political tourism, Arini Loader on engaging with te reo, Playing Favourites with new privacy commissioner John Edwards, Harold Hillman on leadership, Kate Camp on Fahrenheit 451.
Full episodeSaturday, 7 December 2013
Aislinn Laing on Nelson Mandela and South Africa, John Fitzgerald on Ireland, money and politics, Ann Dowsett Johnston on women and alcohol, Art with Mary Kisler: Freedom Farmers, Playing Favourites with Tim Westergren of Pandora, Iris DeMent on singing the delta, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Full episodeSaturday, 30 November 2013
Andy Buchanan on timber construction and earthquakes, Deborah Blum on poisons, Bob Rigg on Syria and chemical weapons, Playing Favourites with Cathie and John Rae, Nancy Swarbrick on the history of pets in New Zealand, Yanetta Hiko on whanau fitness.
Full episodeSaturday, 23 November 2013
Steve Jones on genetics and religion, Sir Geoffrey Palmer on his memoir of reform, Mary Kisler on three shows at the Adam Art Gallery, Playing Favourites with Kelly Joe Phelps, Huhana Smith on guarding wetlands, and Kate Camp on Love in a Cold Climate.
Full episodeSaturday, 16 November 2013
Richard Langston is guest host. His guests include Mark Lewisohn on The Beatles up to 1962, John Boys and Grant Covic on Inductive Power Transfer, Adrian Kinnaird on the history of comics in New Zealand, Playing Favourites with Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket, Rebecca Macfie on Pike River Mine, and Steve August on the iHunch and the Backpod.
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