Kim Hill
Mallory Ortberg: texting classics
Co-founder and editor of website The Toast, and advice columnist for Slate. Her first book, Texts from Jane Eyre: and Other Conversations with Your Favourite Literary Characters reimagines… Audio
Anthony McCarten: playing up
Internationally successful writer and producer for stage and screen (Ladies Night, The Theory of Everything), who is a guest at the Spotlight on Playwrights series of events at Circa Theatre during… Audio
Henry Marsh: Do No Harm
Henry Marsh is a pioneer of operating on brain tumours under local anaesthetic. In Do No Harm, he opens up to Kim Hill about the fierce joy of operating, his hatred of hospitals, and the profoundly… Audio
Listener Feedback to Saturday 5 March 2015
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 5 March. Audio
Kate's Klassic: My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst
Kate Camp discusses My Own Story, the 1914 memoir by suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst. Audio
Jerron 'Blind Boy' Paxton: bringing back the past
Twenty-seven-year-old multi-instrumentalist, who lost most of his eyesight by the age of 16. His music assimilates the raw American jazz, blue, folk and country music of the 1920s and 30s, and he… Audio
John Grant: songs of sobriety
American singer-songwriter John Grant is lauded for his vocal presence and confessional ballads. Now based in Iceland, he and his five-piece band will perform at the Auckland Arts Festival, and WOMAD… Audio
Mina Guli: water frugality and desert running
CEO of Thirst, who is running 40 marathons through seven deserts on seven continents in seven weeks to raise awareness of water scarcity. Audio
Liz Sime: women and children first
Recent retiree from the position of Director of International Operations, and Vice President at Marie Stopes International, after working for 15 years around the world for international humanitarian… Audio
Rebecca Roache: the power of swearing
Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London who is currently writing a book about swearing, and wrote the essay Naughty Words recently for online journal Aeon. Audio
Jamie McIntyre: the USA nuclear arsenal
Pentagon-based journalist who is currently on special assignment at PBS NewsHour, where he has investigated the Pentagon's plans to spend $1 trillion on upgrading America's nuclear arsenal. Audio
Weekend RNZ highlights (29 February)
The best of this weekend’s film coverage on RNZ including Lee Tamahori meeting Kim Hill and Three Wise Cousins director Stallone Ioasa talking to Simon Morris. Audio
Eb & Sparrow: small-town soundings
Members of the Wellington band Eb & Sparrow (Ebony Lamb, Nick Brown, Jason Johnson and Chris Winter) join Kim Hill in the RNZ music studio ahead of their month-long tour to small New Zealand centres.
…Sandra Coney: Opening up Waikumete Cemetery
Chair of the Waitakere Ranges Local Board, and driving force behind the inaugural open day at New Zealand's largest cemetery, the first event of its kind in New Zealand. Audio, Gallery
Rebecca Priestley: anthologising Antarctica
Senior Lecturer in the Science in Society Group, Victoria University of Wellington, and editor of Dispatches from Continent Seven: an Anthology of Antarctic Science, a new collection of writings by… Audio
Michela Magas and Andrew Dubber: music tech fest
Michela Magas, founder of Stromatolite and the #MusicBricks project, and Andrew Dubber, founder of digital music consultancy group New Music Strategies. Together they run the Berlin Music Tech Fest. Audio
Art with Mary Kisler: the Christchurch Art Gallery
Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Mary Kisler, discussing the recently reopened Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Audio, Gallery
Lee Tamahori: Making 'Mahana'
Filmmaker whose first New Zealand movie in 20 years, Mahana, adapted from the novel Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera, tells the story of two Maori sheep-shearing families on the East Coast in the 1960s. Mah… Audio
Jamie Joseph: Battling poaching in Africa
Writer and environmental activist who grew up between South Africa and Zimbabwe, and moved to New Zealand. She is reporting from the frontline of Africa's poaching crisis at savingthewild.com, and has… Audio, Gallery
Listener Feedback to Saturday 20 February 2016
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 20 February. Audio
