Kim Hill
Top Stories for Tuesday 6 October 2015
A TransPacific Partnership has been reached. The Chris Cairns prejury trial begins in London and house prices in Hamilton surge as investors look for bargains outside Auckland. Audio
Listener Feedback to Saturday 3 October 2015
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 3 October . Audio
Kate's Klassic: The Year of Magical Thinking
Kate Camp has published five collections of poems, most recently Snow White's Coffin. She discusses Joan Didion's 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking. Audio
Martin Creed: art and philosophy
Glasgow-raised artist who won the Turner Prize in 2001, who is visiting New Zealand to launch a major new public commission on the exterior of the Christchurch Art Gallery, and to make a show of new… Audio
Playing Favourites
Welsh performers who are touring New Zealand with their acclaimed show Hiraeth, telling the story of Jones' departure from her Welsh farm to London. Audio
Alex Coogan-Reeves: NZ vs Georgia
Reporter for Radio New Zealand, who is following the Rugby World Cup in England and Wales, and reports on the match between the All Blacks and Georgia. Audio
Stella Duffy: fun palaces
New Zealand writer and theatre-maker based in London, who is co-director of the global Fun Palaces campaign for wider participation in all forms of arts, science and culture (3-4 October), and Head of… Audio
William Hartung: arms trading
Senior adviser to the Security Assistance Monitor, who has written extensively on armament and security issues. Audio
Andy Griffiths: children, reading and treehouses
Australian children's book author and comedy writer whose books include The Day My Bum Went Psycho, and the Just! series with illustrator Terry Denton. His latest series with Denton started in 2011… Audio
Top Stories for Thursday 1 October 2015
Fonterra's chief executive freezes pay but farmers unimpressed, Second Serco prison under fire by Labour, New Zealand to receive more information on deportations, Tensions rise at the UN as Russia… Audio
Top Stories for Tuesday 29 September 2015
NASA finds evidence of flowing water on Mars and says colonisation of the red planet is a possibility. The seas around the Kermadec Islands are set to become a huge marine reserve and an Australian… Audio
The Anthropocene Challenge: Question Time
The Anthropocene is a geological term which refers to the era in which human activity on earth begins to impact eco systems globally in an irrevocable and very measurable long term manner. Kim Hill… Audio
Listener Feedback to Saturday 26 September 2015
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 26 September. Audio
Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Peter Brown and Mini Grey
Author of many books, most recently From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle (Longacre), and ambassador for the first NZ Bookshop Day. She will discuss two picture book authors, Peter Brown and Mini… Audio
James Wood: why fiction matters
Staff writer and book critic at The New Yorker, and Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University. His latest collection of essays is The Nearest Thing to Life. Audio
Playing Favourites with Matt Gauldie
Official New Zealand Army Artist for the last ten years, who has had many solo shows, group exhibitions, residencies, and fellowships. Audio
Art Crimes with Arthur Tompkins
District Court Judge, and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group, with a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces. He discusses the 1971 theft of The Guitar Player, the… Audio
Jocelyn Moorhouse: women in film
Australian film writer/director (Proof, How to Make an American Quilt) and producer (Muriel's Wedding) whose new film, The Dressmaker, has a WIFT benefit screening in Wellington before its opening… Video, Audio
Magda Szubanski on parenting, sexuality and character
One of Australia's best known performers (Kath and Kim, Babe) whose book, Reckoning: A Memoir, describes her journey of self-discovery from childhood to adulthood. Audio
Nick Richardson: Piers Gaveston Society
Editor at the London Review of Books, and a former head of the Piers Gaveston Society at Oxford University. Audio