Kim Hill
Edgar Cahn: time banking
Former counsel and speech writer to Robert F. Kennedy, and a legal professor at the University of the District of Columbia, who is best known as the originator of time banking, a way to value the… Audio
Simon Denny: power and secrets
New Zealand artist based in Berlin who represented New Zealand at the 2015 Venice Biennale with his work, Secret Power; four of the works have been acquired by Te Papa. Audio, Gallery
Evan Thomas: Richard Nixon
Writer, correspondent, and editor for 33 years at Time and Newsweek, and author of nine books. His new "psycho-biography" is Being Nixon: A Man Divided.
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Listener Feedback
Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio
Pietra Brettkelly: saving Afghanistan's films
Award-winning New Zealand film director and producer whose latest documentary, A Flickering Truth, is about the saving of Afghanistan's films. Audio
Playing Favourites with Dame Pieter Stewart
Manager of New Zealand Fashion Week, which is now in its fifteenth year. Audio
Julian Elliott: dyslexia debate
Principal of Collingwood College, and Professor of Education, at Durham University, and co-author of The Dyslexia Debate, which examines cognitive, brain-based, genetic and educational aspects of… Audio
Ron Crosby: kupapa
Blenheim author and former court lawyer, whose interest in exploring the bush and back country areas of New Zealand led to an interest in writing on New Zealand history. His new book is Kupapa: the… Audio, Gallery
Pete Russell: rebuilding the food system
Founder of social enterprise Ooooby, which has the goal of rebuilding the local food system with a distribution model operating in Auckland, Waikato, Matakana, Sydney, and California. Audio
Tom Higham: Neanderthals, denisovans and humans
Professor Tom Higham is deputy director of the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit at Oxford University, and interim director of the Advanced Studies Centre. He is returning to New Zealand as an Allan Wilson… Audio
Listener Feedback to Saturday 22 August 2015
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 22 August. Audio
Two extra poems by Morgan Bach
Morgan Bach reads two additional poems, 'Instructions for Herbovores' and 'Raw Ginger' from her new poetry collection, Some of Us Eat the Seeds. Audio
Poetry with Gregory O'Brien: Morgan Bach
Painter, poet, curator and writer discussing the new collection by Morgan Bach, Some of Us Eat the Seeds, and anticipating National Poetry Day. Audio
Lisa Reihana: pursuing Venus
Artist of Nga Puhi descent who works in multimedia, photography and sculpture, discussing her 26-metre-long video projection, In Pursuit of Venus [infected], depicting British explorers and Pacific… Audio
Playing Favourites with Luke Di Somma
Freelance conductor, musician, composer, musical director, and founder of the Christchurch International Musical Theatre Summer School and Christchurch Pops Choir. He is co-creator of That Bloody… Audio
Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins: Caravaggio's Nativity
District Court Judge, and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group, with a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces. He discusses the theft of Nativity with St Francis and St… Audio
Birth of the culture wars
Co-director of the documentary feature Best of Enemies, about the 1968 series of television debates between writer and intellectual Gore Vidal and conservative author and commentator William F… Video, Audio
The Mongol Rally
Braden Cameron breeds and trains endurance horses on his Wellington farm, and represented New Zealand in endurance riding at 2014 World Equestrian Games. He was one of four New Zealanders in the top… Audio
Bojan Pancevski: a bridge in Croatia
EU correspondent for The Sunday Times, discussing the giant bridge that Croatia is planning to build across part of the Adriatic Sea, bypassing a ten-kilometre stretch of roading through Bosnia and… Audio
Young women fried over vocal trend
Forget rising inflections, young women are ending their sentences with "vocal fry" - and few people like it. Video, Audio