Kim Hill

Professor Russell Gray, FRSNZ, is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. Audio

Anne Noble, ONZM, is Distinguished Professor of Fine Art (Photography) at Whiti o Rehua School of Art, Massey University. As a photographer and curator her work spans still and moving image… Audio

Ross Ashcroft is a British filmmaker, renegade economist, essayist and strategist. He is the founder of the media company Motherlode, and the online platform Renegade Inc., and his 2011 feature… Audio

Colin Brown has been a journalist for 30 years, mainly for The Guardian and The Independent, and is a former chair of the British Parliamentary Lobby. As an author, his books include Glory and… Audio

Lisa Matisoo-Smith is Professor of Biological Anthropology and Allan Wilson Centre Principal Investigator at the University of Otago, and has been conducting a 2000-sample DNA survey of New Zealanders… Audio

Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 13 June. Audio

New Zealand writer whose new novel, From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle, is published in October, discussing young adult novel, Havoc by Jane Higgins; a children's book, Mr and Mrs Bunny -… Audio

Professor Emeritus of Industrial Mathematics at Massey University, and leader of the new Mathematics-in-Industry NZ group, which is getting a hundred mathematical scientists to brainstorm real-world… Audio

Chair of Te Runanga a Iwi o Ngapuhi since 2008, and chair of the Tuhoronuku Independent Mandated Authority, the group mandated by Ngapuhi to settle its Treaty claims, and which is now negotiating… Audio

Research director at the National Centre for Scientific Research, and one of the scientific coordinators for the Tara Oceans expedition, which has collected 35,000 samples of planktonic organisms from… Audio, Gallery

American filmmaker of documentaries about Enron, Iraq, Eliot Spitzer, Wikileaks, and Lance Armstrong. His new film, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, will screen at this year's New… Video, Audio

Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 6 June. Audio

District Court Judge, and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group, with a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces. He discusses the two thefts of two versions of Edvard… Audio

Year 12 student at Scots College, member of the Wellington team that won the 2015 Russell McVeagh New Zealand Schools' Debating Championships, and member of the team representing New Zealand at the… Audio

One of New Zealand's leading sexual health doctors and birth control advocates, who donated most of her collection of nearly 1000 contraceptive devices to Te Papa Tongarewa; selected items are on… Video, Audio

Founder, CEO and artistic director of the dance company Black Grace, which celebrates its 20-year anniversary this year. He has choreographed and designed a new work, Passchendaele, for the Royal New… Audio

Dunedin novelist, biographer, playwright, short story writer, and New Zealand Poet Laureate, whose new collection, Being Here: Selected Poems, covers the range of his poetry from 1973 to new work… Audio

Professor of biology at the University of Sussex, founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, and author of A Sting in the Tale, and A Buzz in the Meadow. Audio

Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 30 May Audio