Kim Hill
Russell Gray: DNA and language
Professor Russell Gray, FRSNZ, is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. Audio
Photography and science
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: economics and Europe
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: revisiting Waterloo
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
Africa to Aotearoa
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
Listener Feedback to Saturday 13 June 2015
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 13 June. Audio
Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
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
Graeme Wake: maths, crime, laundry and education
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
Playing Favourites with Leila Adu
New Zealand musician of Ghanaian descent who works in theatre, dance and film. She is studying for a doctorate in Composition at Princeton University, New York, and has worked on a project teaching… Audio
Raniera (Sonny) Tau: advancing Ngapuhi
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
Fresh plankton
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
Alex Gibney: unwrapping Scientology
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
Listener Feedback to Saturday 6 June 2015
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 6 June. Audio
Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins: The Scream
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
Peter McKenzie: debating
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
A NZ history of contraception
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
Playing Favourites with Neil Ieremia
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
Vincent O'Sullivan: poets and poetry
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
Bumblebees and flowers
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
Listener Feedback to Saturday 30 May 2015
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 30 May Audio