Kim Hill
Poetry with Gregory O’Brien: Iain Lonie
Painter, poet, curator and writer discussing A Place To Go On From: the Collected Poems of Iain Lonie, edited by David Howard. Audio
Alison Stieven-Taylor: photojournalism’s future
Australian freelance journalist visiting New Zealand to give her talk What is the Future for Photojournalism? during the Auckland Festival of Photography. Audio
Playing Favourites with Jeremy Jones
Director of the Auckland multi-media company Propeller Motion who created the video for Planet Key, and the Animation Nation series for TV3's The Nation. Audio
Mel Goodale: echolocation and the brain
Director of the Brain and Mind Institute at the University of Western Ontario whose research on the brains of blind people who use echolocation has discovered how their brains have been rewired so… Audio
Lyric R. Cabral: countering terror
Co-director of (T)ERROR, a behind-the-scenes documentary filmed over two years around an FBI counter-terrorism sting. It is screening at the Documentary Edge film festival in Auckland and Wellington. Audio
Peter Pomerantsev: Putin’s Russia
Senior fellow at the Legatum Institute who spent nine years as a television producer in Russia. He writes for The Atlantic and the London Review of Books, and is the author of Nothing Is True and… Audio
Listener Feedback to Saturday 23 May 2015
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 23 May. Audio
Kate's Klassic: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Kate Camp discusses One Hundred Years of Solitude, the 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. Audio
Jennifer McLagan: getting bitter
Toronto-based Australian chef and writer whose books include Cooking on the Bone, Fat: an Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, Odd Bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal, and most recently… Audio
Playing Favourites with Marianne Elliott
La Directora at Mexican restaurant La Boca Loca, and National Director of ActionStation, who wrote about her experiences working for the UN in Afghanistan in the 2012 memoir, Zen Under Fire, and… Audio
Liana Machado: brain electrification
Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Otago, who has studied the benefits of exercise for brain function, and is investigating whether electrification of the brain can accelerate… Audio
Clive James: life, mortality and poetry
Writer and television presenter, whose books include essays, criticism, travel writing, translations, novels, autobiography and poetry. His latest poetry collection is Sentenced to Life. Audio
Commas and punctuation
Query proofreader at The New Yorker who has written popular pieces for the magazine on pencils and punctuation; her first book is Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen. Audio
Rob Edwards: Trident security
Journalist for the Sunday Herald in Edinburgh who broke the story about claims by Royal Navy whistleblower William McNeilly about the security and safety of the Trident nuclear submarine programme. Audio
Listener Feedback to Saturday 16 May
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 16 May. Audio
Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Lissa Evans
New Zealand writer discussing the books of Lissa Evans, including Small Change for Stuart, and Big Change for Stuart. Audio
Poems, wives and children
Professor of Contemporary Poetry and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Britain's poet laureate, visiting New Zealand for the 2015 Auckland Writers… Audio
Playing Favourites with David Allfrey
Former British Army Brigadier, and Producer and Chief Executive of The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, which is being brought to Wellington by the New Zealand Festival in February 2016. Audio
Roger Lentle: mapping bladder walls
Professor of Digestive Biomechanics at the College of Health, Massey University, Associate Investigator <http://www.riddet.ac.nz/our-people/professor-roger-lentle> at the Riddet Institute, and… Audio
Sara Hossain: murders in Bangladesh
Human rights activist and supreme court lawyer in Dhaka, and an honorary executive director of the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Service Trust, discussing the murders of three secular bloggers in… Audio