Kim Hill

Expert in kleptocracy, anti-corruption, and civil-military relations with ten years' experience in Afghanistan; currently a senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program and the South Asia… Audio

Professor of Natural History at the University of Manchester and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Ancient Life Phil Manning, who is speaking about the mummified remains of a… Audio

Author of six novels, most recently The Bone Clocks, and translator with his wife Keiko Yoshida of The Reason I Jump, written at the age of 13 by autistic child Naoki Higishida. David Mitchell will… Audio

Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary, Macroenomic, International and Economic Research, at the New Zealand Treasury. Audio

District Court Judge, and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group. He has a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces, and will discuss the 2003 theft of the Cellini Salt… Audio

Editor for Nature magazine for over 20 years, and author of Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler, and… Audio

New Zealand sailor in London on 7 May 1945, when the war with Germany was declared over. Audio

Director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs in Washington DC, discussing the international significance of the repositioning of power in Saudi Arabia. Audio

Scotland Editor of The Spectator, who also writes for The Times and is a regular contributor to the Scottish Daily Mail, discussing the unexpected election result in the United Kingdom Audio

Kim Hill reads messages from Listeners to the Saturday Morning programmme of 2 May. Audio

Gregory O'Brien discusses two new collections: Otherwise by John Dennison, and Song of the Ghost in the Machine by Roger Horrocks. Audio

Chief Scientific Officer at St Petersburg University, and head of the Genome 10K project to sequence the genomes of 10,000 invertebrates; visiting New Zealand for the Allan Wilson Centre 2015… Audio

Professional falconer whose work in raptor research and conservation projects informed the writing of her book, H is for Hawk. She will visit New Zealand in May to speak at the 2015 Auckland Writers… Audio

BBC political correspondent for many years, worked at 10 Downing Street as deputy to Alistair Campbell, and was the Labour Party's Director of Communications during 2000 and 2001. He has returned to… Audio

National Economics Correspondent for The Washington Post, where he writes about education and race relations. He has been resident in Baltimore for over 30 years, and discusses the city and its… Audio

Chair of independent, science-led drugs charity DrugScience, and is Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Head of the Department of Neuropsychopharmacology and Molecular Imaging at… Audio

Joy in Kathmandu as two quake survivors are pulled from the rubble. Protesters vow to keep fighting after the Auckland council agrees to a port extension and dairy farmers come to terms with a near… Audio

Protests in Nepal as aid trickles out; New Zealand donations for Nepal at record speed; PM discussion of NZ soldiers whereabouts no big deal; PM says it's unlikely we'll withdraw ambassador to… Audio

Report: Eight executed in Bali; No government evacuation for New Zealanders in Nepal; Foreign Minister discusses New Zealand's reaction; Baltimore descends into chaos, violence, looting. Audio

Authorites struggle to cope in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake. Thousands dead - survivors tell of the horror and time runs out for two Australian drug smugglers in Indonesia. Audio