Kim Hill
Playing Favourites with choreographer Eric Languet
Eric Languet was a principal dancer with the Royal New Zealand Ballet from 1988 to 1998, becoming a New Zealand citizen during that time and creating a number of well-received dance works. He then… Audio
Shakespeare with David Lawrence: Hamlet
David Lawrence is director of The Bacchanals, a Wellington theatre company he founded in 2000 to explore text-based theatre and redefine classic works. His most recent production was Richard III, last… Audio
Daniel Mendelsohn: six of six million
Daniel Mendelsohn is an American memoirist, essayist, critic, columnist, and translator who is presently a Contributing Editor at Travel + Leisure. He is the author of the international 2006… Audio
Bryan Stevenson: equal justice
Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, an Alabama-based non-profit organisation that has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair… Audio
Listener Feedback to Saturday 7 March 2015
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 7 March. Audio
Poetry with Gregory O'Brien: Peter Olds and Geoff Cochrane
Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien discusses You Fit the Description: the Poetry of Peter Olds and a new collection by Geoff Cochrane, Wonky Optics. Audio
Brett Bailey: Macbeth in the Congo
Director of South African performance company Third World Bunfight, whose latest production is a radical take on Verdi's opera Macbeth, set in modern-day Congo, and playing at the Auckland Arts… Audio
Playing Favourites with Robbie Burton
Executive director and publisher of Potton and Burton, which changed its name from Craig Potton Publishing this week to reflect the diversity of its publishing catalogue, and Burton's role at the… Audio
Jenny O'Connor: women at 60
Photographer and author of Visible: 60 Women at 60; images from the book are on display at Pataka Museum. Audio
Marilyn Waring: 40 years of feminism
Professor of Public Policy at AUT University who spoke at the International Women's Day Celebration Breakfast at Parliament. Audio
Leslee Udwin: India's Daughter
British film maker, whose documentary film, India's Daughter, tells the story of the gang rape and murder of a young woman in Delhi in 2012, and the ensuing social fallout. Audio
Philip Wen: pollution in China
China correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, discussing Under the Dome, the viral online documentary hit by journalist Chai Jing about pollution in China. Audio
Listener Feedback to Saturday 28 February 2015
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 28 February. Audio
Kate's Klassic: The Thorn Birds
Kate Camp is a poet, and Communications Manager at Te Papa. She discusses 1977 novel The Thorn Birds by Australian author Colleen McCullough. Audio
Ulrike Schaede: business in Japan
Professor of Japanese Business at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, and is an authority on Japanese business organisation, strategy and management. Audio
Playing Favourites with Tayo Aluko
Nigerian-born, UK-based writer and performer of Call Mr Robeson: a Life with Songs, based on the musical career and political activism of the US singer Paul Robeson.
You can also listen to a 1998… Audio
Energy and the musical scale
Dunsandel engineer and author, discussing how energy gives us the musical scale. Audio
John McLeod: modern peacekeeping
Cross-agency Defence Force lead for the 2015 Gallipoli commemoration, and author of Elusive Peace: a Kiwi Peacekeeper in Angola, about his time as a United Nations Military Observer in 1998. Audio
Bernard Haykel: Islamic State
Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Director of the Institute for Transregional Studies at Princeton University, and a leading expert on the theology of Islamic State. Audio
Listener Feedback to Saturday 21 February 2015
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 21 February. Audio