Kim Hill

Painter, poet, curator and writer, discussing two new books, focused on real life tragedies: How To Be Dead in a Year of Snakes by Chris Tse, and; Dear Neil Roberts by Airini Beautrais. Audio

Stage and screen actor, producer and standup comedian whose standup show Force Majeure has played in 25 countries on five continents since March 2013, and will visit New Zealand in February 2015. Audio

Playwright, screenwriter, and director of theatre and film, whose pre-European Maori action movie The Dead Lands opens this coming week, and new play, Pure and Deep, will be staged in Auckland later… Audio

New Zealand and American full-time touring musicians, based in New York and currently on an extensive North and South Island tour. Audio

Stuart Professor of Science Communication and director of the Centre for Science Communication at the University of Otago, and author of Professor Penguin: Discovery and Adventure with Penguins. Audio

Professor of Public Health at the University of Otago, Wellington, and co-author of The Healthy Country? A History of Life and Death in New Zealand. Audio

Movie director (Titanic, Avatar) and executive producer of new documentary Deepsea Challenge 3D, which chronicles his piloting of a solo submersible to the depths of the Pacific Ocean's Mariana… Audio

Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 18 October 2014. Audio

Trampers and writers who have collaborated on the new, illustrated book, Tramping: A New Zealand History. Audio

Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of Saturday 11 October 2104. Audio

Researcher who identified ten representative Wellingtonians who were involved in World War 1, as part of the city's free multi-media event, Wellington - Lest We Forget. Audio

Writer of non-fiction, biography, poetry and screenplays, whose new small book, Barefoot Years, is a memoir of childhood, and part of a longer forthcoming work. Audio

Novelist, short story writer, and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Dundee, who writes about her "Katherine Mansfield project" in her recently published small book Thorndon:… Audio

Two of New Zealand's pre-eminent songwriters, who will perform on stage together on the 2015 Winery Tour. Audio

Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, discussing Light Show, the first major presentation of international light-based art to be seen in New Zealand. Audio

Artist, engineer and "thinker" whose work blends engineering, bioscience, art and design. Audio

Otago University student who won the third Sir Paul Callaghan Award for Young Science Orators, at the 2014 Eureka! Symposium. Audio

Britain's foremost scholar of world religion, author of Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence, and founder of the Charter for Compassion. Audio

Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 4 October 2014. Audio

Performer and co-writer of 'Everything is Surrounded By Water', which was originally performed in living rooms during the New Zealand Fringe 2014, and won the Best Solo award. Audio