Kim Hill
Ruth Reichl: food and fiction
New York writer who has written her first novel, Delicious, after a series of memoirs, and will be a guest at the WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival in August. Audio
Playing Favourites with Rob Thorne
Palmerston North-based musician who has been working with taonga puoro instruments since 2001, after many years in the independent and noise music scenes. Audio
Art with Mary Kisler: Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino
Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery, discussing the exhibition, Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino: Diverging Paths of Mannerism, at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. Audio
Big Men producer and director Rachel Boynton
Producer and director of the documentary Big Men, about oil deals in Ghana and Nigeria, screening in the New Zealand International Film Festival. Audio
Elizabeth Pisani: Indonesia
Journalist and author of the book Indonesia Etc: Exploring the Improbable Nation. Audio
Listener Feedback from 5 July 2014
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 5 July 2014. Audio
Kate's Klassic: For the Term of His Natural Life
Kate Camp discusses For the Term of His Natural Life, the nineteenth-century novel by Australian writer Marcus Clarke. Audio
Nalini Singh: fantasy and romance
Auckland writer best known for her paranormal romance fantasy novels, including the New York Times bestselling Psy/Changeling series. Audio
Playing Favourites with Ian Jorgenson (Blink)
Entrepreneur behind the long-running underground New Zealand music entity A Low Hum, which has involved him putting out magazines, CDs, DVDs vinyl and cassette releases, touring bands around the… Audio
Callum Christopher: Roskill to Brazil
Teacher and football coach at Mt Roskill Grammar School, whose new online series, Being Roskill Season 3: Brazil, takes an in-depth look at Brazilian football, culture and society. Audio
Hazel Chapman: forests in Nigeria
Professor in Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Canterbury, and Director of the Nigerian Montane Forest Project. Audio
Derek Grzelewski: extreme New Zealand
Writer, filmmaker, former professional fly-fishing guide, founder of the Wanaka Flyfishing Academy, host of the Trout Diaries podcast, and author of new book, Going to Extremes: Adventures in Unknown… Audio
Listener Feedback
Kim Hill reads messages from listerners to the Saturday Morning programme of 28 June 2014 Audio
Poetry with Gregory O'Brien: poetry
Painter, poet, curator and writer discussing the new collection Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page, and One Human in Height by Rachel O'Neill. Audio
Lotta Dann: stopping drinking
New Zealand journalist who deciding to stop drinking alcohol and started the anonymous blog, Mrs D is Going Without, which is also the title of her new memoir. Audio
Charles Murigande: genocide and conciliation in Rwanda
Tokyo-based Rwandan High Commissioner to New Zealand and Australia who returned from exile to his home country in 1994, after the genocide of over a million people. Audio
Jon Waters: aquatic mammal prehistory
Professor in the Department of Zoology, Otago University, and a principal investigator at the Allan Wilson Centre, whose research focuses on prehistoric sea lions, penguins and other coastal species. Audio
Kent Greenfield: choice and limits
Professor of Law and Law Fund Research Scholar at Boston College Law School, and author of the 2011 book, The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits. Audio
Listener Feedback
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of Audio
Energy with David Haywood: wind energy
Engineer and author who lives in Dunsandel, discussing wind energy. Audio