Kim Hill
Poetry with Gregory O'Brien: Alan Brunton
Discussing the poems of Alan Brunton, as collected in Beyond the Ohlala Mountains: Alan Brunton Poems 1968-2002. Audio
Yannis Simonides: Socrates
Founder and director of the Greek Theatre of New York, who brings Socrates Now, his interactive production of Plato's classic, to New Zealand this month. Audio
Playing Favourites with Owen Clarke
Director of Music for the Royal New Zealand Navy Band, which has just released its first album since 1982. Audio
Rebecca Mead: Middlemarch
Staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of The Road to Middlemarch : My Life with George Eliot, detailing her relationship with the 1874 novel. Audio
Jeff Milchen: campaign financing
Co-founder of the Montana-based American Independent Business Alliance, discussing this week's McCutcheon v. FEC decision by the US Supreme Court. Audio
Nancy Andreasen: creativity
American neuroscientist and psychiatrist who is the inaugural Creative Fellow for the University of Auckland's Creative Thinking Project. Audio
Former co-presenters discuss Geoff Robinson's legacy
And two of Geoff's co-presenters join us - Sean Plunket who worked with Geoff for thirteen years and his co-presenter from the early 90s, Kim Hill. Audio
Listener Feedback to 29 March 2014 programme
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 29 March 2014. Audio
Elizabeth Kolbert - extinctions
American author, and staff writer for The New Yorker, whose new book is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Audio
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Steve Danby explores the larger-than-life world of Gioachino Rossini. Audio
Listener Feedback
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 22 March 2014. Audio
Liam O Maonlai : song and dance
Liam Ó Maonlaí is the frontman for Irish group The Hothouse Flowers, and has collaborated with choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan on the Fabulous Beast show, Rian, bringing eight dancers and five… Audio
Ulf Stark and Julia Marshall : Sweden and translation
Ulf Stark is the author of around 30 books for children and young adults, including Fruitloops and Dipsticks, My Friend Percy's Magical Gym Shoes, My Friend Percy and The Sheik, Can You Whistle… Audio
Rhys Morgan : drag and spanking
Whanganui-born actor Rhys Morgan has successfully established a career in Britain and Australia as drag queen Spanky. He brings his comedy cabaret show, Candice McQueen: Nasty!, to the NZ Festival for… Audio
Caoilinn Hughes : poetic evidence
Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish-born New Zealand-based poet who combines the creativity associated with the written word with the precision connected with science. Her new collection of poems, Gathering… Audio
Aidan Dooley : Tom Crean
Aidan Dooley is an Irish writer, director and actor who brings his production of Tom Crean - Antarctic Explorer to the NZ Festival, and to Auckland for one public performance, plus school events… Audio
Joe Blossom and Duncan Sarkies : music and demolition
New Zealand musician Sean O'Brien has recorded and performed with a number of various bands since the 1990s. He currently performs as Joe Blossom, and released his solo album debut, Nocturnes, in… Audio
Kate Camp : The Quiet Volume
Kate Camp has published five collections of poems, and contributes the Kate's Klassic segment to Saturday Mornings. During Writers Week she will be chairing two German authors in a conversation around… Audio
Dylan Horrocks : before and after Hicksville
Dylan Horrocks is a New Zealand cartoonist best known for his 1998 book, Hicksville. His new book, Incomplete Works, collects many of his shorter comics from 1986 to 2012 and will be launched at… Audio
Alison Bechdel : dykes and comics
Alison Bechdel has been writing, drawing, and syndicating the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For for thirty years. It has run in over fifty publications in North America and the UK, and reprinted in a… Audio