Kim Hill
Playing Favorites : Angela Meyer
Author of the memoir, Sea Fever : From First Date to First Mate, which tells how she set sail across the Pacific in a small yacht with her new husband and baby. Audio
Li Chen : kickstarting comics
Freelance illustrator and webcomic artist who has been pledged over $US60,000 on kickstarter, the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. Audio
Claire Tomalin : Charles Dickens
Author of biographies of Katherine Mansfield, Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, Thomas Hardy and, most recently, Charles Dickens. Audio
Ian Watson : artificial intelligence
Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Auckland University, who will deliver the Gibbons lecture, Alan Turing and the Artificial Brain : The Development of Artificial… Audio
Ross Ashcroft : renegade economics
Founder of the Renegade Economist and director of the documentary Four Horsemen, about the global economic crisis. Audio
Listener Feedback
Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio
Listener Feedback
Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio
Paul Ward: screen moments
Editor at NZ On Screen, the online repository of local television and film which launched its popular Legendary NZ TV Moments collection recently, and has new ones coming up Anzac Day, and New Zealand… Audio
Damon Salesa: Pacific health
Associate Professor at the University of Auckland's Centre for Pacific Studies, and keynote speaker at the Growing Pacific Solutions for Our Families conference, focusing on mental health, addiction… Audio
Playing Favourites with Tom Scott of HomeBrew
MC for Auckland hip-hop crew HomeBrew, who are about to release their debut double album, and one of the creators of last year's @Peace album. Audio
Mitchell Pham: Vietnam and technology
Business and social entrepreneur who co-founded technology group Augen, with companies in New Zealand and Vietnam, and contributes to many other organisations. Audio
Keith Yamashita: leadership and design
Chairman of SYPartners, co-founder of Unstuck, author and essayist on leadership and design, and a keynote speaker at Design Your Future, the Better By Design CEO Summit 2012. Audio
Listener Feedback
Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio
Pietra Bretkelly: outward bound and boy genius
Award-winning New Zealand filmmaker who has produced and directed two upcoming documentaries: Inside Outward Bound: The New Zealand Journey, and Maori Boy Genius. Audio
Sonny Tilders: building dragons
Creative director of The Creature Technology Company, which built the animatronic dinosaurs and dragons for Walking with Dinosaurs: the Live Experience, and How to Train Your Dragon: the Arena… Audio
Playing Favourites with Hollie Fullbrook a.k.a. Tiny Ruins
Bristol-born, New Zealand-raised musician and songwriter who performs as Tiny Ruins, releasing her debut album, Some Were Meant For Sea, last year and about to tour the UK following three NZ concerts.
…Doug Backhouse: resilient communities
Canadian expert on the development of healthy communities in British Columbia is in New Zealand to explore possibilities for contributing to the rebuilding of a resilient Christchurch following the… Audio
Greg O'Brien: across the water
Poet, painter, writer and curator at large whose work features in the book, Kermadec: Nine Artists Explore the South Pacific and the travelling exhibition of the same name. His most recent book of… Audio
Joyce Alberts: false memories
Clinical psychologist at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service in Burwood, Christchurch, who completed a Master of Science and a PhD in the area of false memories. Audio
Victoria Davis: medical marijuana
Environmentalist who served as Golden Bay's sole radiographer for 22 years, and was discharged without conviction in the Nelson District Court on charges of cultivating and possessing cannabis. Audio