Kim Hill

Neuroscientist, writer and director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action in Texas, who has recently published Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. Audio

One time member of New Zealand bands Naked Spots Dance and The Newmatics, who has a new documentary out, Rumble & Bang, about the 1960s garage rock group, Chants R&B. Audio

Script writer, actor, director and teacher who most recently has written the script for Underbelly New Zealand: Land of the Long Green Cloud. Audio

Geologist and marine ecologist who co-authored Volcanoes of Auckland: the Essential Guide. Audio

Brazilian journalist who writes for Asia Times Online and is currently focusing on the Great Arab Revolt. Audio

Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

Freelance graphic designer, lecturer and musician based in Lyttelton, and co-editor of The National Grid magazine. Audio

Poet, fiction writer, critic, essayist and art curator who has just been appointed New Zealand Poet Laureate 2011 - 2013. Audio

Brewer Stu McKinlay and beer hunter Sam Possenniski, who won the Morton Coutts Trophy for Innovation this week at the 2011 Brewers Guild of New Zealand Awards. Audio

Winner of the gold medal for the Individual Woman's Foil at the 2010 Commonwealth Fencing Championships. Audio

Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, and member of the International Scientific Advisory Panel of the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution. She co-authored the influential study… Audio

Subject of the Errol Morris documentary Tabloid; she has taken issue with how she is represented in the film. Audio

Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, and Professor of Cultural Theory at the National University of Ireland, and author of Reason, Faith and Revolution, On Evil, and Why… Audio

Ohau gardener who runs Edible Backyard workshops, talking about getting ready for the growing season. Audio

Design enthusiast and practitioner, and author of New Zealand By Design : a History of New Zealand Product Design. Audio

Prolific American travel and fiction writer, whose latest book is the anthology, The Tao of Travel. Audio

Radio New Zealand political reporter, in Washington DC reporting on Prime Minister John Key's visit to the United States. Audio

Australian mathematician and Professor of Statistical Science and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in the University of Oxford, visiting New Zealand to deliver his talk, The… Audio

Film director who won an Academy Award in 2008 for his documentary Man on Wire. His new film is Project Nim, about a chimpanzee brought up as human. Audio