Kim Hill
Listener Feedback
Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio
Children's Books with Kate de Goldi: three new books
Kate discusses young adult novel Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool, picture book Waiting for Later by Tina Matthews, and fantasy novel The Travelling Restaurant: Jasper's Voyage in Three Parts by… Audio
Kay Craddock: antiquarian bookselling
Melbourne bookshop owner who was a pioneering figure in the antiquarian book trade; her story is told by Stuart Kells in Rare: a Life Among Antiquarian Books. Audio
Playing Favourites with evolutionary geneticist Paul Rainey
James Cook Research Fellow at the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study at the Albany Campus of Massey University, who has been made a Member of Germany's most prestigious academic institution, the… Audio
Art with Mary Kisler: Christchurch collection
Mary discusses some of her favourite works from the collection at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Audio
James Frey: reality and fantasy
American writer who fabricated elements of his 2003 best-seller, A Million Little Pieces, and has just published a new novel, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible. Audio
Richard Denniss: shopping and waste
Australian economist and executive director of The Australia Institute, who has just released new research about the value of things we buy and throw away without ever using. Audio
Listener Feedback
Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio
Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
Kate De Goldi discusses new books The Dreamer by Pam Munoz and Peter Sis,and The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky. Audio
Jean Auel : prehistorical romancing
Author best known for her 1980 novel The Clan of the Cave Bear, and the subsequent Earth's Children series set in prehistoric Europe. Audio
Playing Favorites with David Vann
Creative nonfiction and fiction teacher, currently International Guest Writer at Victoria University of Wellington, and author of new novel Caribou Island. Audio
Art with Mary Kisler : White Night
Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, discussing the Auckland Arts Festival 2001 event White Night, which saw museums and galleries staying… Audio
Pamela Ronald : genes, seeds, and weeds
Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of California, and Director of Grass Genetics at the Joint Bioenergy Institute, and author of Tomorrow's Table : Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future… Audio
Alex Gibney : sex and politics
Documentary film maker, whose latest films, Client 9 : the Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer, and Freakonomics, will screen here during the World Cinema Showcase. Audio
Siddharta Mukherjee : cancer
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Centre, and author of The Emperor of All Maladies : A Biography of Cancer. Audio
Listener Feedback
Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio
Top Stories for Friday 18 March 2011
Japan steps up efforts to cool reactors at the crippled Fukushima plant. New Zealanders start fleeing Japan and tens of thousands expected at Christchurch quake memorial service. Audio
Listener Feedback for 5 March 2011
Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio