Kim Hill

New Zealand’s ‘COVID-naive’ population will offer unique data to global research as part of a new clinical study looking at how our bodies respond to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Audio

Over the last eight months, conflict in Tigray, in northern Ethiopia, has killed thousands of people, displaced two million and pushed 350,000 to the brink of famine. Robert Patman is a Professor of… Audio

The new novel by Clare Moleta has been hailed as a remarkable debut, thrusting readers into a dystopian world consisting of a society divided into two classes - the sheltered and the unsheltered. Set… Audio

It is said by many evangelical Christians that true believers will be transported to heaven at the second coming of Christ, known as the rapture. Journalist and writer Joshua Rivera grew up in an… Audio

He has a doctorate from Oxford, where he studied Bacterial Flagellar Motor, a nanoscale rotary electric motor which makes bacteria swim. Currently Scientia Research Fellow in the School of… Audio

Flo Foxworthy started sewing when she was seven years old, with a dream to make costumes for the movies. By the age of 18 she had launched her own business making bikinis and costumes for exotic… Audio

For his new book, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, has turned his attention to the US's initial response to Covid-19. Audio

Shaun Bythell has run Wigtown's The Bookshop since 2001. It's the largest second hand bookshop in Scotland with shelves spanning nearly two kilometres and containing over 100,000 books. His trademark… Audio

Covid-19 cases have been spreading through the Everest Base Camp as Nepal deals with a surging outbreak of the virus. Despite this, there has been a record number of climbing permits issued as the… Video, Audio

"Racists Anonymous: the only requirement for membership is a desire to stop being racist." Tainui Tukiwaho is the director of Racists Anonymous, a new show at Auckland's Te Pou Theatre, Aotearoa's… Audio

Danny Elfman is best known for writing the theme tune for The Simpsons, but as a film composer he's had a stellar career - four Oscar nominations and collaborations with directors Tim Burton, Sam… Video, Audio

Before coming to public attention as a peanut butter baron Pic Picot had already lived a full and picaresque life. By the time he was 21, he had earned enough from making leather goods to pay for his… Audio, Gallery

For his new book Around the World in 80 Plants, Jonathan Drori traversed the globe, aiming to reveal the science of plants by showing how their worlds are intricately entwined with our own history… Audio

Christina Sweeney-Baird's debut novel The End of Men is centred around a global virus to which women are immune and which kills 90 percent of the world's men. It all seems very timely, but was… Audio

Documentary filmmaker Peter Young discusses his biggest project to date - the battle to save Aotearoa's native species from an army of predators. Every year, introduced predators devour the eggs and… Video, Audio