Kim Hill

Scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Kim to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week he's considering controversial Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson, author of… Audio

New York Times technology columnist and host of the podcast Rabbit Hole, Kevin Roose is the author of Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation, in which he lays out a vision for how… Audio

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the late Sir Paul Callaghan's legendary 'vision' speech at the McGuinness Institute event where he presented the idea of New Zealand becoming a place where… Audio

In her book Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film Helen O'Hara explores the role of women - both in front of the camera and behind it - since the birth of Hollywood. The dawn of… Audio

Javier Blas is chief energy correspondent at Bloomberg News and coauthor of The World For Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources. The book aims to lift the lid on the… Audio

Lingering symptoms such as crippling fatigue, "brain fog", breathlessness, heart palpitations, chest pain and aching muscles or joints are a grim reality for a subset of people infected with Covid-19… Audio

Dr Tom Doyle, who is a priest, canon lawyer and addictions therapist, this week gave evidence to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry faith-based redress hearing in Auckland, where he blamed… Audio

In the last year epidemiologist Michael Baker has become a household name and face. As a member of the Ministry of Health's Covid-19 technical advisory group he strongly advocated for an elimination… Audio, Gallery

Judy Melinek is a forensic pathologist at Wellington Hospital. Her training in forensics at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner is the subject of the memoir Working Stiff: Two Years… Audio

Caolan Robertson is a writer, filmmaker and former PR person for the alt-right. Between 2017 and 2019 he was a correspondent for Rebel Media, a director and producer for Alex Jones, Lauren Southern… Audio

A few weeks ago, Kim spoke to Professor Avi Loeb, the former chair of astrophysics at Harvard University, who believes an object that passed through our solar system had extraterrestrial origins. Avi… Audio

George Saunders won the Booker Prize for his 2017 novel Lincoln in the Bardo. For the last 20 years, he has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his students at Syracuse University. He… Audio

Mark Carney is the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Finance Adviser for COP26. He was Governor of the Bank of England until last year, and prior to… Audio