Kim Hill

Like many young New Zealanders, aspiring architect Pete Bossley jumped on a plane and headed off for a year or two of travel. Audio, Gallery

The Australian scientist, writer, explorer and environmental activist Tim Flannery is passionate about climate change, and how to stop it. But he's fed up of the disconnect between the politicians'… Audio

He's become the academic poster boy of the intermittent fasting movement. Professor Valter Longo's work on how the human body behaves when we deprive it of energy has inspired a range of diet books… Audio

Novelist, travel writer and academic, Sarah Moss is earning rave reviews for her latest novel Ghost Wall. It's been described as a Brexit-inspired parable, populated by characters plotting a path… Audio

The English singer-songwriter Lloyd Cole came to fame in the 1980s with his band The Commotions, releasing a string of catchy, crafted hits like Perfect Skin, Rattlesnakes and Lost Weekend. Audio

Professor Nicholas Wareham is a British epidemiologist from the University of Cambridge who researches obesity, diabetes, and other metabolic disorders. Audio

A new interstellar comet some 20 kilometres wide and trailing gas has recently been spotted entering our solar system. Audio

Director and actor Sima Urale has just been announced as a 2019 Arts Foundation Laureate. Her work combines Samoan and urban New Zealand perspectives to tell Pacific stories. As the first female… Audio

At a music festival in England, Gina Martin caught someone taking photos up her skirt. Despite complaining to security and the police, the perpetrator walked free, as legally he hadn't done anything… Audio

David Spiegelhalter has built a career sorting the lies from the statistics. In his new book The Art of Statistics the Cambridge Professor shares his passion for data, scientific evidence and risk… Audio

Brazilian David Schurmann jumped ship in New Zealand at age 16 while his family were sailing round the world and ended up staying for six years, studying filmmaking and working as a TV director. Now… Audio

American writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner has profiled an amazing range of celebrities – and is best known for her deep dive into the Goopy world of Gwyneth Paltrow. She talks to Kim Hill about celebrity… Audio

An ageing and growing population means the number of New Zealanders diagnosed with cancer is predicted to double by 2040. This is just one of the challenges facing University of Otago epidemiologist… Audio

Drug overdose is now the most common cause of death for Americans under 50, with nearly 50,000 people dying each year after taking opioids. Pulitzer-prize winning Washington Post journalist Scott… Audio

Craig Potton is an acclaimed landscape photographer, conservationist, traveller and publisher. He is also the Chair of the Nelson Suter Art Gallery. He is currently working on two books, one taking a… Audio, Gallery

Sophisticated digital imaging technology is being used to create 'Deep Fakes'; images and videos that are indistinguishable from reality. Things have moved on from celebrity faces being superimposed… Video, Audio