Kim Hill
Marianne Schultz
Marianne Schultz danced professionally in New York as a member of Laura Dean Dancers and independent choreographers. After relocating to New Zealand she worked as dancer/teacher/rehearsal director… Audio
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eric Cornell who discovered new state of matter
Eric Cornell is an American physicist who, with Carl Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2001 for creating a new ultracold state of matter, the so-called Bose-Einstein… Audio
Tom Jennings on his documentary of archival footage of the Apollo moon missions
50 years ago humans landed on the moon for the first time and now footage from the Apollo missions has been crafted together in a documentary, Apollo: Missions To The Moon, which will screen on the… Audio, Gallery
Lisa Taddeo on Three Women, exploring female desire and sex
Described as putting sex in the mirror, Three Women explores our complicated relationship with sex through teenager Maggie, who is in a relationship with her high school teacher, Lina whose husband… Audio
Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning for 6 July 2019
Kim Hill reads listener feedback for Saturday Morning 6 July 2019. Audio
Lisa McMillan - Sharing food in the nude
The dress code for Lisa McMillan's experimental supper club is both simple and challenging - guests dine naked ( with the option of an apron for shy moments). The Naked Dinner began in London and is… Audio
John Flux - Lifelong ecologist
Internationally respected New Zealand ecologist John Flux has spent his life studying hares, starlings, and even his own cats. Audio
Brett Doar - contraptionist, kinetic sculptor, and engineer
Brett Doar is a contraptionist, kinetic sculptor, and engineer best known for his Rube Goldberg machines, which he has designed and engineered for the likes of Disney, and OK Go's This Too Shall Pass… Video, Audio
Dr Karen Grylls - long-time advocate for choral music
Voices New Zealand is the country's nationally-selected, professional choir and is hitting the road in July with five new works from five of New Zealand's most exciting composers - the first tour of… Audio
Arthur Tompkins - Art Crime
Arthur Tompkins is a trustee of the NZ Art Crime Research Trust and a District Court Judge in Wellington. In 2016 he edited Art Crime and Its Prevention (Lund Humphries, London), and the same… Audio, Gallery
Simon Schama - Historian and author's love affair with words
Simon Schama is Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York. He has written and presented forty television documentary films for the BBC, PBS, and The History Channel… Audio
Prof. Howard Gendelman - Eliminating HIV from the DNA of mice
This week, researchers from Temple University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) announced they had been able to eliminate HIV from the DNA of infected mice - a proof of concept the… Audio
Dr Merlyn Hay - Vet who discovered M. Bovis
In mid 2017 Oamaru veterinarian Dr Merlyn Hay noticed cows and calves on a South Canterbury property displaying unusual and distressing symptoms. Her dogged determination to find the cause of their… Audio
Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 29 June 2019
Kim Hill reads listener feedback for Saturday Morning 29 June 2019. Audio
Gunter Herbig - the music of Mansfield's favourite mystic
Classical and modern guitarist Gunter Herbig was born in Brazil, grew up in Portugal and Germany, and moved to New Zealand in 1989. A teacher, he was Head of Classical Guitar and Chamber Music at the… Audio
Sother Teague - New York mixologist and anti-Trump campaigner
A culinary school graduate, Sother Teague began his hospitality career in restaurant kitchens, then worked as a research and technical chef on the Food Network series, Good Eats. He subsequently moved… Audio
Ines Moran - Cuckoo vs Rifleman
Ines Moran is a PhD student in the Cain Lab at the University of Auckland, who researches dialects, vocal networks and vocal leaning (birdsong) in avian kinship groups. Her main area of study is the… Video, Audio
Shaun Barnett and Chris Maclean - NZ's first tramping club
New Zealand's first tramping club, The Tararua Tramping Club celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. These days tramping is a mainstream leisure pursuit but In 1919 it was viewed as a very odd way… Audio, Gallery
Finn McCahon-Jones - Colin McCahon's curatorial flair
Finn McCahon-Jones is is the grandson of one of New Zealand's most iconic painters, Colin McCahon. He recently began researching and writing about his grandfather's time as a curator at Auckland City… Audio, Gallery
Resurrecting Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace
A double album of Aretha Franklin's 1972 performance at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles became the highest-selling live gospel music recording of all time. It was also… Video, Audio