Kim Hill
Dr Paul Wood: 'Prison was the most useful thing I could have experienced'
At the age of 19, Paul Wood was sentenced to life in prison for murder. Now he's a Doctor of Psychology, a development coach and the author of a new memoir How to Escape from Prison. He speaks to Kim… Audio
Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 22 June 2019
Kim Hill reads listener feedback for Saturday Morning 22 June 2019. Audio
Kate's Klassics: James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk
Author and reviewer Kate Camp talks about James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk, the story of young black couple in Harlem in the 1970s whose lives are torn apart by a false criminal accusation… Audio
Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
Francis Ford Coppola is one of Hollywood's pre-eminent directors, producers and screenwriters. His first directorial success was Finian's Rainbow in 1968, and he was propelled to the top tier of… Audio
Swedish photographer wins plaudits for Migrant Caravan
Internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Pieter Ten Hoopen has won the Spot New Stories category in this year's World Press Photo Exhibition with his photo story called The Migrant… Audio, Gallery
Playing Favourites with Julian Arahanga
Julian Arahanga grew up in small town Raetihi. He's the half brother of actor Tammy Davis and the son of Sleeping Dogs producer Larry Parr. As an actor Arahanga is best known for playing Nig Heke in… Audio
Leaving Country Life to return to the country life
Hamilton-based Susan Murray has just retired after 21 years of co-hosting RNZ show Country Life. She recently won the 2019 Ravensdown Agricultural Communicator of the year award at the Mystery Creek… Audio
Arundhati Roy on writing and politics
Indian author Arundhati Roy is a vocal critic of Hindu-nationalism and recently re-elected prime minister Narendra Modi, who she says was re-elected after an "orgy of nationalism." Roy who catapulted… Audio
John Flux - Lifelong ecologist
Internationally respected New Zealand ecologist John Flux has spent his life studying hares, starlings, and even his own cats. His study of starlings in Belmont Regional Park, near Wellington, has… Audio
Toast and marmite reveal sexism alive and well at King’s College in the era of girl power
At the 2018 Word Christchurch writers' festival, 125 years of women's suffrage is discussed by a panel of leading New Zealanders. Kim Hill is in the chair. Audio
Annabel Crabb - Australia Decides 2019
Annabel Crabb is the ABC's Chief Political Writer and presenter of Back in Time for Dinner, The House and the highly acclaimed Kitchen Cabinet series on ABC TV. She is also a regular contributor and… Audio
Douglas Coupland: I miss my pre-internet brain
Douglas Coupland sometimes misses the time before the dawn of the internet, but says once you get addicted to any increased level of speed of information you can never go backwards. Mixing the bizarre… Audio
Ken Ramirez - Understanding Dogs and other animals
Ken Ramirez is a world authority on animal training. His work history includes 26 years Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, where he developed and supervised animal care and animal health programs, staff… Audio
Carla Guelfenbein - In the Distance with You
Carla Guelfenbein is a novelist and screenwriter and was born in Santiago to a Russian-Jewish family. She is one of Chile's bestselling writers and the author of five novels including In the Distance… Audio
Murray Cammick and Chris Bourke - Rip It Up meets digital age
This week the first 100 issues of local music magazine Rip It Up went live in digitised form at the the National Library's Papers Past website. It's the first time Papers Past has digitised a… Audio
Professor Glynn Owens, Prince of the Pole
Retired psychology professor Glynn Owens – aka 'The Prince' – is one of the top five amateur pole dancers in New Zealand. Video, Audio
Josh Gerstein - Australia's deal to resettle terrorists
Josh Gerstein is senior legal affairs contributor for Politico. This week he has reported on the case of Leonidas Bimenyimana and Gregoire Nyaminani, two Rwandan men who, along with a third, Francois… Audio
Alison Stringer - Gathering mushrooms in May
Alison Stringer works a government job by day, and is a scientist and lifelong forager. A trained mycologist (fungi expert), she undertook graduate studies in Dr Ian Hall's edible ecomycorrhizal fungi… Audio, Gallery
Cliff Curtis - How Merata Mita decolonised the screen
Cliff Curtis is one of New Zealand's most well known actors. His local successes include Once Were Warriors and Whale Riders and he has also had roles in international films including Last Nights and… Audio