Kim Hill

Gretchen Albrecht is one of New Zealand's most prominent painters. A forerunner of the women's art movement, Albrecht's work of the 1960s and 70s anticipated key aspects of feminist art practice. Art… Audio, Gallery

To 'look' like a skater is still a badge of honour even for a "grey-haired dad with a bad knee", says writer and skateboarder Max Olijnyk. He tells Kim Hill why, in his 40s, he's still completely… Video, Audio

Maria Tumarkin is an Australian author, cultural historian and professor of writing at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of four critically-acclaimed books of ideas including Otherland… Audio

Ella Al-Shamahi is an archaeologist, palaeoanthropologist and Neanderthal specialist, and also a stand-up comic. She almost exclusively works "in places hard to get insurance" including Iraq and… Audio

Novelist, playwright and opera director, Jenny Erpenbeck is one of Europe's major literary voices. Born in East Berlin in 1967, she is the author of seven works of fiction, including The Book of Words… Audio

Dr Vaughan C. Turekian is the Executive Director of the Policy and Global Affairs Division (PGA) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. He also serves as an honorary… Audio

Kate Camp is the author of six collections of poetry published by Victoria University Press, the most recent of which is The internet of things (2017). She's won the New Zealand Book Award for The… Audio

Luke Wright is a poet, performer, publisher, curator and broadcaster. He has written and performed nine spoken word shows and two verse plays, including The Toll, Frankie Vah, and What I Learned from… Video, Audio

Many years ago, a 13-year-old girl went missing in California. In the early 2000s, a woman turned up claiming to be her.  Right away there were things about the woman and her story seemed off. To help… Audio

The exhibition From the Shore considers the influence of Māori filmmakers Barry Barclay and Merata Mita on a current generation of artists, specifically those working with moving image.  Audio, Gallery

British author Sarah Perry has followed up her number-one bestseller The Essex Serpent ​with a novel called Melmoth. She talks to Kim Hill about faith, illness, moral courage and her taste for the… Audio

Norah Jones first emerged on the world stage with the 2002 release of Come Away With Me. Since then, Jones has sold 50 million albums worldwide and become a nine-time Grammy-winner. She's released a… Audio

Margaret Long developed a life-changing passion for gardening 30 years ago after a garden tour of the UK, followed by numerous local visits and the development of her own garden in Canterbury, known… Audio, Gallery

Twenty-five years ago, a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi was shot down over an airport in Rwanda. The event marked the beginning of a genocide in which an estimated one million… Audio

Actor and playwright Rebecca Vaughan has appeared in film, television and on stage. her celebrated solo shows with colleague Elton Townend-Jones include Austen's Women, Dalloway and Jane Eyre: An… Audio

Canadian Vicki Saunders is an entreprenuer, mentor and business advisor, and the founder of SheEO, an organisation that raises funding to help grow female-run businesses. The SheEO system sees 500… Audio

A team of ESR scientists have recently received New Zealand's most valuable science prize for the development of STRmix - scientific software that is used to interpret DNA material from a crime scene… Audio