Kim Hill
Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 13 April 2019
Kim Hill reads listener feedback for Saturday Morning, 13 April 2019. Audio
Gretchen Albrecht, Luke Smythe: Between gesture and geometry
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
Max Olijnyk: why I love skateboarding
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 - How are we to live after trauma?
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
Understanding Neanderthals and our relationship to them
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
Go, Went, Gone - the asylum seeker experience in Germany
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
Soothing international disputes with science diplomacy
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
Listener feedback for Saturday Morning 6 April 2019
Kim Hill reads listener feedback for Saturday Morning 6 April 2019. Audio
Kate Camp - Kate's Klassics: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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 - Poet, performer, publisher, and broadcaster
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
Dr Natalie Schilling - Solving crimes through language
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
Reuben Friend and Ioana Gordon-Smith - A camera on the shore
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
Sarah Perry on leaving the church to become a writer
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 - Balladeer releases new album Begin Again
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 - Frensham Gardens
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
Colin Keating: Remembering the Rwandan genocide
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
Listener feedback for 23 March 2019
Emails and texts from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio
Rebecca Vaughan - Orlando
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
Vicki Saunders - SHeEO activators empower female entrepreneurs
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
Dr John Buckleton - Top forensics team win PM's Science Prize
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