Kim Hill
Kate Camp - Robert Scott and The Worst Journey in the World
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
Author Tammy Robinson: 'The cliches are right, life is short'
After multiple miscarriages and the deaths of both her mother and a close friend, Tammy Robinson became determined to live out her dream of writing books and getting published. "It propelled me. It… Audio
Calexit: 'Red state America hates California'
Membership of the independence group Yes California increased by 400 per cent in the wake of Donald Trump's election. Marcus Ruiz Evans is head of Yes California - the largest of several groups… Audio
Steve Murphy and Javier Pena - The Narcos who helped capture Pablo Escobar
Javier Pena and Steve Murphy are agents for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). In the 1990s, the pair volunteered for an assignment in Bogota, Colombia, and set out to bring down the… Audio
Joanne Pirrie: putting the dance into WOMAD
Joanne Pirrie is performing at WOMAD 2019 as part of POP-UP Duets (fragments of love) with Edinborough dance company Janis Claxton Dance. Kim Hill spoke to her ahead of her visit. Video, Audio, Gallery
Sir Malcolm Grant - Billion-dollar health budget
Professor Sir Malcolm Grant CBE, was born in Oamaru and graduated from the University of Otago Law School. He left Aotearoa in 1972 for a career in the UK. He has recently stepped down after seven… Audio
'Insane Mode' - Elon Musk and the Tesla revolution
Elon Musk is unusual, difficult and vindictive - but he and his company Tesla have achieved amazing things, former insider and New Zealander Hamish McKenzie says. A former writer for Tesla, McKenzie… Audio
Listener feedback
Emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio
Sarah Ross - The Pulter Project
Sarah Ross is an associate professor in English at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research focuses on the writing of women in the Renaissance and early modern period, and especially on the… Audio
Dr Tony Fernando - Compassion in medicine
Solving the crisis of compassion in New Zealand medicine will require changes to the system, although mindfulness can also help, says one of the organisers of the country's first compassion in… Audio
Elizabeth Denham - Fighting data crime
Elizabeth Denham is the UK Information Commissioner and lead the raid on Cambridge Analytica in March this year. She gained a warrant to search the London-based data analytics company's records over… Audio
Rosanne Cash - She Remembers Everything
Singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash was born in 1955, the oldest of four children to legendary country musician Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian Liberto. She released her first album in 1978 in… Audio
Mary Robinson - Climate Justice
The former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson, has turned her energy to the fight against climate change. She has set up The Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice which focuses on the struggle… Audio
Cissy Rock - Pride parade wrangle
Cissy Rock is the president of the Auckland Pride Board, which has found itself in the headlines recently after opting to ban police wearing their uniforms at next year's Pride parade, saying certain… Audio
Dr Jeffrey Ross - The next frontier of cancer treatment
Dr Jeffrey Ross is the Medical Director for Foundation Medicine, Inc in Cambridge, US. He is a leader in the field of molecular diagnostics, having received a number of academic awards, been awarded… Audio
Listener feedback for 17 November 2018
Kim Hill reads emails and texts from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio
Listener feedback
Kim Hill reads emails and texts from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio
Angelique Kidjo: Diva from Benin
Singer/songwriter Angélique Kidjo is from Benin in West Africa. She's known for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. Her latest project is a reimagination of Talking Heads' 1980… Video, Audio
Logan Williams - Taking the fight to Didymo is What Logan Did
Twenty-two-year-old Logan Williams (Ngai Tahu) is an inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator, and the chief executive and founder of Biome Innovation Ltd. Growing up in Timaru, he saw firsthand the… Audio
Jeremy Salmond - Another honour for top heritage architect
Jeremy Salmond has just received the 2018 New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) Gold Medal in recognition of an outstanding career in heritage and conservation architecture. He was the founding… Audio, Gallery