Kim Hill
Top Stories for Friday 10 November 2017
TPP APEC talks 'tough going' - Ardern, Winston Peters comments on legal action for first time, Gareth Morgan expels TOP candidate over cat comment, Refugee sex offender's release raises alarm bells. Audio
Top Stories for Thursday 9 November 2017
Ardern takes first step on world stage at APEC, Teacher's misconduct charge 'PC gone mad', Paradise Papers: Super Fund confirms link, NCEA exams begin, students struggle to turn phones off Audio
Manus detainees will die on island rather than move
Manus Island refugees say they are determined to stay on the island's detention centre - even if it means dying there. One of the refugees, Sudanese man Abdul Aziz Adam says the refugees are united. Audio
Top Stories for Wednesday 8 November 2017
It's been a wild night of weather for the South Island. Huge gusts of wind caused power cuts on much of the West Coast, the top of the South Island and the east coast down into north Canterbury… Audio
Top Stories for Monday 6 November 2017
Ardern refuses to side-step Australia over Manus, PNG Supreme Court to hear Manus refugees' lawyers, Mother of suicidal son urges govt on mental health inquiry, Pacific pride takes Hamilton in… Audio
Listener Feedback for 4 November 2017
Kim Hill reads listener feedback to the Saturday morning programme. Audio
Fasitua Amosa and David Fane - The Mountaintop
The Mountaintop is an award-winning play by African American playwright Katori Hall, based on a fictional account of Martin Luther King's last night on earth at the Lorraine Motel Room in Memphis… Audio
Jamie Joseph - Saving the Wild
Jamie Joseph was raised in Durban, South Africa. She moved to London at the age of 20 to work for Microsoft, and five years later moved back to South Africa to produce music, arts and culture… Audio
Jan Carson - 365 Postcard Stories
Jan Carson is a writer based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her first novel, Malcom Orange Disappears in 2014 was followed by a short story collection Children's Children in 2016. Her latest… Audio
Tamati Kruger - Koia mārika ‒ So it is
Tāmati Kruger was educated at Victoria University in Wellington, where he also tutored in te reo Māori and was involved in the early days of the Te Reo Māori Society in the 1970s. He is the chief… Audio
Tom Scott - Seriously Funny
Drawn Out: A seriously funny memoir is Tom Scott's account of his life so far. From his hard-knock childhood, his days on student newspapers, making friends and enemies in the corridors of power and… Audio
William Trubridge: the life aquatic
UK-born New Zealander William Trubridge started freediving at the age of eight, and began to train seriously in Italy when he was 23. Two years later he was the first freediver to dive at Dean's Blue… Audio
Editing Our Genes: Pest Control
Kim Hill talks to Josephine Johnston, Dr Andrea Byrom, Kevin Hackwell, and Jan Hania about using gene editing as a weapon against animals which are pests in New Zealand. Audio
Editing Our Genes: Agriculture
Kim Hill talks with Josephine Johnston, Julie Everett-Hincks, Kevin Prime, and William Rolleston about the impact of new technologies on agriculture. Are we in the post-Frankenfood era? Audio
Editing Our Genes: fertility and human reproduction
Kim Hill talks to Josephine Johnston, Mary Birdsall, Maui Hudson, and Andrew Shelling about what gene editing means for human fertility and reproduction. Audio
Listener Feedback for 7 October 2017
Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio
Editing our genes: medical issues
Should we do something just because we can? Such as engineering DNA - something now within reach. Kim Hill talks to Josephine Johnston, Peter Fineran, Colin Gavaghan and Jennie Harre Hindmarsh. Audio
Listener Feedback for 30 September 2017
Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio
Al Brown revisits Kiwi food classics
We should be wonderfully proud of New Zealand food culture, says shepherd-turned-chef Al Brown. He updates Kiwi classics like such as roast lamb, corned beef and cheese scones in the new book Eat Up… Audio
Graeme Aitken - Called to teaching at 15
Professor Graeme Aitken is about to step down as the Dean of Education and Social Work at The University of Auckland after more than four decades teaching both students and teachers. He's held a… Audio