Kim Hill

Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

New Zealand writer discussing When Dad Showed Me the Universe by Ulf Stark, illustrated by Eva Erksson, Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage, and Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash. Audio

Australian writer who worked in the United Kingdom as a journalist, and as ghostwriter for politicians and celebrities including Rolf Harris. He has been a bestselling crime fiction writer since 2002… Audio

Director of Community Music Junction, an organisation which enables people to sing together and learn a range of musical instruments, and founding musical director of the Wellington Community Choir… Audio

Andreas Elpidorou is an assistant professor in philosophy at the University of Louisville and recently wrote an article about the value of boredom and what it’s trying to tell us. He explains why it’s… Audio

New Zealand author who works as the Section Manager of Marine Policy, Planning and Regulations at the Environment Agency in Abu Dhabi. His new book, Conquistador Puzzle Trail, assesses possible… Audio

Notary Public and visiting research fellow at Plymouth University, who fought a freedom of information case to access papers showing the extent of the Queen and Prince Charles's secretive power of… Audio

Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University, who has been studying vocal fry, a guttural growl sound formed in the back of the throat that is prevalent at the end of words and… Video, Audio

Why does Gallipoli loom so large in the imagination of Australians and New Zealanders? What are the realities and the myths? Kim Hill discusses these questions with historians Dr Christopher Pugsley… Audio, Gallery

Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 8 August 2015. Audio

Wellington poet discussing the 1936 novel Passport to Hell by Robyn Hyde, republished this year by Auckland University Press in an edition that includes Hyde's final authorised text from 1937. Audio

South Korean-born writer who has written an undercover memoir, Without You, There is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite. She will be a guest at Shifting Points of View during the… Audio

Emmy Award-winning director, writer and producer whose new documentary, Belief: the Possession of Janet Moses, is screening throughout the country at the New Zealand International Film Festivals. Video, Audio

Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 1 August 2015. Audio

Author of Wulf, which won Best First Book of Fiction at the 2012 New Zealand Book Awards. His new book, The Pale North, is set in 1998 Wellington, after it has been devastated by a series of… Audio

Curator of Ornithology at Harvard University, who will visit New Zealand in August as an Allan Wilson Centre guest speaker for a series of public talks, Bird Evolution: From Dinosaurs to DNA. Audio

New Zealand musicians based in Europe, studying and freelancing in top orchestras. They perform together as the Mimosa Ensemble, and have returned to New Zealand for the 50th Jubilee Celebrations of… Video, Audio

Dyslexia specialist, who is offering individualised learning programmes for children and adolescents with dyslexia at the Summit Academy in Auckland. She is a member of a charitable trust that plans… Audio

Editor of the Pirate Times, and chair of the Pirate Party of New Zealand, and Pirate Parties International. Audio

Water policy analyst within the Environment Directorate at the OECD. Audio