Kim Hill
Saturday Morning Feedback from 8 October
Kim reads out listener feedback from the show. Audio
Playing favourites with The Dunedin Study’s Richie Poulton
Professor Richie Poulton, director of the internationally-renowned Dunedin Study, joins Kim Hill to look back on his own life’s developments and play some favourite songs. Audio
Nick Ascroft: a nearly award-winning word finder
Poet Nick Ascroft considers one of his claims to fame to be "nearly winning the Kathleen Grattan Prize four times, the most anyone has nearly won it". Which might partly explain why his fifth… Audio
Kris De Decker: 'We need to reduce energy consumption no matter where the energy comes from'
After 11 years working as a science and tech journalist, Kris De Decker realised that low-tech is actually the way of the future. He's the creator of Low-Tech Magazine - a solar-powered website hosted… Audio
Dorian Llywelyn: miracles on the way to sainthood
The path to sainthood can be long - as long as a 1000 years. For Meri Hohepa Suzanne Aubert, who died in 1926, that path hit a snag earlier this year when the Vatican Medical Council decided a… Audio
Jamie McLellan: taking New Zealand design to the world
On Friday 7 October Jamie McLellan won the John Britten Black Pin at the Designers Institute of NZ's Best Design Awards, the most prestigious award on the New Zealand design calendar. Currently based… Audio, Gallery
Roxana Saberi: ‘Iran will never be the same again’
The headscarves women are required to wear by the Islamic Republic of Iran are now becoming a symbol of defiance. London-based CBS News correspondent Roxana Saberi was born in the United States to an… Audio
Saturday Morning Feedback for 24 September 2022
Feedback for Saturday Mornings with Kim Hill September 24th Audio
Top Stories for Friday 16 September 2022
It's Ramere - Friday September the 16th Anei nga kaupapa mo tenei haora.. Top stories this morning... Details of The Queen's State funeral have been released - it will be held at Westminister Abbey… Audio
Top Stories for Thursday 15 September 2022
The Queen is now lying in state at Westminster Hall in London with the public now able to pay teir respects. Back home, the ambulance driver involved in a fatal head-on collision yesterday has now… Audio
Top Stories for Monday 29 August 2022
Top Stories for 29 August 2022 We speak to the Prime Minister about efforts to get the body of Corporal Dominic Abelen home from Ukraine. The All Blacks have broken yet another record - losing to… Audio
Saturday Morning Feedback for 27 August 2022
Feedback for Saturday Mornings with Kim Hill August 27th Audio
Playing Favourites with Sophie Henderson
After a five-year hiatus, Sophie Henderson is making a return to the theatre for the lead role in the ferociously feminist and gloriously meta play, The Writer. Audio
Dr Deidre Brown: early Christian missions and taonga Maori
Dr Deidre Brown has a life-long interest in the relationship between Maori and early Christian missionaries. Audio, Gallery
Zarifa Gharafi: the mayor who faced the Taliban
In November 2019, Zarifa Ghafari became the mayor of Maidan Shahr, the capital city of Wardak Province, Afghanistan. She is one of the only female mayors in Afghan history and the youngest - appointed… Audio
Josephine Cachemaille: bringing back the 90s rave
What has 90s rave culture got to offer the anxious 2020s? Back in the mid-90s Nelson-based artist Josephine Cachemaille was cofounder and general manager of The Gathering, described as "New Zealand's… Audio, Gallery
Trevor Mallard: our Speaker of the House off to Ireland
The Right Honourable Trevor Mallard resigned as Speaker of the House this week after 35 years as a Member of Parliament. He will soon take up a three-year posting in Dublin as our second resident… Audio
Maggie O'Farrell: beauty & brutality in Renaissance Italy
Set in Renaissance Italy, Maggie O'Farrell's ninth novel The Marriage Portrait imagines the lost story of Lucrezia de' Medici, who was betrothed to the Duke of Ferrara at age 13. Audio
