Kim Hill

In the 1960s June Nelson and her husband, renowned ornithologist Bryan Nelson, spent a "madcap" year camping in the Galápagos Islands to study the abundant birdlife. Audio, Gallery

Finding ground somewhere between memoir and history book, Fintan O'Toole documents the spectacular changes that have occurred in Ireland over the past six decades in his latest book We Don't Know… Audio

Rising musical theatre star Rutene Spooner is getting ready to hit the road with his show Thoroughly Modern Maui, in which the tricky demigod gets a modern-day makeover. Spooner wrote and performs in… Video, Audio

Traces of poliovirus in New York's sewage system have health authorities concerned a recent case could be the tip of the iceberg. Audio

A new documentary about the Gloriavale Christian Community follows a lone family as they mount a ground-breaking legal case against the community's powerful leaders, known as the shepherds. Video, Audio

A newly unveiled fossil fish called Qikiqtania wakei is thought to have shunned the forward march of evolution, eschewing the ability to walk and deciding to stay in the water. Audio

Los Angeles-based author Rachel Kushner covers diverse ground in her new collection of essays, from illegal motorbike racing on Baha Peninsula to recounting time spent in a Palestinian refugee camp. Audio

Britain's leading biographer Tom Bower has turned his sights on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry for his latest offering, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors. Audio

Listener feedback for 6 August 2022. Audio

Largely ignored following its release on Leonard Cohen's 1984 album Various Positions, 'Hallelujah' took a long, winding road to become a modern day anthem, covered by hundreds of artists around the… Video, Audio

Kate Camp's newly published memoir You Probably Think This Song Is About You borrows its title from Carly Simon's classic 1972 song 'You're so Vain'. So it's no surprise the Wellington poet is joining… Audio

The beetle larvae known as Zophobas morio - more commonly called superworms - have been found to be able to survive on a diet of polystyrene, a discovery which could help change the recycling… Video, Audio

In 1982, young filmmaker Robert B. Weide wrote a letter to his literary idol Kurt Vonnegut, proposing a documentary on the author's life and work. Vonnegut, who was 60 at the time, met Weide, and… Video, Audio

Celebrated saxophonist Lucien Johnson has poetry in the blood. He is the son of late poet Louis Johnson and first met his father's friend and fellow poet Peter Bland as a child. . For the upcoming… Audio

Lea Ypi grew up in Albania, once one of the most isolated countries on Earth and the last Stalinist outpost in Europe. But after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, everything changed. Audio