Kim Hill

Listener feedback for 30 October 2021. Audio

Award-winning journalist Steve Braunias has spent many years sifting through op shops to amass a collection of New Zealand pressed records that provide a fascinating window into our culture of the… Audio, Gallery

Maata Wharehoka (Ngati Tahinga, Ngati Koata, Ngati Apakura, Ngati Toa, Ngati Kuia) lives with a painful lung disease - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD. Her chronic pain is such that… Audio

British actress, activist and dedicated royalist Joanna Lumley is busier than she's ever been with multiple projects on the go, but somehow she's managed to find time to curate and edit a book… Video, Audio

At 15 years old Mikayla Cahill learned she was supposed to have been born a boy. Mikayla was born with an intersex condition called complete androgen insensitivity syndrome, meaning she started to… Audio

A senate panel in Brazil has backed a report calling for criminal charges against president Jair Bolsonaro for his handling of the Covid pandemic, including crimes against humanity. Professor Idelber… Audio

Dame Cindy Kiro became New Zealand's first female Maori governor-general when she was sworn in at a ceremony at parliament this week. Audio

Kim Hill reads listener feedback for Saturday Morning 23 October 2021. Audio

Organic gardener Kath Irvine returns to share some tips around spring gardening and to answer your questions. This week her topics include building your own compost and ensuring healthy citrus trees.

In the mid-1970s artist Fiona Clark pushed the envelope with her vivid photographs of Auckland's burgeoning queer scene. Four decades later, a new documentary directed by Lula Cucchiara recounts how… Audio, Gallery

British actress Miriam Margolyes talks to Kim Hill about her charming, funny and often serious new memoir This Much Is True. Video, Audio

Megan Dunn joins the show to discuss the intersection of art and life, looking at the ways art is and isn't good for our wellbeing. This week, what art hangs on the walls of the hospital and why? Audio, Gallery

The debut novel from Nathan Harris has received high praise and has been added to Barack Obama's summer reading list, selected for Oprah's Book Club, and longlisted for The 2021 Booker Prize. Audio

Tensions between China and Taiwan have been described as the worst in 40 years after the Chinese air force intensified its overflights into the Taiwanese air defence zone earlier this month. Susan… Audio

Canadian hospitals are firing or suspending healthcare workers who refuse to get vaccinated.

That includes in Quebec, where over 20,000 health care workers will be suspended.

In Ontario, there's no… Audio

New Zealand's legal aid system is in crisis according to some lawyers.

They say lawyers are ditching legal aid cases due to the low remuneration, and excessive, unpaid administration.

Here's Farah… Audio

Employment law experts say new Covid-19 vaccination orders provides little wiggle room for those refusing to get vaccinated.

New mandates have been announced for school staff who work with students… Audio

The Health Minister, Andrew Little, says there's surge capacity to fill crucial nursing gaps on short notice if the delta outbreak escalates.

Specialists say nurses are already stretched and there is… Audio