Kim Hill
Top Stories for Monday 27 February 2023
Top stories for 27 February 2023 Some areas devastated by Cyclone Gabrielle may never be built on again, The government announces emergency grants of up to 40 thousand dollars for flood affected… Audio
Listener Feedback for 25 February 2023
Kim Hill reads listener feedback for 25 February 2023. Audio
Dancing the stories of Australia's great desert regions
Between the 1920s and 1960s many Aboriginal people from Australia's great Western Desert and Kimberley regions were removed from their country and forced into hard labour on livestock stations… Audio
John Miller: a life behind the lens at protests
Protest photographer John Miller (Ngapuhi) has made a career capturing some of the most politically charged moments in our history. Audio
Prof Roger Lentle: can wild deer and conservation coexist?
Roger Lentle can tell a lot from a hoofprint. He's spent half a century hunting, tracking and studying deer. and has just published Tracking and Finding Deer in New Zealand. Deer are known to cause… Audio
East Coast residents still struggle to contact friends, family
People in cyclone hit areas on the East Coast are still struggling to get in touch with family and friends.
This Gisborne woman says the hardest thing about the storm has been not being able to… Audio
Top Stories for Friday 17 February 2023
Top stories for 17 February 2023. The second firefighter who was criticially injured when he was hit by a slip in Muriwai has died in hospital from his injuries bringing the death toll from Cyclone… Audio
Top Stories for Thursday 16 February 2023
The death toll from Cyclone Gabrielle has risen to five, with a body found in floodwaters in Gisborne. There have also been hundreds of people rescued from floodwaters and slips - with more rescue… Audio
Top Stories for Wednesday 15 February 2023
Top stories for 15 February 2023.
The country is in a State of National Emergency after what's being described as "the most significant weather event this century".
At least two people have died in… Audio
Top Stories for Tuesday 14 February 2023
Top Stories for Tuesday 14 February 2023. Flooding, slips, downed trees and powerlines are causing major problems from Northland to Hawke's Bay with roads closed in all affected regions. A firefighter… Audio
Top Stories for Monday 13 February 2023
Top stories for 13 February 2023. Prime Minister stuck in Auckland as Cyclone Gabrielle arrives; Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Taupo flights cancelled; Auckland Transport update on roads as Cyclone… Audio
Megan Dunn on art: Joe L'Estrange and Nick Austin
Author and art writer Megan Dunn joins Kim to share the work of Otepoti based artists Joe L'Estrange and Nick Austin. Audio, Gallery
John Otway: the success of rock 'n' roll's biggest failure
Last year eccentric English singer-songwriter John Otway celebrated his 5000th show. Yet it's taken till this month for him to tour New Zealand. Self-dubbed "rock n roll's greatest failure", in 1977… Video, Audio
Byron C. Clark: fear and loathing in Aotearoa
In Fear: New Zealand's hostile underworld of extremists Christchurch activist Byron C Clark traces the roots of the occupation to the reemergence of the alt-right. A video essayist on Youtube, Clark… Audio
Kevin Jared Hosein: hungry ghosts of Trinidad's colonial legacy
Set in 1940s rural Trinidad, Kevin Jared Hosein's debut novel Hungry Ghosts reflects on the fractures left for the Southern Caribbean island by a complex colonial legacy. Audio
Prof Michelle Simmons: making machines at the atomic limit
Professor of quantum physics Michelle Simmons believes new worlds will open up to humanity if we better understand how nature works at an atomic scale. In June her team at Silicon Quantum Computing at… Audio
Sarah Polley on female solidarity, faith and her new film Women Talking
In Sarah Polley's new film Women Talking, a group of Mennonite women who've been sexually abused secretly gather in a barn to discuss their future. The Canadian actor-director says that despite the… Video, Audio
