Spiritual Practices
Larry Pratt: guns and scripture
Larry Pratt is Executive Director Emeritus of Gun Owners of America, a national organisation dedicated to promoting the Second Amendment constitutional freedom to keep and bear arms. Audio
Jacinta Ruru: law from a Maori perspective
Kim Hill talks to Professor Jacinta Ruru (Raukawa), who has been the only Maori Law Faculty staff member at the University of Otago since 1999. She has designed a new experience of learning law that… Audio
Nights overseas-France and Italy
Italian born Euronews journalist Eri Garuti joins Bryan Crump to talk about the French housing minister asking for the public's help to host refugees in their homes and the burkini ban in Cannes… Audio
Nights' Overseas - The Pacific
RNZI senior journalist Johnny Blades discusses two unique sets of small islands facing existential threats. Takuu (also known as Mortlock) is a set of islands in a PNG atoll chain, populated by… Audio
Nights' Pundit - Religion
Religious studies Prof. Douglas Pratt from University of Waikato on one's faith in God or gods... Audio
Roxanne El-Hady: science and women
Kim Hill talks to Roxanne El-Hady, who won the 2016 Young Scientist of the Year Award in the UK while on a Nuffield Research Placement at Royal Holloway, University of London, for work reconstructing… Audio
Nights' Overseas Reports - Estonia
Editor-in-chief of Estonian World Silver Tambur reports from the Baltic region of Northern Europe, the Republic of Estonia. Audio
Gloriavale's not what you may think - film-maker
A director with unprecedented access to Gloriavale tells Wallace Chapman about the "magic and brilliant" place that's more progressive than most people think. Audio
Listener Feedback to Saturday Morning 23 July 2016
Kim Hill reads emails, text messages and tweets from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 23 July, who were spurred to respond by interviews with Norm Hewitt, Andy Bearpark, Rochelle… Audio
Terence Davies: quiet passion and sunset song
Kim Hill talks to Terence Davies, acclaimed screenwriter and film director, who is a guest at the 2016 New Zealand International Film Festival, presenting screenings of his two latest films, Sunset… Audio
Andy Bearpark: Iraq, Thatcher and yoga
Kim Hill talks to Andy Bearpark arrived in New Zealand in 2013 after a 40-year career as a war zone reconstruction expert. He was one of Margaret Thatcher's five Private Secretaries for three years… Audio
Mounting scrutiny of Muslims
Soraiya Daud talks about being Muslim and whether it's getting harder or easier. Audio
Turkey's secularism
Greg Barton of Deakin University discusses the complexities of secularism versus religion in Turkey. Audio
India's big issues - a student speaks out
Lynda Chanwai-Earle brings us a story from RNZ's Lynn Freeman who is in rural Kanha, central India. Lynn meets a young Indian student to hear about the big issues in India….sexism, women's safety, the… Video, Audio, Gallery
India's big issues - a student speaks out
Lynda Chanwai-Earle brings us a story from RNZ's Lynn Freeman who is in rural Kanha, central India. Lynn meets a young Indian student to hear about the big issues in India….sexism, women's safety, the…
AudioRobert Macfarlane: nature, landscape and language
Kim Hill talks to Dr Robert Macfarlane, a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Director of Studies in English. His first book, Mountains of the Mind (2003), and his second, The Wild Places… Audio
John Thornley - Songs of the Spirit
The Methodist lay-preacher, John Thornley, continues his series on the spiritual side of pop music.This evening he discusses I Dreamed a Dream sung by Aretha Franklin. Audio
Caitlin Doughty: Lessons from the crematorium
Kim Hill talks to funeral director and mortician Caitlin Doughty, creator of the web series Ask a Mortician, founder of The Order of the Good Death, and author of the 2014 book Smoke Gets in Your… Audio
Gregory O'Brien: Futuna Chapel
Kim Hill talks to painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien about his new book with Nick Bevin, Futuna: Life of a Building. Audio
Tasman council cracks down on Hare Krishnas
Tasman District Council has warned a Hare Krishna community near Nelson it has to fix operations around substandard food preparation and housing operations.
