Kim Hill Collection

Auckland's Centrepoint commune was closed down in 2000, and its founder Bert Potter jailed for drug crimes and sexual abuse of minors. Angie Meiklejohn moved to the commune with her mother and three siblings in the late 1980s when she was 15. She tells Kim Hill, in 2019, that participating in the documentary 'Angie' has lifted her shame about what happened there. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

David Simon, creator of 'The Wire', regarded by some critics as the best TV series ever made, talked to Kim Hill in 2020 about his television series 'The Plot Against America', and perceptions of belonging in his home country, the United States.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Ella Yelich-O'Connor - better known as Lorde - shot to fame with her hit single ''Royals in 2013, which took out a Grammy Award for Song of the Year. In 2017, ahead of the release of her album 'Melodrama', she spoke with Kim Hill about feeling free, hearing colours and the oddness of some of her "spicy" fan mail.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Feminist author and academic Camille Paglia joins Kim to talk about her book released in 2018 - a collection of essays on modern feminism called 'Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism'. Paglia is a University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Kim Hill interviews historian and writer Dr Michael King, discussing his optimism for Māori and Pākehā relations, the power of knowledge in dissolving prejudice, the controversy over access to the sea bed and its implications for Maori-Pakeha relations, the plurality of history and the responsibility of a historian, and unraveling stories and rumors about Maori Ori and Waitaha.

Armando Iannucci, critically-acclaimed comedy writer and producer, discusses his film 'The Death of Stalin', examining the relevance of comedic portrayals of political figures, the impact of ignoring the majority in politics, the success of British comedy in America, the threat to the BBC, the importance of examining facts versus belief, and the movie's comedic take on the power struggle in the Kremlin after Stalin's death.

Jacqueline Fahey was one of the first New Zealand artists to paint from a woman's perspective, illustrating "the theatricality of domestic life" and, in the 1950s, the crippling isolation of women in the suburban family home. Fahey tells Kim Hill she's always been a rebel. The painter is also a writer of two memoirs and two novels. She lost belief in God aged eight when the nuns at her boarding school said that her pet dogs hadn't gone to heaven. Fahey described herself as not a lapsed but a 'fallen over' Catholic.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

The author of 10 novels, Colm Tóibín speaks with Kim Hill in 2022 about his 2021 Folio Prize winning book 'The Magician', a fictionalised account of the life of Thomas Mann. Tóibín's novels 'The Blackwater Lightship' and 'The Master' were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the latter winning the 2006 International Dublin Literary Award. His 2022 collection of essays 'A Guest at the Feast' begins by taking us back to his childhood in Enniscorthy, County Wexford.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Kim Hill interviews one of New Zealand's most distinguished scientists, the late Sir Paul Callaghan. Sir Paul was educated at Victoria and won a Commonwealth Scholarship to Oxford University. His cutting-edge research in the development of nuclear magnetic resonance methods has significantly impacted medicine, physics, and biology. Not only was he a renowned scientist but a remarkable science communicator helping ordinary people understand complex issues. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

American musician Sonny Rollins is regarded as one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists. He's been a professional jazz player for more than 60 years, famous for his improvisation. Sonny Rollins spoke with Kim Hill in 2011 when he visited New Zealand for the Wellington Jazz Festival.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details