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Here's the audio of Kim's interview with Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown this morning:
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Thanks to everyone who has listened in and taken part in the past three years on Saturday Morning. It's been an honour to bring you the great Kim Hill each week. Different lead producer from next week - but same amazing host and interviews. Thanks again to all - Dita De Boni
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"It's clear, if they got me back to Russia they would torture me, viciously, in order to extract a false confession."
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"I don't mind the label 'far-left'... just because they're at opposite ends of the spectrum doesn't mean they are equally bad." In Fear
@byroncclark
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Kim’s enjoyed having a new office mate around this week.
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"They believe they are doing good for the world... but their sources are so utterly devoid of the truth it leads them to bad decisions."
@davidfarrier
on the good intentions but ultimately dangerous consequences of the work of Covid conspiracy theorists
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PSA: Contrary to what Wikipedia is currently saying, Kim Hill was NOT, and has never been, a member of the Black Eyed Peas. In case it's left you wondering.
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Today marks 20 years since Kim started hosting Saturday Mornings !!🥳🥳🥳
We'd love to hear your stand-out Saturday morning memories, funny moments or favourite interviews...
Kim Hill is a broadcasting icon and today marks a special anniversary, she’s been hosting
@SaturdayRNZ
for 20 years! 🥳🎉🍾
Here’s a great frank discussion Kim had in late 2020 as part of our Behind the Mic series.
Watch the full interview here ▶️
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"If we all ate the New Zealander's diet we would need another planet."
@GeorgeMonbiot
on the grave problems with our pasture farming and the alternatives
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A sad day for Harry Leslie Smith fans today, RIP Harry. Kim spoke with him in 2017: '
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Guys, we have a slight change to our lineup tomorrow, but we don't think you will mind. Kim is only interviewing FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA after the 11am news. FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA, about his Apocalypse Now: Final Cut, which is soon to play at the NZ International Film Festival!
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Coming up at 9.30am: the extreme conspiracy theories given a platform Waitangi weekend last year as a convoy made its way to Parliament.
@byroncclark
on his book Fear.
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'I learn as much from my audience on Twitter as they learn from me."
@DanPriceSeattle
on how paying all his employees a minimum salary of $70,000 is going paying his all employees a minimum salary of $70,000
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We're back, fam! First show of 2022 tomorrow - we'll be joined by
@BillHayesNYC
discussing the history of exercise; Rebecca Johnson of
@nuclearban
on her Greenham Common days; and composer Karl Steven joins us for Playing Favourites. Tune in from 8am👌
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'I think my abiding memory will be what a privilege it's been to be in this role, at this time, and in this country' An exit interview with Dr Ashley Bloomfield.
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"Our agricultural practice for the last 10,000 years has actually been about restoring organic matter to the soil through using animals."
@FructoseNo
Gary Fettke on the demonisation of meat
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"Kim Hill superbly slaying stupid divisive ignorant petty (and often anonymous) listener feedback is... the best time" writes
@fixiebelle
. Well here you go dear potty and non-pottymouthed listeners
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After 9am tomorrow morning: the science supernova, Prof Brian Cox, who will soon be gracing our shores
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I ain't too proud to beg for likes on this one, which I don't think got enough love the first time .... the novelist BARBARA KINGSOLVER, author of THE POISONWOOD BIBLE and others, talks to Kim after the 8am news tomorrow morning!
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The new DA of San Francisco
@chesaboudin
has released almost half his city's inmates during the Covid-19 crisis - but his own father remains in a New York prison:
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No kidding, we had a moment of quiet happiness about our latest survey results - up 14,000 or so to 272,000 listeners, and over 800K page views. Thanks for tuning in of a Saturday Morning!
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"How could we have a functioning prosperous market based economy that doesn't foster inequality and which is not constantly hostage to financiers and share markets..." former Greek finance minister and economist
@yanisvaroufakis
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"My uncle, a herdsman, would take 180 years to emit the amount of carbon emitted by an American in one year" - Winnie Byanyima
@Oxfam
on now
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Listeners loved her or loved to hate her - hear her for yourself. Christina Hoff Sommers with Kim. Audio:
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Kim won't boast about ratings, but she's gained 33,500listeners in the past 6 months,& remains Saturday's top banana! Thanks for listening!
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#LISTEN
🔊: Kim Hill spoke with opposition leader Christopher Luxon on
@NZMorningReport
this morning - talking co-governance, tax for the wealthy and cutting public holidays.
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The remarkable Tiktok sensation which is
@DovForman
and his great-grandmother Lily Ebert, a Holocaust survivor.
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Taking public media to the source: Toby Manhire with Otago Regional Council candidate 'Slime the Nitrate Monster'
@toby_etc
of
@TheSpinoffTV
with us just after 8.30am
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Thanks to everyone who listens to Saturday Morning - our audience has grown by almost 18,000 over the yr and Kim remains
#1
cume and share!
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Coming up on Kim's final show this morning:
@MichaelRosenYes
;
@AdrianEdmondson
; Richard Flanagan;
@timminchin
; Gary McCormick, and Kim plays favourites!
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Just sometimes interviews don't go quite as you hoped. Trainwreck was the word used on air today to describe this interview - but we all also thought there is much of interest to share...
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"I'm not trying to get away from so-called classical music... I am trying to understand what exists." Boundary-breaking virtuoso violinist Hilary Hahn
@violincase
on her way to Aotearoa.
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A reminder that Kim's interviewing
@MargaretAtwood
live on stage in Wellington at the Michael Fowler Centre tomorrow night (10 Feb). If there's a question you'd like Kim to ask, please post it here
#AskAtwood
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Tomorrow after 9am: Margaret Atwood on why The Handmaid's Tale is a cautionary tale for our time
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'We want them infected," was the call of then presidential science adviser Paul Alexander. It's the title of
@19joho
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"It is open ethnic cleansing." War reporter and academic Aris Roussinos (
@arisroussinos
) spoke to Kim about the significance of the week's events in northern Syria.
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Kim Hill is just off the phone to Werner Herzog. Hear the great director's take on life and film around 8.30am, Sat.
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"Too many middle class women are constrained by a bourgeois code of niceness ... they don't want to do something unladylike by standing up for themselves." - feminist Camille Paglia on men, women, and sex. 8.10am, Saturday
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Musical legend
@DollyParton
is talking to Kim on the show this Saturday 21st November at 0905 NZT. Join us!
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On now: Jemaine Clement, seen here with some of the crew from his new TV series Wellington Paranormal
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That's a wrap for 2022. As Kim and Weyes Blood both said this morning a long, strange year. We're back for Saturday January 28. Thank you for following. Nga mihi from us all
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“We had an identity which was so overwhelming and so suffocating in a way, that just being free of it is itself a source of national energy" -
@fotoole
on Ireland's post-identity identity.
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Finally tomorrow: Oobah Butler is, in the nicest possible way, a professional sh*tstirrer who has achieved some remarkable public feats of trickery. His new book is called 'How to Bullsh*t Your Way to Number 1'.
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Very sad news about Douglas Wright. Kim conducted an in-depth interview with him last year:
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After 9am tomorrow morning - Don Brash, and why he's so annoyed with RNZ's move to incorporate more Te Reo in its broadcasts
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Coming up this Saturday. How do you like dem apples?
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Saturday Morning with Kim Hill will not be broadcasting live from WOMAD tomorrow morning, we apologise for the change of programming. Please tune in for the latest on the situation in Christchurch from the news team Saturday Morning instead - and we'll be back next week.
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The correct way to say welcome to Saturday Morning is: Hei āpõpõ ki runga I te hotaka a Saturday Morning. One of the many advantages of working with Mihi Forbes! Thanks Mihi!
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Kim Hill will be presenting
@SaturdayRNZ
as usual, but will also co-host
@NZMorningReport
with
@SusieFergusonNZ
for the next 2 weeks.
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Barber Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown of
@sheisnotyour
talks to Kim Hill about his own difficult journey that led to offering men not just a haircut, but a safe space to talk without judgement.
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"We keep on repeating and repeating mythological stories about our capacities as a species"
@davidwengrow
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A reminder that Kim's interview with the legendary
@DollyParton
will be coming up on
@radionz
in a couple of hours at 0905 NZT (and online by 1000)
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Yes, you heard right - we have veteran UK director Ken Loach (I, Daniel Blake) in conversation with Kim on Saturday, after the 9am news
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Some lovely feedback for Kim's interview w
@daniel_m_lavery
. One listener writes:
"...the most heartwarming interview I've ever heard. What a beautiful eloquent mind and inspiring approach to such potentially difficult things turned into blessings."
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Te Taka Keegan explains how he's building the Google Translate tool in te reo Māori
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"The first time I heard John Coltrane I believed, and I still believe, I was listening to the voice of God." Stories and songs with
@warrenellis13
of
@nickcave
& the Bad Seeds
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Join us just after 8am for a chat with renown Wellington doctor Carol Shand, who revolutionised the care of sex abuse victims
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On now: Isabelle Lomax-Sawyers, with a plea for compassion towards the overweight from the medical establishment
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A base on the moon in the 2030s and a settlement on Mars by the end of the century? This and news in from the Artemis mission with great pics with
@planet4589
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"I can't censor myself. There's some limiting factor that most people have that I don't have in my makeup" Actor Miriam Margolyes
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After 11am: Jo McColl has spent her entire working life in a Unity bookshop - she owns the Auckland store. She talks about growing her business - and the "fake news" about the end of books.
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"Maybe the internet will break democracy"
@ggatehouse
on why the QAnon conspiracy refuses to die. As Gabriel outlines, something like 25% of Republican are said to believe the story. He believes it to be a genuine threat to democracy.
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"How come I look like a saddle, and you look like a fragrant fresh flower?" Kim Hill, as asking why years of sunbathing have not taken their toll on Dame Annette King.
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[LISTEN] "As you get older the prescription on your feminist glasses gets stronger"
@caitlinmoran
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Thanks for joining us today - catch up with what you missed at -
kite koe i Rāhoroi muri!
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"I happen to know you're a Portrait of a Lady fan..." The favourite books of co-host of literary podcast
@BacklistedPod
@johnmitchinson
with Kim Hill
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Kim exploring the feel of a war hammer in her hand while talking with mounted archer Denise Clifton
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"The listeners are very hostile this morning ... telling me I have never known how to pronounce anything in my entire life" - Kim Hill
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#LISTEN
Jackie Clark
@whaeapower
and Moeroa Marsters of
@aunties_the
on surviving domestic abuse
#HerSay
@PenguinBooks_NZ
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"You can't beat soap and water" Dr Chris Smith on why it's unnecessary to panic-buy hand sanitiser
#COVID19
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As you wish! Kim with Anthony Bourdain in 2010 following the release of his book, Medium Raw. Listen:
@SaturdayRNZ
listening to Kim, as I do, and feeling the loss of Anthony Bourdain. Strong sense that a Kim Hill and Anthony Bourdain interview would have been a great listen - substance, authenticity, strong people.
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The fact Dolly was surrounded by Christmas trees in November added to the joy! You can listen to all of it tomorrow/Saturday at 0905 NZT.
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Finally on the show tomorrow: Shayne Carter - his life, his times and his favourite music
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"It's not going to be an easy century. There's a huge amount of adapting to do, large swathes of our planet will be unlivable"
@WanderingGaia
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Tomorrow after 9am: Margaret Atwood speaks to Kim about the resurgence of The Handmaid's Tale
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"Love is the best thing ever".
@DollyParton
on life, love and (her favourite) lyrics. Coming up tomorrow/Saturday at 0905 NZT.
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