Kim Hill Collection

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A good interview is equal parts art and science. For more than 30 years, Kim Hill has set the gold standard. She is, by popular acclaim, one of the finest interviewers New Zealand has ever produced. In this collection, we delve into the archives to bring you a selection of her best interviews. These interviews are incisive and insightful; sometimes uproarious, sometimes heartbreaking, always striving to provide for us a moment of discovery and delight.

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2019: John Oh

Jan 08 2024 38 mins  
New Zealand and New South Wales are the only places in the world where sex work is fully decriminalised. John Oh, a heterosexual male escort, talks with Kim Hill in 2019 about his life as a sex worker, and how straight men like himself are a "tiny minority" in the sex industry.

2023: Bill Bailey

Jan 07 2024 28 mins  
Bill Bailey has been described as Britain's biggest alternative act, regarded there as a national treasure. Best known for his film and television work on ‘Never Mind the Buzzcocks’, ‘QI’, he was also host of the first season of NZ comedy panel show ‘Patriot Brains’. He speaks with Kim Hill in 2023 ahead of his visit to New Zealand for his comedy tour ‘Thoughtifier.�

2023: Emma Espiner

Jan 06 2024 29 mins  
Award-winning writer, Dr Emma Espiner (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Porou) talked to Kim Hill earlier in 2023 about her unconventional upbringing, ditching her recruitment job for med school and how New Zealand can improve healthcare for Māori.

2020: Graham Norton

Jan 05 2024 46 mins  
One of Kim Hill’s most popular interviews in 2020, she chats with Irish entertainer Graham Norton to discuss his novel 'Home Stretch'. Well known as the host of the eponymous BBC chat show, he has become one of the UK’s best loved figures. He’s won 9 BAFTAs, has recently taken over as Britain’s tongue-in-cheek commentator of the 'Eurovision Song Contest' and has become an a

2017: Don Brash

Jan 04 2024 31 mins  
After a lengthy career in NZ politics, in 2016 Don Brash became the spokesperson for a new lobby group called Hobson's Pledge, a group formed to oppose what Brash has described as Māori favoritism. In 2017, he began weighing into the debate about the use of te reo Māori, saying he was "utterly sick" of the use of the language by RNZ reporters and presenters. He joined Kim hill to

2020: Dolly Parton

Jan 03 2024 30 mins  
In 2020, Kim hill spoke with legendary singer, songwriter, actor, author, and humanitarian - Dolly Parton. She’s happy to be seen as a feminist icon – at the same time she's considering posing for Playboy magazine. The famous American country singer's image might be bottle-blonde with augmented breasts, but underneath Parton says she's utterly authentic.

2004: Kate Camp

Jan 02 2024 13 mins  
Poet and literature critic, Kate Camp talks with Kim Hill about Katherine Mansfield – perhaps New Zealand’s most famous literary daughter. Camp won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. She has published a further six collections, establishing her at the vanguard of New Zealand poetry.

2018: Sian Davey

Jan 01 2024 42 mins  
Siân Davey is a photographer with a background in fine art and social policy. Her book ‘Looking for Alice’, which documents the childhood of her daughter with Down Syndrome, was shortlisted for the Aperture Best Book Award at Paris Photo in 2016. Davey joins Kim Hill to discuss her book ‘Martha’ in 2018, which sees her turn the camera again on her adolescent stepdaughter a

2004: Ranginui Walker

Dec 31 2023 31 mins  
A Kim Hill interview with Professor Emeritus of Māori Studies at Auckland University, Dr Ranginui Walker, who had recently updated his book 'Ka Whawhai Tonu Mātou: Struggle Without End'. An educator and historian, Dr Walker was a biographer of Sir Apirana Ngata and of the master carver Paki Harrison. He was also a commentator and his columns in the Listener magazine ran for 20 ye

2017: Margaret Atwood

Dec 30 2023 32 mins  
Canadian author Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel ‘The Handmaid's Tale’ was, in 2017, enjoying a resurgence of interest. The dystopian totalitarian United States that it depicts came to life in a TV series of the same name. It was likened to living under Donald Trump’s presidency. Kim Hill talks with Atwood during this time about how the series had begun to hit a modern nerve, and