Kim Hill Collection
For more than 30 years, Kim Hill has set the gold standard. In this collection, we delve into the archives to bring you a selection of Kim Hill's best interviews.
Episodes
In this introduction interview, Kim Hill talks with Emile Donovan about the collection and good interviewing.
A good interview is equal parts art and science. It begins with good preparation. Good preparation leads to good questions, which elicit good responses, which are met by good follow-ups. This is the scientific element. The art is in the colour. The timing; the fearlessness; the humour, the musicality, the silence.
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Burt Reynolds was Hollywood's biggest box-office star from 1978 to 1982, following his starring role in Smokey and the Bandit. He had money, mansions, and wives, but that money went in various ways including bad investments and bad marriages. Kim spoke with Reynolds in 2016 when he was 79, discussing his life, career, and autobiography 'But Enough About Me'.
In 2006, Kim Hill spoke with two "quintessential Kiwi blokes" actor Sam Neill and comedian John Clarke about their friendship and their collaboration on two TV films based on Shane Maloney's novels 'Stiff' and 'The Brush Off'.
American writer David Sedaris is famous for his self-deprecating and highly personal essay collections which manage to combine funny and sad in equal measure. Sedaris joins Kim Hill in 2017 to discuss his book 'Theft by Finding', which is a compendium of his diary from 1977 to 2022.
Sister Loyola Galvin was known as the gardening nun. She organised a community garden at the Home of Compassion in Island Bay, Wellington. In 2008, at 86, she was named NZ Gardener of the Year by The Economist magazine.
The US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa under the Trump administration in 2017, Scott Brown spoke with Kim Hill about his diplomatic role, as well many aspects of his political career, and some of Trump's more polarising decisions.
In 2006, JJ Joseph was convicted of a violent assault on his wife, but against the odds he was able to turn his life around. He tells his story in the 2008 book, 'Fighting for My Life', with a forward written by social justice advocate Celia Lashlie. They both join Kim to talk about the book and how real progress on violence will only happen when men speak out against it.
Actor, producer, activist and former fitness guru, Jane Fonda reflects on her relationship with climate change activism in her 2020 book: 'What Can I Do? My Path from Climate Despair to Action'. She speaks with Kim Hill about her life on the front line as an activist, campaigning for over 50 years, tackling the climate crisis as her latest cause.
In 2017, long-time inventor and astronomy enthusiast Hugh McCarroll was named one of 15 finalists in a global competition designed by NASA. The idea was to crowdsource ideas for how to collect human waste away from the body, hands-free, for fully suited astronauts for up to a six-day period. The Space Poop Challenge elicited almost 8,000 entries. Although Hamilton-based Hugh didn't win first prize, he was "over the moon" to make t...
Australian feminist author Dr Germaine Greer became "the high priestess of feminism" with her 1972 book 'The Female Eunuch'. Throughout the 50 years since then, she hasn't been far from the headlines. Kim Hill spoke with her in 2007 about her life and career.
When Dame Annette King quit politics in 2017, she was New Zealand's longest-serving female MP, having spent 33 years in parliament. Highly regarded across politics, King served through 17 Labour and National leaders. She became a Dame under National and she has continued in her role as New Zealand's High Commissioner in Canberra since 2018. She joined Kim Hill in 2019, to discuss her extensive career in public life.
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.
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 un...
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 t...
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 ...
Armando Iannucci is a critically-acclaimed British comedy writer and producer. He created the Emmy award winning HBO American political satire 'Veep', and the UK series 'The Thick of It'. In 2017, Iannucci joins Kim Hill to discuss his film The Death of Stalin, which is a comedic take on the events that transpired after the brutal Soviet leader died in 1953.
Kim Hill interviews historian and writer Dr Michael King at the time of the release of his acclaimed book 'The Penguin History of New Zealand', in 2003, the year before King's death. The author talks about his optimism for Māori and Pākehā relations. He says one of the reasons he writes books is because "information dissolves prejudice". He offers a theory that you can have two indigenous peoples in one country - that Māori are our...
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.
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.
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.
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