RNZ: Saturday Morning

Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 22 October 2016.

Kim Hill talks to Wellington writer Kate De Goldi, whose most recent novel, From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle won the junior fiction category at the 2016 Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, and Susan Paris, who has written more than forty chapter books for the educational market, and has edited the School Journal for ten years. Together, they are editors of Annual, a miscellany of commissioned New Zealand writing for children aged nine to twelve.

Kim Hill talks to Auckland singer and songwriter Anna Coddington, who has been nominated for the APRA Silver Scroll four times since 2010, and is a regular collaborator on the Fly My Pretties projects. Her just-released third album, Luck/Time, took her four years to complete, and she is going on tour with her four-piece band to play shows in Auckland, Mount Maunganui, Christchurch and Wellington.

Kim Hill talks to Mary Kisler, Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She discusses the role of serendipity when travelling, discussing a selection of chance encounters with buildings and artworks, old and new, while researching in Europe recently.

Kim Hill talks to British comedian and musician Bill Bailey, whose new show, Larks in Transit, is a compendium of tales from his twenty years as a travelling entertainer. He is visiting New Zealand for shows in Christchurch, Invercargill, Dunedin, Wellington, and Auckland.

Research indicates about 15% of mothers suffer from this serious health issue, but it often go undetected and untreated, says investigative journalist Alison McCulloch. She's just published a large multimedia investigation into post-natal depression In collaboration with and scoop.co.nz.

Kim Hill talks to Nicky Dunne, manager of Heywood Hill, an independent bookstore in London that is marking its 80th anniversary with the world's first lifetime literary prize. The Library of a Lifetime Prize Raffle closes at midnight on Monday 31 October 2016, with the winner receiving a new hardback book every month for the rest of their life.

Kim Hill talks to Dr Ian Gawler, one of Australia's most experienced authorities on mind-body medicine and meditation. He and his wife, Dr Ruth Gawler, are visiting New Zealand to run a meditation course in the Coromandel and a residential programme in Wanaka for people affected by cancer.

Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 15 October 2016.

Kim Hill talks to poet Kate Camp about the 1958 novella by Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Kim Hill talks to Jeavons Baillie, who volunteered to assist with painting restoration in Florence after the devastating floods in November 1966, was the first Conservation Officer for the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington from 1970 to 1989, and was instrumental in incorporating the principles of preventive conservation at the new National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa building in Wellington in 1987. He founded the NZ Professional Conservators Group in 1983, and later worked in Australia as head of conservation at the State Library of Victoria. He will speak at a special screening of the only documentary film ever made by Franco Zeffirelli, Per Firenze (Florence: Days of Destruction), as part of the 2016 national conference of the New Zealand Conservators of Cultural Materials.

Kim Hill talks to veteran music journalist Alan Light, former editor-in-chief for Vibe and Spin magazines, and author of books about Leonard Cohen, Prince, and the Beastie Boys. His new biography was inspired by the recent Netflix documentary about singer Nina Simone, and has the same title: What Happened, Miss Simone?

Kim Hill talks to architect Mary Daish, whose practice has a particular focus on kitchen design. With her mother, cook and food writer Lois Daish, she discussed the social issues expressed in our cooking and dining habits in a recent talk, Who's the Butler?

"For 150 years people have wanted to live in the city and the country at the same time" says historian Ben Schrader.

Kim Hill talks to Martin Luff and Danny Squires, co-founders and directors of Space Craft Systems, a social enterprise based in Christchurch that has developed the WikiHouseNZ system to revolutionise the way built environments are created. They will host two Open Day sessions at their WikiLab, the first dedicated WikiHouse development space in the world, during the Festival of Transitional Architecture in Christchurch during Labour Weekend.