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Kim Hill Wants To Know

Kim Hill is back asking questions in her inimitable style. She has conversations with guests from around the world about topics that spark her interest and will do the same for you.

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00:44:01

Rory Cormac's secrets of statecraft and covert action

Kim Hill Wants To Know ·

2026/10/05

Rory Cormac knows a lot about deliberately spreading propaganda for political gain. The professor of international relations specialises in the study of covert action and secret statecraft. He speaks to Kim Hill about his latest book Fakers.Watch the video version of this episode on the RNZ website on YouTube or TVNZ+.Season 2 Episode 3Professor Rory Cormac is the author of Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front LineIn this episode:(00:00) Introduction to

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00:49:35

What happened after Frank Gardner got caught in the...

Kim Hill Wants To Know ·

2026/09/28

BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner talks with Kim Hill about being shot and left for dead by Islamist gunmen, adapting to life in a wheelchair and writing truthy fiction.Watch the video version of this episode on the RNZ website on YouTube or TVNZ+.Season 2 Episode 2GUEST DETAILS:Frank Gardner - author of the memoir Blood and SandIN THIS EPISODE:(00:00) Frank Gardner's Journey: From Adventure to Adversity(07:18) Reflections on journalism in the Middle East(17:16) The Arab Spring: Hopes

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01:02:21

How punk rocker Feargal Sharkey reinvented himself

Kim Hill Wants To Know ·

2026/09/21

Punk rocker, lead singer of The Undertones, Feargal Sharkey speaks to Kim Hill about reinventing himself. The Irishman has become one of the most vocal advocates for cleaning up Britain's waterways and served as chairman on one of England's oldest angling clubs.Watch the video version of this episode on the RNZ website or on YouTube.Season 2 Episode 1Feargal Sharkey recommends TV mini series Dirty Business, see more about the series and stories from the real whistelblowers and victims from the

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00:01:44

Kim Hill Wants to Know S2 | Trailer

Kim Hill Wants To Know ·

2026/09/17

Kim Hill Wants to Know is back for another season. With guests including former punk rocker-turned-clean water advocate Feargal Sharkey, BBC correspondent Frank Gardner and secret statecraft specialist Professor Rory Cormac, there's something for everyone.You can now watch Kim Hill Wants to Know at rnz.co.nz/video or on YouTube.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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01:06:15

If Dame Linda Partridge Knows How To Defy Aging

Kim Hill Wants To Know ·

2025/03/17

The secret to living well for longer is one geneticist Dame Linda Partridge has been trying to uncover for much of her career. In this episode of Kim Hill Wants To Know, she talks with Kim about the scientific breakthroughs that could mean the end to aging as we know it.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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01:06:22

How Brain Science Has Changed For Sir Richard Faull

Kim Hill Wants To Know ·

2025/03/10

Kim chats with neuroscientist Sir Richard Faull about the wonders of the human brain and the work being done to unlock its secrets. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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01:04:03

What Anatoly Liberman Thinks of The English Language

Kim Hill Wants To Know ·

2025/03/03

Kim Hill sits down with linguist and etymologist Anatoly Liberman to talk about words – their meaning, their history and how languages evolve. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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01:06:11

Why Nick Wallis Continues Covering the UK's Post...

Kim Hill Wants To Know ·

2025/02/24

Kim Hill speaks with journalist Nick Wallis about his time covering the UK’s Great Post Office scandal - described as England's worst miscarriage of justice - and discovers the story is far from over.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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00:54:26

When Caroline Crampton Realised She Was a Hypochondriac

Kim Hill Wants To Know ·

2025/02/17

Caroline Crampton resisted the idea that she was a hypochondriac, but now she's written an entire book on the history of the condition.Is this normal Doctor?The more we know about things, the more there is to worry about. This is especially true of our bodies, where it seems impossible that something isn’t going wrong all the time.Caroline Crampton is a hypochondriac and has written a book on the history of the condition - A Body Made of Glass.Crampton tells Kim Hill it took a long time to even

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01:11:14

About William Dalrymple's History

Kim Hill Wants To Know ·

2024/12/16

Historian, author and podcaster William Dalrymple believes it was India's Golden Road - not China's Silk Road - that transformed the world. He tells Kim Hill about his latest book and his own family history in the Empire.Scottish historian and journalist William Dalrymple is renown for his books, television series and podcast Empire - mostly about India, a country he’s been in love with since he was a young man.In his latest, The Golden Road, he argues that it was India and not China which

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01:06:04

Whether Boris Johnson is Attempting to Salvage His...

Kim Hill Wants To Know ·

2024/12/09

If you put Kim Hill and former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a room together - this is what you get. A fiery yet invigorating conversation about Johnson's political career and his new book Unleashed.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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00:58:03

Why Ingrid Robeyns Wants To Get Rid of Billionaires

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2024/12/02

How much money is too much? Belgian-Dutch philosopher and economist Professor Ingrid Robeyns has written a book called Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth and she tells Kim Hill why the uber rich should be forced to give up their cash.Belgian-Dutch philosopher and economist Professor Ingrid Robeyns believes there is such a thing as too much money.Professor Robeyns, who holds the Chair of Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University, has written a book called Limitarianism: The Case

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