That interview was a highlight. It ranks with her epic confrontation with Jeffrey Archer in 1995 (he ended up shouting at her, "I was WARNED about you!" as he stormed out of the studio) and a memorable, icy, dismantling live on air of her glib and voluble radio colleague Jim Mora, who deserved every indignity that came his way in an excruciating half hour of purgatory. And she has a special place in my affections because she actually read out live on air a couple of my emails to her and did not treat them with her trademark disdain. But even then she could not help springing to the defence of Bill Clinton after I'd commented adversely on the old monster. [1]

So she can be very good.

She can also be terrible; I was most appalled by her when she casually, ignorantly, expressed contempt for New Zealand's greatest poet. [2]

She's retired from her weekly show now, but still does the occasional feature. Her latest venture on Radio NZ is called Kim Hill Wants to Know; last week she interviewed, in a tone of solemn awe, that old fool Richard Dawkins. Another old codger she respectfully interviewed in the series was that angwy lisping psychopath Fwank Gardner.[3]

[1] https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/who-is-more-violent-and-despicable.html

[2] https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2020/04/kim-hill-slurred-james-k-baxter-at-end.html

[3] https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/kim-hill-wants-to-know