Authorised with Kevin Hillier

Updated: 18 Feb 2025 • 119 episodes

Authorised with Kevin Hillier is a podcast where authors get the chance to talk about their work: past, present and future. Authorised gives a voice to the words of many talented writers across a wide and interesting array of areas including food, sport, music, history, true crime, self help, entertainment, fiction and more. Hosted by Kevin Hillier, a radio broadcaster of enormous experience who has interviewed everyone from Prime Ministers to rock stars, sporting icons and actors - you name it.

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In this episode, meet two unique and talented authors discussing two vastly different pieces of work. Mark Smith's Three Boys Gone and Everald Compton's Walking with the Man but not to Church come from very different places. Mark's ficticious novel is action packed and packed with thought provoking human, moral and eth

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Andrea Barton joins me for a most interesting chat about her pathway to becoming an author and her first novels The Godfather of Dance and A Killer Among Friends. Andrea take us through developing the main character of this series, Jade Riley, using her own life experiences in her writing and dealing with the ups and d

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Another holiday weekend double banger with a couple of very talented Aussie authors, Pip Drysdale and David Batty. Pip's new book takes you to LA for a thriller that will keep you guessing and glued until the very end and her personal story is quite a tale in itself. David's travels are very different and his personal

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Authorised returns for 2025 thanks to my podcast partners CSCG.                                We go international for the first episode of this series with author Nick Harkaway. Nick is a successful author in his own right but also happens to be the son of world famous novelist John le Carré and in this new novel Karl

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Another double banger December episode with two authors discussing their latest work. Steve Woods' third volume of his For the Record books 'As the Days Go By' is a day by day chronicle of events in music, television, movies and more from an Aussie point of view. A huge undertaking and one Steve has conquered brilliant

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Double banger December gets underway with two fabulous but very different books. Karin Keays' 'It's Because I Love You' is a real life rock 'n roll romance but it is also the story of a mother's quest to find the truth behind the death of her baby boy. Karin and her late husband Jim Keays, the lead singer of the Master

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