Authorised with Kevin Hillier

Updated: 12 Nov 2025 • 137 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 Rhonda McCoy talks about Crow (Ventura Press) and what a great story lies beneath this debut novel for the former nurse turned author. Rhonda chats about character development and her techniques for fleshing them out as she writes. My other guest is Jessica Owers, author of Magic Millions (Penguin), an

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The Wolf Who Cried Boy (Afffirm Press) not only has an eyecatching title but a most imaginative and original story to go with it. Author Mark Muposta-Russell talks about his much anticipated second novel which sees him write through the eyes of six year old boy whose life is one of fairytale fantasy intertwined with th

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Tanya Scott talks about the leap from her day job as a GP and Medical Educator to becoming an author. Her novel Stillwater (Allen & Unwin) is a hell of a debut and hopefully heralds the start of many more literary adventures in the future.  The Hollow Girl ((Penguin) is Lyn Yeowart's much anticipated second novel and a

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Duncan Ewing Graham is an interesting human being. He is a barrister and a doctor and, in his spare time, an author. Duncan's second book Where the Dust Settles takes us inside a world Duncan knows back to front - the David and Goliath battle between Joe Average and Big Asbestos. Duncan's story brings the human victims

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Books allow us to engage in eras and events that our mortal beings cannot and in this episode of Authorised, two very talented authors take us back in time to a very different Australia to the one we currently live in.  Flight by Anne Vines (Glass House Books) brings 1942 Melbourne alive with the threat of a Japanese i

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Give Dad a book this Father's Day, and I have three nominations for you to consider from the two authors who join me in this episode. Geoff Hutchison has finished his long and illustrious career as a broadcaster and turns his talents to writing a most entertaining and enlightening book, beautifully and aptly titled 'Ho

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