What’s My Book About: Ian Gill

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Recorded14 Mar 2026

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Manila-based NZ author Ian Gill set out to find out more about his mother's remarkable life and the result is Searching for Billie. Ian's mother. Billie Gill was one of the first prisoners of war from Hong Kong to arrive in Wellington on the Maunganui hospital ship on October 7, 1945. They were greeted by the Governor General, a band and hundreds of New Zealanders, who turned silent as the emaciated POWs started to disembark. Ian joins Jim to talk about the political landscape of his mother's life and how meeting her friends, colleagues, fellow ex-prisoners of war and his father, helped him fill in the gaps.

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