SATURDAY MORNING WITH KIM HILL ON RADIO NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL

On the Saturday Morning programme this week, Kim will be speaking to Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford University and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. A world-leading cyberlaw expert, advocate of free copyright laws, and co-founder of Creative Commons, he is the author of the 2001 book The Future of Ideas, the 2004 book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (Penguin Press, ISBN: 1594200068), and the just-published book Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy (Penguin Press, ISBN: 978-1594201721). He is currently active in work to reform Congress in the United States. Professor Lessig was invited to Auckland to give a keynote address at the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa conference (2-5 November), and a free public lecture at The University of Auckland.

Also on the programme is Professor Glyn Harper, who heads the Centre for Defence Studies at Massey University in Palmerson North and has authored several books on military history; most recently Images of War: World War One (HarperCollins, ISBN 978-1-86950-676-6), which features unauthorised photographs taken by soldiers.

And novelist, playwright and filmmaker Anthony McCarten will play favourites. He co-wrote New Zealand’s most commercially successful play, Ladies Night, and has written nine other plays and four novels, and directed three feature films. The latest of these, Show of Hands, is adapted from his most recent novel (Vintage, ISBN: 9781869419950), and will be released nationwide from 13 November.