Saturday Morning with Kim Hill on Radio New Zealand National, : 22 August 2009

8:15 David Menashri: Iran
8:35 Rod Dunbar: cancer and vaccines
9:05 Emory Douglas: Black Panthers
9:45 Melanie Johnston-Hollit: the S.K.A. bid
10:05 Playing Favourites with Liam Finn and Eliza Jane Barnes
11:05 Food with Alexa Johnston
11:40 Nancy Brunning: strength and water

Saturday Morning guest information and links:

8:15 David Menashri
Professor David Menashri was born in Iran and is one of the foremost experts on that country. He currently serves as Director of the Center for Iranian Studies and Dean of the School for Overseas Students at Tel Aviv University. His research and teachings focus on the social and political history of modern Iran, education and modernisation in the Middle East, Islamic radicalism, Shi'i political thought and Persian Gulf and Central Asian affairs.
www.tau.ac.il/humanities/iranian_studies/

8:35 Rod Dunbar
Professor Rod Dunbar recently took over from Professor Ted Baker as Director of the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery. His research focuses on vaccines for cancer, and he is currently involved in a clinical trial of a melanoma vaccine. He is also a qualified doctor who used his medical knowledge to work as a script consultant on Shortland Street.
www.mauricewilkinscentre.org/

9:05 Emory Douglas
Emory Douglas, former Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers, is in New Zealand as the 2009 Elam International Artist in Residency. An exhibition of the graphic art work he created during his time in the Panthers is currently on show at the Gus Fisher Gallery in Auckland (to 3 October). He will deliver his free public lecture, Emory Douglas and the Art of Revolution, in Auckland (University Engineering Building, 24 August), Dunedin (Public Art Gallery, 29 August), New Plymouth (Govett Brewster Art Gallery, 17 September), and, Wellington (Te Papa, 19 September), and appear with former members of the Polynesian Panther Party at Panther Rapp on 13 September during the Going West Books and Writers Festival 2009.
http://www.gusfishergallery.auckland.ac.nz/
http://bit.ly/1NGnCA
http://bit.ly/YFWvo
http://dunedin.art.museum/events.asp
http://www.govettbrewster.com/
http://bit.ly/yy7aP
http://www.goingwest.co.nz/

9:45 Melanie Johnston-Hollit
Dr Melanie Johnston-Hollit heads the radio astronomy group at Victoria University of Wellington, and is the chair of the New Zealand Square Kilometre Array Research and Development Consortium. The Australian and New Zealand governments have agreed to join forces to bid for the $3.1 billion international SKA project, which will combine 5000 dishes, spread out over vast distances, into a one giant radio antenna so powerful it can not only observe celestial objects in distant galaxies, but look back in time to the emergence of the universe.
www.victoria.ac.nz/scps/staff/melaniejohnstonhollitt/index.aspx
http://www.ska.ac.nz/

10:.05 Playing Favourites with Liam Finn and Eliza Jane Barnes
Singer/songwriters Liam Finn and Eliza Jane Barnes both have famous dads (Neil, Jimmy), and have a new five-track EP, Champagne in Seashells (Liberation Music), released on 24 August. Liam and Eliza Jane are about to embark on their Having a Baby tour with Lawrence Arabia and Connan Mockasin, playing in Dunedin (26 August), Christchurch (27 August), Wellington (28 August), and Auckland (29 August).
www.myspace.com/theliamfinn
http://www.liamfinn.tv/

11:05 Alexa Johnston
Alexa Johnston works as a freelance art curator and writer. Her book, Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking (Penguin, ISBN: 978-014300-8637) was a Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture finalist in the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and has been reprinted six times. Her new book, A Second Helping, (Penguin, ISBN: 978-0143202479) gathers more traditional recipes for the home baker and will be published on 31 August.
http://www.ladiesaplate.co.nz/

11:40 Nancy Brunning
Actor and director Nancy Brunning is a finalist in the Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Film category at the 2009 Qantas Film and Television Awards for her role in The Strength of Water. The film, which has been nominated for an additional six awards, goes on general release nationwide from 27 August.
http://strengthofwater.com/
http://www.qantasfilmandtvawards.co.nz/