Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 12 June 2010

Radio New Zealand National

8:15 Alex Bellos: numbers & football
8:45 Roz Savage: crossing the Pacific
9:05 Ted Kaptchuk: the placebo effect
9:45 Language with Jen Hay
10:05 Wanda Jackson: rocking on
11:10 Anthony Bourdain: raw cook
11:40 Fiona Jack: memorial halls

Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate producer: Sean McKenna
Wellington engineer: Chris Adams
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Christchurch engineer: Hamish Doake

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Saturday Morning guest information and links:



8:15 Alex Bellos
English writer and broadcaster Alex Bellos spent five years as the Guardian's South American correspondent, and is the author of two books about football: Futebol, the Brazilian Way of Life (Bloomsbury, 2002), and Pel,, the Autobiography (Simon & Schuster, 2006). He presented Inside Out Brazil a five-part BBC series, and his short films about the Amazon have been broadcast on the BBC and Al Jazeera International. His new book about mathematics, Alex's Adventures in Numberland (Bloomsbury, ISBN: 978-0-7475-9716-2) has the US title, Here's Looking at Euclid.
http://alexbellos.com

8:45 Roz Savage
British environmentalist Roz Savage is the author of Rowing The Atlantic: Lessons Learned On The Open Ocean (Simon & Schuster, 2009), and is the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean, from California to Papua New Guinea in her 23ft boat Brocade. Last Friday she finished the final leg of the three-stage journey, designed to raise awareness about climate change and plastic debris polluting the ocean.
www.rozsavage.com

9:05 Ted Kaptchuk
Ted Kaptchuk is an author, scholar, scientist and Associate Professor at the Harvard Medical School, where he researches the placebo effect. He earned the Oriental Doctor of Medicine degree after five years of study in China.
http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/directory/researchers/ted-kaptchuk
http://www.cmjournal.org/edboard/start.asp?id=634560

9:45 Language with Jen Hay
Jen Hay is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, and is the director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour. She will talk about metaphors relating to spatial movement can manifest bodily.
http://www.lacl.canterbury.ac.nz/people/ling_people/hay.shtml
http://www.nzilbb.canterbury.ac.nz/

10:05 Wanda Jackson
Oklahoma-based singer and guitarist Wanda Jackson is known as the Queen of Rock-a-billy. She pursued a successful mainstream country music career in the 1960s and 70s, then turned to gospel recordings, before returning to rockabilly in the 1980s, and has just recorded a new album with producer Jack White. She will play two shows in New Zealand on 21 June (San Francisco Bath House, Wellington) and 22 June (King's Arms, Auckland).
www.wandajackson.com
 

11:10 Anthony Bourdain
New York chef Anthony Bourdain became a "professional traveler, writer, and TV guy" after the success of his 2000 memoir, Kitchen Confidential. He has written five further non-fiction books and three novels, and has fronted and featured in a number of television programmes including No Reservations on the Travel Channel. His new book, Medium Raw: a Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Bloomsbury, ISBN: 978-1-4088-0934-1), is a sequel to Kitchen Confidential.
http://anthony-bourdain-blog.travelchannel.com/?fbid=-yBNd7eu6nC

11:40 Fiona Jack
Auckland artist Fiona Jack is a lecturer at the Elam School of Fine Arts, and the 2009/10 Govett-Brewster New Zealand Artist in Residence. Her latest exhibition, Living Halls, is an archival project accumulates paintings, architectural drawings and photographs of memorial halls throughout New Zealand, and will show at the Govett-Brewster in New Plymouth from 19 June to 5 September.
http://fionajack.net/ www.govettbrewster.com/Exhibitions/Coming+Soon/Fiona+Jack+Living+Halls.htm

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Saturday Morning repeats:

On Saturday 12 June 2010 during Great Encounters between 6:06pm and 7:00pm on Radio New Zealand National, you can hear an edited repeat of Kim Hill's interview from Saturday 5 June with journalism professor Michael Shapiro on Cornelius Ryan's book The Longest Day.

Preview: Saturday 19 June 2010

Kim Hill's guests will include Peter Maass on oil companies, filmmaker Lucy Walker, and musician Greg Fleming.