Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 24 July 2010
Radio New Zealand Natiional

8:15 Andy Dennis: Iceland
8:40 Anthony Gottlieb: voting systems
9:05 David Healy: drugs and depression
9:45 Language with Jen Hay: intensifiers
10:05 Playing Favourites with Mark Simos 11:10 Erica Miller: channelling Elvis
11:35 Elizabeth Frood: ancient Egypt
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
Dunedin engineer: Rod Morgan


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Saturday Morning guest information and links:

8:15 Andy Dennis
Andy Dennis wrote his Ph.D on The Laws of Early Iceland, and has been guiding hiking trips in north-east Iceland since 2001.

8:35 Anthony Gottlieb   
British writer Anthony Gottlieb is a historian of ideas, a visiting scholar at New York University and a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. A former executive editor of The Economist, he has written many articles for the New York Times, New Yorker, Intelligent Life and other publications.
http://nyih.as.nyu.edu/object/AnthonyGottlieb.html

9:05 David Healy
David Healy is a professor in the Department of Psychological Medicine & Neurology at Cardiff University School of Medicine. For most of his career he has held the view that the use of selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) can lead to suicide, and has been critical of the influence of pharmaceutical companies and the amount of ghost writing in scientific literature. His work was inspirational for a new New Zealand documentary, Asylum Pieces, which will screen at this year's New Zealand International Film Festivals in Auckland (21 & 22 July), Wellington (extra screenings: 26 & 27
July) and other centres.
http://medicine.cf.ac.uk/en/person/prof-david-thomas-healy/
www.pharmapolitics.com/
www.nzff.co.nz/default.aspx?id=8817&region=2
www.nzff.co.nz/default.aspx?id=8817&region=1

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 intensifiers.
http://www.lacl.canterbury.ac.nz/people/ling_people/hay.shtml
http://www.nzilbb.canterbury.ac.nz/

10:05 Playing Favourites with Mark Simos American songwriter and composer, fiddler, and guitar and piano accompanist 
Mark Simos has written songs for many artists, including Alison Krauss and recently helped co-write a new album with Jimmy Barnes. He has also released a solo album of songs, Crazy Faith, and four albums of original and traditional fiddle music. Mark is a professor in the Songwriting Department at the world renowned Berklee College of Music, and is visiting Auckland to present a weekend seminar on songwriting at MAINZ (31 July & 1 August), to give an APRA talk for songwriters (29 July, free and open to the public), and to work with MAINZ students.
www.devachan.com/
www.cmcproductions.com.au/

11:05 Erica Miller
Dunedin grandmother Erica Miller will release her first record, Reconsidered, on 16 August through Universal Records. The collection of songs first performed by Elvis Presley was a family affair recorded with her son Shayne Carter and other musicians; the group will be touring the four main centres in support of the album in early October.
http://www.myspace.com/theericamillerexperience
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=529774837&blogId=532238694

11:40 Elizabeth Frood
Dr Elizabeth Frood is Professor of Egyptology at Oxford University, and a graduate of Auckland University. She is about to depart to Egypt for a new project at the Karnak temple complex in Luxor.
http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/staff/eanes/efrood.html

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Saturday Morning repeats:

On Saturday 24 July 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 17 July with James Brabazon, about his mercenary friend, Nick du Toit.

Preview: Saturday 31 July 2010

Kim Hill's guests will include Kathryn Schulz on being wrong, Joe Randazzo of The Onion, Justice Edwin Cameron, and musician Donna Dean.