Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 3 July 2010
Radio New Zealand National

8:15  Daniel Ellsberg: most dangerous man    
9:05  Arturo Arias: Guatemala   
9.35  Julie Woods: blind dining   
10:05 Father Michael Mahoney: mountainous priest   
11:05 Bobby Crush: Liberace   
11:45 Kate de Goldi: Virginia Hamilton   

Producer: Sean McKenna
Wellington engineer: Marc Chesterman
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Dunedin engineer: Rod Morgan

More information follows on Saturday's guests, repeats of previous interviews, next week's programme, and this email list. As this is live radio, guests and times may change on the day.

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Saturday Morning guest information and links:

8:15  Daniel Ellsberg: most dangerous man    
Dr Daniel Ellsberg is a former marine and military analyst who precipitated a national political controversy in the United States in 1971 when he released a top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making about the Vietnam War. He is the subject and narrator of a new documentary, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, screening at this year’s New Zealand International Film Festivals (from 8 July in Auckland).
www.ellsberg.net/
www.mostdangerousman.org/
http://nzff.co.nz/

9:05  Arturo Arias: Guatemala   
Professor Arturo Arias is a novelist and academic from Guatemala. His fiction writing is heavily influenced by Maya culture and in 2008, he was awarded the Guatemalan National Prize in Literature. A specialist in indigenous studies, he is currently Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Texas at Austin.
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/spanish/faculty/aa3398

9.35  Julie Woods: blind dining   
Julie Woods, also known as "that blind woman", is a motivational coach and speaker. With New Zealand chef and author Julie Biuso and the team at Otago Polytechnic TECHnique Restaurant, she will be presenting the Dining in the Dark experience on 9 July at the New Zealand International Science Festival in Dunedin (6-11 July). The three course dinner for blindfolded participants will include a talk from ophthalmologist Dr Andrew Thompson.
www.thatblindwoman.co.nz/
http://www.scifest.org.nz/events/dining-in-the-dark-experience

10:05 Father Michael Mahoney: mountainous priest   
Father Michael Mahoney is a Marist Father who was based in Brazil for the last 30 years. He was also a member of the first New Zealand expedition to Mount Everest in 1977. In Brazil, he was a parish priest in the semi-desert region of Bahia, where he was involved in a multitude of local community projects. Father Mahoney is currently writing a history of Arthur’s Pass and is parish priest of South Westland from Ross to Haast.
http://www.sm.org.nz/marist-international/mission-districts/brazil/

11:05 Bobby Crush: Liberace   
Bobby Crush has been famous in the UK for over 30 years, primarily as a pianist, but also as a songwriter, broadcaster, actor and TV presenter. He is visiting over 30 New Zealand towns and cities with his critically acclaimed musical comedy, Liberace Live From Heaven, from 9 July through 19 August.
www.bobbycrush.com/


11:45 Kate de Goldi: Virginia Hamilton
Kate De Goldi will discuss the work of black American children's novelist Virginia Hamilton, who came to prominence in the 1970s. Her books include her first novel Zeely, set in North Carolina in early 60s (Aladdin, 2006,  ISBN: 978-1416914136), MC Higgins the Great (Aladdin, 2006, ISBN: 978-1416914075), The House of Dies Drear (Aladdin, 2006, ISBN: 978-1416914051) and The Mystery of Drear House (Scholastic Paperbacks, 1997, ISBN: 978-0590956277), companion novels, set in the 1960s, about a house in Ohio owned during the Civil War by an abolitionist who helped operate the Underground Railway.
http://www.virginiahamilton.com/

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Saturday Morning repeats:

On Saturday 3 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 26 June with Australian film director Gillian Armstrong.

Preview: Saturday 10 July 2010

Kim Hill’s guests will include documentary filmmaker Briar March, award-winning designer Philip Fierlinger and rapping scientist Tom McFadden.