Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 7 August 2010
Radio New Zealand National

8:15 Simon Singh: alternative medicine and libel
8:45 Nesrine Malik: wearing the burqa
9:05 Cindy Gallop: micro-actions
9:45 Kate's Klassic: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
10:05 Playing Favourites with Tracey Collins
11:05 Harold Fromm: veganism
11:45 Scott Bregmen: working with disability

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon

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Saturday Morning guest information and links:

8:15 Simon Singh

 Simon Singh is an author, journalist and TV producer, specialising in science and mathematics. His books include The Code Book (1999), Big Bang (2004) and most recently, Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial, co-authored with Edzard Ernst. Earlier this year Simon successfully defended a libel action taken against him by the British Chiropractic Association, which he had accused in a Guardian article of promoting "bogus treatments".
http://www.simonsingh.net/



8:45 Nesrine Malik
Sudanese-born writer and commentator Nesrine Malik works in a London-based private equity firm. She recently wrote in the Daily Telegraph about how she has become accustomed to wearing an abaya (full-length cloak).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/7896536/Burka-ban-Why-must-I-cast-off-the-veil.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/jan/09/hijab-niqab-kuwait-egypt

9:05 Cindy Gallop
Cindy Gallop is a former chair of leading advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty and was voted Woman of the Year by Advertising Women of New York in 2003. In 2005 she left the industry, and has since launched MakeLoveNotPorn, to begin a dialogue around how real people have sex, and started IfWeRanTheWorld, a web platform designed to turn good intentions into action, one micro-action at a time. She is visiting Auckland to assist with a Waitakere initiative on this new platform, and explore other opportunities in New Zealand for IfWeRanTheWorld.
www.cindygallop.com
http://MakeLoveNotPorn.com
http://ifwerantheworld.com/
http://ifwerantheworld.com/ap/ProjectWaitakere

9:45 Kate's Klassic

Kate Camp will discuss One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Penguin Modern Classics, ISBN: 978-0-141-18474-6); first published in the November 1962 issue of Novy Mir.

10.00 Playing Favourites with Tracey Collins 
Tracey Collins is a visual artist and designer specialising in design for performance and drama. She is production and costume designer for the new local drama series This is Not My Life, currently screening on TV ONE.
www.traceycollins.net.nz/
http://tvnz.co.nz/this-is-not-my-life/not-my-life-index-group-3631491

11:05 Harold Fromm

Harold Fromm is University Associate in English at the University of Arizona. He is the author of the 2009 book The Nature of Being Human: From Environmentalism to Consciousness, and is co-editor of The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. His writings have appeared in a wide range of journals.
http://hfromm.net/professional/

11:40 Scott Bregmen
Scott Bregmen has been working in the area of adult education for the past 20 years and is a Senior Tutor for WelTec's Community Education and Vocational Learning Skills programme. He has specialised and has extensive knowledge in working with people with disabilities in a variety of settings, and has just been awarded the Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award for sustained teaching excellence.
www.weltec.ac.nz
http://akoaotearoa.ac.nz/ako-aotearoa/ako-aotearoa/resources/pages/tertiary-teaching-excellence-awards

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Saturday Morning repeats:

On Saturday 7 August 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 31 July with Justice Edwin Cameron.

Preview: Saturday 14 August 2010

Kim Hill's guests will include Rob McBrearty of Pacific Marine Bioactives, and Peter Whiteford on John Mulgan's war memoir.

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