Friday, August 20, 2010

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill:
Radio NZ National - 21 August 2010


8:15 Richard Wiseman: self-help science
8:45 Andrew Dubber in Finland
9:05 Christopher Vogler: myth and movies
9:45 Matt Burgess: prediction markets
10:05 Playing Favourites with Tim Albery
11:10 Jessica Rudd: stranger than chicklit
11:35 Steven Talley: terracotta warriors

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Dominic Godfrey
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon

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Saturday Morning guest information and links:

8:15 Richard Wiseman
Professor Richard Wiseman holds Britain's only chair in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire. A former professional magician, he is the author of a number of books, including The Luck Factor, Quirklology, and, most recently, 59 Seconds  - Pan
www.richardwiseman.com/
http://59seconds.wordpress.com/

8:45 Andrew Dubber

Andrew Dubber is Reader in Music Industries Innovation at Birmingham City University, a member of the Centre for Media and Cultural Research, and a lecturer, author, consultant, public speaker, broadcaster and blogger. He is the founder of New Music Strategies and Music Think Tank, a board member of Un-Convention, a member of the board of advisors for Bandcamp, and author of the free e-book, The 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online. He is in Helsinki for the ninth Nordic Jazz Conference.

http://www.andrewdubber.com/
http://bcu.ac.uk/
http://newmusicstrategies.com/
http://musicthinktank.com/
http://unconventionhub.org/
http://bandcamp.com/
http://newmusicstrategies.com/ebook
www.jazzconference.net/2010_njc.html

9:05 Christopher Vogler

Christopher Vogler is one of Hollywood's top story consultants, and author of the 1992 book, The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, now in its third edition. He has been brought to New Zealand by Script to Screen and the Romance Writers of New Zealand, for workshops and a conference.
http://chrisvogler.wordpress.com/
www.script-to-screen.co.nz/2010/08/the-writers-journey-masterclass-with-christopher-vogler/
www.romancewriters.co.nz/conference.php

9:45 Matt Burgess

Matt Burgess is an economic consultant, and chief executive of iPredict, an online prediction market where predictions are traded like stocks on an exchange and pay $1 each if an event comes true.
http://www.ipredict.co.nz/

10.05 Playing Favourites with Tim Albery
Theatre and opera director Tim Albery has worked with many of the world's top companies. He is the director of the NBR NZ Opera's season of the Opera North production of Verdi's Macbeth, which will be staged in Auckland (Aotea Centre, 18, 21, 23, 25 September) and Wellington (St James Theatre, 9, 12, 14, 16 October).
www.nzopera.com/operas/macbeth

11:10 Jessica Rudd

Jessica Rudd is a Canberra-born, Brisbane-raised ex-lawyer, ex-campaign worker, and ex-public relations worker who now lives in Beijing. She has written the occasional column, a host of legal letters, countless press releases and one novel, Campaign Ruby (Text Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-92165-657-6), which presciently includes events similar to those that happened to her father, Kevin.

11:35 Steve Talley

Producer and director Steve Talley's experience in factual television extends over a wide range of historical, scientific and current affairs programming and includes experience filming on four continents. Since 2004, Steve has produced or supervised eleven programs in China for Dunedin-based television production company NHNZ, and recently completed filming the NHNZ/ NGCI/WNET co-production, Secrets of the Ghost Army, with unprecedented access to the Terracotta Warrior Museum Conservation lab in Xian.
www.nhnz.tv/home

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Saturday Morning repeats:

On Saturday 21 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 14 August with Peter Whiteford on John Mulgan.

Preview: Saturday 28 August 2010

Kim Hill's guests will include Celia Lashlie on mothers and crime, Val McDermid on tartan noir, Diana Noonan on gardening for children, and nanotechnologist Don Eigler.

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