Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 

Radio New Zealnd National - 14 August 2010

8:15 Fatima Bhutto: Pakistan
9:05 Rob McBrearty: sponges and cancer
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler: local revolutionaries
10:05 Playing Favourites with Rowan Simpson 11:10 Peter Whiteford: John Mulgan
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Puffins

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Dominic Godfrey   
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell

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Saturday Morning guest information and links:

8:15 Fatima Bhutto

Journalist and commentator Fatima Bhutto writes for the New Statesman and the Daily Beast. Her father Murtaza Bhutto, an elected member of parliament  and son of Pakistan's former President and Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was killed by the police in 1996 during the premiership of his sister, Benazir Bhutto. Fatima is the author of a 1997 volume of poetry, Whispers of the Desert (Oxford University Press), and a collection of first-hand accounts from survivors of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan 8.50 a.m. 8 October 2005 (Oxford University Press). Her new book, Songs of Blood and
Sword: a Daughter's Memoir  - Jonathan Cape - has just been published .
http://fatimabhutto.com.pk/profile.php

9:05 Rob McBrearty
Rob McBrearty is the Commercial Manager of Pacific Marine Bioactives, a Wellington-based company that is developing new microtubules to aid scientists in creating the building blocks for a cure for cancer.
http://pacificmarinebioactives.com/

9:45 Art with Mary Kisler
Mary Kisler is the Mackelvie Curator of International Art at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She will discuss selected works from the gallery's exhibition Local Revolutionaries: Art & Change 1965-1986 (to 30 April 2011). Mary's book, Angels & Aristocrats: Early European Art in New Zealand Public Collections, will be published by Random House in October. To view images under discussion from the artists, click on the Art on Saturday Morning link below.
www.aucklandartgallery.com/whats-on/events/2010/july/local-revolutionaries-art-and-change-1965-%E2%80%93-1986
www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/gallery

10:05 Playing Favourites with Rowan Simpson 
Rowan Simpson is a software developer, business person and investor. In 1999 he started a website called Flathunt which he sold the following year in exchange for some shares in a small but promising company called Trade Me, where he became its third employee. Since leaving Trade Me in 2007, Rowan has been involved in a number of other technology start-ups, including Xero, Fishpond, Sonar6 and, most recently, Vend. He maintains a blog at RowanSimpson.com.
www.rowansimpson.com 

11:10 Peter Whiteford
Peter Whiteford is a New Zealand literary scholar, and head of the School of English Film Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. He edited, and provides the introduction for the republished edition of the wartime memoir by John Mulgan: Report on Experience (VUP).
www.victoria.ac.nz/seftms/staff/peter-whiteford.aspx

11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi 

Kate De Goldi is the recipient of the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship. She will discuss 70 years of Puffin books.
www.puffin.co.uk/

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Saturday Morning repeats:

On Saturday 14 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 7 August with Simon Singh.

Preview: Saturday 21 August 2010

Kim Hill's guests will include opera director Tim Albery, screenwriter Christopher Vogler, Fernando Piere of The Ivy, and Jessica Rudd.

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