Saturday Morning with Kim Hill:

Radio New Zealand National -  11 September 2010

8:15 Tony Blair: Iraq, Gordon Brown and faith
8:35 Sal Khan: YouTube tutor
9:05 Cath Tizard: reflective dame
9:40 David Michod: fraternal crime
10:05 TrinityRoots: reunited
10:45 Kate De Goldi: Canterbury quake
11:10 Sister Sheila O'Toole: Vietnam nun
11:35 Janice Marriott & Virginia Pawsey: kitchen conversations

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon

Saturday Morning guest information and links:

8:15 Tony Blair
Tony Blair is a former British Labour Party politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997-2007). He provides strategic advice through Tony Blair Associates, runs the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, the Tony Blair Sports Foundation and the Blair Africa Governance Initiative, and is an unpaid peace envoy to the Middle East. His memoir, A Journey -Hutchinson, has just been published.
www.tonyblairoffice.org/
www.tonyblairfaithfoundation.org/
www.tonyblairoffice.org/sports/
www.tonyblairoffice.org/africa

8:35 Sal Khan
Salman Khan founded the Khan Academy with the hope of using technology to foster new learning models. His homemade tutorials on YouTube are the most popular educational resource on the web. Sal is currently the portfolio manager of a fund based in California, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Masters in electrical engineering and computer science, a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, and a BS in mathematics from MIT.
http://khanacademy.org/

9:05 Cath Tizard

Dame Cath Tizard is a former mayor of Auckland and New Zealand's first woman Governor General. Her memoir, Cat Amongst the Pigeons -Random House, will be published on 17 September.

9:40 David Michod
David Michod is an Australian film writer and director, whose debut feature is a thriller revolving around a Melbourne criminal family. Animal Kingdom won the World Cinema Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and goes on general New Zealand release from 16 September.
www.animalkingdommovie.com/

10:05 TrinityRoots
Warren Maxwell, Rio Hunuki-Hemopo and Riki Gooch formed the reggae, soul and jazz influenced group TrinityRoots in 1998. The band self-released two platinum albums (True; Home, Land and Sea) before disbanding in 2005. Warren was a member of Fat Freddy's Drop until late 2006 when he left to form Little Bushman. Rio was a member of the live band for Breaks Co-op, and is working on his own solo project. Riki Gooch is currently performing as Eru Dangerspiel, presenting his Great News for the Modern Man CD/DVD project with a large live large troupe at Town Hall concerts in Auckland (8 October) and Wellington (9 October). The reunited TrinityRoots have just released Music Is Choice, a CD /DVD package of live performances and feature-length documentary, and their studio albums have been reissued with bonus tracks. TrinityRoots will perform concerts in Christchurch (The Bedford, 22 October), Wellington (Opera House, 23 October) and Auckland (Town Hall, 29 October).
www.trinityroots.co.nz/
www.loop.co.nz/2005/site.php
www.myspace.com/littlebushman

10:45 Kate De Goldi
Kate De Goldi is the recipient of the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship, and Saturday Morning's commentator on children's books. She was in her old home city of Christchurch last Saturday.

11:05 Sister Sheila O'Toole
(Part one of a two-part interview) Sister Sheila O'Toole RNDM went to Saigon in 1969; during the Vietnam War she was held hostage in a prisoner of war camp and was one of the last people to depart from the United States' Embassy in 1975. She returned to Vietnam in 1992 and spent another 12 years there, and is the most decorated New Zealander in relation to Vietnam (Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and Companion of the Queen's Service Order). Sister Sheila is the author of the 2007 book Behind the Visor: My Life in Wartorn Vietnam (ISBN: 978-0-473-12516-5), and has contributed her recollections to a large new history, New Zealand's Vietnam War by Ian McGibbon- Exisle.

11:35 Janice Marriott & Virginia Pawsey
Janice Marriott and Virginia Pawsey are two Gisborne schoolmates who rekindled their friendship through their shared love of gardening, publishing their letters as the 2008 book, Common Ground (HarperCollins). Their new book of collected letters, Common Table- HarperCollins - traces their lives through the seasons of their kitchens in Wellington and North Canterbury. Janice and Virginia will be guests of the Nelson Arts Festival (14-25 October) on 17 October.
www.janicemarriott.com/gardening_books.htm
http://festivals.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/janice-marriott-and-virginia-pawsey/


Saturday Morning repeats:

On Saturday 11 September 2010 during Great Encounters between 6:06pm and 7:00pm on Radio New Zealand National, you can hear a repeat of Kim Hill's interview from Saturday 4 September with novelist Barbara Trapido.

Preview: Saturday 18 September 2010

Kim Hill's guests will include archaeologist Ian Barber, musician Dickie Landry, and Baroness Onora O'Neill.