Saturday Morning with Kim Hill:

Radio New Zealand National.18 September 2010

8:15 Baroness Onora O'Neill: trust
9:05 Ian Barber: first contact and food
9:45 Language with Jen Hay: vowels in pop music 10:10 Dickie Landry: sax, art and swamp-pop
11:05 Sister Sheila O'Toole: Vietnam nun (part two) 11:30 Lucas Remmerswaal: Warren Buffet for kids
11:45 Carolann Murray: self-sufficiency


Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell

Saturday Morning guest information and links:

8:15 Baroness Onora O'Neill
Onora O'Neill is a professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, President of the British Academy until 2009 and chairs the Nuffield Foundation. She was formerly the Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, and has held the positions of President of the Aristotelian Society, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and Acting Chair of the Human Genetics Advisory Commission. She is visiting New Zealand to give the inaugural Royal Society Aronui Lecture Series in Auckland (15 & 17 September), Hamilton (16 September), Palmerston North (20 September), Wellington (21 September), Christchurch (22 September), Dunedin (23 September).
www.royalsociety.org.nz/events/annual/aronui-lecture/2010/

9:05 Ian Barber
Dr Ian Barber is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Otago. He will give a lecture, Lost in Transition; a new take on iconic, first- contact violence between Europeans and indigenous New Zealanders, in Wellington (22 September) and Auckland on (23 September), presenting new evidence on two of New Zealand's most iconic violent first-contact encounters between indigenous people and Europeans.
www.otago.ac.nz/anthropology/anth/people/barber.html

9:45 Language with Jen Hay
Jen Hay is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, and is the director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour. She will talk about the production and perception of vowels in New Zealand pop music.
www.lacl.canterbury.ac.nz/people/ling_people/hay.shtml
www.nzilbb.canterbury.ac.nz/

10:10 Dickie Landry
Saxophonist Richard "Dickie" Landry has played with many musical performers, including Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Paul Simon, The Phillip Glass Ensemble, Laurie Anderson and the Talking Heads. He is also considered a pioneer of conceptual art and installations, having worked with Richard Serra, Gordon Matte-Clark and Robert Rauschenberg in the early 1960s. Dickie is visiting New Zealand with Louisiana-based swamp pop group Lil' Band O' Gold for concerts in Dunedin (23 September), Christchurch (24 September), Wellington (25 September), and Auckland (23 September). The group's latest album is The Promised Land, and they are the subject of a documentary film on DVD, The Promised Land: a Swamp Pop Journey.

11:05 Sister Sheila O'Toole (Part two 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

11:30 Lucas Remmerswaal
Whangarei investment advisor Lucas Remmerswaal is the author of The Tale of Tortoise Buffett and Trader Hare, a children's book inspired by American billionaire Warren Buffett's no-nonsense investing principles. The book, illustrated by Australian artist Annette Lodge, is available through Kiwa Media on the Apple iPad platform (ISBN: 978-0-473-17305-0), and is the first in a planned series of books designed to expand children's understanding of Buffett's "13 habits that made me billions".
http://lucasremmerswaal.com/
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-tale-tortoise-buffett/id387656054?mt=8

11:45 Carolann Murray

Carolann Murray left her urban lifestyle and work as an organic beauty therapist for a self-sufficient country life with her husband, and is now an expert wool spinner, cheese maker, and bee-keeper. She recounts her experiences in Mastering the Art of Self-sufficiency in New Zealand (New Holland,


Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 18 September 2010 during Great Encounters between 6:06pm and 7:00pm on Radio New Zealand National, you can hear a repeat of part one of Kim Hill's interview with Sister Sheila O'Toole, from Saturday 11 September.

Preview: Saturday 25 September 2010
Kim Hill's guests will include Peter Goldie on acquired tastes, Farouk al-Kasim on oil and Norway, and music and cinema manager Charley Gray (rescheduled from 4 September).