Saturday Morning with Finlay Macdonald: 16 October 2010

Radio New Zealand National

Kim Hill is on leave.

8:15 Doug Saunders: arrival cities

8:45 Anton Garland: designing cars
9:05 Tim Flannery: hope
9:45 Language with Jen Hay: vowels
10:05 Playing Favourites with Jane Ussher
11:05 Gordon Glass: global parliament
11:25 Geoff Blackwell: Nelson Mandela
11:45 Jack Yan: politics, fashion and the Internet

Producer: Mark Cubey
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Wellington engineer: Andrew Dalziel
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins

Saturday Morning guest information and links:


8:15 Doug Saunders

Canadian journalist and author Doug Saunders is the London-based European Bureau Chief for Toronto newspaper The Globe and Mail, and has won the National Newspaper Award, Canada's counterpart to the Pulitzer Prize, on four occasions. He visited 20 countries on five continents to study the effects of rural-urban drift, and writes about this in Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping Our World (Allen & Unwin, ISBN: 978-1-74175-916-7).
http://dougsaunders.net/
http://arrivalcity.net/about

8:45 Anton Garland
New Zealand design student Anton Garland is one of nine applicants worldwide accepted into the 2011 Masters Class in Transportation Design at the Umea Institute of Design in Sweden.
www.coroflot.com/anton_garland
www.dh.umu.se/
www.doyourthing.co.nz/

9:05 Tim Flannery
Dr Tim Flannery is an Australian scientist, environmentalist and global warming activist. He is a professor in the division of Environmental and Life Sciences at Macquarie University, and chairs the Copenhagen Climate Council, an international climate change awareness group. His books include the acclaimed 2005 collection of essays, The Weather Makers (Text Publishing, ISBN: 1-920885-84-6), and new title, Here on Earth: an Argument for Hope (Text Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-921656-66-8).

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 vowels.
www.lacl.canterbury.ac.nz/people/ling_people/hay.shtml
www.nzilbb.canterbury.ac.nz/

10:05 Playing Favourites with Jane Ussher

Jane Ussher is one of New Zealand's leading photographers. Her new book, Still Life: Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton (Murdoch Books, ISBN: 988-1-74196-739-5), features essays by Nigel Watson of the Antarctic Heritage Trust.

11:05 Gordon Glass
Gordon Glass has 30 years expertise in leading project management, having initiated, directed and completed many multi-million pound business projects in the UK. He is leading the campaign for the establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly by 2020, with the people of the world reclaiming enlightened global leadership as the ultimate legitimate authority through a world parliament.
http://en.unpacampaign.org/

11:25 Geoff Blackwell

Geoff Blackwell (left) runs the Auckland-based publishing company PQ Blackwell, which has a large catalogue of internationally best-selling illustrated books, including the hugely successful MILK series (Moments of Intimacy, Laughter and Kinship). His latest publication is Conversations with Myself, by Nelson Mandela (PQ Blackwell, ISBN: 978-1-40504-026-6).
www.pqblackwell.com/

11:45 Jack Yan
Publisher, typographer and Internet pioneer Jack Yan is the founder of online and print fashion magazine Lucire. He came fourth in the 2010 race for the Wellington mayoralty, and is one of a number of local commentators featured in the year-by-year online documentary Down to the Wire: the Story of New Zealand's Internet.
http://jackyan.com/
http://lucire.com/
http://www.jackyanformayor.org/
http://downtothewire.co.nz/home/about/

Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 16 October 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 9 October with children's writer Joy Cowley.

Preview: Saturday 23 October 2010

Kim Hill's guests will include Dudley Benson, Patrick Evans, Mary Kisler and Ruth Pretty.