Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 9 October 2010

8:15 Bhupendra Chaubey: India
8:30 Carolyn King: small mustelids
9:05 Joy Cowley: navigating words
9:45 Gin Wigmore: breaking through
10:05 Playing Favourites with Chris Bourke
11:10 Karen Dawn: advocating for animals
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: four new picture books

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Andrew Dalziel
Christchurch engineer: Hamish Doake

Saturday Morning guest information and links:

8:15 Bhupendra Chaubey
Bhupendra Chaubey has been a television journalist for 12 years, and is currently based in Delhi as National Bureau Chief for CNN IBN.
http://ibnlive.in.com/

8:30 Kim King
Dr Carolyn "Kim" King of the University of Waikato is an international authority on all aspects of the biology of small mustelids (stoats, ferrets and weasels). At the recent Hamilton Science Excellence Awards, the KuDos Awards, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement prize for her research and work to develop footprint tracking tunnels that are now routinely used to monitor stoat and rat densities on protected lands.
www.thekudos.org.nz/

9:05 Joy Cowley

Joy Cowley is the author of more than 600 titles for children and adults.
Joy tells her own story in Navigation: a Memoir (Penguin, and is the author of the new manual, Writing from the Heart: How to Write for Children - Storylines
www.joycowley.com/
http://www.storylines.org.nz/

9:45 Gin Wigmore
New Zealand singer-songwriter Gin Wigmore released her debut album, Holy Smoke, in 2009; it has now sold nearly triple-platinum. Gin returned from her new base in Australia and from touring the USA for the Vodafone NZ Music Awards on 7 October, winning Album of the Year, Best Pop Album, Highest Selling Album, and Breakthrough Artist of the Year. Gin starts her Grave Train tour in Auckland on 9 October, followed by concerts in Hamilton (10 October), Palmerston North (12 October), Wellington (13 October), Christchurch (16 October) and Dunedin (17 October).
http://www.ginwigmore.com.au/

10:05 Playing Favourites with Chris Bourke
Chris Bourke is a writer, journalist, editor, music historian and radio producer. His biography of Crowded House, Something So Strong (Pan Macmillan) was published in 1997, and his new book is Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music, 1918-1964 (Auckland University Press)
http://chrisbourke.blogspot.com/
www.chrisbourke.co.nz/
http://somethingsostrong.blogspot.com/

11:10 Karen Dawn
Karen Dawn is the founder of the animal advocacy group, DawnWatch.com, and author of the 2008 book, Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals (HarperCollins, ISBN: 978-0-06-135185-3). She is on a speaking tour in New Zealand, as a guest of SAFE, the SPCA, and The Vegan Society, which includes speaking at the 21st Companion Animal Conference 2010 in Christchurch (4-5 October), giving a Potluck Dinner lecture at the Grey Lynn Community Centre (9 October), and speaking at the Vegetarian Food & Lifestyle Festival 2010, ASB Showgrounds, Greenlane, Auckland (10 October).
http://www.dawnwatch.com/
http://www.thankingthemonkey.com/
http://rnzspca.org.nz/
www.safe.org.nz/
www.vegansociety.co.nz/
www.safe.org.nz/SAFE-events/
www.vegetarian.org.nz/content/whats-on/local-events/festial_2010/

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 four new picture books:

Hill and Hole, by Kyle Mewburn and Vasanti Unka (Puffin); Mirror, by Jeannie Baker (Walker Books); Eric, by Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin); It's a Book, by Lane Smith (Walker Books).

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Preview: Saturday 16 October 2010

Kim Hill is on leave, and Finlay Macdonald will host the programme. His guests will include photographer Jane Ussher, publisher Geoff Blackwell, and Australian scientist Tim Flannery.