Saturday Morning with Kim Hill:

Radio NZ National - 2 October 2010

8:15 Richard Woolf: unions in Europe
8:30 Cordelia Fine: gender and discrimination
9:05 Jesse Conklin: godwits
9:45 Kate's Klassic: The Invisible Man
10:05 Playing Favourites with Mike Nock and Norman Meehan
11:10 Dean Poole: design
11:40 John Saker: pinot noir

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell

Saturday Morning guest information and links:

8:15 Richard Woolf
Richard Wolff is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, visiting professor in the Graduate Program for International Affairs at the New School University in New York City, and author of a number of books, most recently Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It (Olive Branch Press, ISBN: 978-156656-784-8). He was recently in Europe, observing unprecedented trade union unity and activity.
http://www.rdwolff.com/
http://www.capitalismhitsthefan.com/

8:30 Cordelia Fine
Psychologist and writer Cordelia Fine is the author of the 2007 book, A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives. Her new book is Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (Icon Books, ISBN: 978-184831-201-2).
http://www.cordeliafine.com/

9:05 Jesse Conklin
Jesse R Conklin works in the Ecology Group, Institute of Natural Resources, at Massey University. He spent two years studying godwits in the Alaskan tundra during their breeding period, and is now observing godwits he tagged with geo-locators that are returning from Alaska to a small site-faithful flock on the Manawatu River at Foxton.

9:45 Kate's Klassic
Kate Camp will discuss the 1897 novel The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells (Penguin Classics, ISBN: 978-0-14-143998-3).

10:05 Playing Favourites with Mike Nock and Norman Meehan

New Zealand pianist Mike Nock played rock'n'roll in the 1950s and 60s before winning a scholarship to the Berklee jazz school in Boston. He is internationally renowned for his performances, compositions and recordings. Fellow jazz pianist and composer Norman Meehan is senior lecturer in jazz at the New Zealand School of Music, and author of Serious Fun: the Life and Music of Mike Nock (Victoria University Press, ISBN: 978-0-86473-636-9).
mikenock.extempore.com.au/
www.nzsm.ac.nz/people/staff/norman-meehan.aspx

11:10 Dean Poole
Dean Poole is one of New Zealand's most influential young designers. He is the creative director of Alt Group, which has won over 160 national and international design awards since 2005, including four Red Dots and the Grand Prix at the world's premier design awards in Germany last year. Dean will be a keynote speaker at the International Council of Graphic Design Associations 2010 conference in Brisbane, as part of ICOGRADA Design Week (11-17 October).
http://www.altgroup.net/
http://designweekbrisbane.com/

11:40 John Saker

John Saker is a freelance writer and author whose work has appeared in the New Zealand Listener, North & South, National Business Review, and Cuisine. He is the author of the 2005 book, How to Drink a Glass of Wine (Awa Press), and his new title, Pinot Noir: the New Zealand Story (Random House,ISBN: 978-1-86979-279-4), has just been published.

Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 2 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 25 September with petroleum geologist Farouk al-Kasim.

Preview: Saturday 9 October 2010
Kim Hill's guests will include Joy Cowley, Gin Wigmore, Karen Dawn and Chris Bourke.