8:15 Emma Larkin: Burma
8:30 John Battle: prisons, faith and the Big Society
9:05 Redmer Yska: NZ Truth
9:40 Warren Tate: Rutherford Medal-winner
10:05 Robin Maconie: musicologia
10:40 Julie Anne Genter: parking management
11:10 Kristine Tompkins: Patagonia
11:45 Michael Bennett: Matariki and marathons
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Andrew Dalziel
Auckland engineer: Adrian Hollay
Christchurch engineer: Hamish Doake
Dunedin engineer: Rod Morgan
Saturday Morning guest information and links:
8:15 Emma Larkin
Emma Larkin is the pseudonym for an American journalist who was born and raised in Asia, and studied the Burmese language at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She has been visiting Burma for close to 15 years, and is the author of Everything is Broken: The Untold Story of Disaster Under Burma's Military Regime (Granta).
8:30 John Battle
Former British Labour party politician John Battle was MP for Leeds West, and Tony Blair's envoy to the faith communities from 2001 until May 2007. John is visiting New Zealand as a guest of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues at the University of Otago, and will speak at public events in Christchurch (15 November) and Dunedin (16, 17, 21, 23 November).
www.christchurchcathedral.co.nz/
www.otago.ac.nz/ctpi
Wellington writer and historian researcher Redmer Yska has written histories of marijuana (New Zealand Green, 1990), 1950s youth culture (All Shook Up, 1993) and the capital city (Wellington, 2006). He began his career as a reporter for NZ Truth, and used his 2008 National Library Research Fellowship to write a history of the pioneering tabloid newspaper, Truth: the Rise and Fall of the People's Paper (Craig Potton Publishing).
9:40 Warren Tate
Professor Warren Tate, FRSNZ, is an internationally renowned molecular biologist, and member of the Biochemistry Department, Otago School of Medical Sciences, at the University of Otago. On 10 November he was awarded New Zealand's top science and technology honour, the Rutherford Medal, for his outstanding achievements in molecular biology and molecular neuroscience. Together with the medal awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand, he also received $100,000 from the Government.
http://biochem.otago.ac.nz/professor-warren-tate/
www.royalsociety.org.nz/programmes/awards/rutherford-medal/winners/
10:05 Robin Maconie
Robin Maconie is a New Zealand composer, pianist and writer. He is a world expert on the composer Stockhausen, and the science and acoustics of music, and author of a number of books including The Concept of Music (OUP, 1993), The Science of Music (OUP, 1997), and new title, Musicologia: Musical Knowledge from Plato to John Cage (The Scarecrow Press).
www.jimstonebraker.com/maconie.html
10:40 Julie Anne Genter
Julie Anne Genter, originally from Los Angeles is a graduate from UC Berkeley and spent several years in France before settling in New Zealand, where she specialised in transportation planning as a scholar at the University of Auckland. Now a consultant for McCormick Rankin Cagney in Wellington, she has assisted numerous cities in New Zealand and Australia to develop strategic parking strategies and implement the new parking management paradigm.
http://www.mrcagney.com/
11:10 Kristine Tompkins
Kristine Tompkins is the former CEO of California outdoor clothing company Patagonia, and the founder of Conservacion Patagonica, a trust focused on conserving land within the Patagonia region of South America.
www.conservacionpatagonica.org/
11:45 Michael Bennett
Michael Bennett, of Te Arawa descent, has written and directed two short films, and many hours of prime-time television drama and comedy. He teaches screenwriting, works as a script consultant, script developer and script doctor, and is a marathon runner. His feature film directing debut, the co-written multi-narrative Matariki, debuted at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, and will go on New Zealand release from 18 November.
www.michaelbennett.co.nz/
http://matarikimovie.versionproductions.com/
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Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 13 November 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 6 November with former rugby league footballer Steve Price.
Preview: Saturday 20 November 2010
Kim Hill's guests will include former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, farmer Joel Salatin, artist and musician Fane Flaws, and actor and director Ian Mune.
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