Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 11 December 2010

Radio NZ National

8:15 James E Young: memory
8:35 Pat White: longing
9:05 Sean Egan: Coronation Street
9:45 Language with Jen Hay
10:05 Playing Favourites with Makerita Urale
11:10 Keith Bulfin: undercover in Mexico
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Andrew Dalziel
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins

Saturday Morning guest information and links:

8:15 James E Young
James E. Young is Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Chair of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and the author of a number of books and articles, many concerning the Holocaust. His work extends to examining the symbolism of memorial structures, and he was recently appointed by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to the jury for the competition to find a winning design for the World Trade Center Site Memorial, which is now under construction. Professor Young delivered a keynote lecture at the Contained Memory Conference co-hosted by Massey University at Te Papa, Wellington (9-11 December).
www.umass.edu/english/facProfiles/Young.htm
www.containedmemory.org.nz/

8:35 Pat White

Pat White is a poet, essayist and artist whose work reflects his passion for the natural environment and an exploration of the way individuals relate to the land. He has published seven poetry collections since 1977, most recently Planting the Olives (2004), and was writer in residence at the Robert Lord Cottage in Dunedin 2009-10, and at Randell Cottage, Wellington, during 2010. In 2009, he completed an MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters with a folio of essays entitled How the Land Lies, which has now been published as a book (Victoria University Press). He used the Randell Cottage residency to work on a biography of West Coast writer, teacher and environmentalist Peter Hooper.
http://pvwhite.wordpress.com/
www.randellcottage.co.nz/

9:05 Sean Egan
British writer Sean Egan's first professional writing work was a brief stint providing scripts for the television soap opera EastEnders. He is currently a journalist specialising in popular culture, and is the author of the novel Sick of Being Me. His latest book is 50 Years of Coronation Street: the (Very) Unofficial Story (JR Books).
www.itv.com/coronationstreet/
http://tvnz.co.nz/coronation-street?ref=sem&gclid=CIDVyqeS26UCFRxqgwodxHWvkg

9:45 Language with Jen Hay
Jen Hay is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, and is the director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour. Last month she won a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, and the University of Canterbury College of Arts Research Award. She will talk about this week's launch of the NZILBB, and the associated workshop.
www.lacl.canterbury.ac.nz/people/ling_people/hay.shtml
www.nzilbb.canterbury.ac.nz/

10:05 Playing Favourites with Makerita Urale
Makerita Urale is a playwright, producer and documentary director. Her 1998 play, Frangipani Perfume, was the first Pacific play written by a woman for an all-female cast, and her political documentary, Children of the Revolution, won the 2008 Qantas Award for Best Maori Programme. Makerita was the 2010 recipient of the Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer's Residency, and recently returned from Hawaii, where she completed her new play, The Heathen's Way. She has just taken the position of Senior Programme Adviser, Pacific Arts Portfolio, at Creative New Zealand.
www.creativenz.govt.nz/who_we_are/our_staff/arts_development_staff_profiles#senior

11:10 Keith Bulfin
New Zealander Keith Bulfin has worked in the finance and accounting industries in South Africa, the UK, Papua New Guinea and Australia. In 1980s Melbourne, while working as a share and mortgage broker, he was convicted of conspiracy to defraud, and spent three years in a high-security prison. His friendship there with two Mexican fugitives led to his recruitment by the US Department of Justice to operate a covert banking operation in Mexico for the drug cartels, then in Washington DC targeting Middle Eastern countries and terrorist organisations for the FBI. He fictionalised his experiences for the new novel Undercover (Bantam).


11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
Kate De Goldi will discuss two new books for very young readers - The Noisy Book by Soledad Bravi (Gecko); and Duck's Stuck! by Kyle Mewburn, illustrated by Ali Teo and John O'Reilly (Scholastic, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-86943-826-5); a chapter book for junior readers (and the very old), Dawn Shops & Other Stories by J L Brisley (M.D. Latimer, ISBN: 978-0-473-16435-5); and a novel, On the Blue Comet by Rosemary Wells, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline (Candlewick Press; ISBN: 978-0-7636-3722-4).

Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 11 December 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 4 December with Ton-Nu-Thi Ninh on Vietnam.

Preview: Saturday 18 December 2010
Kim Hill's guests will include Professor Sir Paul Callaghan, Kate Parker of Red Leap Theatre, and members of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.