8:15 Ton-Nu-Thi Ninh: Vietnam
8:35 Edmund Weiner: the OED online
9:05 Suzy van der Kwast: cafe pioneer
9:45 Hamish Spencer: cousin marriage
10:05 Don Letts: punk and reggae
11:10 Debra Granik: movies and meth
11:35 Fritz Eisenhofer: dome home
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Dunedin engineer: Rod Morgan
Saturday Morning guest information and links:
8:15 Ton-Nu-Thi Ninh
Ton-Nu-Thi Ninh is President of the Founding Committee at Tri Viet International University, and one of the public figures identified most with the interests of young people in Vietnam. Madame Ninh was Vietnam's Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and Head of Mission to the European Union in Brussels, and was elected to the 11th National Assembly of Vietnam (2002-2007). She visited New Zealand as a guest of the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
www.asianz.org.nz/
8:35 Edmund Weiner
Edmund Weiner is deputy editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, which aims to trace the first known use of every sense of every word, and has been the authoritative recorder of the language since it was first published in ten volumes in 1884. The OED re-launched online at the end of November, with the first major update and revision in over ten years, and New Zealand is the only country outside the UK where access to the OED online is available free via local libraries.
http://www.oed.com/
9:05 Suzy van der Kwast
Suzy van der Kwast immigrated to New Zealand from the Netherlands in the 1960s, and opened Suzy's Coffee Lounge in Wellington in 1964. Her story is told in Suzy: a Coffee House History by Susette Goldsmith (Quill)
9:45 Hamish Spencer
Hamish Spencer, FRSNZ, is a professor of zoology at the University of Otago, where he also holds the positions of Principal Investigator with the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, and Principal Investigator with the National Research Centre for Growth and Development. He is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland. Hamish will discuss cousins and marriage.
www.otago.ac.nz/zoology/staff/spencer.html
www.allanwilsoncentre.ac.nz/
www.liggins.auckland.ac.nz/
10:05 Don Letts
Musician, DJ, writer, broadcaster and film maker Don Letts is credited with introducing reggae music to the 1970s London punk scene. He has directed a number of documentaries since The Punk Rock Movie in 1978, including Westway to the World, which won a Grammy in 2003, and has directed over 300 music videos for artists including The Clash, Pretenders, and Elvis Costello. He was a founding member of the band Big Audio Dynamite, wrote his autobiography in 2007, Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers (SAF Publishing, ISBN: 978-0-946719-89-1), and currently hosts a programme on BBC Radio 6. Don will visit New Zealand in 2011 to perform at WOMAD Taranaki (18-20 March).
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072pzt
http://womad.co.nz/whatsNew.htm
11:10 Debra Granik
American independent filmmaker Debra Granik has received widespread acclaim for the two feature films she has written and directed, Down to the Bone (2004), and Winter's Bone, which premiered in this year's New Zealand Film Festival and is now on general release.
www.downtothebonethefilm.com/
www.wintersbonemovie.com/
www.flicks.co.nz/movie/winters-bone/
11:35 Fritz Eisenhofer
New Zealand architect Fritz Eisenhofer is responsible for many Wellington landmarks, including Suzy's Coffee Bar and the original Matterhorn, and the award-winning Whenua Tapu Chapel and Crematorium. His Kapiti Coast home, The Eco Building, features in the new book, Home Work: Leading New Zealand Architects' Own Houses, by John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds -Godwit
http://fritz-eisenhofer.com/
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Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 4 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 27 November with Dan Nocera.
Preview: Saturday 11 December 2010
Kim Hill's guests will include Sean Egan on Coronation Street, Pat White on longing, and Keith Bulfin on his undercover life within the Mexican drug cartels.
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