8:15 Pratap Chatterjee: Egypt and the USA
8:30 Michael Hunter: 17th century science
9:05 Sir Richard Friend: commercialising chemistry
9:45 Cassandra Treadwell: a school in Kenya
10:05 Playing Favourites with Annabel Alpers
11:10 David McCandless: making information beautiful
11:45 Poetry with Bill Manhire
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Adrian Hollay
Saturday Morning guest information and links:
8:15 Pratap Chatterjee
Pratap Chatterjee is a senior fellow at the Centre for American Progress, based in Washington, DC, and a regular columnist for the Guardian. He has written extensively about contractors employed in the 'war on terror'', including two books on the subject: Iraq, Inc (2004) and Halliburton's Army (2009). He will discuss the role of Egypt's military-industrial complex and its links to United States interests.
www.americanprogress.org/experts/ChatterjeePratap.html
www.guardian.co.uk/profile/pratap-chatterjee
8:30 Michael Hunter
Professor Michael Hunter is a leading historian of seventeenth century English science, at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has worked particularly on the early Royal Society, the intellectual history of Restoration England, and on Robert Boyle, the most influential British scientist of the late seventeenth century. Professor Hunter visited Dunedin, as a guest of The University of Otago, for the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Conference.
www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/boyle_whatsnew/whatsnew.htm
9:05 Richard Friend
Sir Richard Friend is Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, and is visiting New Zealand to launch the International Year of Chemistry: The Big Picture in Wellington. His talk, Exploring the Creative Tensions Between Science and Technology, drew on his experience of commercialising basic research at the University of Cambridge's technology cluster.
www-oe.phy.cam.ac.uk/people/oestaff/rhf10.htm
http://abiggerpicture.eventbrite.com/?ref=ebtn
9:45 Cassandra Treadwell
Cassandra Treadwell is the Executive Director of the non-profit organisation Global Volunteer Network Foundation Australia, which she founded after visiting an Internally Displaced Persons refugee camp in Kenya in 2009. It has since funded the building of the Aberdare Ranges Primary School in Nakuru, Kenya.
http://www.gvnfaustralia.org/
10:05 Playing Favourites with Annabel Alpers
New Zealand musician Annabel Alpers performs and records as Bachelorette. Her 2005 debut EP, The End of Things, was followed by two albums, Isolation Loops (2006) and My Electric Family (2009). Annabel is currently based in New York and will release a new Bachelorette album later this year.
www.myspace.com/bachelorettepop
David McCandless is a London-based author, data-journalist and information designer for print, advertising, television and the Internet. His work, visualising ideas, issues, knowledge and data with the minimum of text, has appeared in over 40 publications internationally, and in his book, Information is Beautiful (Collins). David is a guest speaker at the annual Webstock conference in Wellington (17-18 February).
www.informationisbeautiful.net/
http://www.webstock.org.nz/
Bill Manhire was New Zealand's inaugural Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate. He is a four-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for poetry, received the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry in 2007, and is the director of the International Institute of Modern Letters, the centre for Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington. His latest book is The Victims of Lightning (Victoria University Press). Bill will discuss why so many poems are melancholy or sad.
www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/staff/bill-manhire.aspx
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Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 12 February 2011 during Great Encounters between 6:06pm and 7:00pm on Radio New Zealand National, you can hear a repeat broadcast of Kim Hill's interview from 5 February with De Fernando Nottebohm.
Preview: Saturday 19 February
Kim Hill's guests will include Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay, and child psychotherapist Augustina Driessen.
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