Friday, February 18, 2011

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 19 February 2011

Radio New Zealand National

8:15 Richard Hurt: big tobacco and nicotine dependence
8:40 James Stewart: arms and international crime
9:05 Peter Sunde: file-sharing and micropayments
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler
10:05 Playing Favourites with Lennie James
11:10 Augustina Driessen: children and attachment
11:45 Merlin Mann: creativity and productivity

Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate Producer: Sean McKenna
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Adrian Hollay
Hamilton engineer: Andrew McRae

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Saturday Morning guest information and links:

Professor Richard Hurt is the director of the Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Centre. He is visiting New Zealand for the Inaugural International Cancer Symposium organised by the University of Otago, Wellington (13-19 February), and will deliver the keynote address, Treating Tobacco Dependence, and another speech, Big Tobacco CEOs – Smuggling, Marketing to Women and Children, and Invading Developing Countries.

http://ndc.mayo.edu/mayo/research/staff/hurt_rd.cfm
http://www.wnmeds.ac.nz/cancersymposium/

Professor James Stewart is a New Zealander based at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law in Canada. He was an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School and has worked with the Prosecution of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and for the International Committee of the Red Cross. His recent area of focus has been on the liability of arms vendors for international crimes.
http://www.law.ubc.ca/faculty/Stewart/index.html

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi is a Scandinavian hacker, entrepreneur and DJ, best known for co-founding The Pirate Bay, the largest file sharing system in the world. He is also the founder of Flattr, the first social micropayment and money sharing service. Peter is a guest speaker at the annual Webstock conference in Wellington (17-18 February).
http://thepiratebay.org/
http://flattr.com/
http://blog.brokep.com/
http://www.webstock.org.nz/


Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, and the author of Angels & Aristocrats: Early European Art in New Zealand Public Collections (Random House). She will discuss the exhibitions Emily Valentine: Feather Fancy (to 20 March) and Diaspora: Plurality + Singularity (works by Denis O’Connor and Fiona Pardington and four others, to 27 March) at the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui. Images from the exhibitions are available for view by clicking on the Art on Saturday Morning link on the right hand side of the Saturday Morning web page.
www.aucklandartgallery.com/
http://www.sarjeant.org.nz/

British writer and actor Lennie James has worked in film (Snatch, 24 Hour Party People) and television (Jericho, Hung, The Walking Dead), and wrote the play Storm Damage for the BBC in 2000. He collaborated with Auckland theatre group Massive Company to devise Sons of Charlie Paora in 2002, and has been visiting New Zealand regularly since then to help local actors turn their stories into plays. His new play with Massive Company, Havoc in the Garden, will premiere at the Auckland Festival (2-26 March).
http://www.aucklandfestival.co.nz/events/havoc-in-the-garden.aspx

Augustina Driessen trained in the Netherlands as a registered nurse and worked in psychiatry for 15 years after immigrating to New Zealand. Now a child psychotherapist, she established the Family Attachment BASE SAFE Trust in 2007, inspired by her work with psychiatrist Dr. Karl Heinz Brisch. SAFE (Secure Attachment Formation Education) educates and supports parents and caregivers in the formation of a secure attachment with their children; BASE (Babywatching Against Aggression and Anxiety, for Sensitivity and Empathy) is a preventative abuse programme operating in Bay of Plenty schools, pre-schools and kindergartens.
http://www.fabs.org.nz/

Merlin Mann has worked as a web developer, project manager, waiter, hardware store remodeler, court room exhibit designer, reluctant telemarketer, and enthusiastic but unprofitable indie rock musician. He is now a writer, speaker, broadcaster, and creator of websites, one of which, 43folders.com, is about finding the time and attention to do creative work. His first book, Inbox Zero, will be published later this year. Merlin is a guest speaker at the annual Webstock conference in Wellington (17-18 February).
http://www.merlinmann.com/
http://www.43folders.com/
http://www.inboxzero.com/
http://www.webstock.org.nz/

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Saturday Morning repeats:

On Saturday 19 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 12 February with Sir Richard Friend.

Preview: Saturday 26 February

im Hill’s guests will include Beckett interpreter Conor Lovett and charity organiser Cassandra Treadwell.

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