Friday, March 18, 2011

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 19 March 2011

Radio New Zealand National


8:15 Tariq Ali: the US, Islam. China
9:05 John McBeth: reporting Asia
9:45 Ric LaPlastrier: Futuna
10:05 Tim Robbins: music and movies
11:10 Simon Sebag Montefiore: Jerusalem
11:45 Poetry with Johanna Emeney

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon

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Saturday Morning guest information and links:

8:15 Tariq Ali
Born in Pakistan and based in London, Tariq Ali is an editor of New Left Review and has written seven novels and more than 20 books on world history and politics, most recently The Obama Syndrome: War Abroad. As the 2011 Sir Douglas Robb Lecturer at Auckland University he will deliver a series of three, free lectures: Islam and its Discontents (17 March), US Power Today: The Global Hegemon (21 March), and The Rise of China (23 March) - all from 7pm at the Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road.
http://tariqali.org/
www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/news-events-and-notices/events/template/event_item.jsp?cid=11237


9:05 John McBeth
New Zealand journalist John McBeth is based in Indonesia and writes for The Straits Times. He has been based in Asia for four decades, writing for the Bangkok Post and the Far Eastern Economic Review, for whom he became its longest-serving correspondent, heading the magazine's bureaus in Thailand, South Korea, the Philippines and Indonesia. He tells his story in the memoir, Reporter: Forty Years Covering Asia (Talisman, ISBN: 978-981-08-7364-6).

9:45 Ric Laplastrier
Ric Leplastrier is a seminal figure in Australian architecture and architectural education, and the first non-Danish recipient of the Dreyer Foundation Prize, in 2009. A Royal Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medallist in 1999, he received the Finnish Wood Award in 2004. Ric is visiting New Zealand to deliver The Dulux Futuna Lecture on 19 March, as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations for Futuna Chapel in Karori, Wellington.
www.ozetecture.org/oze_NEW_portfolio_richard.html
http://www.futunatrust.org.nz/

10:05 Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins formed experimental political theatre group the Actors' Gang in 1981, and has also pursued a successful screen career as an actor, producer, director and screenwriter in films such as The Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River, The Player, Dead Man Walking, and Bob Roberts. He is also a singer and songwriter, and visits Auckland in that capacity on 30 April for one New Zealand concert in support of his debut album, Tim Robbins & the Rogues Gallery Band.
http://www.timrobbins.net/

11:10 Simon Sebag Montefiore

British biographer, novelist and journalist Simon Sebag Montefiore worked as a war correspondent in the early 1990s, witnessed the fall of the Soviet Union and covered the wars in the Caucasus. His best-selling books include Young Stalin (2008), Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2004), and Catherine the Great & Potemkin (2004). His new book, Jerusalem: The Biography (Weidenfeld, ISBN: 9780297852650), is a history of 3,000 years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence.
www.simonsebagmontefiore.com/

11:45 Johanna Emeney
Poet and English teacher Johanna Emeney is pursuing her doctoral thesis (on medical discourse in poetry) at Massey University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her poem, Radiologist's Report, is one of three shortlisted in the international category of Britain's prestigious Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine (won last year by C.K. Stead).
Her first poetry collection, Apple & Tree, is due to be published in July. Johanna will participate in the Writers' Read-in on 25 March, organized by Auckland Libraries and the New Zealand Society of Authors to raise funds for the people of Christchurch.
www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/colleges/college-humanities-social-sciences/cohss_home.cfm
www.capecatleybooks.co.nz/books/apple.htm
www.hippocrates-poetry.org/
www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/EN/Events/Pages/ChristchurchFundraiser.aspx

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Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 19 March 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 March with philanthropist and relationship counselor, Helen La Kelly Hunt.

Preview: Saturday 26 March
Kim Hill's guests will include cancer biographer Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Pamela Ronald on seeds and genes.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for putting this up- so much easier to read than the email from National Radio!!!
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TK Roxborogh said...

re: Tim Robbins
We study Shawkshank Redemption with seniors. It's my most favourite movie and he is one of my most favourite actors. I think part of the attraction is his 'speak out against the crap' extra-curricular activities.