8:12 Richard Denniss: shopping and waste
9:05 James Frey: reality and fantasy
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler: Christchurch collection
10:05 Playing Favourites with evolutionary geneticist Paul Rainey
11:10 Kay Craddock: antiquarian bookselling
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: three new books
Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate producer: Sean McKenna
Wellington engineer: Steve Burridge
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
8:12 Richard Denniss
Australian economist Dr Richard Denniss is the executive director of The Australia Institute, and the co-author, with Dr Clive Hamilton, of the 2005 best-seller, Affluenza: When Too Much Is Never Enough. He visited New Zealand to speak at Waste Management Institute of New Zealand workshops in Palmerston North (13-14 April), and released new research about the value of things we buy and throw away without ever using.
http://www.tai.org.au/
http://wasteminz.org.nz/
9:05 James Frey
American writer James Frey encountered controversy when it was discovered that he had fabricated elements of his 2003 best-seller, A Million Little Pieces (John Murray, ISBN: 978-0-7195-6102-3), a purportedly autobiographical account of his struggle with addiction.http://www.james-frey.com/
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler
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 some of her favourite works from the collection at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Selected images from the gallery are available for view by clicking on the Art on Saturday Morning link on the right hand side of the Saturday Morning web page.
http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/
http://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/
10:05 Playing Favourites with Paul Rainey
Professor Paul B. Rainey is an evolutionary geneticist and James Cook Research Fellow at the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study at the Albany Campus of Massey University. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, principal investigator at the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, and Visiting Professor at Stanford University in the United States, where he is co-director of the Hopkins Microbial Diversity programme. Late last month, Professor Rainey was made a Member of Germany's most prestigious academic institution, the Max Planck Society, and will run a research programme at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany.
http://evolution.massey.ac.nz/rainey/index.htm
http://www.mpg.de/en
http://www.eva.mpg.de/english/index.htm
11:10 Kay Craddock
http://www.kaycraddock.com/
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
Kate De Goldi will discuss three new books:
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (Delacorte Press, ISBN: 978-0385738835), a young adult novel set in a small town in Kansas during the Depression;
Waiting for Later by Tina Matthews (Walker Books, ISBN: 978-1-9021720-05-5), a wood cut and stencil picture book from an Australian-based New Zealand writer and artist; and
The Travelling Restaurant: Jasper's Voyage in Three Parts by Barbara Else (Gecko Press, ISBN: 978-1-877467-77-6), a fantasy book for younger readers from the New Zealand author best known for The Warrior Queen.
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Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 16 April 2011 during Great Encounters from 6:06pm on Radio New Zealand National, you can hear a repeat broadcast of Finlay Macdonald's interview from 9 April with Hone Kaa.
Preview: Saturday 23 April
Kim Hill's guests will include James McPherson on the American Civil War, Herman Knippenberg on serial killer Charles Sobhraj, documentary filmmaker Taggart Siegel on bees, and Irish singer Mary Coughlan.
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