8:12 Erik Conway: merchants of doubt
8:45 Layton Duncan: apps from Christchurch
9:05 Cliff Abraham: the brain and Alzheimer's
9:45 Cassandra Treadwell: a school in Kenya
10:05 Playing Favourites with Will & Annie Crummer
11:10 James Samuel: low-energy futures
11:40 Maria Tatar: fairytales
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
Dunedin engineer: Martin Balch
8:12 Erik Conway
Erik M. Conway is an historian of science and technology at the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of several books, most recently Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Bloomsbury, ISBN: 978-1-59691-610-4), which he co-authored with Naomi Oreskes (who will visit here in May for the Auckland Writers Festival). Erik is a keynote speaker at the Climatefutures forum at Te Papa, Wellington (31 March - 1 April), organised by the New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute at Victoria University of Wellington.
www.confer.co.nz/climate_futures/speakers.htm
www.writersfestival.co.nz/
8:45 Layton Duncan
Layton Duncan is the director of Christchurch software development company Polar Bear Farm, and founder of mobile health service provider Sense Medical, and the Epicentre workspace in Christchurch. He also writes the From the Hip blog.
http://www.polarbearfarm.com/
www.sensemedical.co.nz/
www.epicentre.co.nz/
http://laytonduncan.com/
9:05 Cliff Abraham
Professor Wickliffe Abraham is a Professor in Psychology and Director of the Brain Health Research Centre at the University of Otago. He is an international authority on brain mechanisms of memory and Alzheimer's research, and was involved with the recent Brain Awareness Week, the annual global campaign to increase public awareness about the progress and benefits of brain research.
www.brainweek.co.nz/
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 Will & Annie Crummer
Rarotongan musician Will Crummer played a major role in Auckland's thriving live music scene of the 1960s, and recorded for the Viking label. His daughter, Annie Crummer, has sung with New Zealand artists such as Netherworld Dancing Toys, When the Cat's Away, and Herbs, as well as pursuing her own solo career. Annie and her brothers David and Pat (ukulele, guitar) were part of a group of musicians late last year who helped Will record his first album in four decades: Shoebox Lovesongs: the Rarotongan Music of Will Crummer (Ode/Rhythmethod), which comes with a 50-minute DVD documentary directed by Costa Botes. Will and Annie will be accompanied live in the studio by Turia 'Dinky' Ngatipa on ukulele.
11:10 James Samuel: low-energy futures
James Samuel lives on Waiheke Island, and has been involved in the Transition Towns relocalisation movement since it began. He is also Convenor of the Auckland Food Alliance.
www.jamessamuel.co.nz/
www.transitiontowns.org.nz/
http://aucklandfoodalliance.org/
11:40 Maria Tatar
Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, where she chairs the Programme in Folklore and Mythology and teaches courses in German Studies, Folklore, and Children's Literature. She is the author of a number of books about fairytales, including the 2009 book, Enchanted Hunters: the Power of Stories in Childhood (W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN: 9780393066012). Maria was invited to the University of Auckland by the VC's Distinguished Visitor Fund to deliver the talk, Fairy Tales in an Age of Electronic Entertainments on 29 March.
www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~tatar/Maria_Tatar/About_Me.html
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Preview: Saturday 9 April
Kim Hill will be on leave, and Finlay Macdonald will be hosting the programme. His guests will include Hone Kaa, musician Ruth Carr, cartoonist Chris Slane, and biographer Tom Bower on Bernie Ecclestone and Formula One.
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