Friday, May 27, 2011

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 28 May 2011

Radio New Zealand National - 
NZ Radio Awards 2011 winner: Best Daily or Weekly Series (one hour or more duration)

8:15 Bryan Caplan: serenity parenting
8:30 Michael Morrissey: manic depression
9:05 James Gleick: information
9:45 Language with Jen Hay: motherese
10:05 Playing Favourites with Kate Camp
11:05 Dale Williams: youth in Otorohanga
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Christchurch engineer: Joseph Veale
Hamilton engineer: Andrew McRae


8:15 Bryan Caplan
Bryan Caplan is professor of economics at George Mason University in Virginia USA and blogger at EconLog, one of the Wall St. Journal's top 25 economics blogs. His first book, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, was named the best political book of 2007 by the New York Times. His latest book is Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than you Think (Basic Books, ISBN: 978-0465018673).

8:30 Michael Morrissey
Auckland writer Michael Morrissey has published twenty books of poetry and fiction. He details his experience of manic depression in the new book, Taming the Tiger (Polygraphia, ISBN: 9781887332968), and is profiled in Daytime Tiger, a feature documentary by Costa Botes, which will premiere at this year's New Zealand International Film Festival.

9:05 James Gleick
James Gleick is an American author, journalist, and biographer. His first book, Chaos: Making a New Science (1987) chronicled the development of chaos theory, and his subsequent books include Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything (1999), and biographies of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton. His new book is The Information: a History, a Theory, a Flood (Fourth Estate, ISBN: 978-0-00-742311-8).

9:45 Jen Hay
Jen Hay is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, and is the director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour. She will talk about motherese.


10:00 Playing Favourites with Kate Camp
Kate Camp is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently last year's The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls (Victoria University Press , ISBN: 9780864736215). She is also the author of the 2002 essay, On Kissing (Four Winds Press), and a selection of her discussions with Kim Hill on classic literature were published in 2007 as Kate's Klassics (Penguin, ISBN: 9780143007524). 
From September, Kate will spend a year in Berlin as the 2011 recipient of the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency, completing a collection of poetry and exploring collaborations with local artists.

11:00 Dale Williams
Dale Williams is the Mayor of Otorohanga. The Otorohanga District Council has had great success in recent years with its youth programmes, minimising youth offending and unemployment. Mayor Williams participated in a recent discussion organised by the Henwood Trust and Robson Hanan Trust to explore pathways that might address New Zealand's growing incarceration rate.

11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi 
Kate De Goldi will discuss three new books:

The Dream of the Thylacine, by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks (Allen and Unwin, ISBN: 978-1-74237-383-6), a new picture book from the celebrated collaborators of Fox; Small as an Elephant, by Jennifer Richard Jacobson (Candlewick, ISBN: 978-0-7636-4155-9), a survival story with a difference; and Matchless, by Gregory Maguire (Harper, ISBN: 978-0-06-200482-6), a rethink of The Little Match Girl by the author of Wicked.

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Saturday Morning repeats:

On Saturday 28 May 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 21 May with philosopher A. C. Grayling.

Preview: Saturday 4 June

Kim Hill's guests will include National Librarian Bill Macnaught and dinosaur creator Sonny Tilders.

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