8:15 Harvey Wasserman: nuclear power
8:35 Errol Wright and Abi King-Jones: Operation 8
9:05 Bill Macnaught: libraries
9:40 Alan Broadbent: key player
10:05 Playing Favourites with Chris Hart
11:05 Robert McLeod: art and commerce
11:45 Greg O'Brien: the Kermadecs
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
8:15 Harvey Wasserman
Harvey Wasserman edits Nukefree.org, and is the author of Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth, AD 2030.
8:35 Errol Wright and Abi King-Jones
Errol Wright and Abi King-Jones collaborated on two feature documentaries, Te Whanau o Aotearoa (2003) and The Last Resort (2006), before making this year's Operation 8: Deep in the Forest, about the 2007 police raid. The film is screening in Auckland, Wellington, Whakatane, Opotiki, Rotorua, Motueka and Dunedin, and will open at other centres during June.
9:05 Bill Macnaught
Bill Macnaught is the National Librarian of New Zealand, responsible for the Alexander Turnbull Library and providing support for libraries and researchers throughout the country. He came to the position in May, after six years as manager of Taranaki's Puke Ariki, and is a member of the boards of the Library and Information and Advisory Commission, the Association of Public Library Managers, and Museums Aotearoa.
9:40 Alan Broadbent
New Zealand composer, pianist and arranger Alan Broadbent is currently musical director for the American singer Diana Krall. He has written nine tunes for an upcoming album by Rodger Fox and the Wellington Jazz Orchestra, and returns to New Zealand to join their tour from 1 June.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Chris Hart
Chris Hart is the managing director of the Real Groovy record store in Auckland, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this weekend.
11:05 Robert McLeod
Glasgow-born artist Robert McLeod has been painting and teaching in Wellington since the early 1970s. A new, limited-edition book of his work, Dandini Comes Clean (PAULNACHE Publishing, ISBN: 978-0-473-18553-4), features text by McLeod, editor Aaron Lister, Tim Bollinger, Ian Wedde and Christine Whybrew, with photography by Murray Lloyd. McLeod's new exhibition, Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide, will feature at the Auckland Art Fair in August.
11:45 Greg O'Brien
Greg O'Brien is a poet, painter, writer and curator at large. His most recent book is A Micronaut in the Wide World: the Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy (Auckland University Press, 2011).
In May, Greg and eight other leading artists from the South Pacific region travelled on HMNZS Otago to the Kermadec Islands, the most remote part of New Zealand. An exhibition of work inspired by the journey will open at the Tauranga Art Gallery in November.
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Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 4 June 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 28 May with Dale Williams, Mayor of Otorohanga.
Preview: Saturday 11 June
Kim Hill's guests will include New Yorker photographer Platon, Australian author Geraldine Brooks, and guitar and sitar player Doug Jerebine.
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