8:15 Paul Lewis: the British riots
8:30 Norman Hammond: Mayan civilisation
9:05 John Kendrick: bird watching
10:05 Playing Favourites with Vincent Heeringa
11:05 Justin North: master chef
11:30 Gardening with Kath Irvine: chickens
11:45 Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Andrew Dalziel
8:15 Paul Lewis
Paul Lewis is Special Projects Editor for the Guardian. He was named Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards 2010 and won the 2009 Bevins Prize for outstanding investigative journalism. He has been reporting this week on the civil unrest in Britain.
8:40 Norman Hammond
Norman Hammond is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at Boston University, Associate in Maya Archaeology at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, and a Senior Fellow at Cambridge University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and is the archaeology correspondent for The Times newspaper. Professor Hammond is visiting New Zealand to present the 2011 New Zealand Aronui Lecture, The Mysterious Maya: an Ancient American Civilisation, in Auckland, Hamilton, Napier, Wellington, Nelson and Dunedin.
9:05 John Kendrick
John Kendrick has been bird watching for 85 years. He was awarded the Forest & Bird Old Blue award in 2010 for services to conservation, especially his contribution to sound recording, and is still active in conservation in his local area of Waipu. With Geoff Moon, Lynnette Moon and Karen Baird, he is the author of New Zealand Bird Calls (New Holland, ISBN: 978-1-86966-310-0), which includes a CD of bird calls, introduced by George Henare.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Vincent Heeringa
Vincent Heeringa is the founder and a director of HB Media Ltd, and one of New Zealand’s leading business commentators. He is a co-founder of Idealog, the country’s biggest circulation business magazine, and has won numerous awards including being twice named Editor of the Year by the Magazine Publishers’ Association. As well as Idealog, HB Media publishes Inspire (New Zealand’s largest travel magazine) and Good, the country’s first carbon neutral magazine. Vincent is a director of AUT Media, the publishing arm of AUT University, and was recently appointed to the advisory board of the Science Media Centre.
11:05 Justin North
Justin North is chef and proprietor of a number of Sydney restaurants including Becasse, Etch and Quarter 21, was named GQ Chef of 2010, and has made guest appearances on MasterChef Australia and Junior MasterChef. He returns to New Zealand for the French Lessons session at the Fisher & Paykel Master Class series on 19 August, during Wellington on a Plate (5-12 August).
11:30 Gardening with Kath Irvine
Kath Irvine has spent years teaching permaculture and edible gardening to schools and community groups, and now runs Edible Backyard workshops from her garden in Ohau. She will talk about chickens, and discuss questions from listeners.
11:45 Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Kate De Goldi will discuss four new books:
Life: an Exploding Diagram, by Mal Peet (Walker Books; ISBN: 978-1-84428-100-8), a young adult story set in Norfolk during the Cuban missile crisis;
Only Ever Always by Penni Russon (Allen and Unwin; ISBN: 978-1-74175-044-7);
The Carbon Diaries, 2015 (Hodder Headline, ISBN: 978-0-340-97015-7) and The Carbon Diaries 2017 (Hodder Headline, ISBN: 978-0-340-97016-4), a semi-comic eco story set in London, both by Saci Lloyd.
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Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 13 August 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 6 August with Rebecca Cann.
Preview: Saturday 20 August
Kim Hill’s guests will include ceramic artist and theatre designer John Parker, and music writer Simon Reynolds.
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