8:15 Harry Sinclair: life in L.A.
8:35 John Buck: dynamic governance
9:05 Ann Andrews: Parkinson’s
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler: surrealism
10:05 Playing Favourites with Simon Reynolds
11:05 John Parker: ceramics and design
11:45 Maria V. Snyder: weather and dystopia
Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate producer: Amelia Nurse
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
Saturday Morning guest information and links:
8:15 Harry Sinclair
Harry Sinclair founded multimedia musical comedy act The Front Lawn with Don McGlashan in the 1980s, and is a screen actor (Braindead, The Lord of the Rings) and feature film director (The Price of Milk, Toy Love) who now lives in Los Angeles. A two-disc remastered edition of his 1996 television series and debut movie, Topless Women Talk About their Lives, has just been released for the first time on DVD.
8:35 John Buck
John Buck is the chief executive of Governance Alive, part of an international consulting organisation headquartered in the Netherlands, and the coauthor of We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy. He is visiting New Zealand to run workshops about dynamic governance (known in The Netherlands as sociocracy), a sustainable system for organising and running organisations.
9:05 Ann Andrews
Ann Andrews has worked as a television and theatre producer, researcher, teacher and crisis counselor. She was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in mid-life, and has written Positively Parkinson's: Symptoms & Diagnosis, Research & Treatment, Advice & Support (Calico Publishing, ISBN 9781877429033).
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler
Mary Kisler, (pic right, Gil Hanly) is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She will discuss the exhibition, Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams, at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane (to 2 October). Images can be viewed by clicking the Art on Saturday Morning link on the right hand side of the Saturday Morning web page.10:05 Playing Favourites with Simon Reynolds
Los Angeles-based English writer Simon Reynolds has written extensively about music, particularly on the topics of dance music and drugs. He runs a number of websites, and his books include Energy Flash: a Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture (Pan Macmillan, 1998), Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978-1984 (Faber and Faber, 2005), and Bring The Noise: 20 Years of Writing about Hip Rock and Hip-Hop (Faber and Faber, 2007). His latest book is Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past (Faber and Faber, ISBN: 978-0-571-23208-6).
11:05 John Parker
John Parker is a ceramic artist, designer for theatre and opera, and collector of all manner of objects. He designed the set for NZ Opera’s double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, which plays in Wellington (27, 30 August, 1, 3 September) and Auckland (15, 17, 21, 23, 25 September), and he will run NZ Opera’s 2011 Design Creative Workshops for school children.
11:40 Maria V. Snyder
American writer Maria V. Snyder worked as an meteorologist before writing a number of best-selling fantasy books: the Study Series (Poison Study, Magic Study, Fire Study), about a young woman who becomes a poison taster; the Glass Series (Storm Glass, Sea Glass, Spy Glass), about a magician who can capture magic inside glass creations, and the dystopian young adult Insider series (Inside Out, Outside In). Maria is visiting Auckland as a guest at the Romance Writers of New Zealand conference.
Saturday morning repeats
On Saturday 20 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 13 August with ornithologist John Kendrick.
Preview: Saturday 27 August
Kim Hill’s guests will include neuroscientist David Eagleman, geologist Bruce Hayward, filmmaker Jeff Smith, and poet Peter Bland.
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