8:12 Cheryl Sucher
8:30 Elizabeth Iorns
9:05 John Waters
9:45 Mary Kisler
10:05 Darcy Nicholas
11:05 Anne Salmond
11:45 Kath Irvine
Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate Producers: Amelia Nurse and Chris Whitta
Wellington engineer: Jeremy Veal
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
8:12 Cheryl SucherWriter Cheryl Sucher is a former New Yorker who is now based in Havelock North. She’s in New York for two months finishing her novel and getting her fill of opera. She’ll talk about living in Havelock North, her writing and 9/11 ten years on.
8:30 Elizabeth Iorns
Elizabeth Iorns is a New Zealand born breast cancer researcher and entrepreneur based in Miami. She founded scienceexchange.com, an online marketplace for outsourcing science experiments with the goal of making research more efficient. She is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
9:05 John Waters
American filmmaker, actor, writer and shock auteur John Waters rose to fame in the early 1970s with a string of cult films (Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living), before achieving mainstream success. He continues to make films and write from his home city of Baltimore, is coming to New Zealand for the first time to perform his one man show This Filthy World (31 October in Wellington, 2 November in Auckland), which draws on material from his most recent book, Role Models (Farra, Strauss, Giroux, ISBN: 0374532869)
9:45 Mary Kisler
Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She will discuss the new Auckland Art Gallery, three Maori Dimension commissions and two international commissions . Images under discussion are available for view by clicking on the Art on Saturday Morning link on the right hand side of the Saturday Morning web page.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Darcy Nicholas
Darcy Nichols is a respected painter, sculptor, writer, and curator who has exhibited internationally. His current exhibition, Land of My Ancestors is at the Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre in Upper Hutt and features paintings, sculpture and jewelry. His book by the same title is a collection of oral and written knowledge left by learned elders. (Nicholas Press ISBN: 0476016282, 9780476016286)
11:05 Anne SalmondAnne Salmond is one of New Zealand’s most distinguished anthropologists and historians. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, and the author of a number of award-winning books, including Two Worlds, Between Worlds, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, and Aphrodite’s Island. Her new book, Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas (Penguin Viking, ISBN: 978-0-67-007556-0), explores the life of the notorious explorer through his three Pacific voyages on the Resolution, Bounty, and Providence.
11:45 Gardening with Kath Irvine
Kath Irvine has spent years teaching permaculture and edible gardening to schools and community groups, and now runs workshops on how to grow food and create edible backyards from her garden on the Kapiti Coast. She will talk about composting, asparagus and hotboxes.
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Preview: Saturday 17 September 2011
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