Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 17 September 2011 on Radio NZ National

8:12 Michael Watts: Africa and famine

8:30 John Carlin: Rafael Nadal

9:05 Caitlin Moran: modern feminism

9:45 Michael Bendall: youth parliamentarian

10:05 Playing Favourites with Joyce Fleming

11:05 Libby Hakaraia: in the bag

11:45 Dieter Paulmann: ocean action

Producer: Mark Cubey

Wellington engineer: Dominic Godfrey

Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins

8:12 Michael Watts

Michael Watts is a Class of 1963 Professor and Director of African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written and edited 15 books, and has published widely on African development, social movements and oil over the past three decades.

http://geography.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=21

8:30 John Carlin

John Carlin is an award-winning British journalist and author, based in Spain. His latest book, Rafa: My Story (Sphere, ISBN: 9781847445155), was written with Rafael Nadal, currently ranked number two tennis player in the world, and winner of nine grand slam singles titles.

http://www.johncarlin.eu/

9:05 Caitlin Moran

British broadcaster and writer Caitlin Moran writes three columns a week for The Times, and was voted Press Awards Critic of the Year 2011, and Interviewer of the Year 2011. Her second book is How to Be a Woman (Ebury Press, ISBN 978-0-09194-073-7).

http://twitter.com/#!/caitlinmoran

9:45 Michael Bendall

Michael Bendall is a law and commerce student at the University of Canterbury, president of Te Putairiki: Maori Law Students' Association at the University of Canterbury School of Law, and Maori liaison officer at Community Law Canterbury. He has just returned from London, where he represented New Zealand at the Fourth Commonwealth Youth Parliament.

http://www.laws.canterbury.ac.nz/teputairiki/tpcontacts.shtml

http://www.canlaw.org.nz/

10:05 Playing Favourites with Joyce Fleming

Joyce Fleming is the national vice-president of Free Beaches New Zealand (Inc.). She tells her life story in her book, Defying Convention: the Truth About Tony and Me (Rockhaven, ISBN: 978-0-473-17142-1).

http://www.freebeaches.org.nz/

11:05 Libby Hakaraia

Libby Hakaraia runs the Otaki-based film and television company Blue Bach Productions. As well as producing and directing numerous short films and documentaries, she has produced three series of It’s In the Bag for Maori Television, and is about to begin filming the fourth series in Northland.

http://www.bluebach.co.nz

11:45 Dieter Paulmann

German philanthropist Dieter Paulmann has been committed to ocean conservation for 30 years and runs Okeanos - Foundation for the Sea. He organised the recent Pacific Voyagers ocean journey to San Francisco by six canoes from Pacific islands, including New Zealand, to highlight the role traditional knowledge can play in saving the ocean from environmental threats.

http://www.okeanos-foundation.org/homepage/

http://www.pacificvoyagers.org/

Saturday Morning repeats:

 On Saturday 17 September 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 10 September with Dame Anne Salmond on William Bligh.

Preview: Saturday 24 September

 Kim Hill’s guests will include Nancy Andreasen on schizophrenia, Paul Diamond on Charles Mackay, Kevin McCloud of Grand Designs, and singers Simon O’Neill, Jonathan Lemalu, Madeleine Pierard and Sarah Castle.