Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 22 October 2011 - Radio NZ National
8:15 Thomas Friedman: dropping the ball
9:05 Sir Paul Callaghan: facing forward
9:40 Simon Wallace: dairying in Brazil
10:05 Playing Favourites with Garth Cartwright
11:05 Dame Kate Harcourt: driving on
11:45 Bruce Ansley: lost Christchurch
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Shaun Wilson
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
8:15 Thomas Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman writes for the New York Times and has three Pulitzer Prizes. His new book is That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, written with Michael Mandelbaum (Farrar Straus Giroux, ISBN: 978-0-37-428890-7). He is a guest speaker at the 2012 Writers and Readers Week (9-14 March) during the 2012 New Zealand International Arts Festival (24 February to 14 March), taking part in a panel discussion (Embassy Theatre, 13 March) and providing the closing keynote address (Wellington Town Hall, 14 March).
http://www.nzfestival.co.nz
9:05 Sir Paul Callaghan
Professor Sir Paul Callaghan is the 2011 New Zealander of the Year, Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, founder of Magritek, and leader of the five-person Magnetic Resonance Innovation team awarded the 2010 Prime Minister's Science Prize. Last month he was elected an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College Cambridge in the UK, and his new book, Translational Dynamics and Magnetic Resonance (OUP, ISBN: 978-0-19-955698-4) has just been published. Next year, Sir Paul and partners are staging the 2012 Transit of Venus Forum – Lifting our Horizon in Gisborne, (5-8 June), to inspire thinking about New Zealand’s future prospects, based on a realistic, science-based appraisal of our current situation.
http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/events/2012-transit-of-venus-forum-lifting-our-horizon/
9:40 Simon Wallace
9:40 Simon Wallace
Simon Wallace is a director and general manager of Leitissimo, a New Zealand-owned company that runs the largest pastoral dairy farm in Brazil.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Garth Cartwright
Garth Cartwright is a New Zealand-born, London-based writer whose new travelogue memoir is Sweet As: Journeys in a New Zealand Summer (Allen & Unwin, ISBN: 978-1-877-50508-9). Garth has written on music and arts for all the major UK broadsheets and magazines and his previous books include More Miles Than Money: Journeys Through American Music (Serpents Tail 2009), and Princes Among Men: Journeys with Gypsy Musicians (Serpents Tail 2005).
11:05 Dame Kate Harcourt
Dame Kate Harcourt is appearing in the new play, Sex Drive, at Circa Theatre in Wellington (to 12 November). She won her first acting award this year at the Rhode Island Film Festival (for her role in Pacific Dreams), though her professional career goes back to the 1960s, and the pre-school radio programme Listen with Mother. Since then she has had many roles in film, radio and television, and on stage, and in 1996 she was made DMNZ in the newly formed New Zealand Order of Merit, for her contribution to theatre.
11:45 Bruce Ansley
After a long career in journalism, Bruce Ansley became a canal voyager in France and a full-time writer of books. His latest publication is Christchurch Heritage: a Celebration of Lost Buildings and Streetscapes (Random House, ISBN: 978-186979-863-5).
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Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 22 October 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 15 October with mountaineer Pat Deavoll.
Preview: Saturday 29 October
Kim Hill is on leave, and Paul Diamond will be hosting the programme. His guests will include composer Jenny McLeod, writer Fiona Farrell, and Edward Meyer of Ripley’s Believe it or Not!
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