8:15 Wael Ghonim: revolution in Egypt
8:45 Fredrick Heffermehl: Nobel Peace Prize
9:05 Anthony McCarten: absent heroes
9:40 Richie Meyer: silent movies
10:05 Playing Favourites with Megan Salole
11:05 Ted Noten: objects and meanings
11:45 Children’s Books with Kate de Goldi
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
8:15 Wael Ghonim
Wael Ghonim is an Egyptian activist and computer engineer
with an interest in social entrepreneurship. In his memoir, Revolution 2.0
(Fourth Estate, ISBN: 978-0-00-745436), he explains how his use of social media
helped generate the Arab Spring.
8:45 Fredrick Heffermehl
Fredrik Heffermehl is a Norwegian lawyer, peace
researcher, and author of the books Nobel's Will (2008, ISBN:
978-82-7990-074-0), and The Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel Really Wanted (2010,
Praeger, ISBN: 978-0-313-38744-9). He claims that the Nobel committee has
violated the terms of Alfred Nobel’s will, ignoring the prize’s original
purpose to diminish the role of military power in international relations.
9:05 Anthony McCarten
Anthony McCarten has created a number of novels, plays
and films, including Ladies Night, Via Satellite, Weed, and Show of Hands. Late
last year, the film adaptation of his 2005 novel Death of a Superhero (Vintage,
ISBN: 978-1-86941-696-1) won the Prize of the Public and the Prize of the Youth
Public at the Les Arcs European Film Festival.
His new novel, In the Absence of
Heroes (Vintage, ISBN: 978-1-86979-723-2), is a sequel to that book. Anthony
lives in London, but will return to New Zealand for the 2012 Auckland Writers
& Readers Festival (9-13 May).
9:40 Richie Meyer
Dr Richard J Meyer teaches film at Seattle University,
Washington, and is President Emeritus of The San Francisco Silent Film
Festival. He has published widely in film and journalism periodicals, and
worked in all phases of film and educational television production, and is the
author of two books about Chinese actors of the 1920s and 1930s: Ruan Ling-Yu:
The Goddess of Shanghai (Hong Kong University Press, ISBN: 978-9622093959), and
Jin Yan: The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai (Hong Kong University Press, ISBN:
9789622095861). Richie is a visiting scholar at the New Zealand Film Archive,
where he is researching First World War propaganda.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Megan Salole
Megan Salole
is “a bloody dreamer” and proud of it. She likes to imagine better ways of
doing things, and finding ways to bring it about. Once a designer, she is now
considered a social entrepreneur, and has had a hand in creating initiatives
such as the international Frocksonbikes movement and Intersect. She was the
National Campaign Manager for the Green Party in the 2011 election, and is a
member of the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra, who are about to
embark on a nationwide tour.
11:05 Ted Noten
Ted Noten is the Dutch Artist of the Year 2012, and
“tries to stamp out the spoof of society with objects of shifting meanings”. He
will be a keynote speaker at JEMposium: Jewellery or What, the international
jewellery symposium in Wellington from 10-13 February. His video installation,
Gold, Sweat and Pearls, will be exhibited at Objectspace in Auckland (7
February to 10 March) alongside the work of fellow internationally renowned
jewellers Manon van Kouswijk and Fabrizio Tridenti, who will also be speaking
at JEMposium.
11:45 Children’s Books with Kate de Goldi
New Zealand
writer Kate De Goldi (left) is the author of a number of books, including the
multi-award winning novel, The 10pm Question. She will discuss four books from
the New York Review Children's Collection:
The Sorely Trying Day, by Russell and Lillian Hoban
(NYRB; ISBN: 978-159017-343-5); The Mousewife, by Rumer Godden, illustrated by
William Pene du Bois (NYRB; ISBN 978-1-59017-310-7); D'Aulaire's Book of
Animals, by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire (NYRB; ISBN 978-1-59017-226-1); and
Ounce, Dice, Trice, by Alastair Reid, illustrated by Ben Shahn (NYRB; ISBN
978-1-59017-320-6).
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Saturday Morning repeats and previews:
On Saturday 11 February, Kim’s guests will include Robert
Glennon on water, Patrick and Patsy McGrath on Bali, and Sam Hunt and Dick
Frizzell on poetry as painting.
Monday 6 February: Waitangi Day Special at Puke Ariki,
New Plymouth On Waitangi Day morning from 8.00am to midday, Kim Hill and Paul
Diamond (Curator, Maori, at the Turnbull Library) will host a Korerorero at
Puke Ariki, with invited guests.
On Sunday 5 February at Puke Ariki between 1.30pm and
2.30pm, we will be recording a one-hour panel discussion that will play as part
of that programme.
Members of the New Plymouth public are invited to come
along and be part of the audience on both the Sunday and Monday. Entry is free,
but seating is limited.
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