8:15 Nicole
Foss: global finance and peak oil
9:05 Roddy Doyle: middle aged men
9:40 Claire Stent: yearbooks
10:05 Nick Lowe: career reinvention
11:05 Tony Taylor: fishing and time
11:45 Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
8:15 Nicole Foss
Nicole M. Foss is Senior Editor of The Automatic
Earth (TheAutomaticEarth.org), where
she and co-author and Editor-in-Chief Raúl Ilargi Meijer chronicle and
interpret the ongoing credit crunch as the most pressing aspect of the world's
current multi-faceted predicament. Prior to the establishment of TAE, Nicole
was editor of The Oil Drum Canada, where she wrote on peak oil and finance. She
also ran the Agri-Energy Producers' Association of Ontario, where she focused
on farm-based biogas projects, grid connections for renewable energy and
Feed-In Tariff policy development. Nicole is also an international speaker
on energy and global finance. and is visiting New Zealand from 18 March to 22
April 2012 for speaking engagements in Dunedin, Oamaru, Christchurch,
Lyttleton (27 March), Richmond (29 March), Motueka (29 March) , Nelson (30
March), Takaka (3 April), Wellington (5 April), Turangi (11th Australasian Permaculture
Convergence, 11-15 April), and Auckland (17-21 April).
Irish writer Roddy Doyle is best known for his novels,
including Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, for which he won the 1993 Booker Prize, and
the films made of his Barrytown Trilogy (The Commitments, The Snapper, The
Van). He is also a playwright, and writer of non-fiction and children’s books,
and his new book of short stories is Bullfighting (Jonathan Cape, ISBN
9780224091442). Roddy Doyle will be a guest at the 2012 Auckland Writers and
Readers Festival (9-13 May).
9:40 Claire Stent
Claire Stent is an information analyst at Statistics
New Zealand. She has been involved with the digitisation of the New Zealand
Official Yearbook, which provides a comprehensive statistical picture of life
in New Zealand since 1893.
10:05 Nick Lowe
Nick Lowe is a songwriter, singer, and
multi-instrumentalist who co-founded, and was in-house producer for Stiff
Records, the label on which he released his debut album, Jesus of Cool, in
1978. Last year Nick released The Old Magic, his first album in four years. He
will play one New Zealand concert, at The Powerstation in Auckland on 31 March.
11:05 Tony Taylor
At the age of eighty, Tony Taylor traveled from Sydney
to Vancouver Island to meet his eight-year-old grandson for the first time, and
teach him fly fishing. He tells this story in his first book, Fishing the River
of Time (Text, ISBN 9781921922015).
11:45 Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
New Zealand writer Kate De Goldi 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 Bear and the People, by Reiner Zimnik (New
York Review, ISBN 9781590170496));
The Crane, by Reiner Zimnik (NYR, ISBN
9781590170755);
The School for Cats, by Esther Averill (NYR, ISBN
9781590171738);
The Hotel Cat, by Esther Averill (NYR, ISBN
1590171594).
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Saturday Morning repeats
On Saturday 24 March 2012 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 17 March with Meramena Roderick and
Julian Arahanga.
Preview: Saturday 31 March
Kim’s guests will include Greg McGee, Joyce Alberts,
Sally Kabak, and Margo Lanagan.
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RNZ_SatMorning
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