8:15 Jess Hill: Saudi Arabia
8:30 Norman Harris: jogging and other sports
9:05 John Cooper Clarke: poetry and punk
9:45 Language with Jen Hay: filled pauses
10:05 Playing Favourites with Gerry Paul
11:05 Ron Rash: Appalachian gothic
11:40 Maureen Woodhams: maths and children
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Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
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8:15 Jess Hill
Australian journalist Jess Hill is the Cairo-based
Middle East correspondent for not-for-profit news and features website The
Global Mail, and recently wrote about the growing rebellion in Saudi Arabia.
8:30 Norman Harris
Norman Harris is a New Zealand born sportswriter who
worked in the UK for the Sunday Times, and is credited with the popularistion
of the term “jogging”. He is the author of over 20 books, including the 2010
memoir Beyond Cook’s Gardens (Last Side Publishing, ISBN: 978-0473-16331-7).
9:05 John Cooper Clarke
English performance poet John Cooper Clarke rose to
prominence during the late 1970s punk scene in the UK, releasing several
albums. He continues to perform regularly, and is visiting New Zealand this
month for shows in Dunedin (21 March), Auckland (22 March), Wellington (23
March) and Nelson (24 March).
Jen Hay is Professor of Linguistics at the University
of Canterbury, and the director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain
and Behaviour. She will talk about the use of filled pauses such as “um” or “uh”.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Gerry Paul
Dublin-born Lower Hutt resident Gerry Paul is a
musician, songwriter, bodysurfer and free diver, who has toured the world for
10 years in over 40 countries as a sideman, and with his own band, Grada. His
first picture book, Hank the Wrestling Shark (Wacky Tales, ISBN:
978-0-473-20130-2), features illustrations by Tom Armstrong and is accompanied
by a three-track CD, including the title track which won him the 2010 grand
prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, and also appears on his new album
of children’s music, Tales from the Sea & an Elephant Tree (Wacky Tales
Ltd). This month, Gerry will perform with visiting Irish musician Sharon
Shannon and her Big Band at the New Zealand Festival of the Arts (14 March) and
at WOMAD (16-18 March).
11:05 Ron Rash
Ron Rash is a poet, short story writer and novelist
who lives in North Carolina and is the Parris Distinguished Professor in
Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University in the United
States. He won the 2010 Frank O’Connor Award for his short story collection,
Burning Bright (Text, ISBN: 978-1-921758-50-8), and has also won awards for his
novels One Foot in Eden (Text, ISBN: 978-1-921656-96-5) and Serena (Text, ISBN:
978-1-921656-82-8). His new novel is The Cove (Text Publishing, ISBN:
978-1-921758-86-7), and he is a guest
speaker at Writers and
Readers Week (9-14 March) during the 2012
New Zealand International Arts Festival (24 February to 14 March).
Maureen Woodhams is a mother of four children, has a
degree in algebra, and has written about how mathematical concepts are learnt
through children's play. She is co-president of Playcentre, which runs about
500 early childhood education centres throughout New Zealand, and is involved
with Playcentre Awareness Week (3-12 March).
Saturday Morning repeats
Kim’s guests will include Gary Mulgrew on surviving a
tough Texas prison, and Leonard Bell on Jews in New Zealand.
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