8:15 Tom Watson: Murdoch and Britain
8::40 Mike Spratt: grape-a-hol
9:05 William Tobin: the Transit of Venus
9:40 Thomas Lumley: biostatistics
10:05 Playing Favourites with Hamish Clayton
11:05 Ashraf Sewailam: singing and Egypt
11:45 Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
8:15 Tom Watson
Tom Watson is the MP for West Bromwich East, deputy chair
of the British Labour Party, a campaigner against unlawful media practices, and
co-author, with Martin Hickman, of Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the
Corruption of Britain (Allen Lane, ISBN 978-1-84614-604-6).
8:40 Mike Spratt
Michael F. Spratt is the proprietor and co-founder of
Destiny Bay Vineyards and Winery on Waiheke Island, and a former merger and
acquisition consultant and partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers and The Rubicon
Group. He is the current president of the Waiheke Winegrowers Association,
serves as a voting director on the board of New Zealand Wine Growers, and has
just published Grape-a-hol: How Big Business is Subverting Artisan Winemaking
and the Future of Fine Wine (Dog Ear Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-4575-1030-4),
written with Destiny Bay Wine Imports CEO Mark Feldman.
9:05 William Tobin
Dr William Tobin lectured in physics and astronomy at the
University of Canterbury for nearly two decades, and was Director of the Mount
John University Observatory for several years. He now lives in France, but
returns to New Zealand in association with Te Papa and the Royal Society of New
Zealand, supported by HP, to give the first lecture in the Transit of Venus
Lecture Series, explaining the importance to New Zealand’s history of this rare
celestial phenomenon (7 June, Te Papa). Dr Tobin will also speak at the New
Zealand International Starlight Conference at Lake Tekapo (10-12 June), a
gathering of international astronomers.
http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/whatson/allevents/pages/TransitofVenusLectureSeriessupportedbyHP7june.aspx
9:40 Thomas Lumley
Professor Thomas Lumley spent 12 years in the Department
of Biostatistics at the University of Washington, and remains an affiliate
professor there while based at the Department of Statistics at the University
of Auckland. He has just returned to New Zealand from the landmark meeting of
the CHARGE Consortium in Iceland, discussing how genetic variants affect
biology and health. He also writes for the educational blog, statschat.org.nz.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Hamish Clayton Hamish
Clayton is completing his PhD on the New Zealand writer David Ballantyne, at
Victoria University. His debut novel, Wulf (Penguin, ISBN 978-0-14-320649-1),
mixes nineteenth-century New Zealand history with a cryptic tenth-century
British poem, and is the winner of the NZSA Best First Book Award for Fiction
at the 2012 NZ Post Book Awards.
11:05 Ashraf Sewailam
Egyptian bass-baritone Ashraf Sewailam is an in-house
soloist with the Cairo Opera Company and has performed with a number of US
opera companies. He sings the role of Sparafucile in the NZ Opera production of
Rigoletto, which plays in Auckland on 7, 9, 13, 15 and 17 June.
11:45 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 two novels and
an ABC book:
The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green (Penguin ISBN:
978-0-14-356759-2); Wonder, by RJ Palacio (Random House, ISBN:
978-0-370-33229-1); A Long Piece of String, by William Wondriska (Chronicle
Books, ISBN: 978-0-8118-7493-9)
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On Saturday 2 June 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 26 May with economist Steve Keen.
Preview: Saturday 9 June
Kim’s guests will include Jane and Wyn Davies, and
Nigerian writer Teju Cole.
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Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
More information follows on Saturday's guests, repeats of previous interviews, next week's programme, and this email list. As this is live radio, guests and times may change on the day.
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