8:15
Katherine Boo: slums of Mumbai
9:05 Graham
Henry: teaching and coaching
9:45 Art
with Mary Kisler: Home AKL
10:05
Playing Favourites with Tim Kong
11:05
Alison Klayman: Ai Weiwei
11:30 John
Dawson: trees of New Zealand
8:15
Katherine Boo
Katherine
Boo has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2003 and a contributor
since 2001. Her writing focuses on issues of poverty, opportunity, social and
economic policy, and education, and she spent three years in a Mumbai slum to
research her latest book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope
in a Mumbai Undercity (Scribe, ISBN: 978-1-4000-6755-8).
9:05 Graham
Henry
Sir Graham
Henry is a former headmaster, cricketer and All Blacks coach. He tells his
story, with Bob Howitt, in Graham Henry: Final Word (HarperCollins, ISBN
978-1-86950973-6).
9:45 Art
with Mary Kisler
Mary Kisler
is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland
Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She will discuss Home AKL, the contemporary Pacific
art exhibition at the gallery (to 22 October). Images under discussion are
available for view by clicking on the Art on Saturday Morning link on the right
hand side of the Saturday Morning web page.
10:05
Playing Favourites with Tim Kong
Tim Kong
came to teaching in his 30s, after working as a video roadie for musical acts
including the Chemical Brothers and Underworld. He currently teaches at Seatoun
School in Wellington, and writes about education in his Continue blog at
Edublogs.
11:05
Alison Klayman
Freelance
journalist and documentary filmmaker Alison Klayman lived in China from 2006 to
2010. Her first feature documentary film, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, about the
Chinese artist and dissident, is screening at the New Zealand International
Film Festival in Wellington (7, 9 and 11 August), Christchurch (19 and 20
August), Palmerston North (19 and 21 August), and Hamilton (31 August and 1
September).
11:30 John
Dawson
John Dawson
is the author, with Rob Lucas, of New Zealand’s Native Trees (Craig Potton
Publishing, ISBN: 9781877517013), which won Book of the Year at the New Zealand
Post Book Awards, as well as the Best Illustrated Non-Fiction award. It also
won the Nielsen BookData NZ Bookseller’s Choice Award 2012. Since retiring as
Associate Professor of Botany at Victoria University in 1988, Dr Dawson has
been undertaking botanical research in New Caledonia, teaching courses on
native plants, and guiding groups around the Otari Native Botanic Gardens in
Wellington.
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On Saturday
4 August 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
28 July with Brian Boyd, about Shakespeare’s sonnets.
On Sunday 5
August 2012 at 4:06pm and Tuesday at 9:06pm you can hear a broadcast of the
third programme of Talking Heads 2012: Paradise Regained, a series of
discussions about science in New Zealand. Kim Hill and a panel of experts
consider Sir Paul Callaghan’s final challenge - to make New Zealand pest free.
Preview:
Saturday 11 August
Kim’s
guests will include Brian Turner, Betty Gilderdale, and Richard Bean.
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RNZ_SatMorning
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