8:15 Aeron
Davis: spinning the NHS
8:40 Steve
Mullinger: China and leadership
9:05 Martin
Snedden: cricket, rugby, tourism
9:35 Wayne
Macauley: cooking and consumerism
10:05
Playing Favourites with Robert and Duncan Sarkies
11:05 Anna
Leese: opera, wine, love
11:40
Xanthe White: natural gardens
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8:15 Aeron
Davis
Dr Aeron Davis is Professor of Political Communication at
Goldsmiths College,
University of London. He has investigated communication at Westminster and the
London Stock Exchange, and amongst the major political parties and across the
trade union movement, interviewing close to 300 high-profile individuals
employed in journalism, public relations, politics, business, finance, NGOs and
the civil service. Dr Davis is the author of Public Relations Democracy (MUP,
2002), The Mediation of Politics (Routledge, 2007), and Political Communication
and Social Theory (Routledge, 2010). He is currently working on a book on the
rise of promotional culture.
8:40 Steve
Mullinger
Steve
Mullinger is head of the Asian and Middle-East business for leadership advisory
firm Heidrick & Struggles. Based in Shanghai, he also runs the firm's Asian
private equity business.
9:05 Martin
Snedden
Martin
Snedden is CEO of the Tourism Industry Association of New Zealand. He was CEO
of New Zealand Cricket for nearly six years, after representing New Zealand at
cricket in 25 tests and 93 one-day internationals. From 2007 to 2011 he headed
Rugby New Zealand 2011 Ltd, which organised the Rugby World Cup. He tells that
story in his new book, A Stadium of 4 Million (Hodder Moa, ISBN:
978-1-86971-280-8).
9:35 Wayne
Macauley
Melbourne
writer Wayne Macauley has received widespread acclaim for his 2011 novel, The
Cook (Text Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-921758-69-0). His earlier books, 2004’s
Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe (Text Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-92207-911-4)
and 2007’s Caravan Story (Text Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-92207-912-1), have
recently been republished.
10:05
Playing Favourites with Robert and Duncan Sarkies
Robert
Sarkies directed the 1999 feature film Scarfies, and 2006’s Out of the Blue,
both New Zealand Best Picture winners. He has also directed the 2010 television
series, This Is Not My Life, and many television commercials. His brother
Duncan is a screenwriter, playwright, stand-up comic, short story writer and
novelist, who-co-wrote Scarfies and adapted his 2008 novel, Two Little Boys
(Penguin, ISBN: 978-0-143-56788-2), into a film directed by Robert which will
open nationwide on 20 September.
11:05 Anna
Leese
Anna Leese
is a New Zealand lyric soprano who has been singing professionally here and
overseas for over a decade. She will sing the role of Marenka in the Opera
North production of political comedy The Bartered Bride, by Smetana, restaged
by The NBR New Zealand Opera, with performances in Auckland (ASB Theatre, 22,
25, 27, 29 September) and Wellington (St James Theatre, 13, 16, 18, 20
October).
11:40
Xanthe White
Landscape
designer Xanthe White writes columns for the New Zealand Listener and New Zealand
Garden magazines. Her new book is The Natural Garden: Landscape Ideas for New
Zealand Gardeners (Godwit, ISBN: 978-1-86979-849-9).
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On Saturday
15 September 2012 during Great Encounters between 6:06pm and 7:00pm on Radio
New Zealand National, you can hear a repeat broadcast of Toby Manhire’s
interview from 8 September with Dr Rosamund Vallings on Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome.
Preview:
Saturday 22 September
Next week,
Kim Hill returns to the programme. Her guests will include Damien Echols and
Caitlin Moran.
Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate producer: Sean McKenna
Wellington engineer: Jeremy Veal
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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