8:15 Anita
McNaught: Syria
8:40 David
Frum: the RNC and the DNC
9:05 Guy
Lawson: the Octopus
9:40 Layton
Duncan: leaving Christchurch
10:05 Playing
Favourites with Simon Grigg
11:05
Rosamund Vallings: CFS
11:35
Murray Cook and Greg Page: the Wiggles
8:15 Anita
McNaught
Anita
McNaught has been a journalist for more than 20 years, living and working all
over the Pacific, Europe, South East Asia and the Middle East. She is currently
based in Istanbul, Turkey, where she reports for Al Jazeera English.
8:40 David
Frum
David Frum
is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor.
He is the author of seven books, most recently his first novel, Patriots (2012,
CreateSpace, ISBN: 978-1-475141-96-2). He served as a special assistant to
President George W. Bush in 2001-2002, and in 2007-2008, he served as senior
foreign policy adviser to the Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign. He has been
attending the Republican and Democratic national conventions.
9:05 Guy
Lawson
Journalist
Guy Lawson has travelled the world reporting on war, crime, politics and sports
for publications that include The New Yorker, GQ, Harper’s Magazine and Rolling
Stone. His new book, Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market and Wall
Street’s Wildest Con (Scribe, ISBN: 978-1-921844-95-9) tells the story of a
hedge fund fraudster and a secret financial cabal.
9:40 Layton
Duncan
Layton
Duncan is the director of software development company Polar Bear Farm, and
founder of mobile health service provider Sense Medical. He writes the From the
Hip blog, and will be relocating his business from Christchurch to Melbourne.
10:05
Playing Favourites with Simon Grigg
Simon Grigg
is a former record producer, artist and record store manager, record label
owner and compiler, and DJ and nightclub owner who played a key role in the
careers of many artists including The Suburban Reptiles, The Screaming Meemees,
OMC, Nathan Haines, and 3 The Hard Way, and was instrumental in the development
of the Auckland club era of the 1980s and 90s. He released, or was behind, over
150 records in New Zealand, and had local number one singles in the 1980s, 90s
and 2000s, and gold and platinum discs in 34 countries. Now based in Bangkok,
he blogs at Opdiner and Extended Play, and has been developing a New Zealand
music and cultural history project.
11:05
Rosamund Vallings
Dr Rosamund
Vallings, MNZM, MB BS, has been studying Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (also known
as ME) and helping those with the condition, for more than 40 years. She has
compiled her knowledge and experience in the new resource book, Chronic Fatigue
Sydrome/ME: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Management (Calico Publishing, ISBN:
978-1-877-42902-6).
11:35
Murray Cook and Greg Page
Murray Cook
and Greg Page are two of the members (red and yellow) of Australian children’s
entertainers The Wiggles. The group have been performing and recording for 21
years, and bring their farewell tour to New Zealand this month, in Wellington,
Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Auckland, Hamilton, Christchurch, Dunedin and
Invercargill.
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On Saturday
8 September 2012 during Great Encounters between 6:06pm and 7:00pm on Radio New
Zealand National, you can hear a repeat broadcast of Susie Ferguson’s interview
from 1 September with Sir Andrew Motion.
Preview:
Saturday 15 September
Next week,
Kim Hill is on leave, and the programme will be guest hosted by Mark Cubey. His
guests will include Martin Snedden, Wayne Macauley, and Robert and Duncan
Sarkies.
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Christchurch studio: Andrew Collins
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RNZ_SatMorning
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