8:15 Tim Berners-Lee: the internet
8:35 Richard Adams; Washington DC
9:05 Jocelyn Bell Burnell: star dust
9:45 John Pratt: contrasts in punishment
10:05 Playing Favourites with Steve McKinlay
11:05 Ingrid Horrocks: Mary Wollstonecraft
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Photo of Kim Hill (right) by David White.
8:15 Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.
He is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the
University of Southampton, director of the World Wide Web Consortium, and
founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. He has promoted open government data
globally and is a member of the UK's Transparency Board. Sir Tim visited
Wellington as a guest of InternetNZ to deliver a public lecture exploring the
benefits of an open Internet.
8:35 Richard Adams
New Zealand journalist Richard Adams blogs on US politics
and culture from the Guardian's Washington DC bureau.
9:05 Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
discovered pulsars. She visited Auckland to present a public lecture, We Are
All Made of Star Dust, at AUT University and talk at the New Zealand and the
Beginnings of Radio Astronomy conference which commemorated two major radio
astronomy observations that were made in 1948 at Piha and Leigh. While in
Auckland she visited AUT's radio telescope near Walkworth.
9:45 John Pratt
John Pratt is a professor at Victoria University's
Institute of Criminology. He was Royal Society of New Zealand James Cook
Research Fellow July 2009 to June 2012 and he was also a Fellow at the Straus
Institute for Advanced Studies of Law and Justice, New York University 2010-11.
For the last six years, the last three of them with Anna Eriksson, he has been
working on his recently published book, Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation
of Anglophone Excess and Nordic Exceptionalism (Routledge, ISBN:
9780415524735).
10:05 Playing Favourites with Steve McKinlay
Steve
McKinlay is a Senior Lecturer in Computing as well as his school's Research
Coordinator at Wellington Institute of Technology. He holds a degree in
Information Technology from Griffith University, Australia, and after working in
database and software development for several years he studied Philosophy at
Victoria University, Wellington, finishing with a Masters degree in 2004. He is
a few weeks away from completing a PhD in Philosophy of Information with
Charles Sturt University, Australia, and currently holds a position on the
executive board of the International Association of Computing and Philosophy.
11:05 Ingrid Horrocks
Dr Ingrid Horrocks is a poet, travel writer, and Senior
Lecturer in English at Massey University, Wellington. Her new book is an
edition of an early work of travel writing, Letters Written During a Short
Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (Broadview Press ISBN:
978-1-55111-808-6), by 18th century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
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 and last year's The ACB of Honora
Lee. She will discuss four books:
Sammy and the Great Skyscraper Sandwich by Lorraine
Francis and Pieter Gaudesaboos (Book Island, ISBN: 978-0-9876696-0-5); Bernie
Loves Flora by Annemie Berebrouckx (Book Island, ISBN: 978-0-9876696-1-2); The
Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by Ritva Voutila (Allen & Unwin,
ISBN: 978-1-74237-650-9); and The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen,
pictures by Lisbeth Zwerger, translated by Anthea Bell (Michael Neugebauer
Publishing, ISBN: 978-988-19152-3-8).
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On Saturday 2 February 2013 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 January with Joe Cross on juice
fasting.
Preview: 9 February
Next week, Kim Hill’s guests will include Roald Hoffman,
Cissy Houston and Victor Rodger.
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