8:15 Guy Standing: basic income and the
Precariat
9:05 Roald Hoffmann: theoretical chemistry
10:05 Playing Favourites with Victor Rodger
11:05 Graeme Simsion: the Rosie Project
11:45 Kate’s Klassic: The Red Badge of Courage
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
8:15 Guy Standing
Guy Standing is Professor of Development Studies at
the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and founder
member and co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network, an international
non-governmental organisation that promotes a citizenship income for all. His
most recent book is The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011, Bloomsbury,
ISBN: 978-1-849-66351-9), and he is currently working on a large-scale pilot
for a basic income scheme in India. He is visiting New Zealand for a two-day
symposium, Precarious Work, at the AUT Business School (14-15 February).
9:05 Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann is a theoretical chemist and playwright
who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1981, and is the Frank H. T.
Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at Cornell University in New
York. He will visit Auckland to deliver the illustrated lecture, A Science All
About Change, presenting several views of chemistry and stressing its
psychological dimension and ties to the arts (Auckland Museum Events Centre,
6pm, 13 February), and is a keynote speaker at AMN6, the MacDiarmid Institute’s
Sixth International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
(University of Auckland Business School, 11-15 February).
10:05 Playing Favourites with Victor Rodger
Victor Rodger is a playwright of Samoan and Scottish
heritage. His new work, Black Faggot, will premiere at the Auckland Fringe
Festival (16, 18, 19 and 20 February), coinciding with the Auckland Pride
Festival (8-24 February).
11:05 Graeme Simsion
Graeme Simsion was born in Auckland and is a
Melbourne-based business consultant and writer of short stories, plays,
screenplays and two non-fiction books. His new novel, The Rosie Project (Text
Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-922-07977-0), began life as a screenplay, winning the
Australian Writers Guild Inception Award for Best Romantic Comedy before being
adapted into a novel. It went on to win the 2012 Victorian Premier’s Literary
Award for an unpublished manuscript and has since been sold around the world to
over thirty countries in deals approaching two million dollars.
11:45 Kate’s Klassic: The Red Badge of Courage
Kate Camp has published four collections of poems,
most recently The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls, which won the 2011 NZ
Post Book Award for Poetry. She will discuss the 1895 novel The Red Badge of
Courage by Stephen Crane (Collector’s Library, ISBN: 978-1-904-63333-4).
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Repeats and Previews
On Saturday 9 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 2 February with astrophysicist Dame
Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
Preview: Saturday 16 February
Next week, Kim Hill is on leave and the programme will
be hosted by Finlay Macdonald. His guests will include Daniel Pink, Jonathan
Crayford, and Joanna Aizenberg.
Preview: BIG DATA
The Royal Society of New Zealand and the National
Library are running a discussion panel series in February through to April,
chaired by Kim Hill, to support the BIG DATA programme currently running at the
newly re-opened National Library. The series will explore the nature and
implications of big data, especially in relationship to the concept of place,
and how it might serve as a tool in facing the challenges of the current era.
The panels will take place during at the Royal Society
of New Zealand, 11 Turnbull Street, Thorndon, Wellington, and are open to the
public. Tickets cost $10 and can be booked online.
Radio New Zealand will be recording the series for
broadcast on Sundays at 4pm from 10 March until 7 April 2013.
1. From space to place – recovering the personal
With Kevin Sweeney, Bill Macnaught and Stephen
McDougall
Thursday 14 February, 6.00-7.00pm
Broadcast 4:06pm Sunday 10 March
2. Cities and sudden change
With Dr Mark Quigley, Sir Bob Harvey and Professor
Janis Birkeland
Wednesday 20 February, 6.00-7.00pm
Broadcast 4:06pm Sunday 17 March
3. The sentient planet – technology as a super sense
With Richard Simpson, Dr Mark Sagar and Dr Cornel de
Ronde
Wednesday 6 March, 6.00-7.00pm
Broadcast 4:06pm Sunday 24 March 2013
4. Growing up digital– digital natives discuss their
world
With Guy Ryan, Erika Pearson and Bronwyn
Holloway-Smith
Wednesday 13 March, 6.00-7.00pm
Broadcast 4:06pm Sunday 31 March 2013
5. Open data – letting it loose on the crowd
With Julian Carver, Ed Corkery and Peter Griffin
Wednesday 3 April, 6.00-7.00pm
Broadcast 4:06pm Sunday 7 April 2013
Kim Hill photo at top by David White.
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