Friday, March 15, 2013

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 16 March 2013 on Radio New Zealand National

8:15 Hordur Torfason: Iceland and democracy
9:05 Sheryl Sandberg: women and work
9:35 Stephen Jones: hats
10:05 Kate Cherry: swans and butterflies
10:35 Rodriguez: sugar man
11:05 Scott Tinker: energy switching
11:50 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Dominic Godfrey
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon

8:15 Hordur Torfason
Hordur Torfason is a democracy advocate who initiated the total change of Iceland's political and economic system. He is currently speaking around the world on the changes to modern democracy in Europe, and is visiting New Zealand for engagements in Auckland, Wellington, Clive, Takaka, Nelson, Christchurch and Dunedin (15-28 March)

9:05 Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, and the author of Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead (WH Allen, ISBN: 9780753541630).

9:35 Stephen Jones
British milliner Stephen Jones has been designing hats for some of the world's top celebrities since the late 1970s. He is visiting New Zealand iD Dunedin Fashion Week (10-17 March) to show a retrospective collection at Dunedin's Railway Station (15-16 March) and join the judging panel in iD's International Emerging Designer Awards.

10:05 Kate CherryKate Cherry has been the Artistic Director of Black Swan State Theatre Company in Perth since 2008, coming to that position from a distinguished directing career in Australia and the United States. She has created a new production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly for the NZ Opera, with performances upcoming in Auckland (18, 20, 24, 26 and 28 April) and Wellington (11, 14, 16 and 18 May),.

10:35 Rodriguez
Mexican American singer-songwriter Sixto Diaz Rodriguez produced two folk rock albums in the early 1970s, butow sales of these in the United States, led to him quitting the music business. His albums became big sellers in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa later in the 1970sw and the path to his rediscovery is told in the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man. Rodriguez is visiting New Zealand for two shows, in Wellington (16 March) and Auckland (17 March).

11:05 Scott Tinker
Dr Scott Tinker is Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology and the State Geologist of Texas, who spent 17 years in the oil and gas industry. In the documentary Switch, he interviews over 50 international leaders of government, industry, NGOs and academia about consumption habits and energy efficiency. Dr Tinker is visiting New Zealand as a guest of the Petroleum Exploration and Production Association of New Zealand, in partnership with the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority, to present to government officials, the energy sector, and other interested business people.

11:50 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 with Honora Lee. She will discuss three new New Zealand books:
The Queen and the Nobody Boy (A Tale of Fontainia), by Barbara Else (Gecko, ISBN: 978-1-877579-23-3); The New Zealand Art Activity Book: 100+ Ideas for Creative Kids, by Helen Lloyd (Te Papa Press, ISBN: 978-0-9876688-0-6); and A Winter's Day In 1939, by Melinda Szymanik (Scholastic; ISBN: 978-1-77543-030-8).

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On Saturday 16 March 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 9 March with journalist Seymour Hersh.

Next Saturday, 23 March 2013, Kim Hill's guests will include Jarrod Gilbert on New Zealand gangs, and Chris Vein on sensing cities.

On Sunday 17 March at 4:05pm, the second programme of Big Data, a discussion panel series exploring the nature and implications of big data, chaired by Kim Hill for the Royal Society of New Zealand and the National Library, will be broadcast on Radio New Zealand National.

Kim Hill photo at top by David White.

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