8:15 Charles Daugherty: Argo, tuatara, cats
8:40 Michael Reynolds: earthships
9:05 Mark Pagel: culturally wired
9:45 Emma Griffin: luddites
10:05 Playing Favourites with Barry Thomas
11:05 Crispin Hellion Glover: asking questions
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
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8:15 Charles Daugherty
Professor Charles Daugherty is a conservation biologist
who has played a key role in bringing the tuatara back from the brink of extinction.
He is a former director of the Allan Wilson Centre, a board member of
Zealandia, an expert on pest management, and was a semi-finalist for 2013 New
Zealander of the Year.
8:40 Michael Reynolds
Michael Reynolds is the creator and founder of the
Earthship concept of radically sustainable buildings made with recycled
materials, as featured in the DVD documentary Garbage Warrior. He is visiting
Christchurch to run Earthship Biotecture workshops and deliver public lectures
(15-17 March).
9:05 Mark Pagel
Mark Pagel is a leading authority on human evolution, a
Fellow of the Royal Society, and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the
University of Reading. His new book is Wired for Culture: the Natural History
of Human Cooperation (Allen Lane, ISBN: 978-1-846-145015-0). He is visiting New
Zealand for the Allan Wilson Centre 2013 lecture series, giving public talks on
the evolution of language in Auckland (12 March), Hamilton (12 March),
Wellington (15 March), Dunedin (18 March), and Christchurch (20 March).
9:45 Emma Griffin
Dr Emma Griffin lectures on social and economic history
at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of three books, including A
Short History of the British Industrial Revolution (Palgrave, ISBN:
9780230579262), and is working on a history of working-class life during the
industrial revolution. She is a council member for the Royal Historical Society
and joint-editor of the journal of the Historical Association.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Barry Thomas
Barry Thomas
is a groundbreaking visual and conceptual artist, sculptor, filmmaker, and
musician. The documentation of his 1978 Cabbage Patch art project was purchased
last year by Te Papa.
11:05 Crispin Hellion Glover
Crispin Hellion Glover is an American film actor (Back to
the Future, River's Edge), director and screenwriter, publisher and author. He
is visiting Auckland for a performance that includes a slide show with dramatic
narration from some of his profusely illustrated books, a presentation of his
challenging feature film, It is Fine, Everything Is Fine, and a Q&A session
(19 March, Skycity Theatre). He is also a guest of the Dunedin Fringe Festival
on 16 March and 17 March.
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 six "school" books:
My Happy Life, by Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson
(Gecko Press; ISBN: 978-1-877467-80-6); Violet Mackerel's Possible Friend, by
Anna Branford and Sarah Davis (Walker Book, ISBN: 978-1-921977-56-50; Starting
School, by Janet and Allan Ahlberg (Puffin, ISBN: 978-01-4050-7379); Ramona the
Pest, by Beverley Cleary (Turtleback Books; ISBN: 978-0-8810-32796); Billy and
the Big New School, by Laurence and Catherine Anholt (Orchard Books; ISBN:
978-1-408302-1-25); and I Am Too Absolutely Small For School, by Lauren Child
(Orchard Books, ISBN: 978-1-84616-8857).
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On Saturday 2 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 23 February with Mary-Kay Wilmers,
editor of the London Review of Books.
Next Saturday, 9 March 2013, Kim Hill's guests will
include Seymour Hersh, Gillian Flynn and Marianne Muggeridge.
Preview: BIG DATA, 6 March
The Royal Society of New Zealand and the National Library
are running a discussion panel series through to April, chaired by Kim Hill, to
support the BIG DATA programme at the re-opened National Library. The series
explores the nature and implications of big data, in relationship to the
concept of place, and how it might serve as a tool in facing the challenges of
the current era.
The next panel is on Wednesday 6 March at the Royal
Society of New Zealand, 11 Turnbull Street, Thorndon, Wellington, and is 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.
For more information, email events@radionz.co.nz Full details of each
of the five sessions, and links to ticket booking at:
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