8:15 Sean Faircloth: church and state
9:05 Frank Warren: posting secrets
9:35 Brendan Moyle: wildlife trade
10:05 Playing Favourites with Leonel Alvarado
11:05 David Trubridge: design and the elements
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Shaun Wilson
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
8:15 Sean Faircloth
Sean Faircloth is Director of Strategy and Policy for the
Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, and the author of Attack of
the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All ¬-and What We Can Do About
It (Pitchstone Press, ISBN: 978-098449325-8). An attorney and former member of
the Maine legislature, he successfully spearheaded over thirty laws, including
the "Deadbeat Dad" child support law, later incorporated into federal
law in the United States. He is visiting New Zealand as a guest of the NZ
Association of Rationalists and Humanists, and will give public presentations
in Auckland (6 April), Hawke's Bay (7 April), Christchurch (9 April) and
Wellington (12 April).
9:05 Frank Warren
Frank Warren is the creator of global blog phenomenon
PostSecret, to which over half a million people have mailed anonymous secrets
on the side of homemade postcards, attracting an audience of more than six
million every month. Selected postcards have been collated in a number of
books, including the 2009 bestseller PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death,
and God (William Morrow, ISBN978-0-06-185933-5). Frank Warren is visiting New
Zealand for a multi-media presentation in Auckland (12 April), with a portion
of ticket sales benefiting the online crisis network, IMAlive.
9:35 Brendan Moyle
Dr Brendan Moyle is Senior Lecturer in Economics in the
School of Economics and Finance at Massey University, and blogs at Chthonic
Wildlife Ramblings. He studies the economics of wildlife trade, especially
black markets, and has worked covertly in China to track smugglers' routes. His
current project is the international trade in elephant ivory.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Leonel Alvarado
Originally
from Honduras, Leonel Alvarado is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and the Latin
American Studies Programme Coordinator at Massey University. His fourth book of
poetry, Retratos Mal Hablados, was runner-up and received a Special Mention in
the Casa de las Americas Poetry Award, Latin America's oldest and most
prestigious poetry competition. He is about to publish his first book of poems
in English: Driving with Neruda to the Fish 'n Chips.
11:05 David Trubridge
David Trubridge is a designer based in Havelock North
whose work focuses on environmental responsibility. He tells his story in the
new book, So Far (Craig Potton ISBN: 978-1877517-88-4).
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On Saturday 30 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 2008 interview with writer Barbara Anderson, who died
earlier this week.
Next Saturday, 6 April 2013, Kim Hill's guests will
include Andrew Rose, Ruth Ozeki, and Simon Lamb.
On Sunday 31 March at 4:05pm, the fourth 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.
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