Friday, March 08, 2013

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 9 March 2013 - Radio New Zealand National

8:15 Seymour Hersh: truth and power
9:05 Jon Lee Anderson: Hugo Chavez
9:30 Lone Frank: beautiful genomes
10:05 Playing Favourites with Marianne Muggeridge
11:05 Gillian Flynn: gone girl
11:30 Arturo Arias: Mayan culture

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Jeremy Veal
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon

8:15 Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who broke the story of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, and the story of the US military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters and is the author of nine books, most recently Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (2004, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-06-019591-6). He will visit New Zealand for the Festival of Colour in the Southern Lakes region (16-21 April), to present the talk, Invitation to Another War (18 April).

9:05 Jon Lee Anderson
Jon Lee Anderson began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998 and became a staff writer in 1999. He has reported frequently from Iraq and has covered the conflicts in Afghanistan, Angola, and Lebanon. He wrote a profile of Hugo Chavez for the magazine earlier this year.

9:30 Lone Frank
Lone Frank is a journalist and author with a PhD in neurobiology. As a staff writer at Weekendavisen, Denmark's leading newspaper, she is Denmark's most distinguished science writer and a well-known voice in debates about science, technology and society. She has written for leading international publications, presented and co-produced a television series on controversial science, and has published four books, most recently My Beautiful Genome (2011, Oneworld, 978-1851688333).

10:05 Playing Favourites with Marianne Muggeridge
Taranaki artist Marianne Muggeridge has worked as a painter for the past 40 years, creating portraits of many New Zealanders including Professor Sir Paul Callaghan, Alan MacDiarmid and Don Brash, and has twice won the NZ Portrait award. A retrospective of her work curated by Stuart Sheppard, Taken Personally, is currently on display at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Wellington (to 18 June).

11:05 Gillian Flynn: gone girl
Gillian Flynn is an American author and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. Her third novel, Gone Girl (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN: 978-02997859390), has topped best-seller and Best-of-2012 lists around the world.

11:30 Arturo Arias: Mayan culture
Arturo Arias is a Professor of Latin American Literature, a critical theorist and novelist. He is delivering a public lecture at the University of Auckland on 12 March, dispelling myths surrounding the Maya Calendar, and addressing wider issues for indigenous cultures.

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On Saturday 9 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 2 March with conservation biologist Charles Daugherty.

Next Saturday, 16 March 2013, Kim Hill's guests will include Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, milliner Stephen Jones, and Hordur Torfason on Iceland.

On Sunday 10 March at 4:05pm, the first 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.
Recording of the fourth panel in the series is on Wednesday 13 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.
For more information, email events@radionz.co.nz 
Full details of each of the five sessions, and links to ticket booking at:

Kim Hill photo by David White.

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