8:15 John Lennox: maths, science and god
9:05 Eugene Jarecki: the war on drugs
10:05 Playing Favourites with Graeme Gash
11:05 Ramona Koval: books and readers
11:45 Children's Books with Kate de Goldi: three animal
books
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Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
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8:15 John Lennox
John Carson Lennox is a British mathematician and
philosopher of science who is Professor of Mathematics at the University of
Oxford, and Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton
College, Oxford University. He is the author of a number of books, including
and God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (Lion Books, ISBN:
978-0-82547-912-0) and Gunning for God: Why the New Atheists are Missing the
Target (Lion Books, ISBN: 978-0745953229).
9:05 Eugene Jarecki
Eugene Jarecki is a filmmaker and author whose
documentaries include The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Reagan and Freakonomics.
His new film, The House I Live In, is about the "war on drugs", and
was Grand Jury Prize winner for Best US Documentary at Sundance 2012. It will
screen as part of the Autumn Events programme of the New Zealand International
Film Festival, in Wellington (20 and 22 April) and Auckland (30 April, and 1,
2, 5 and 7 May).
10:05 Playing Favourites with Graeme Gash
Graeme Gash is
a designer, illustrator, songwriter and musician. He has forged the visual
identity of wine retailer Glengarry since 1989, his work has been widely used
throughout Waitakere City, and he has illustrated a number of children's books,
including the award-winning Napoleon and the Chicken Farmer by Lloyd Jones
(Mallinson Rendell, ISBN: 978-0-90878-375-5). During the middle to late 1970s,
Graeme played with the successful Auckland band Waves, and produced a solo
album, After the Carnival, in 1981. He has remastered Waves' debut album, along
with their never-released second album and last single, for release on CD and
vinyl on Record Store Day (20 April).
11:05 Ramona Koval
Ramona Koval worked as a microbiologist and geneticist
before her present career as a writer, editor, journalist and broadcaster. Her
latest book is By the Book: A Reader's Guide To Life (Text, ISBN:
978-1-92207-906-0), and she will be a guest at three sessions (17, 18 and 19
May) at the 2013 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival.
11:45 Children's Books with Kate de Goldi
New Zealand
writer Kate De Goldi is the author of a number of books, including 2013 NZ Post
Children's Book Awards finalist, The ACB with Honora Lee. She will discuss
three animal books:
A Nest for Celeste; A Story About Art, Inspiration and
the Meaning of Home by Henry Cole (Katherine Tegen Books, ISBN:
978-0-06170-412-3); Bad Dog Flash by Ruth Paul (Scholastic, ISBN:
978-1-77543-096-4); and Puss Jekyll, Cat Hyde by Joyce Dunbar and Jill Barton
(Frances Lincoln, ISBN: 978-1-84780-369-6).
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On Saturday 20 April 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 13 April with filmmaker Ric Esther
Bienstock, on the trade in human organs.
Next Saturday, 27 April 2013, Kim Hill's guests will
include Alison McCullough, Rachel Dawick and Massimiliano Gioni, curator of the
2013 Venice Biennale.
Kim Hill photo by David White.
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