Friday, April 26, 2013

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 27 April 2013 - Radio New Zealand National

8:15 Mary Wareham: killer robots
8:30 Patrick Ness: fables and fatality
9:05 Alison McCulloch: abortion in NZ
10:05 Playing Favourites with Rachel Dawick
11:05 Massimiliano Gioni: Venice Biennale
11:45 TBC

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell



8:15 Mary Wareham
Mary Wareham is advocacy director of the Arms Division at Human Rights Watch, a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, where she advocates against problematic weapons that pose a significant threat to civilians. She is interim global coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, an international coalition of non-governmental organisations working for a ban on fully autonomous weapons.

8:30 Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness is best known as the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy, and has won a number of prizes for writing for young adults. His 2012 novel A Monster Calls (Walker, ISBN: 978-1-4063-3490-6), from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd, was the first book to win both the Kate Greenaway and Carnegie Medals. His new novel for adults is The Crane Wife (Canongate, ISBN: 978-0-85786-872-5), and he will be a guest at two sessions (17 and 18 May) at the 2013 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival.

9:05 Alison McCulloch
Alison McCulloch has worked in journalism in New Zealand and the United States for more than twenty years. Her new book, Fighting to Choose: the Abortion Rights Struggle in New Zealand (VUP, ISBN: 978-0-86473-886-8), will be published next month, and she will be talking about the book at the Women’s Studies Association Conference in Wellington (26-28 April).

10:05 Playing Favourites with Rachel Dawick and Jon Sanders
Songwriter and vocalist Rachel Dawick has spent most of the last ten years playing in New Zealand and the United Kingdom as a solo artist, in a duo, a trio, and with various bands. Since 2010, she has been researching the lives of New Zealand women in the 1800s, and turning their stories into songs. Rachel is currently on tour around New Zealand until June, with guitarist, bouzouki and ukulele player Jon Sanders, introducing these songs and other original compositions in advance of the September release of her album, The Boundary Riders Part 1: A Quiet Revolution. Her new acoustic album of previously unreleased originals, Dirty Linen (World Highway Records) includes two preview songs from Boundary Riders, and is available now.

11.05 Massimiliano Gioni
Massimiliano Gioni is a curator and contemporary art critic who is curating the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, the youngest person to do so in over a hundred years. New Zealand’s official representative at the Biennale is sculptor, photographer and installation artist Bill Culbert. Other New Zealand artists at Venice will be installation sculptor Simon Denny, whose work has been selected for the curated international show, performance artist Mark Harvey, painter Darryn George, and sculptor Scott Eady.

11:45 TBC


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On Saturday 27 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 20 April with Ramona Koval

Next Saturday, 4 May 2013, Kim Hill’s guests will include Joe Kalt and Kate Camp.

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