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
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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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