8:15 Joan Baez: activism and music
9:05 David Skegg: science challenges
9:45 Phoebe Hayman: garden gnomes
10:05 Playing Favourites with Gifford Jackson
11:05 Lauren Beukes: serial killers and time travel
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
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Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Dunedin engineer: Martin Balch
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8:15 Joan Baez
American musician, songwriter and activist Joan Baez has
been performing and recording since the late 1950s. She will visit New Zealand
for the first time in more than 20 years for performances in Auckland (29
August) and Wellington (31 August).
9:05 David Skegg
Professor Sir David Skegg is a New Zealand
epidemiologist, and the President of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He is a
former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Otago, and Professor of Preventive
and Social Medicine.
9:45 Phoebe Hayman
Phoebe Hayman is the CEO of toy craft-kit design company
Seedling NZ. The company's gnomes are being showcased in London this week at
the centenary celebrations of the world's most famous gardening event, the
Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show, overturning the Show's
long-standing prohibition on gnomes to raise funds for the Show's school
gardening campaign.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Gifford Jackson
New Zealand
industrial design pioneer Gifford Jackson spent 37 years as a design consultant
here after working in New York for 17 years. His life and work is celebrated in
the new book, Gifford Jackson: New Zealand Industrial Design Pathfinder by
Michael Smyth (Creationz, ISBN: 978-0-473-23882-7).
11:05 Lauren Beukes
Lauren Beukes is a novelist, television scriptwriter,
documentary maker, comics writer and occasional journalist. She helped create
South Africa's first half-hour animated TV show, URBO: The Adventures of Pax
Afrika, and has written animated shows for Disney UK and Millimages in France.
Her books include dystopian cyberpunk thriller Moxyland, and Zoo City, which
won her the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award. Her new novel, The Shining Girls
(HarperCollins, ISBN: 978-0-7322-9553-0), is about a time-travelling serial
killer.
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
New Zealand
writer Kate De Goldi is the author of many books, including 2013 NZ Post
Children's Book Awards finalist, The ACB with Honora Lee. She will discuss
three 'animal' books:
Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham;
illustrated by Juan Wijngaard (Walker Books; ISBN: 978-1-4063-3386-2);
Mysterious Traveller by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham; illustrated by P J
Lynch (Walker Books; ISBN: 978-1-4063-3707-5); and Blue Moon Bird by
Sabrina Malcom (Scholastic; ISBN: 978-1-77543-112-1).
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On Saturday 25 May 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 18 May with Masha Gessen on Vladimir
Putin and Russia.
Next Saturday, 1 June 2013, Kim Hill's guests will
include playwright Howard Brenton, webmaster Richard Hulse, and Marlene Zuk on
paleofantasy.
From Monday 3 June to Friday 15 June, Kim Hill will
co-host Morning Report while Geoff Robinson is on leave.
On Saturday 8 June 2013, Kim Hill's guests will include
Bill McKibben and Wallace Chapman.
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