Friday, May 03, 2013

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 4 May 2013 - Radio New Zealand National

8:15 Richard Pitts: nuclear fusion
8:30 Joe Kalt: indigenous governance
9:05 Neil Grimstone: police and TV
9:45 Doug Avery: farming and drought
10:05 Jello Biafra: Kennedys to Guantanamo
11:05 Mike Steel: biomathematics and mountains
11:45 Kate’s Klassic: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl




Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins


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8:15 Richard Pitts
Physicist Richard Pitts is the leader of the Plasma-Wall Interactions Section in the Plasma Operation Directorate at ITER, the centre in France that is intending to make nuclear fusion the energy source of the future.

8:30 Joe Kalt
Joseph P. Kalt is Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy (Emeritus) at Harvard University, and co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. He has published widely in the area of natural resources economics and policy, is an internationally recognised expert on energy, and teaches at both Harvard and the University of Arizona. He is visiting New Zealand as a guest of the University of Auckland Business School, talking about indigenous self-governance from the American Indian perspective for the Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Series.

9:05 Neil Grimstone
As detective senior sergeant in Counties Manukau, Neil “Grim” Grimstone closed all his cases over a 27-year career, before leaving the police force in 2007. He is a former Auckland branch manager for Matrix Security Group, and technical consultant and co-writer for the new six-week police drama series Harry, starring Oscar Kightley and Sam Neill, which premieres on TV3 at 9:30pm on Wednesday 8 May.

9:45 Doug Avery
Doug Avery, the 2010 South Island Farmer of the Year, manages Bonavaree Farm with his family at Grassmere, South Marlborough. The farm has been owned by the Avery family since 1919, and they have built a sustainable farming system that is resilient in extreme weather and extreme variability.

10:05 Jello Biafra
Musician and spoken word artist Jello Biafra is the former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk band Dead Kennedys. He visiting New Zealand for concerts in Wellington (7 May) and Auckland (8 May), as front man for the Guantanamo School of Medicine, who recently released their second album, White People and the Damage Done.

11:05 Mike Steel
Mike Steel directs the Biomathematics Research Centre, and is Professor in the Mathematics and Statistics Department of University of Canterbury. He is the deputy director and a founding principal investigator of the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, an elected fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and a mountain runner.

11:45 Kate’s Klassic
Kate Camp has published four collections of poems, and her new collection, Snow White’s Coffin (Victoria University Press, ISBN: 978-0-86473-888-2) is published this month. She will give a talk about its genesis in Berlin at City Gallery Wellington on Thursday 23 May. Kate’s Klassic is the 1861 account by Harriet A Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (John Harvard Library, ISBN: 978-0-674-03583-6).

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On Saturday 4 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 27 April with Alison McCulloch on abortion.

Next Saturday, 11 May 2013, Kim Hill’s guests will include William Dalrymple, Helena Popovic and Bobby Womack.

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