8:15 David Sedaris: diabetes with owls
8:45 Klaus Thymann: documenting glaciers
9:05 Miko Peled: Middle East peace
9:45 Brett Holland: Chicago 1871
10:05 Playing Favourites with Julie Thomas
11:05 Alison Maclean: big and small screens
11:45 Brian Patrick: moths
8:15 David Sedaris
David Sedaris is an American humorist, essayist and
playwright. His new collection is Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls (Abacus,
ISBN: 978-90-349-12163-5).
8:45 Klaus Thymann
Award-winning photographer and film director Klaus
Thymann works on projects that combine science, mapping and visual art, and has
had his work exhibited in galleries around the world and in many publications.
He is the artistic director for Project Pressure, a not-for-profit organisation
documenting the world's glaciers to create an open source archive and atlas.
9:05 Miko Peled
Peace activist Miko Peled grew up as the son of an
Israeli general then became supportive of the Palestinian cause. He tells his
story in The General’s Son (Just World Books, ISBN: 978-1-935982-15-9), and
will visit Auckland as a keynote speaker at the National Conference on
Palestine 2013 in the Town Hall Concert Chamber (23 June).
9:45 Brett Holland
Brett Holland has founded startup companies, invested in
them, worked at Excelerate Labs (the third largest business accelerator in the
world) and recently relocated from Chicago to Wellington. At the ten-year
anniversary of Creative HQ on 21 June, he shared the story of 1871, the
entrepreneurial centre and focal point for Chicago, for which he is an advisor
and investor.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Julie Thomas
Julie Thomas
has worked in media in New Zealand and the UK for over 20 years, and wrote her
novel, The Keeper of Secrets (William Morrow, ISBN: 978-0-06-224030-9), over
seven years while writing and producing television and film projects. She
self-published it as an e-book, selling over 40,000 copies and receiving over
60 five-star reviews, which led to a publishing deal with HarperCollins in the
United States.
11:05 Alison Maclean
Canadian-born filmmaker Alison Maclean immigrated to New
Zealand as a teenager and made the short films Talkback and Kitchen Sink in the
late 1980s and the feature films Crush and Jesus' Son in the 1990s, and has
directed episodes of the television series Sex in the City, Carnivale,
Homicide, and The Tudors. She selected the finalists for the annual Best Short
Film competition at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
11:45 Brian Patrick
Brian Patrick is a lepidopterist based in the South
Island. He has co-authored several books including Wild Dunedin, Wild Central,
Wild Fiordland, Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand, and Butterflies of the
South Pacific, and worked at the Department of Conservation, Otago Museum and
as director of the Alexandra Museum.
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On Saturday 22 June 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 15 June with Terry Speed.
Next Saturday, 29 June 2013, Kim Hill’s guests will
include Stephen Grosz, Sarah Churchwell and Robert
Wade.
Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate producer: Zoe Ferguson
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Hamilton engineer: Andrew McRae
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
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