8:15 Joshua Oppenheimer: re-enacting genocide
8:45 Dana Karunaratna: eradicating rabies
9:05 Bill McKibben: doing the maths
9:45 Andrea Eimke: textiles in Atiu
10:05 Playing Favourites with Wallace Chapman
11:05 Marlene Zuk: paleofantasy
11:45 Kate's Klassic: Right Ho, Jeeves
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8:15 Joshua Oppenheimer
Copenhagen-based American filmmaker Dr Joshua Oppenheimer
has worked for over a decade with militias, death squads and their victims to
explore the relationship between political violence and the public imagination,
and is Senior Researcher on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council's
Genocide and Genre project. His new documentary, The Act of Killing, in which
unrepentant former members of Indonesian death squads are challenged to
re-enact some of their many murders in the style of the American movies they
love, will screen at the 2013 New Zealand International Film Festival.
8:45 Dana Karunaratna
Dr Dananjaya (Dana) Karunaratna is a Sri Lankan
veterinarian based in Bangladesh. As the Asia Pacific Inhumane Culling Campaign
Manager for the World Society for the Protection of Animals, he is responsible
for running the mass dog vaccination programme Collars Not Cruelty, working to
reduce the unnecessary deaths of thousands of people and millions of dogs from
rabies.
9:05 Bill McKibben
American environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill
McKibben led the organisation of 350.org, and was recently awarded the
$US100,000 Sophie Prize for his work against global warming. A former staff
writer for The New Yorker, he is the author of a number of books including
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (2010, Times Books, ISBN:
978-0-8050-9056-7), and Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable
Future (Holt, ISBN: 978-0-8050-8722-2), and is about to visit New Zealand on
his Do the Maths Tour, speaking in Auckland (11 June), Dunedin (12 June), and Wellington
(13 June).
9:45 Andrea Eimke
Andrea Eimke worked as a translator and secretary in
Spain, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria before migrating to the remote South Pacific
tropical island of Atiu from her hometown of Dusseldorf, Germany, in 1983. Her
husband, Juergen Manske-Eimke, started the organic Atiu Coffee Factory, while
Andrea established the Atiu Fibre Arts Studio, involving local village women to
produce award-winning textiles.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Wallace Chapman
Wallace
Chapman is the co-host of pub politics television programme Back Benches
(Wednesdays on Prime), and the host of the Sunday Morning programme on Radio
Live. He is the author of Don't Just Do Something, Sit There: A Manifesto for
Living the Slow Life (Penguin, ISBN: 978-0-14356-882-7).
11:05 Marlene Zuk
Marlene Zuk is a professor of ecology, evolution and
behaviour at the University of Minnesota. Her new book is Paleofantasy: What
Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet and How We Live (Norton, ISBN:
978-0-393-08137-4).
11:45 Kate's Klassic
Kate Camp recently published her fifth poetry collection,
Snow White's Coffin (Victoria University Press, ISBN: 978-0-86473-888-2). She
will discuss the 1934 book, Right Ho, Jeeves, the second novel by P.G.
Wodehouse to feature Bertie Wooster and his manservant Jeeves.
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On Saturday 8 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 1 June with Allan Savory.
From Monday 10 June to Friday 15 June (excluding
Thursday), Kim Hill will continue to co-host Morning Report while Geoff
Robinson is on leave.
Next Saturday, 15 June 2013, Kim Hill's guests will
include Sibel Edmonds and Hadleigh Frost.
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