9:05 Terry Speed: gene genies
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler: modernisme and modernism
10:05 Playing Favourites with Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham
11:05 Charles Pigden: conspiracy theories
11:45 Hadleigh Frost: speaking on science
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8:15 Sibel Edmonds
Sibel Edmonds is the publisher and editor of Boiling
Frogs Post and the author of the 2012 memoir, Classified Woman: the Sibel
Edmonds Story (ISBN: 978-0-61560-222-6). She has a MA in Public Policy and
International Commerce from George Mason University, a BA in Criminal Justice
and Psychology from George Washington University, and is the recipient of the
2006 PEN Newman's Own First Amendment Award for her "commitment to
preserving the free flow of information in the United States in a time of
growing international isolation and increasing government secrecy".
9:05 Terry Speed
Professor Terry Speed is a world leader in bioinformatics
and is regarded as one of Australia's most important statisticians. His work
has helped to identify areas of the human genome that contribute to cancer,
genes that are vital for embryonic development and malaria proteins responsible
for initiating infection in human red blood cells. Professor Speed is a
Fellow of the Royal Society, London, was presented with the 2012 Thomson
Reuter's Citation Award and the 2012 Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation,
and is visiting New Zealand as 2013 Distinguished Visitor for the Royal Society
of New Zealand, presenting the talk, Understanding Epigenetics Through
Mathematics, in Dunedin (18 June), Christchurch (19 June) and Wellington (20
June. http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/events/annual/distinguished-speaker/2013/
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler
Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection,
International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She will discuss
Modernisme and Modernism in Spanish architecture.
Images under discussion are available for view by
clicking on the Art on Saturday Morning link on the right hand side of the
Saturday Morning web page.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham
Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham live in Devon, England, but have been based in
Wellington since March, while Mal runs his Writing for Young Adults class at Victoria
University's International Institute for Modern Letters. His books, including
three football novels (Keeper, The Penalty, Exposure) and Life: an Exploded
Diagram, have won major awards including the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian
children's fiction prize. Elspeth also writes for children, and has
collaborated with Mal on the children's picture books
Cloud Tea Monkeys,
illustrated by Juan Wijngaard (Walker Books; ISBN: 978-1-4063-3386-2) and
Mysterious Traveller, illustrated by P J Lynch (Walker Books; ISBN:
978-1-4063-3707-5).
11:05 Charles Pigden
Charles Pigden is Associate Professor at the Department
of Philosophy, University of Otago. He has published on a number of topics
including Hume on Is and Ought, the ethics of Bertrand Russell, and conspiracy
theories.
11:45 Hadleigh Frost
Hadleigh Frost is studying physics at the University of
Canterbury, and won the inaugural Sir Paul Callaghan Award for Young Science
Orators at the 2012 Eureka! Symposium. This year's symposium will be held on 12
July.
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On Saturday 15 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 8 June with filmmaker Joshua
Oppenheimer.
Next Saturday, 22 June 2013, Kim Hill's guests will
include Miko Peled and David Sedaris.
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Damon Taylor
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
Dunedin engineer: Martin Balch
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
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