Friday, July 05, 2013

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill on Radio New Zealand National: 6 July 2013

 
8:15 Bill Andrews: curing ageing
9:05 Pavan Sukhdev: greed and good
9:45 Danyl McLauchlan: secrets and blogs
10:05 Playing Favourites with Samuel Scott
11:05 Jeff Gomez: fantasy and franchises
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi


8:15 Bill Andrews
Dr William Andrews is an American biologist, and founder and CEO of biotechnology company Sierra Sciences, whose mission is to discover a cure to the world's biggest killer: ageing. For the last 20 years his work has focused on finding ways to extend the human lifespan and health span through the maintenance of telomeres, the area at the end of human chromosomes directly correlated to ageing. Dr Andrews is visiting New Zealand to investigate telomere research co-location opportunities with Auckland University.

9:05 Pavan Sukhdev
Pavan Sukhdev is the founder and CEO of GIST Advisory, a specialist consulting firm which helps governments and corporations discover, measure, value, and manage their impacts on natural and human capital, and a Visiting Fellow at Yale University, where he was awarded the 2011 McCluskey Fellowship and wrote his book Corporation 2020: Transforming Business for Tomorrow's World (Island Press, ISBN: 978-1-61091-238-9). He was Study Leader for the G8+5 commissioned project The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme, and is a keynote speaker at a two-day conference in Wellington, Making Nature Count - The Economy and the Environment, organised by the Department of Conservation and Victoria University, (9-10 July).

9:40 Danyl McLauchlan
Danyl McLauchlan is a Proteomics IT Specialist at the School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington. He writes the popular satirical and political blog The Dim-Post, and his first novel is Unspeakable Secrets of the Aro Valley (VUP, ISBN: 978-0-86473-884-4).

10:05 Playing Favourites with Samuel Scott 
Samuel Scott is a member of Wellington sextet The Phoenix Foundation, who released their fifth album, Fandango, in April. The band toured Europe and the UK in May, and are playing concerts in Auckland (12 July), Christchurch (19 July), Dunedin (20 July), Napier (26 July), and Wellington (27 July).

11:05 Jeff Gomez
Jeff Gomez is the co-founder and CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, an animation and live-action feature film production company, and transformer of intellectual properties into highly successful transmedia franchises. He has worked on such blockbuster universes as Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean, Prince of Persia and Tron, Microsoft's Halo, James Cameron's Avatar, Hasbro's Transformers, and Mattel's Hot Wheels. Jeff is visiting New Zealand as a guest of ASDCS (Auckland Screen and Digital Content Strategy) and WIFT (Women in Film and Theatre) for a two-day workshop, Creating Blockbuster Worlds: the Power of Transmedia Storytelling, at Unitec in Auckland (30-31 July).

11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Gold

New Zealand writer Kate De Goldi is the author of many books, including The 10pm Question and The ACB with Honora Lee. 
She discusses the new young adult novel by Elizabeth Knox, Mortal Fire (Gecko Press, ISBN: 978-1-877579-53-0).

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On Saturday 6 July 2013 during Great Encounters between 6:06pm and 7:00pm on Radio New Zealand National, you can hear an extended repeat broadcast of Kim Hill's interview from 29 June with Raelene Castle.

Next Saturday, 13 July 2013, Kim Hill's guests will include Lloyd Geering, and Philip Hoare.
Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate producer: Zoe Ferguson
Wellington engineer: Shaun Wilson
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon




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