8:15 Daniela Schiller: memory and fear
9:05 Geoff Murphy and Graeme Cowley: Utu Redux
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler: California Design
10:05 Playing Favourites with Brian Foster and Jack
Liebeck
11:05 Paul Jenden: cancer and musicals
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi:
"making" books
8:15 Daniela Schiller
Dr Daniela Schiller is assistant professor of psychiatry
and neuroscience, and director of the Schiller Laboratory of Affective
Neuroscience, at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Her work is
dramatically reassessing how human memory works at the most fundamental level.
She also plays drums and provides backup vocals for the Amygdaloids, a rock
band composed of New York City neuroscientists.
9:05 Geoff Murphy and Graeme Cowley
Geoff Murphy was a founding member of the traveling
musical collective BLERTA. He went on to direct a number of New Zealand movies
in the late 1970s and early 1980s (including Wild Man, Goodbye Pork Pie, The
Quiet Earth), then worked in Hollywood on big-budget films (Young Guns II,
Freejack) before returning to New Zealand as second unit director on the Lord
of the Rings trilogy. With cinematographer and producer Graeme Cowley, he has
overseen a restored and digitally remastered cut of his 1983 movie, Utu, set
during the New Zealand land wars of the 1870s. Utu Redux will receive its world
premiere screenings at the 2013 New Zealand International Film Festival.
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
the gallery's exhibition, California Design: 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way,
organised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Images under discussion are
available for view by clicking on the Art on Saturday Morning link on our web
page.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Brian Foster and Jack
Liebeck
Professor Brian Foster is European Director at CERN, and Jack Liebeck
is a violinist and Young British Performer of the Year. The Royal Society of
New Zealand and Chamber Music New Zealand have collaborated to bring them to
New Zealand to present Einstein's Universe, a talk and recital which links
Einstein's love of music with science. Brian talks about modern physics from
Einstein's Theory of Relativity to the Large Hadron Collider, interspersed with
solo pieces from Jack, followed by a chamber music concert featuring members of
the NZSO. Einstein's Universe has visited Hamilton, Napier and Palmerston
North, and will play in Auckland, Wellington, New Plymouth, Nelson, Christchurch,
Dunedin and Invercargill between 22 and 31 July.
11:05 Paul Jenden
Paul Jenden is a playwright, choreographer and director.
His latest production, C - A Musical, with music by Gareth Farr, uses his
ongoing treatment for leukemia as a stepping off point for a show that
celebrates the human spirit and the triumph of laughter over fear. It is
currently playing at Circa Theatre, Wellington (to 3 August).
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
New Zealand
writer Kate De Goldi is the author of many books, including The 10pm Question
and The ACB with Honora Lee. She discusses two "making" books:
Recipes for Play: Fun Ideas for Small Hands and Big
Imaginations, by Rachel Sumner and Ruth Mitchener (Penguin, ISBN:
978-0-14356-896-4); and Wearable Wonders, by Fifi Colston (Scholastic, ISBN:
978-1-77543-158-9).
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Dominic Godfrey
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
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On Saturday 20 July 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 13 July with Sir Lloyd Geering.
Next Saturday, 27 July 2013, Kim Hill's guests will
include Peter Lineham, Jo Appleby, and Andrew McMillan.
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