8:15 Ian Black: Egypt
9:05 Andrew Bovell: plays and screens
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler: Turner
10:05 Playing Favourites with Christina Bevan
11:05 MaryJane Thomson: madness
11:45 Geoff Whittle: Rota's Conjecture
8:15 Ian Black
Ian Black is the Middle East editor of The Guardian. He
is in Cairo reporting on the escalating crisis.
9:05 Andrew Bovell
Andrew Bovell is a prolific Australian playwright and
screenwriter (Strictly Ballroom, When the Rain Stops Falling, Who's Afraid of
the Working Class, Head On) who has received the Australian Writers Guild Award
on nine separate occasions. He ran a speaker session and workshop at the Big
Screen Symposium in Auckland (10-11 August), and his 1996 play, Speaking in
Tongues (adapted for the 2001 film Lantana), is currently playing in a new SILO
Theatre production, directed by Shane Bosher, at Auckland's Herald Theatre(to
14 September).
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 exhibition Turner from the Tate: the Making of a Master, currently showing
at the National Gallery of Australia (to 15 September).
10:05 Playing Favourites with Christina Bevan
Auckland
music teacher Christina Bevan is musical director of the Summerset NZ Young at
Heart chorus, the official local "descendents" of the original group
of American singers aged over 70 who were featured in the 2007 documentary,
Young at Heart. The Summerset NZ Young at Heart chorus will perform in
Wellington in late September as part of the Bay Audiology RVA Festival of Choirs,
a choral competition between singers from retirement villages around New
Zealand. http://www.nzyoungatheartchorus.org.nz/
11:05 MaryJane Thomson
MaryJane Thomson is a Wellington writer, artist and
photographer. Her memoir, Sarah Vaughan is Not My Mother (Awa Press, ISBN:
978-18777-551802) recounts her years of schizophrenia and institutionalisation
in psychiatric hospitals.
11:45 Geoff Whittle
Professor Geoff Whittle is recognised as a world leader
in the field of discrete mathematics, and has been based at the School of
Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research at Victoria University since
1992. After 14 years of work, he and his colleagues Professor Jim Geelen
(Canada) and Professor Bert Gerards (Netherlands) have solved a problem posed
by the famous mathematician and philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota in 1970.
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On Saturday 17 August 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 10 August with Quinn Berentson on the
moa.
Next Saturday, 24 August 2013, Kim Hill's guests will
include Lloyd Jones. Janice Galloway, and Kwame Anthony Appiah.
8:15 Ian Black: Egypt
9:05 Andrew Bovell: plays and screens
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