8:15 Lisa Matisoo-Smith: Africa to Aotearoa
8:35 Bridget Griffen-Foley: Australian media
9:05 Matthew Tukaki: the United Nations
9:30 Pamela Gay: citizen science and space
10:05 Playing Favourites with Orla Boylan
11:05 Lisa Harper: cheese and rural women
As this is live radio, guests and times may change on the
day (particularly depending on results in America's Cup racing).
8:15 Lisa Matisoo-Smith
Lisa Matisoo-Smith is a Professor of Biological
Anthropology at the University of Otago. Last year, she was awarded a James
Cook Research Fellowship to fund her work collecting DNA samples from New
Zealanders for her genetic ancestry study, From Africa to Aotearoa: The Longest
Journey. She will talk about her project during Genetics Week at the
university, as part of the panel discussion, The Seven Faces of Genetics: An
Overview of the Many Facets of Genetics Research (27 September).
8:35 Bridget Griffen-Foley
Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley is the director of the
Centre for Media History at Macquarie University in Sydney, author of a number
of books about media in Australia, and historical consultant to the new Channel
9 television miniseries, Power Games: The Packer - Murdoch Story. On Suffrage
Day, she delivered the Inaugural Marcia Russell Annual Lecture at the
University of Auckland:(Un)happy Families: The Murdoch, Fairfax and Packer
Media Dynasties.
9:05 Matthew Tukaki
Matthew Tukaki is a New Zealander based in Australia, who
was recently appointed to chair the new United Nations Global Compact Local
Network Advisory Group. He is a former head of the world's oldest and largest
employment company, Drake International, executive chairman and CEO of the
Sustain Group, and a board director of a number of public, private and
community organisations such as the Australian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce
and Suicide Prevention Australia. He is currently in New York attending the UN
Global Compact Leaders Summit.
9:30 Pamela Gay
American astronomer Pamela Gay hosts the weekly podcast,
Astronomy Cast, and an advocate of citizen science. Earlier this month she
presented a talk this week at Carter Observatory, Wellington, focusing on the
preservation and protection of the night sky.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Orla Boylan
Irish soprano
Orla Boylan worked as a cell biologist before embarking on an untrained career
as a professional opera singer. Her current role is Senta, in the New Zealand
Opera production of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, which has one more
performance in Wellington (21 September) before its Auckland season (5, 8, 10
and12 October).
11:05 Lisa Harper
Lisa Harper is an artisan cheesemaker and farmer who was
awarded the Enterprising Rural Woman Award in 2011. She has been travelling the
world this year on a Nuffield Scholarship, and has just published her memoir,
The Wharf at Waterfall Bay (Random House, ISBN: 978-1-77553-456-3).
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On Saturday 21 September 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 14 September with Andrew Adamson about
his film of Mr Pip.
Next Saturday, 28 September 2013, Kim Hill's guests will
include Bill Bryson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Samantha Geimer and Lorde.
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Dominic Godfrey
New Plymouth engineer: Juliet Larkin
Dunedin engineer: Martin Balch
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
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