8:15 Bill Bryson: Summer, 1927
9:05 Elizabeth Gilbert: eat, pray love and the 1800s
10:05 Playing Favourites with Paul and Andrew Bayly
11:05 Lorde: top of the world
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
8:15 Bill Bryson
Best-selling non-fiction writer Bill Bryson is best known
for his 2003 book, A Short History of Nearly Everything. His new book, One
Summer; America 1927 (Doubleday, ISBN: 978-0-385-60828), examines the events of
a season that changed the world forever.
9:05 Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert is best known for her 2006 bestseller
Eat, Pray, Love. Her new novel is The Signature of All Things (Viking, ISBN
978-1-40884-190-7), and she will be a guest at Writer's Week (7-12 March)
during the 2014 New Zealand Festival in Wellington (21 February to 16 March).
10:05 Playing Favourites with Paul and Andrew Bayly
Twin
brothers Paul and Andrew Bayly run the merchant bank and strategic advisory
firm, Cranleigh. Both have Special Forces backgrounds with armies around the
world. More recently, Andrew has climbed a number of mountains in Antarctica
and towed a sled to the South Pole. Paul is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical
Society, and was a project adviser and sailor on both the Borobudur Ship
Expedition (a reconstructed 700AD century ship), and the Phoenician Ship
Expedition (a reconstructed 600BC ship). His book, Dr David Livingstone:
Africa's Greatest Explorer (The Man, the Missionary and the Myth 1813-1873),
will be launched at the Royal Geographical Society in November.
11:05 Lorde
New Zealand singer Lorde has the number three single
(Royals) on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and has topped the
Billboard Digital Sales chart. In New Zealand, her singles Team, Royals, and
Tennis Court sit at number three, five and 18 respectively, and The Love Club
EP is number two on the album chart. Her debut album, Pure Heroine, has just
been released.
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
New Zealand
writer Kate De Goldi is the author of many books, including 2013 NZ Post
Children's Book Awards finalist, The ACB with Honora Lee. She will discuss The
Positively Last Performance by Geraldine McCaughrean (Oxford University Press,
ISBN: 978-0-19-273320-7), and A Very Unusual Pursuit by Catherine Jinks (Allen
& Unwin, ISBN: 978-1-74331-306-0).
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On Saturday 28 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 21 September with Lisa Harper, on
farming, cheese-making and her Nuffield Scholarship.
Next Saturday, 5 October 2013, Kim Hill's guests will
include Sir John Sulston, and Samantha Geimer.
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RNZ_SatMorning
Footnote:
Kim Hill photo - David White, Bill Bryson photo - The Daily Telegraph
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