8:15 Mark Lewisohn: The Beatles, to 1962
9:05 John Boys and Grant Covic: wireless power
9:35 Adrian Kinnaird: comics in NZ
10:05 Playing Favourites with Daniel Handler
11:05 Rebecca Macfie: Pike River Mine
11:45 Steve August: the iHunch
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
More information follows on Saturday's guests, repeats of
previous interviews, next week's programme, and this email list. As this is
live radio, guests and times may change on the day.
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Saturday Morning guest information and links:
8:15 Mark Lewisohn
Mark Lewisohn is the acknowledged world authority on the
Beatles, and the world's only professional Beatles historian. His new 946-page
book, The Beatles: Tune In (Little, Brown, ISBN: 978-0-316-72960-4), is the
first volume in a planned trilogy, and covers the years leading up to the eve
of the group's great breakthrough.
9:05 John Boys and Grant Covic
Distinguished Professor John Boys and Professor Grant
Covic head the Inductive Power Transfer Team at the University of Auckland,
which this week won the $500,000 Prime Minister's Science Prize for 2013 for a
transformative discovery or achievement in science. Inductive Power Transfer
uses magnetic fields to transfer power from a transmitter to a receiver,
eliminating the need for exposed wires. The team has attracted over $20 million
in research funding in the past four years, and won multiple awards, including
the 2013 KiwiNet Research Entrepreneur Award and the Clean Equity Monaco Award
in 2011 for excellence in the field of environmental technology.
9:35 Adrian Kinnaird
Adrian Kinnaird is an Auckland-based cartoonist and
author of a blog about New Zealand comics and culture. His new book, From
Earth's End: The Best of New Zealand Comics (Random House, 978-1-86979-995-3),
is the first major book dedicated to the subject, and features work from thirty
New Zealand cartoonists and a history of the art form.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Daniel Handler Daniel
Handler is an American author, screenwriter and accordionist, best known for
his best-selling children's books, A Series of Unfortunate Events, under the
pen name Lemony Snicket. His latest book is When Did You See Her Last? (Hardie
Grant, ISBN: 978-1-74297-297-8), the second in the All the Wrong Questions
series.
11:05 Rebecca Macfie
Rebecca Macfie is a senior writer with the New Zealand
Listener. She has 25 years' experience in journalism and many awards to her
credit including magazine feature writer at the 2013 Canon Media Awards. Her
new book is Tragedy at Pike River Mine: How and Why 29 Men Died (Awa Press,
ISBN: 978-1-877551-90-1).
11:45 Steve August
Steve August is a physiotherapist, and mobile hot tub
inventor. His latest project, the Backpod, is a spinal therapy device designed
to address the widespread and growing problem of upper back hunch, caused by
the upsurge in use of mobile devices. It was a finalist in two categories at the
recent New Zealand Innovators Awards, won a Bronze Award at the 2013 Best
Awards, and received an honourable mention at the international 2013 Red Dot
Design Awards.
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On Saturday 16 November 2013 during Great Encounters
between 6:06pm and 7:00pm on Radio New Zealand National, you can hear a repeat
broadcast of Noelle McCarthy's interview from 9 November with Mandy Hager.
Next Saturday, 23 November 2013, Kim Hill returns to the
programme. Her guests will include Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Professor Steve
Jones.
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