Friday, November 22, 2013

Saturday Morning on Radio New Zealand National with Kim Hill: 23 November 2013. Yay, Kim is back !

8:15 Steve Jones: genes, religion and snails
9:05 Sir Geoffrey Palmer: reform
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler: three shows at the Adam
10:05 Playing Favourites with Kelly Joe Phelps
11:05 Huhana Smith: guarding wetlands
11:45 Kate’s Klassic: Love in a Cold Climate

KIm's photo by David White



8:15 Steve Jones
Geneticist and popular science writer Professor Steve Jones is Principal Research Associate in the Genetics, Evolution & Environment department of University College London. He is the author of a number of books, most recently The Serpent’s Promise: The Bible Retold as
Science (Little, Brown, ISBN: 978-1-40870-285-7), and is visiting New Zealand as a guest of the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution. He has delivered his lecture, Nurture, Nature, or Neither?, in Auckland, Wellington, and Palmerston North, and will complete his tour in Christchurch (22 November), Nelson (23 November), and Dunedin (26 November).

9:05 Sir Geoffrey Palmer
Sir Geoffrey Palmer KCMG AC QC served as the 33rd Prime Minister of New Zealand, leading the fourth Labour Government. He writes about his life in Reform: A Memoir (Victoria University Press, ISBN: 978-0-86473-905-6).

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 three shows at the Adam Art Gallery in Wellington: John Panting: Spatial Constructions; Peter Robinson: Cuts and Junctures; and State of the Art: Reproductive Prints from the Renaissance to Now (to 20 December).

10:05 Playing Favourites with Kelly Joe Phelps
 Kelly Joe Phelps is a American jazz and blues guitarist and singer who has played concerts with Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms (vocals and guitars) this month in Auckland and Tauranga, with gigs forthcoming in New Plymouth (22 November), Masterton (23 November), Wellington (24 November), Nelson (28 November), and Lyttleton (29 November). He will also play a solo concert in Dunedin (30 November), and perform in Wanaka with Warren Maxwell and Gerry Paul (1 December).
http://www.calebklauder.com/‎

11:05 Huhana Smith
Dr Huhana Smith (Ngāti Tukorehe, affiliated to Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga) is an artist, academic and kaitiaki (environmental guardian). She is currently Research Leader Māori for Manaaki Taha Moana and the Horowhenua case study, a kaupapa Māori and action research project in local wetlands, and sits on the International Advisory Board for the Humboldt Forum, a new museum project in Berlin, Germany. Her current exhibition, Rae ki te Rae / Face to Face, at City Gallery Wellington (to 26 January 2014) reflects her research into issues of water degradation in a coastal region around Horowhenua. She will give a talk at the Gallery on 23 November at 1pm, followed by bus trip to a walking tour of Te Hākari Dune Wetland and Kuku Ōhau Estuary.

11:45 Kate’s Klassic: Love in a Cold Climate 
Kate Camp has published five collections of poems, most recently Snow White’s Coffin (Victoria University Press, ISBN: 978-0-86473-888-2). Kate will discuss Love in a Cold Climate, the 1949 novel by Nancy Mitford (Penguin, ISBN: 978-0-14-103744-8).

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Next Saturday, 30 November 2013, Kim Hill’s guests will include Deborah Blum and Nancy Swarbrick.



Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: William Saunders
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon


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