8:15 A week in leaks: the NSA and civil liberties
8:30 Mandy Hager: youth, Vincent and Menton
9:05 Jill Trevelyan: Peter McLeavey
9:45 Mark Loewen: Lythronax argestes, king of gore
10:05 Playing Favourites with Jeremy Hansen
11:05 Sebastian Faulks: channelling Wodehouse
11:45 Howell Round: medical physics
8:15 A week in leaks: the NSA and civil liberties
8:30 Mandy Hager
Mandy Hager has written eight novels, including
award-winning young-adult books Smashed, The Crossing, and The Nature of Ash,
as well as short stories, scripts, and non-fiction resources for young people.
Her latest novel, Dear Vincent was published earlier this year (Random House,
ISBN: 978-1-77553-3276). Currently a tutor in novel writing at Whitireia NZ,
Hager is the 2013 winner of the Menton Fellowship, one of New Zealand's oldest
and most esteemed literary awards. While resident in France, she plans to work
on a book about the life of nun, scholar and writer Héloïse d'Argenteuil.
9:05 Jill Trevelyan
Jill Trevelyan is a curator and writer specialising in
New Zealand art from the mid-20th century. She is the author of Peter McLeavey:
The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer (Te Papa Press, ISBN:
978-0-9876688-4-4).
9:45 Mark Loewen
Dr Mark Loewen is Research Associate at the Natural
History Museum of Utah. He is the lead author on the study of the newly
discovered member of the extended T-Rex family in the southern Utah desert.
Lythronax argestes, nicknamed the 'King of Gore', is bigger and older than all
its closest known relatives.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Jeremy Hansen
Jeremy Hansen
is the editor of Home New Zealand magazine, and a judge on TV3 series The
Block. His new book, Modern: New Zealand Homes from the 1940s to the 1970s
(Godwit, ISBN: 9781775534839), looks at homes built during the modernist period
by a number of renowned architects.
Jeremy Hansen
is the editor of Home New Zealand magazine, and a judge on TV3 series The
Block. His new book, Modern: New Zealand Homes from the 1940s to the 1970s
(Godwit, ISBN: 9781775534839), looks at homes built during the modernist period
by a number of renowned architects.
11:05 Sebastian Faulks
British journalist, broadcaster and author Sebastian
Faulks has written many celebrated novels, including The Girl at the Lion d'Or,
Birdsong, Charlotte Gray, and A Possible Life, an official James Bond novel
(Devil May Care), and now a homage to P.G. Wodehouse: Jeeves and the Wedding
Bells (Hutchinson, ISBN: 978-0-091-95405-5).
11:45 Howell Round
Howell Round is Associate Professor at the School of
Engineering, University of Waikato and Secretary General of the Asia-Oceania
Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics. He will speak about the
International Day of Medical Physics (7 November) and International Year of
Medical Physics (2013).
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On Saturday 9 November 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 12 October with Patricia Edgar on
ageing.
Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate producer: Melanie Phipps
Wellington engineer: Damon Taylor
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Hamilton engineer: Carol Stiles
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
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