8:15 Robert Harris: the Dreyfus scandal
8:45 Carl Zimmer: the end of flu
9:05 Nicholas Wood: political tourism
9:45 Arini Loader: engaging with te reo
10:05 Playing Favourites with John Edwards
11:05 Harold Hillman: leadership
11:45 Kate's Klassic: Fahrenheit 451
8:15 Robert Harris
Robert Harris is the author of eight best-selling
historical novels, including Fatherland, Pompeii, and The Ghost. His new book,
An Officer and a Spy (Random House, ISBN: 978-0-091-94456-8) is based on the
Dreyfus affair in France in the late 1800s.
8:45 Carl Zimmer
Carl Zimmer writes regularly on the study of evolution
and parasites. His science column, Matter, runs weekly in The New York Times,
and he also writes The Loom, a blog for National Geographic Magazine, and has
authored twelve books. His article, The Quest to End the Flu, appears in the
December issue of The Atlantic.
9:05 Nicholas Wood
Nicholas Wood is a former Balkans correspondent for the
New York Times, who created Political Tours in 2009, with the aim of giving
people first-hand insight into some of the most critical regions in the world.
9:45 Arini Loader
Over the last ten years Arini Loader, of Ngati Raukawa,
Ngati Whakaue and Te Whanau-a-Apanui descent, has gained four university
qualifications, most recently a doctorate in Maori Studies from Victoria
University of Wellington. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the
university's School of History, Philosophy, Political Science &
International Relations, and is fluent in te reo Maori.
10:05 Playing Favourites with John Edwards
John Edwards
is a Wellington barrister who has worked in public law and policy for over 20
years. He has been in practice on his own account, and on the staff of the
Office of the Ombudsmen, the Privacy Commissioner and the Ministry of Health,
and will take up the position of Privacy Commissioner in February 2014.
11:00 Harold Hillman
Dr Harold Hillman (left) is a Harvard-educated clinical
psychologist and leadership expert who migrated to New Zealand ten years ago,
after being headhunted by Fonterra, and in 2007 set up his own company, Sigmoid
Curve Consulting Group. He writes about his life and leadership in The Impostor
Syndrome (Random House, ISBN: 978-1-77553-527-0).
11:45 Kate's Klassic: Fahrenheit 451
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 Fahrenheit 451, the 1953 novel by Ray
Bradbury (Voyager, ISBN: 978-0-00718-170-4).
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On Saturday 14 December 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 7 December with Ann Dowsett Johnston on
women and alcohol.
Next Saturday, 21 December 2013, Kim Hill's guests will
include Felix Salmon, Sarah Longbottom, and Ben Schott. This will be our last
live programme for the year, and will be followed by four weeks of Summer
Selections from Saturday Morning.
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: William Saunders
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
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