Friday, March 21, 2014

Saturday Morning on Radio New Zealand National with Kim Hill: 22 March 2014

8:15 Robin Grimes: nuclear energy
8:45 Nicolai Petro: Crimea
9:05 A. M. Homes: dark writing
9:45 Classical Music with Davinia Caddy: harmony
10:05 Playing Favourites with Damien Dempsey
11:05 Niall McLaughlin: star architect
11:45 Kate's Klassic: The Go-Between

This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind



8:15 Robin Grimes
Professor Robin Grimes is the British Foreign Office Chief Science Adviser, a nuclear energy specialist, and Professor of Materials Physics at Imperial College. He is visiting New Zealand as a guest of the British High Commission to speak at The Energy Conference 2014 in Wellington, presented by the National Energy Research Institute and the University of Otago.

8:45 Nicolai Petro
Nicolai Petro is professor of politics at the University of Rhode Island, and is currently a Fulbright research scholar in Ukraine.

9:05 A.M. Homes

American writer A.M. Homes is the author of 11 books including the novels May We Be Forgiven (2012, Granta, ISBN: 978-1-84708-323-4), This Book Will Save Your Life (2006, Granta, ISBN: 978-1-86207-933-5), Music For Torching (1999, Granta, ISBN: 978-1-84708-726-3), The End of Alice (1996, Granta , ISBN: 978-1-84708-725-6), and Jack (1989, Granta, ISBN: 978-1-84708-770-6), as well as non-fiction writing, and the 2007 memoir The Mistress's Daughter (Granta, ISBN: 978-1-84708-011-0). She teaches at Princeton University and is active on the boards of The Pen American Center and Yaddo, a 100 year old artists' colony in upstate New York. A.M. Homes is a guest at the Auckland Writers Festival, speaking at the Gala Night (15 May), doing a reading (16 May), and in conversation with Paula Morris (17 May).

9:45 Classical Music with Davinia Caddy
Dr Davinia Caddy is a senior lecturer at Auckland University's School of Music, a flautist, and the author of How to Hear Classical Music (Awa Press). She will discuss harmony.

10:05 Damien Dempsey
Irish musician Damien Dempsey has been recording since 2000, and is now one of the biggest stars in his own country. He has just released It's All Good, The Best of Damien Dempsey (Clear Records), and visits New Zealand for the first time with four solo shows in Wellington (22 March), Christchurch (27 March), Dunedin (28 March), and Auckland (29 March).

11:05 Niall McLaughlin
Swiss born, Irish educated and London based architect Niall McLaughlin is a visiting Professor of Architecture at University College London. He established his own practice in 1990, won Young British Architect of the Year in 1998, was one of the BBC Rising Stars in 2001 and his designs have won many awards in the UK, Ireland and the United States. As guest lecturer for the 2014 Futuna Lecture Series, he will speak in Auckland (19 March), Christchurch (20 March) and at Futuna Chapel's Open Day in Wellington (23 March).
 
11:45 Kate's Klassic: The Go-Between
Kate Camp has published five collections of poems, most recently Snow White's Coffin (Victoria University Press, ISBN: 978-0-86473-888-2). She will discuss The Go-Between, the 1953 novel by L.P. Hartley (Hamish Hamilton).


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On Saturday 22 March 2014 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 15 March with Max Porter, editor of The Luminaries.

Next Saturday, 29 March, Kim Hill's guests will include Richard Roxburgh, Tami Nielson and Nicholas Agar.

Kim Hill photo by David White.


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