Friday, March 28, 2014

Saturday Morning on Radio New Zealand National with Kim Hill: 29 March 2014

8:15 Elizabeth Kolbert: extinctions
9:05 Nick Agar: enhancement and ethics
9:40 Art with Mary Kisler: Aboriginal and Maori art
10:05 Playing Favourites with Tami Neilson
11:05 Richard Roxburgh: rakes and rules
11:45 Energy with David Haywood: exergy and anergy



8:15 Elizabeth Kolbert

American journalist and author Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999, and has written for the New York Times, Vogue and Mother Jones. She is best known for her 2006 book Field Notes from a Catastrophe, and as an observer and commentator on environmentalism. Her new book is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Bloomsbury, ISBN: 9781408851210).

9:05 Nick Agar

Dr Nick Agar is Reader in Philosophy at the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science & International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington. His main research interests are in the ethics of the new genetics and biotechnology, and he has written two books on the subject: Humanity's End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement (2010, The MIT Press, ISBN: 978-0-262-52517-6), and Truly Human Enhancement: A Philosophical Defense of Limits (2014, The MIT Press, ISBN: 978-0-262-02663-5).

9:40 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 exhibitions at the gallery: My Country: Contemporary Art from Black Australia (to 20 July); Jonathan Jones Untitled [sum of the parts] 2010 (to 31 January 2015); and Five Maori Painters, curated by Ngahiraka Mason (to 15 June). Images from the exhibitions can be accessed through the Art on Saturday Morning link on our web page.

10:05 Playing Favourites with Tami Neilson

Canadian-born singer Tami Neilson was brought up in the Neilson Family Band, opening for the likes of Kitty Wells and Johnny Cash. She tours extensively in Australia and North America, and is currently on tour in New Zealand in support of her new album, Dynamite!, with concerts in Lyttelton (21-22 March), Wellington (27 March), Paekakariki (28 March), Auckland (5 April) and Leigh (6 April).

11:05 Richard Roxburgh
Richard Roxburgh has starred in many Australian stage and screen productions, as well as taking supporting roles in a number of Hollywood movies. He can be currently seen in the second series of the television drama series Rake (from Sunday 30 March on ONE) in the lead role he co-created: iconoclastic and self-destructive defense barrister Cleaver Greene.

11:45 Energy with David Haywood
David Haywood has a Ph.D. in engineering and lives in Dunsandel. He writes the Southerly blog for Public Address, and is the author of the collection of humorous essays My First Stabbing, the children's book The Hidden Talent of Albert Otter, and The New Zealand Reserve Bank Annual 2010 (all publicaddressbooks.com). He will discuss exergy and anergy.


This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Dominic Godfrey
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind


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On Saturday 29 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 22 March with architect Niall McLaughlin.

Next Saturday, 5 April, Kim Hill's guests will include Rebecca Mead on Middlemarch, Nancy Andreasen on creativity, and Yannis Simonides on Socrates.


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