8:15 Nancy Andreasen: creativity
8:45 Jeff Milchen: campaign financing
9:05 Rebecca Mead: Middlemarch
10:05 Playing Favourites with Owen Clarke
11:05 Yannis Simonides: Socrates
11:45 Poetry with Gregory O'Brien: Alan Brunton
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
As this is live radio, guests and times may change on the
day.
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8:15 Nancy Andreasen
Neuroscientist and psychiatrist Nancy C. Andreasen, M.D.,
Ph.D., is Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry and Director of its Neuroimaging
Research Center and the Mental Health Clinical Research Center at The
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Dr Andreasen is the inaugural
Creative Fellow for the University of Auckland's Creative Thinking Project, and
delivered the talk, The Creative Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius, on 2 April.
She will speak at public events at the Auckland Art Gallery (7 April), Creative
Waikato in Hamilton (two sessions on 8 April), and Te Papa in Wellington (10
April).
8:45 Jeff Milchen
Jeff Milchen is the co-founder of the Montana-based
American Independent Business Alliance, a non-profit organisation that assists
independent, locally-owned businesses and communities. The AIBA has spoken out
against this week's McCutcheon v. FEC decision by the US Supreme Court, which
struck down a law that limited the freedom of Americans to financially
associate with the candidates, parties, and political organisations of their
choosing.
9:05 Rebecca Mead
Rebecca Mead is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She
has written for many newspapers and magazines and is the author of One Perfect
Day: The Selling of the American Wedding. Her new book is The Road to
Middlemarch : My Life with George Eliot (Text Publishing, ISBN: 9781922079329),
detailing her relationship with the 1874 novel, which she has re-read every
five years since her first encounter at the age of 17.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Owen Clarke
Lieutenant
Commander Owen Clarke has been Director of Music for the Royal New Zealand Navy
Band since 2012, after 12 years with the Royal New Zealand Air Force Band. The
Navy Band recently released its first recording since 1982, He Waiata Moana /
Ocean Songs (Navy/Ode).
11:05 Yannis Simonides
Actor, writer and producer Yannis Simonides is the
founder and director of the Greek Theatre of New York. He has been performing
Socrates Now, an adaptation of Plato's classic The Apology of Socrates with an
interactive dimension, since 2004, with over 300 performances in 15 countries.
He brings the production to New Zealand, this month, with performances in
Wellington (5 and 7 April), Palmerston North (9 April), and Auckland (12 and 14
April).
11:45 Poetry with Gregory O'Brien
Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien is the
author of a number of books, most recently the collection Beauties of the
Octagonal Pool (AUP, 2012). He will discuss the work of Alan Brunton, as
collected in Beyond the Ohlala Mountains: Alan Brunton Poems 1968-2002, edited
by Michele Leggott and Martin Edmond (Titus Books, ISBN: 978-1-877441-47-9).
Brunton's reading of his poetry is online at the New Zealand Electronic Poetry
Centre, and he features in the 1979 Sam Neill film, Red Mole on the Road, at NZ
On Screen.
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On Saturday 5 April 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 29 March with Nick Agar on enhancement
and ethics.
Next Saturday, 12 April, Kim Hill's guests will include
Don Brash and Catherine DeAngelis.
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