8:15 Ann Marie Gardner: farming and magazines
8:35 Megan Miller: cricket flour
9:05 Rebecca Gowers: plain speech
9:45 Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins
10:05 Playing Favourites with Matthew Buchanan and Karl
von Randow
11:05 James McCarthy: choirs and miners
11:45 Sekhar Bandyopadhyay: India elections
This Saturday’s team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate producer: Zoe Ferguson
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
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Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RNZ_SatMorning
8:15 Ann Marie Gardner
Ann Marie Gardner is the CEO and editor-in-chief of Modern
Farmer, which has just beaten Vanity Fair, GQ and New York to win a National
Magazine Award in the United States.
8:35 Megan Miller
Megan Miller is the founder of Bitty, a company that
makes foods using cricket flour, one of the most sustainable forms of protein
on the planet.
9:05 Rebecca Gowers
Rebecca Gowers is a British author and journalist. She
has revised and updated a new edition of Plain Words (Penguin, ISBN:
978-0-14197-553-5), the guide to English usage by her great-grandfather Ernest
Gowers, originally published in 1948.
9:45 Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins
Arthur Tompkins is a District Court Judge, and member of
Interpol’s DNA Monitoring Expert Group. He has a special interest in crimes
involving artistic masterpieces, and will discuss the ancient sculpture The
Four Horses of San Marco.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Matthew Buchanan and Karl
von Randow
Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow are the co-founders of
multimedia studio Cactuslab. In 2011 they created Letterboxd, a social network
for sharing users’ taste in film, and have just redesigned the website for the
New Zealand International Film Festivals.
11:05 James McCarthy
British composer James McCarthy studied at Royal
Holloway, University of London, and has had work commissioned by numerous
ensembles that include Crouch End Festival Chorus, Scottish Opera and Canty. He
is visiting Wellington for Dreams Lie Deeper, an Orpheus Choir of Wellington
concert (10 May) featuring three New Zealand premieres of choral music in
honour of miners worldwide: McCarthy’s 17 Days, inspired by the dramatic rescue
of Chilean miners in 2010, If Blood Be the Price by Ross Harris, and a new work
by Dave Dobbyn http://www.jamesmccarthy.co.uk/
http://www.orpheuschoir.org.nz/Concerts
11:45 Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Professor Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is the Director of the New
Zealand India Research Institute and teaches Asian History at Victoria
University of Wellington and is interested in the history of nationalism and
caste in colonial and postcolonial India. He will discuss the five-week
election process coming to a close in India, the biggest democratic election in
the world.
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On Saturday 10 May 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 3 May with artist and author Rod Moss.
Next Saturday, 17 May, Kim Hill’s guests will include
Aubrey de Grey, Sandi Toksvig, Greg Hopkinson and Rachel Buchanan.
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