Friday, May 23, 2014

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 24 May 2014 - Radio New Zealand National

8:15 UKIP, and the UK and European elections
8:30 Claire Shipman: confidence gaps
9:05 Alan Cooper: kiwi evolution
9:45 Energy with David Haywood: biofuels and toilet flushing
10:05 Playing Favourites with Danny Lemon
11:05 Sheila Natusch: octogenarian life
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: three 3 picture books

This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind




8:15 Our UK correspondent discusses the impact of UKIP on British politics, and what results from the local body elections in the UK mean for the European elections.

8:35 Claire Shipman
American journalist Claire Shipman is the senior national correspondent for the ABC television programme Good Morning America, and blogs at the website True/Slant. With fellow journalist Katty Kay she is the author of the 2009 book Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better, and new book The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance - What Women Should Know (Harper Business, ISBN: 978-0-06223-062-1), which they adapted for the article The Confidence Gap in the May issue of The Atlantic magazine.

9:05 Alan Cooper
New Zealand evolutionary biologist Alan Cooper is Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide. His paper on the evolutionary history of the kiwi was published this week in the journal Science.

9:45 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 biofuel possibilities in New Zealand and the moral philosophy of toilet flushing.

10:05 Playing Favourites with Danny Lemon 
Daniel Scotford, aka DJ Danny Lemon, has worked at a variety of jobs including window dresser, power meter reader, bus driver and union delegate. He owned one of the world's largest and most significant collections of reggae music until around 8500 of his records were destroyed in a fire at a storage facility earlier this year. He will be the beneficiary of the Roots Foundation Rockers Sermon fundraising gig on 1 June at Wellington's San Francisco Bath House.

11:05 Sheila Natusch
Sheila Natusch is a New Zealand historian and natural science writer who has authored more than 30 books, including Animals of New Zealand, Letters From Jean, The Cruise of the Acheron, Hell and High Water: a German Occupation of the Chatham Islands, Native Plants, On the Edge of the Bush: Women in Early Southland, and Wellington with Sheila Natusch. She is the subject of a biography to be published later this year, and of a film documentary directed by Hugh Macdonald, which is currently in production.

11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi 
New Zealand writer Kate De Goldi is the author of many books, most recently, The ACB with Honora Lee (Random House). She will discuss three picture books:
The Boring Book by Vasanta Unka (Penguin, ISBN: 978-0-143-50575); Back-to-front Bob by Belinda Ellis (Scholastic, ISBN: 978-1-77543-183-1); and Z is for Moose by Kelly Bingham and Paul Zelinsky (HarperCollins, ISBN: 978-0-06079-984-7).

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On Saturday 24 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 17 May with Rachel Buchanan on the decline of newspapers.


Next Saturday, 31 May, Kim Hill's guests will include Lorrie Moore and Mary Quin.

KIm Hill photograph at top by David White.

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