8:15 Scott Stossel: surviving anxiety
9:05 Rod Moss: art and aboriginal life
9:40 Michael Burge: asylum seekers and free speech
10:05 Hollie Fulbrook: Tiny Ruins
11:05 Steve James: basketball and film
11:45 Poetry with Greg O'Brien: John Pule
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate producer: Zoe Ferguson
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RNZ_SatMorning
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8:15 Scott Stossel
Scott Stossel is the editor of The Atlantic. He wrote the
essay Surviving Anxiety for the magazine, adapted from his new book My Age of
Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind (Knopf, ISBN:
978-0-30726-987-4).
9:05 Rod Moss
Australian painter and photographer Rod Moss has lived in
Alice Springs since 1984. He has written two memoirs: The Hard Light of Day
(2010, University of Queensland Press, ISBN: 978-0-7022-3774-4) won the Prime
Minister's Literary Award, and One Thousand Cuts: Life and Art in Central
Australia (UQP, ISBN: 978-0-7022-4968-6) was published last year. Rod Moss is a
guest at the Auckland Writers Festival, speaking at three sessions: An Interior
Life (with Stephanie Johnson, 16 May), The Lucky Country? (with Michael Leunig
and John Marsden, 17 May), and Art and Australia (18 May).
9:40 Michael Burge
Michael Burge is a writer, editor and journalist who
lives on the island of Coochiemudlo in Queensland, Australia. He reported the
2013 federal election from his electorate, Bowman, writes regular opinion
pieces on LGBT equality, is co-founder of Woop Woop, the remote living media
hub for Australian country life, and is co-founder of political news website No
Fibs, where he has been writing about asylum seekers and issues of free speech
for public servants.
10:05 Hollie Fulbrook / Tiny Ruins
New Zealand musician Hollie Fullbrook started performing
and recording under the name of Tiny Ruins as a solo project in 2009. Her
recordings include the 2010 collaborative EP Little Notes, the 2011 debut
album Some Were Meant for Sea, and the retrospective collection Haunts, from
2013. Her band now includes bassist Cass Basil and drummer Alexander
Freer, and she is touring in Europe with the just-released second Tiny Ruins
album, Brightly Painted One, in advance of a New Zealand tour to Picton (5
June), Lyttelton (6 June), Dunedin (7 June), Wanaka: (8 June), Okarito (9
June), Barrytown (10 June), Nelson (12 June), Wellington (13 and 14 June), and
Auckland (28 June).
11:05 Steve James
American film producer and director Steve James is best
known for his 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams, which revolutionised how mainstream
audiences viewed documentaries as it followed two college basketball players
attempting to break into the NBA. He is a guest of the 2014 Documentary Edge
Festival (Auckland 21 May to 2 June; Wellington 5-15 June), presenting a
screening of a newly restored 20th anniversary digital master of Hoop Dreams,
and a Q&A session. His new film, Life Itself, about the late Pulitzer
Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert, will make its New Zealand premiere at
the festival.
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 2012 collection Beauties of the
Octagonal Pool (AUP). He will discuss the work of John Puhiatau Pule,
particularly his epic love poem The Bond of Time, first published in a limited
edition in 1985, and now available in a new edition from Canterbury University
Press (ISBN: 978-1-92714-556-2).
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On Saturday 3 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 26 April with Jim Al-Khalili on
paradoxes in physics.
Next Saturday, 10 May, Kim Hill's guests will include
composer James McCarthy.
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