Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 14 June 2014 - Radio New Zealand National

8:15 Simon Coley: fair trade and farmers

8:45 Steve Hathaway: 97% ocean

9:05 Jenifer Roberts: Fitz and Christchurch

9:35 Adam Hyde: book sprints and software

10:05 Playing Favourites with Taika Waititi

11:05 Rose Blackett: gifted children

11:40 Shane Cave: corruption and poetry

This Saturday's team:

Producer: Mark Cubey

Wellington engineer: Damon Taylor

Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon

Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind

Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz

Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday

Twitter: http://twitter.com/RNZ_SatMorning

8:15 Simon Coley

Simon Coley is the co-founder of All Good Organics, a New Zealand company dedicated to giving a fair deal to small farmers in the developing world, and to local consumers. On 13 June, it received the award for the world's Fairest Fair Trader at the International Fairtrade Awards in Bonn.

http://allgoodorganics.co.nz/

http://www.fairtrade.net/fairtrade-awards.html

8:45 Steve Hathaway

Steve Hathaway is an underwater filmmaker based north of Auckland and a passionate advocate for New Zealand's oceans and sea life.

http://www.stevehathaway.com/

9:05 Jenifer Roberts

English historical biographer Jenifer Roberts is the author of a number of books, most recently Fitz: the Colonial Adventures of James Edward Fitzgerald (Otago University Press, ISBN: 978-1-877578-73-1), about her ancestor, the orator, writer, politician and journalist who played a major role in public life over fifty years of New Zealand history.

9:35 Adam Hyde

Adam Hyde is the founder of the Book Sprints process, which helps groups create books from scratch in three to five days, and is about to take up a position at the Public Library of Science in San Francisco..

http://www.adamhyde.net/bio/

http://www.booksprints.net

http://www.plos.org/

10:05 Playing Favourites with Taika Waititi 

Taika Waititi is a New Zealand actor and director (Eagle vs Shark, Boy). His latest production, What We Do In The Shadows, is a mockumentary film co-written and directed with Jemaine Clement, about a group of vampires flatting in Wellington. It opens nationwide on 19 June.

http://worldoftaika.com/

http://www.whatwedointheshadows.com/

11:05 Rose Blackett

Educational psychologist Rose Blackett is the President of the New Zealand Association for Gifted Children. She will speak at events during Gifted Awareness Week (15-22 June).

http://www.giftedchildren.org.nz/

www.nzcge.co.nz

11:40 Shane Cave

Shane Cave is an international anti-corruption consultant who divides his time between Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. A former print and broadcast journalist, he has just been touring his book of poetry and CD, The Sound of Words (Steele Roberts & Associates Ltd, ISBN: 9781927242131), to Auckland and Whangarei.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sound-Of-Words-By-Shane-Cave/370083843087148

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Next Saturday, 21 June, Kim Hill's guests will include Andy Neil on the 1964 tour of New Zealand by The Beatles, and Joanna Rakoff on her book about answering mail for J.D. Salinger.

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Kim Hill photo by David White.