8:15 Alex Gibney: Lance Armstrong, liar
8:45 Richard Bedford: future New Zealand
9:05 Monica Dunford: particle physics and the LHC
9:45 Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins: Adele Bloch-Bauer by
Gustav Klimt.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Charlotte Greenfield
11:05 James Lee Burke: oil, history and novels
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
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8:15 Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney is an American filmmaker, whose documentaries
include the Oscar-nominated Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room, the
Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, Client 9: the Rise and Fall of Eliot
Spitzer, We Steal Secrets: the Story of Wikileaks, and Silence in the House of
God (all of which he has discussed previously on this programme). His new film,
The Armstrong Lie, about disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, will screen during
the New Zealand International Film Festivals in Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin,
Christchurch, Nelson, Hamilton, and Palmerston North.
8:45 Richard Bedford
Richard Bedford is Professor of Population Geography at
the University of Waikato and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at AUT University
in Auckland. He is a specialist in migration studies and has been researching
processes of population movement in the Asia-Pacific region since the
mid-1960s. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and a member of
the panel that wrote the just-published Royal Society report, Our Futures/Te
Pae Tawhiti: the 2013 Census and New Zealand's Changing Population.
9:05 Monica Dunford
American physicist Monica Dunford works on ATLAS, one of
two general-purpose experiments designed to address some of the most basic and
compelling questions of 21st-century physics at the Large Hadron Collider based
at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. She appears alongside
her colleagues in Particle Fever, a documentary about particle physics that
will screen during the New Zealand International Film Festivals (from 20 July
in Auckland, then throughout the country).
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 1907 portrait of Adele
Bloch-Bauer, painted by Gustav Klimt.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Charlotte Greenfield
Charlotte Greenfield recently completed her journalism
masters degree at Columbia University in the United States. While there, she
worked at the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism on the article Should
We 'Fix' Intersex Children, which was published this month in The Atlantic. She
has returned home to New Zealand before travelling to Indonesia to work for
Reuters on their trainee programme.
11:05 James Lee Burke
American writer James Lee Burke has worked as an oil
landman, pipeliner, land surveyor, newspaper reporter, college English
professor, skid row social worker, clerk for the Louisiana Employment Service,
and instructor in the U.S. Job Corps. His new novel, Wayfaring Stranger (Orion
Books, ISBN: 978-1-4091-2881-6), is set against the oil business of the 1930s
and 40s.
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:
The Simple Things by Bill Condon, illustrated by Beth
Norling (Allen & Unwin ISBN: 978-1-74331-724-2); Rooftoppers by Katherine
Rundell (Faber, ISBN: 978-0-571-28059-9): and One Year in Coal Harbour by Polly
Horvath (2012, Schwartz & Wade, ISBN: 978-0-375-86970-9), and its 2001 companion,
Everything on a Waffle (FSG, ISBN: 0-374-32236-8).
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On Saturday 16 July 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 12 July with Elizabeth Pisani on
Indonesia.
Next Saturday, 26 July, Kim Hill's guests will include
Sir Bob Harvey playing favourites, Kitty Green on Ukraine and feminism, and
author Philip Hensher.
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