8:15 Margaret Lock: dementia and aging
8:45 Robin Scholes: paying for The Patriach
9:05 Paul Roberts: the impulse society
9:45 Peter Wilson: death puppetry
10:05 Playing Favourites with the Topp Twins
11:05 Mohamed Ibrahim: telcos in Somalia
11:45 Energy with David Haywood: solar
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Brad Warrington
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Veal
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
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 Margaret Lock
Margaret Lock is the Marjorie Bronfman Professor Emerita
in Social Studies in Medicine, and is affiliated with the Department of Social
Studies of Medicine and the Department of Anthropology at McGill University in
Montreal, Canada. Her latest book is The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of
Dementia and Aging (Princeton University Press, ISBN: 9780691149783).
8:45 Robin Scholes
New Zealand producer Robin Scholes is best known for her
1994 film, Once Were Warriors. Her latest project, The Patriach, based on Witi
Ihimaera's novel Bulibasha, will reunite her with Warriors director Lee
Tamahori and star Temuera Morrison. It is the first feature film to seek equity
crowdfunding in New Zealand, and is halfway to reaching its target for the last
5.3% of the film's budget.
9:05 Paul Roberts
American journalist Paul Roberts is the author of the
2004 book The End of Oil and the 2008 book The End of Food. His new book is The
Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification (Bloomsbury, ISBN:
9781608198146), from which he adapted the essay Instant Gratification for The
American Scholar magazine.
9:45 Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson was the founding artistic director of the
Capital E National Theatre for Children, and since 2010 has been founder and
director of Little Dog Barking Theatre Company, which creates original theatre
productions for early childhood and lower primary school audiences. Their
production of Duck, Death and the Tulip, adapted from the book by German
illustrator Wolf Eribruch, won one of only two awards for Outstanding Theatre
at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014.
10:05 Playing Favourites with the Topp Twins
Jools and
Lynda Topp have pursued a successful recording, performing and screen career
for over thirty years. They go on tour across New Zealand in October and
November with The Grand Ole Topp'ry show, recasting Nashville's Grand Ole Opry
music and comedy experience in a New Zealand context, and channelling stars
from the US Country Music Hall of Fame with guests Tami Neilson, Cam Luxton,
guitarist Phil Doublet, and all-girl band The Johnnys.
11:05 Mohamed Ibrahim
Mohamed Ibrahim is Minister of Communications and Post in
the third Transitional Somali Government, struggling to assert control over the
lawless factions in the recovering state, and re-establish the institutions of
civil society.
11:45 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 solar energy.
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On Saturday 13 September 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 6 September with evolutionary biologist
Alan Cooper.
Next Saturday, 20 September, Kim Hill's guests will
include physiotherapist Karim Khan and taxi driver David Ifill.
Kim Hill photo at top by David White.
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