8:15 David Ifill: black cab driver
8:45 Jayant Pinto: smell and death
9:05 Helena Wiśniewska Brow: Polish orphans
9:45 Matt Lambert: muskets and Michelin
10:05 Brooke Fraser: new directions
11:05 Stefan Collini: future of universities
11:45 Uther Dean: cuttlefish and soul
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Alex Baron
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 David Ifill
David Ifill is a London taxi driver. He was previously
interviewed by Kim Hill in his black cab on the Saturday Morning programme in
June 2006.
8:45 Jayant Pinto
Dr Jayant Pinto, M.D., is an associate professor of
surgery at the University of Chicago, and a specialist in sinus and nasal
diseases. He is the lead author of a recently published study on how the
inability of older adults to identify scents is a strong predictor of death
within five years.
9:05 Helena Wisniewska Brow
Helena Wisniewska Brow is the 2013 recipient of the Adam
Prize in Creative Writing. Her book, Give Us This Day: a Memoir of Family and
Exile (VUP, ISBN: 9780864739681), tells the story of her father, one of 732
exiled Polish children offered refuge in New Zealand in 1944. Helena will be
participating in the Celebrating Everything Polish festival at the Museum of
Wellington City and Sea (25 October to 2 November).
9:45 Matt Lambert
New Zealander Matt Lambert is the executive chef and
co-owner of The Musket Room in New York, which received a highly coveted
Michelin Star just four months after opening in May 2013, and has just had it
renewed by the Michelin Guide.
10:05 Brooke Fraser
New Zealand singer/songwriter and philanthropist Brooke
Fraser has sold over a quarter million albums (What to Do With Daylight,
Albertine, Flags). She has released two tracks - Psychosocial and Kings +
Queens - from her new album, Brutal Romantic, due in November, ahead of her
North American tour in January and Australian and New Zealand tour in March
2015.
(This interview was filmed by Diego Opatowski and Jeremy
Brick for Radio New Zealand; a teaser video can be seen now on this web page;
which will host the full interview video on Saturday morning.) http://rnz.to/YUH7BX
11:05 Stefan Collini
Stefan Collini is professor of English literature and
intellectual history at the University of Cambridge. He is in New Zealand as
the Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University
of Auckland; while he is here he will be delivering a public lecture at
Auckland University: What's Happening to Universities? Historical and
Comparative Perspectives, considering some of the assumptions underlying
current policy and how universities will develop in the twenty-first century.
11:45 Uther Dean
Uther Dean is performer and co-writer (with Hannah Banks,
who directs) of Everything is Surrounded By Water, which was originally
performed in living rooms during the New Zealand Fringe 2014, and won the Best
Solo award. It is currently playing at BATS in Wellington (to 4 October) before
an Auckland season (at The Basement, 7-11 October). Together Banks and Dean run
the production company My Accomplice producing the weekly podcast The Witching
Hours, and a number of plays since 2009.
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On Saturday 4 October 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 with Scottish actor and director Peter
Mullan.
Next Saturday, 11 October, Kim Hill's guests will include
Karen Armstrong, Kirsty Gunn and Martin Edmond.
Kim Hill photo by David White.
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