Friday, October 03, 2014

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 4 October 2014 on Radio New Zealand National

 
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



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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