8:15 Marcus du Sautoy: maths and art
9:05 Nick Main: sea change in the gulf
9:25 Alison McDiarmid: sea floor science
9:45 Art Crimes with Arthur Tompkins: Rose Valland
10:05 Playing Favourites with Greg Malcolm
11:05 Neneh Cherry: musical grandmother
11:45 Energy with David Haywood
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Brad Warrington
Auckland engineer: Alex Baron
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
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8:15 Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus du Sautoy is the Simonyi Professor for the Public
Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of
Oxford, and a Fellow of New College. He is well known for popularising
mathematics, and is the author of three books: The Music of the Primes: Why an
Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters (2003, Harper Perennial, ISBN:
978-1-84115-580-7), Finding Moonshine (2008, ISBN: 978-0-07214-662-4), and The
Number Mysteries (2010, Fourth Estate, ISBN: 978-0-00-730986-3), and writes the
Finding Moonshine blog. Professor du Sautoy is
visiting New Zealand as 2014 Distinguished Speaker for the Royal
Society. He delivered his lecture, The Art of Mathematics and the Mathematics
of Art, this week in Auckland, Nelson Wellington and Palmerston North, and will also speak in
Christchurch (16 December), and Dunedin (17 December).
9:05 Nick Main
Nick Main is the chair of Sea Change Tai Timu Tai Pari, a
partnership led by mana whenua and central and local government to create a
marine spatial plan for the Hauraki Gulf by June 2015.
9:25 Alison MacDiarmid
Dr Alison MacDiarmid is Principal Scientist, Marine
Ecology, at NIWA Taihoro Nukurangi, and is one of the scientist advisors to the
Sea Change Stakeholder Working Group.
9:45 Art Crimes 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 Rose Valland, the most
decorated woman in French military history and the unlikely hero behind many of
the successes of the Monuments Men.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Greg Malcolm
Greg Malcolm
is a composer, improviser and sound artist, and has been hailed as one of the
world's most unique guitarists. He has released a number of solo recordings and
collaborations, and has represented New Zealand at new music festivals
throughout the world, including a 2010 tour of Norway, France, and Germany in
support of his CD/DVD box set Some Other Time (Kning Disc). He has accompanied
theatre for children, performs for children regularly, and arranged songs and
stories on a new album by the Ohope Beach School Choir, Bird Song. He recently
performed at the Auckland Triennial and the Late at the Museum series, and is
visiting Wellington for the Pyramid Power festival (12 December) to play a
selection of Ivor Cutler songs with his partner Jenny Ward, Jeff Henderson and
Hermione Johnston, and a Saturday matinee show for children with Jenny Ward (13
December).
11:05 Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry started making music at the age of 16 with
London groups The Slits and Rip, Rig and Panic, and achieved worldwide success
in 1989 with the album Raw Like Sushi and its hit single Buffalo Stance. Her
first solo album in 18 years is Blank Project, and she will visit New Zealand
in 2015 for concerts in Wellington (3 March) and at the Auckland Festival (4
March).
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 finish his discussion of solar
photovoltaic energy, and answer some questions from listeners.
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On Saturday 13 December 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 December 2014 with Jane Gleeson-Wright
on accountancy and capital.
Next Saturday, 20 December, is the last Saturday Morning
programme for 2014. Kim Hill's guests will include Sarah Peirse and Aroha
Harris.
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