8:15 Michele Rowe: community and volunteering
8:35 Love-Ese Chile: biodegradable plastics
9:05 Aroha Harris: Tangata Whenua
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler: three London shows
10:05 Playing Favourites with Sarah Peirse
11:05 Kate De Goldi and Laura Kroetsch: books of 2014
This Saturday’s team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Tony Stamp
Research by Infofind
Thanks for listening to us in 2014. We'll be back on
Saturday 24 January 2015.
From next Saturday, 27 December, Radio New Zealand
National commences weekend summer programming. Lynn Freeman will host Weekends,
from 8:00 to 12:00 on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RNZ_SatMorning
8:15 Michele Rowe
Michele Rowe does a huge range of community volunteer
work in the Wellington suburb of Newlands, particularly with the elderly,
low-risk offenders from the Corrections Department, and Kiwi Community
Assistance.
8:45 Love-Ese Chile
Love-Ese Chile is a New Zealand graduate student working
with Professor Parisa Mehrkhodavandi in the Department of Chemistry at the
University of British Columbia, Canada, where she is researching biodegradable
plastics.
9:05 Aroha Harris
Aroha Harris (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa) is a member of the
Waitangi Tribunal and a lecturer in history at the University of Auckland. She
is the author of Hīkoi (2004), about political protest in the late twentieth
century, and is co-author with Judith Binney and Athol Anderson of Tangata
Whenua: An Illustrated History (Bridget Williams Books, ISBN: 9781927131411).
Selected images from the book can be viewed from our website page.
9:40 Art with Mary Kisler
Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection,
International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She will discuss
three recent exhibitions in London: Late Turner – Painting Set Free at Tate
Britain, Anselm Keifer at Royal Academy of Arts and Rembrandt – The Late Works
at The National Gallery. Images from the exhibitions can be viewed from our
website page.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Sarah Peirse
Sarah Peirse
is a New Zealand actor and director. She is currently appearing in the Sydney
Theatre Company production of Switzerland, a new play by Joanna Murray-Smith
about the writer Patricia Highsmith (to 20 December), and will appear in the
Company’s production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame in 2015 (31 March to 9 May).
11:05 Kate De Goldi and Laura Kroetsch
Laura Kroetsch is the director of Adelaide Writers’ Week
(28 February to 5 March 2015) at the Adelaide Festival (27 February to15 March
2015). Kate De Goldi is the author of a number of books, most recently The ACB
with Honora Lee.
They discuss the year in publishing and their favourite
reads of 2014, as detailed below
(* = mentioned during interview).
Laura Kroetsch’s list
Fiction
I Want To Show You More by Jamie Quatro (2013, Grove
Press)* Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (2014, Granta)* Em and the Big
Hoom by Jerry Pinto (2012, Viking)* Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle (2014,
Scribe)*
Crime
The Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne (2014,
Random House)* Chance by Kem Nunn (2014, Scribner)* Herbie's Game by Timothy
Hallinan (2014, Soho Crime)
Nonfiction
To Have and To Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors
and Collecting by Philipp Blom (2003, Penguin)*
100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl
(2014, Faber & Faber)* On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Bliss (2014,
Graywolf Press)* The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison (2014, Granta)*
Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First
Photographer by Matthew Gavin Frank (2014, Norton)*
Children
My discovery this year was Australian writer, illustrator
and artist Chris McKimmie. His books for children include Good Morning, Mr
Pancakes (2012), Two Peas in a Pod (2010), Special Kev (2009), Maisie Moo and
Invisible Lucy (2008), and Brian Banana Duck Sunshine Yellow (2007).
Summer Reading
Every year at Christmas, I reread a writer I love. This
year it is Eudora Welty (1909-2001), an American author of short stories and
novels about the American South.
Kate De Goldi’s list
Fiction
Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee (2012, Text
Publishing)* Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin (2010, Harper Perennial)* http://willyvlautin.com/ The Free by Willy
Vlautin (2014, Harper Perennial)* All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (2014,
McSweeneys)* A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews (2004, Knopf)*
Crime
No Regrets, Coyote by John Dufresne (2013, WW Norton)
Non-fiction
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil McGregor
(2010, Allen Lane)* Shady Characters; the Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols
& Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston (2013, WW Norton)* H is for
Hawk by Helen Macdonald (2014, Jonathan Cape)* The Old Ways: a Journey on Foot
by Robert McFarlane (2012, Hamish Hamilton)* Confronting the Classics:
Traditions, Adventures and Innovations by Mary Beard (2013, Profile)
Graphic Fiction/Comic strip
Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton (2011, Random House) Jane,
the Fox and Me by Fanny Britt, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault (2014, House
of Anansi Press) Will & Whit by Laura Lee Gulledge (2014, Amulet) Friends
with Boys by Faith Erin Hicks (2012, First Second)
Children
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner (2014, Hot Key Books, ISBN:
978-1-4714-0189-3)
Summer Reading
Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil McGregor (2014,
Allen Lane)* Best American Sports Writing 2014 selected by Christopher
McDougall, edited by Glenn Stout (2014, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)* Lullabies
for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill (2006, HarperCollins) The Girl who was
Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill (2014, HarperCollins) The Murdstone Trilogy
by Mal Peet (2014, David Fickling) After the Fire, A Still Small Voice by Evie
Wyld (2009, Jonathan Cape) All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld (2014, Random
House) The Magic Pen by Dylan Horrocks (2014, Victoria University Press)
Kim’s list
The Matthew Shardlake series of historical thrillers
(Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation, Heartstone, Lamentation) by
C.J. Sansom (Pan)* My Struggle (Min Kamp) by Karl Ove Knausgård (Random House)*
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On Saturday 20 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 13 December 2014 with Marcus du Sautoy
on mathematics and art.
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