Radio NZ National
8:15 Matt Ridley: rational optimism
9:05 Maureen Bisognano: changing health care 9:40 Ngila Dickson: location, location
10:05 Playing Favourites with Mary-Annette Hay
11:05 Amitav Ghosh: language and opium
11:45 Jeremy Randerson: online weirdness
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Shaun Wilson
8:15 Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley is the author of a number of popular science books, most recently The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (HarperCollins, ISBN: 9780007267125). He writes the Mind & Matter column for the Wall Street Journal, and recently completed The Shale Gas Shock, a report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
9:05 Maureen Bisognano
Maureen Bisognano is President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston. She is a prominent authority on improving health care systems, and was named by Modern Healthcare as one of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare in 2011. She is visiting New Zealand next week for the opening of Ko Awatea, a teaching facility and ‘brains trust’ at Middlemore Hospital, Auckland.
9:40 Ngila Dickson
Ngila Dickson is an Academy Award-winning costume designer. Along with a number of fellow New Zealanders, she worked recently on the big-budget Hollywood production Green Lantern, now in cinemas, and on the adaptation of the Lloyd Jones novel Mister Pip, which has been in production in Bougainville.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Mary-Annette Hay
Mary-Annette Hay became known as the Queen of Wool while working as Promotions Officer for the New Zealand Wool Board between 1948 and 1965. A collection of her garments are housed at Te Papa, and she is a supporter of the Campaign for Wool, a five-year global initiative that aims to bring wool back into fashion and to highlight its eco-friendly and durable benefits.
http:www.campaignforwool.co.nz
11:05 Amitav Ghosh
Calcutta-born writer Amitav Ghosh divides his time between Goa in India, and Brooklyn in New York. The first book in his planned Ibis Trilogy, set against the backdrop of the 19th century Opium War, is Sea of Poppies (John Murray, ISBN: 978-0-7195-6897-8), which was short listed for the Man Booker prize in 2008. His seventh novel, and sequel to that book, is River of Smoke (John Murray, ISBN: 978-0-7195-6899-2).
11:45 Jeremy Randerson
Jeremy Randerson is a New Zealand actor (Home By Christmas, The Almighty Johnsons) and entrepreneur (Foxton Fizz), who has an online alter ego as “web wunderkind” Simon Peter, and is co-creator of new web series Wolvesblade.
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Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 18 June 2011 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 11 June with New Yorker photographer Platon.
Preview: Saturday 25 June
Kim Hill’s guests will include Jian Lin, Carla Russell and Jeffrey Paparoa Holman.
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