8:15 Iain Overton: exposing lobbyists
8:35 Sara Wiseman: wicked acting
9:05 Oren Gershtein: incubating innovation
9:45 Grant Sheehan: photographing ghosts
10:05 Playing Favourites with Delaney Davidson
11:05 Jennifer McLagan: eating odd bits
11:45 Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
8:15 Iain Overton
Ian Overton is managing editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in the UK. The Bureau, in association with The Independent newspaper, is currently publishing an undercover investigation into the activities of Bell Pottinger, one of Britain’s top lobbying firms.
8:35 Sara Wiseman
Former stuntwoman Sara Wiseman went directly from performing arts school to acting in the television series Street Legal, and has since starred many other series, including Mercy Peak, The Cult, and Shortland Street. Her performance in Matariki won her the Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Film award at the 2011 Aotearoa Film and Television Awards. Sara is currently on screen in cinemas nationwide in the new New Zealand movie, Rest for the Wicked.
9:05 Oren Gershtein
Oren Gershtein is the chief executive officer at Van Leer Ventures Jerusalem, one of Israel’s leading high-technology incubators, and is chairman and director of a large number of other companies. He visited New Zealand recently as a guest of the Ministry of Science and Innovation.
9:45 Grant Sheehan
Grant Sheehan is a New Zealand photographer and publisher. His new book is Ghosts in the Landscape (Phantom House, ISBN: 978-0-9864571-4-2).
10:05 Playing Favourites with Delaney Davidson
Delaney Davidson is a musician, painter, and filmmaker who is currently on a ten year solo tour that is taking him to Ireland, Germany, Italy, Brazil, UK, Switzerland, Mexico, Austria, Romania, Belgium, Holland, Russia, France, USA, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, with upcoming gigs in Wellington (9 December), Queenstown (10 December, supporting Toni Childs), and the Drab Do Riffs Christmas Party in Auckland (16 December). His latest album, Bad Luck Man (Voodoo Rhythm Records) is out now.
11:05 Jennifer McLagan
Jennifer McLagan is a chef and writer who has worked in London and Paris as well as her native Australia, and has lived in Toronto for 30 years. Her 2008 book, Fat: an Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, won the James Beard Cookbook of the Year. Her new book is Odd Bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal (Jacqui Small, ISBN: 978-1-906417-61-1).
11:45 Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Kate De Goldi returned last week from Germany, where her book The 10pm Question won the 2011 Corine International Book Prize Young Readers Award. She will discuss three new books:
Monacello the Little Monk, by Geraldine McCaughrean, illustrated by Jana Diemberger (Phoenix Yard Books, ISBN: 978-1-907912-03-0);
The Christmas Eve Ghost, by Shirley Hughes (Walker Books, ISBN: 978-1-4063-2063-3); and
Pretty Monsters, by Kelly Link (Text, ISBN: 978-1-921656-36-1).
Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 10 December 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 3 December with Professor Bernard Spolsky, on saving languages.
Preview: Saturday 17 December
Kim Hill’s guests will include conductor Harry Christophers, playwright Gary Henderson and the winner of the Prime Minister’s Future Scientist Prize 2011.
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