8:15 Robert
Glennon:
water
9:05 Alan
Hollinghurst: lines of
beauty
10:05
Playing Favourites with Bob
Norman
11:05 Sam
Hunt and Dick Frizzell: words and
pictures
11:35
Patrick and Patsy McGrath: Tuam, Nelson and Bali
Producer:
Mark Cubey
Producer:
Sean McKenna
Wellington
engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland
engineer: Jeremy Ansell
8:15 Robert
Glennon
Robert
Glennon is the Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy in the Rogers
College of Law at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Water Follies:
Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters (2002), and
Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It (2009, Island
Press, ISBN: 978-1-59726-436-5). Professor Glennon is visiting New Zealand as a
guest of the Agricultural and Marketing Research and Development Trust,
supported by Plant & Food Research, the Royal Society of New Zealand, and
Water New Zealand.
9:05 Alan
Hollinghurst
British novelist
Alan Hollinghurst won the Man Booker Prize in 2004 for The Line of Beauty. His
latest book, The Stranger’s Child (Pan Macmillan, ISBN: 9780330513968), was
long-listed for the 2011 award. He is a guest speaker at Writers and Readers
Week (9-14 March) during the 2012 New Zealand International Arts Festival (24
February to 14 March).
10:05
Playing Favourites with Bob Norman
Bob Norman,
QSO, is a former civil engineer, State Services commissioner, and commissioner
of works for the Ministry of Works and Development. He is a patron of the
Antarctic Heritage Trust, and author of the 1997 memoir You Can’t Win ‘Em All
(Slide Rule Press, ISBN: 0-473-04659-8), and new book, To Get to the Other
Side: a Personal Encounter with Some Bridges Around the World (Slide Rule
Press, ISBN: 978-047-319363-8).
11:05 Sam
Hunt and Dick Frizzell
Sam Hunt has
worked for over forty years as a full-time poet. Dick Frizzell is one of New
Zealand's most recognised artists. They collaborated on a new exhibition,
Painting the Hunt, featuring Frizzell word paintings of some of Hunt’s most
famous works, at Page Blackie Gallery in Wellington (to 4 March).
11:35
Patrick and Patsy McGrath
Patrick and
Patsy McGrath are about to publish their memoir, Galway to Downunder: a
Lifetime Journey from Tuam, Ireland, to Nelson, New Zealand. For nearly 18
years their Bali Aid programme has been supporting communities with a range of
different projects.
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Saturday
Morning repeats
On Saturday
11 February 2012 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
4 February
with writer Anthony McCarten.
Preview:
Saturday 18 February
Kim’s guests will
include choreographer Hofesh Schechter, Bella Bathurst on bicycles, and Mary
Kisler on Degas to Dali.
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