8:15 Mike Goodchild: digital earth
8:35 Owen Glenn: business and philanthropy
9:05 John Lanchester: capital
9:45 Language with Jen Hay: word habitats
10:05 Yanni Cowie: future fuels
10:30 Andrew Dickson: losing weight
11:05 The “Valkiwis”: singing Wagner
8:15 Mike Goodchild:
Michael F Goodchild is Professor of Geography at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, and Director of UCSB's Center for
Spatial Studies. His most influential work involves research on Geographic
Information Science (GIS, or computer mapping), and he is considered the world's
foremost expert on Volunteered Geographic Information.
8:35 Owen Glenn
New Zealand businessman and philanthropist Owen Glenn
writes about his life in Making a Difference (Random House, ISBN:
978-1-86979-964-9).
9:05 John Lanchester
British journalist and author John Lanchester won several
prizes for his novels The Debt to Pleasure, Mr Phillips, and Fragrant Harbour,
and acclaim for his 2007 memoir, Family Romance. He wrote about the financial
crisis in the London Review of Books, and in his 2010 book, Whoops! Why
Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay. His latest novel, Capital (Faber and
Faber, ISBN: 9780571234615), is set in a South London street, and he will be a
guest at The Press Christchurch Writers' Festival (30 August to 2 September).
9:45 Language with Jen Hay
Jen Hay is Professor of Linguistics at the University of
Canterbury, and the director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain
and Behaviour. She will talk about word habitats.
10:05 Yanni Cowie
Yanni Cowie is a Year 12 student at Christchurch Boys
High School. He was a finalist with his presentation, Alternative Fuels:
Powering the Change, at this week's inaugural Eureka Symposium, in which 12 of
New Zealand's best tertiary and secondary students competed for the Sir Paul
Callaghan Awards for Young Science Orations.
10:30 Andrew Dickson
Dr Andrew Dickson is a lecturer at Massey University's
School of Management. His PhD thesis, The Other Side of Weight Loss, looked at
how the weight-loss industry functions, based on his experience of being
overweight and anxious, and losing 40kg. He was a speaker at New Zealand's
first Fat Studies conference, which was held at Massey's Wellington campus this
week.
11:05 The "Valkiwis"
New Zealand singers Morag Atchison, Amanda Atlas, Sarah
Castle, Kristin Darragh, Wendy Doyle, Lisa Harper-Brown, Anna Pierard and Kate
Spence are the "Valkiwis". They will sing the roles of mythical Norse
figures the Valkyries ("choosers of the slain") in the NZSO's
production of Wagner's The Valkyrie (22 July in Wellington, 25 July in
Christchurch, 28 July in Auckland).
http://www.nzso.co.nz/concerts/concert/die-walkure/
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On Saturday 14 July 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 7 July with Guy McPherson.
Preview: Saturday 21 July
Kim’s guests will include Charles Lavery and Anna
Jackson.
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineers: Lianne Smith, Daryl Stack Auckland engineer:
Jeremy Ansell Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
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