Friday, August 24, 2012

Saturday Morning with Paul Diamond on Radio NZ National: 25 August 2012 - Kim Hill is on leave




8:15 Chris Cleave: going for gold
8:40 Sylvia Earle: saving the deep
9:05 Alison Jones: conversations on paper
9:45 Walter Cook: collecting decorative art
10:05 Playing Favourites with Dennis O'Neill
11:05 Minnie Baragwanath: being accessible
11:45 Miriama Ketu-Mackenzie: education


8:15 Chris Cleave
Chris Cleave is a British writer and journalist who has worked as a long-distance sailor and teacher of marine navigation. His 2005 debut novel, Incendiary (Sceptre, ISBN: 978-0-340-99848-9), won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Award and the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award, and his second novel. The Other Hand (2008, Sceptre, ISBN: 978-0-349-96342-5), was a New York Times #1 bestseller. 
His new novel, Gold (Sceptre, ISBN: 978-0-340-96344-9), is set around the Olympics and cycling. Chris Cleave will be appearing in Auckland (Arcadia Bookshop, 28 August), Nelson (Elma Turner Library, 29 August), and Wellington (Marsden Bookshop, 29 August), and is will speak at two events at The Press Christchurch Writers' Festival 2012 (on Thursday 30 and Friday 31 August).

8:40 Sylvia Earle
Sylvia Earle, a.k.a "Her Deepness", is an oceanographer, explorer, author and lecturer who has been at the frontier of deep ocean exploration for four decades, leading more than 50 expeditions worldwide involving more than 6,000 hours underwater. She is passionate about the need to protect large tracts of ocean, and is visiting Rarotonga to support the work of Conservation International in the Pacific region, and the development of the Cook Islands Marine Park. The Park will be launched at the opening of the 43rd Pacific Islands Leaders Forum on 28 August, and Sylvia will be a guest at the Forum's Leaders dinner, and speak at a pre-Forum Pacific media workshop.

9:05 Alison Jones
Alison Jones is a professor in the faculty of education at the University of Auckland. She specialises in Maori-Pakeha engagement in education, and is the author, with Kuni Jenkins, of He Korero - Words Between Us: First Maori-Pakeha Conversations on Paper (Huia, ISBN: 978-1-86969-478-4).

9:45 Walter Cook
Walter Cook built up an extensive collection of British and European decorative art, covering the period from 1870 to 1970 and representing a wide diversity of styles, materials, and techniques reflecting changing fashions. The Walter C. Cook Collection of Decorative Arts was gifted to Te Papa in 1992, and a selection from the collection is currently on show.

10:05 Playing Favourites with Dennis O'Neill 
Welsh tenor Dennis O'Neill is director of the Wales International Academy of Voice. He has sung for four royal families, hosted a BBC television series, and performed 21 of Verdi's roles. He is visiting New Zealand to judge emerging singing talent at the Lexus Song Quest 2012 on 30 August, and hold masterclasses following the event in Wellington (31 August), Auckland (3 September), Christchurch (5 September), and Dunedin (7 September).

11:05 Minnie Baragwanath
Minnie Baragwanath is the CEO of Be Accessible, a company challenging New Zealand businesses to undergo radical accessibility assessments.

11:45 Miriama Ketu-Mackenzie
Miriama Ketu-Mackenzie is studying for a doctorate in clinical psychology at Massey University in Albany. She is one of three recipients of 2012 postgraduate Maori scholarships from the Rose Hellaby Maori Education Fund.

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On Saturday 25 August 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 18 August with Baroness Ilora Fidlay of Llandaff on palliative care and euthanasia.

On Sunday 26 August 2012 at 4:06pm and Tuesday at 9:06pm you can hear a broadcast of the sixth and final programme of Talking Heads 2012: Paradise Regained, a series of discussions about science in New Zealand. Dr Gareth Morgan and Kim Hill will examine whether New Zealanders' expectations of material wealth can be satiated, or is despoiling of our land and environment an inevitable precondition for our priorities to change from consumerism to well-being? http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/lecturesandforums/talkingheads

Preview: Saturday 1 September
Next week, Kim Hill is on leave, and the programme will be guest hosted by Susie Ferguson. Her guests will include Sir Andrew Motion, David Bremner and Richard Sugg.

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell

As this is live radio, guests and times may change on the day.


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