8:15 Ben Goldacre: bad pharma
9:05 Jonathan Barnbrook: type, design, Bowie
9:40 Matt Yallop: Iceland and technology
10:05 Playing Favourites with Simon Sweetman
11:05 Meme Churton: Italy, China, NZ
11:40 Oliver Percovich: Skateistan
8:15 Ben Goldacre
Dr Ben Goldacre is an author, broadcaster, medical doctor
and academic who rebuts scientific claims from drug companies, newspapers,
government reports, and public relations firms. He has written the weekly Bad
Science column in the Guardian since 2003, and his book Bad Science (Fourth
Estate Ltd, ISBN: 978-0-0072-4019-7), has sold over 400,000 copies and is
published in 18 countries. His new book is Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead
Doctors and Harm Patients (4th Estate, ISBN: 978-0-00-735074-2).
9:05 Jonathan Barnbrook
Jonathan Barnbrook is a graphic designer, typographer,
industrial designer and activist. He is the founder of British creative studio
Barnbrook Design, and font company VirusFonts, and is artistic advisor to the
first international retrospective exhibition of the life and work of David
Bowie, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Jonathan is in New Zealand to
speak at We Can Create, New Zealand's alternative arts and creative showcase in
Auckland ( 27 October).
9:40 Matt Yallop
Matt Yallop is an independent advisor and strategist who
has worked with hundreds of New Zealand companies building businesses from
technology over the past decade. He and his family have just returned to New
Zealand from seven weeks in Iceland.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Simon Sweetman
Simon
Sweetman writes about music in his popular and sometimes controversial online
music column Blog on the Tracks, and for the Dominion Post newspaper. His first
book is OnSong: Stories Behind New Zealand Pop Classics (Penguin, ISBN:
978-0-143-56816-2).
11:05 Meme Churton
Meme Churton grew up in Italy and China, and has been living
in Auckland since the 1950s. She tells her life story in Meme, The Three Worlds
of an Italian-Chinese New Zealander (David Ling, ISBN: 978-1-877378-70-6).
11:40 Oliver Percovich
Australian skater Oliver Percovich is the founder and
executive director of Skateistan, which started as a Kabul-based Afghan
Non-Governmental Organisation and is now an international non-profit charity
providing skateboarding and educational programming in Afghanistan, Cambodia
and Pakistan.
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On Saturday 27 October 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 20 October with microbiologist Bruce
Levin.
Preview: Saturday 3 November
Next week, Kim Hill's guests will include Barry Gibb,
Stephen McDougall, and Rima Te Wiata.
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RNZ_SatMorning
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