9:05 Kingi Smiler: Maori agribusiness
9:45 Richard Allen: restless legs
10:05 Playing Favourites with Jan Bolwell
11:05 Helena Popovic: brain health
11:40 Andrew Digby: kiwi calls
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
.
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
8:15 William Dalrymple
Award-winning British travel writer, historian and
journalist William Dalrymple lives in India where he is one of the founders of
the Jaipur Literary Festival. His latest book, Return of a King: the Battle for
Afghanistan (Bloomsbury, ISBN: 978-1-4088-2287-6), is an analysis of the First
Anglo-Afghan War of 1839. He will be a guest at three sessions (15, 17, 18 May)
of the 2013 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival.
9:05 Kingi Smiler
Kingi Smiler chairs the management committee for the 2013
Ahuwhenua Trophy BNZ Maori Excellence in Farming Award, the premier award for
Maori in agriculture, which marks its 80th anniversary this year. He is also
chairs the Wairarapa Moana Incorporation, Tairawhiti Land Development Trust,
and milk powder manufacturer Miraka, and is a director of Wellington Rugby
Union.
9:45 Richard Allen
Dr Richard P. Allen is an associate professor of
neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the
co-founder of the Johns Hopkins Center for Restless Legs Syndrome, which has a
clinical and a research role, and is the leader of a new study into RLS.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Jan Bolwell
Jan Bolwell is
a dancer, author and playwright. Her latest play, Dancing in the Wake, is based
on the life of Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce, and will tour nationwide
to Otaki (25 May), Twizel (1 June), Arrowtown (2 June), Dunedin (4 June),
Oamaru (5 June), Christchurch (6 and 7 June), New Plymouth (9 June), Whakatane
(12 June), Hamilton (14 June), Whitianga (15 June), Auckland (16 June),
Otamatea (18 June), Kaikohe (20 June), Whangarei (21 June), Upper Hutt (23
June), Takaka (25 June), and Westport (26 June), under the auspices of Arts On
Tour New Zealand.
11:05 Helena Popovic
Dr Helena Popovic is one of Australia's foremost
authorities on how to improve brain function. Her book, In Search of My Father
(Choose Health, ISBN: 978-1-74284-004-8), tells about caring for her father
during his dementia, and taking charge of brain health. She will be a guest at
one session (19 May) of the 2013 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival.
11:40 Andrew Digby
Andrew Digby has a PhD in astronomy and completed a
post-doctoral fellowship with NASA, but became captivated with conservation
when he came to New Zealand in 2006. His current biology PhD uses kiwi calls as
the basis for revealing more about kiwi behaviour and to help provide new tools
for their conservation.
***********
Next Saturday, 18 May 2013, Kim Hill's guests will
include Masha Gessen on Vladimir Putin, Peter Doherty on viruses, and Jeremy
Scahill on dirty wars.
No comments:
Post a Comment