Friday, November 01, 2013

Saturday Morning with Megan Whelan and TheWireless.co.nz: 2 November 2013 Kim Hill is on leave.


8:15 Intro: The Wireless.co.nz
8:20 Cecile Richards: family planning
8:45 Andrew Jack: censorship
8:55 Ruby Brunton: dating in NYC
9:05 Di White: crime, justice and theatre
9:25 James Robinson: voyaging and US politics
9:40 Lorna Piatti-Farnell: vampires and goths
10:05 David Dallas: NZ hip hop
10:20 Dolly Parton: blue smoke and Miley
10:30 Playing Favourites with Tourettes
11:05 Uther Dean: trials and fear
11:30 Stacy Gregg: horses and princesses
11:45 Joseph Harper: bonsai production               
11:50 Randa AKA Mainard Larkin: more NZ hip hop


8:15 TheWireless.co.nz
Marcus Stickley, Megan Whelan, Elle Hunt and Lena Hesslegrave are the team running TheWireless.co.nz, the new Radio New Zealand online initiative that launched this week.

8:20 Cecile Richards
Cecile Richards is president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. She visited Wellington this week for the annual conference of Family Planning New Zealand.

8:45 Andrew Jack
Dr Andrew Jack is the Chief Censor at the Office of Film & Literature Classification.

8:55 Ruby Brunton
Ruby Brunton is a New Zealand journalist and poet living and working in New York.

9:05 Di White
Di White is a member of JustSpeak, a non-partisan network of young people speaking to, and speaking up for a new generation who want change in our criminal justice system. They have restaged two theatre works about crime and justice, Portraits and Verbatim.

9:25 James Robinson
James Robinson is a New Zealand freelance journalist resident in San Francisco. He is running a Kickstarter appeal to turn his blog, Voyages in America, into a book.

9:40 Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Dr Lorna Piatti-Farnell is Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at the Auckland University of Technology, and Chair of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia. Her research interests focus mainly on twentieth and twenty-first century popular culture, Gothic fiction, cultural history, and food studies, and she has published widely in these areas. Her new book is The Vampire in Contemporary Popular Literature (Routledge, ISBN: 978-0-415-82301-2).

10:05 David Dallas
David Dallas is a New Zealand rapper and producer of Samoan and European descent. His third album, Falling Into Place (Dawn Raid) is available now, he is touring Australia in late December, and he will perform in Auckland next year at Rapture 2014 with American hip hop artists Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, and others (15 February).

10:20 Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton is a country singer, songwriter, musician, actress, entrepreneur and philanthropist. She returns to New Zealand next year for the first time in over three decades on her Blue Smoke World Tour, for one concert at Auckland's Vector Arena (7 February). A studio album of all new material, Blue Smoke (Dolly Records), will be released later this year.

10:30 Playing Favourites with Tourettes
Auckland author, poet and rapper Dominic Hoey performs as Tourettes. He is a member of the hip hop collective Breaknwreckwordz, and last year completed an artist's residency in Iceland working on his as-yet unpublished novel, Grey Lynn. He has released four albums since 2005, his new EP, Dead Dogs Dance, has just been released, and will be launched with live performances at Golden Dawn in Auckland (23 November) and Puppies in Wellington (1 December).

11:05 Uther Dean
Uther Dean is a playwright, actor and director, and member of the theatre company My Accomplice with Hannah Banks and Paul Waggott. Their production of Joseph K by Tom Basden played last month at BATS in Wellington, as did limited season audio drama The Witching Hours. The company's new work, A Play About Fear, will premiere at the 2014 Fringe Festival in February.

11:30 Stacy Gregg
Stacy Gregg rides horses, and writes about them for children. Her new book, The Princess and the Foal (HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-00746-902-4), is based on the story of HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein of Jordan, and was written with her blessing.

11:45 Joseph Harper
Joseph Harper is the creator of Think: Tree (Omoutautahi), a solo comedy show about the theft of a bonsai tree from the Christchurch botanic gardens, and the relationships between people and places.

11:50 Randa
Auckland-based producer and rapper Mainard Larkin performs under the alias Randa.

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On Saturday 2 November 2013 during Great Encounters between 6:06pm and 7:00pm on Radio New Zealand National, you can hear a repeat broadcast of Mark Cubey's interview from 26 October with Elizabeth Knox.

Next Saturday, 9 November 2013, Kim Hill will be on leave, and the programme will be hosted by Noelle McCarthy. She will be talking to Sebastian Faulks, Jill Trevelyan and Jeremy Hansen.
  
Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate producer; Melanie Phipps
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon


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