8:15 Guest TBC: Nelson Mandela
8:30 John Fitzgerald: Ireland and money
9:05 Ann Dowsett Johnston: women and alcohol
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler: Freedom Farmers
10:05 Playing Favourites with Tim Westergren
11:05 - Iris DeMent: singing the delta
11:45 Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
8:30 John Fitzgerald
John Fitzgerald is Research Professor at the Economic and
Social Research Institute in Dublin, Ireland, and a former president of the
Irish Economic Association. He visited Wellington this week for the third
annual Government Economics Network conference, Modern Economic Methods for
Policy Analysis.
9:05 Ann Dowsett Johnston
Canadian writer and editor Ann Dowsett Johnston has won
five national magazine awards and is co-founder and co-chair of advocacy group
the National Roundtable on Girls, Women and Alcohol. A recovering alcoholic,
she wrote a 14-part series on Women and Alcohol for The Toronto Star, and her
latest book is Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
(HarperWave, ISBN: 9781443418812). The New Zealand Drug Foundation is hosting
Ann's visit to New Zealand where she will be speaking at TEDxHomeBushRdWomen in
Wellington, the first TedX Women's event in this country (7 December).
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler
Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection,
International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She will discuss
the exhibition Freedom Farmers: New Zealand Artists Growing Ideas, currently
showing at the gallery (to 23 February 2014).
Gallery: Images from the exhibition.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Tim Westergren
Tim
Westergren is the founder and Chief Strategy Officer of personalised internet
radio service Pandora, and a composer and musician with 20 years of experience
in the music industry.
https://twitter.com/timwestergren
11:05 Iris DeMent
Iris DeMent is an American singer and songwriter who
recently released her fifth album, Sing the Delta, her first recording of
original material in 16 years. She visited New Zealand this week with musician
husband Greg Brown for two shows in Wellington, organised by The Morgan
Foundation.
11:45 Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
New Zealand
writer Kate De Goldi is the author of many books, most recently, The ACB with
Honora Lee. She will discuss three books:
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz (2012,
Candlewick Press, ISBN: 978-0-7636-5380-4), also published as Fire Spell
(Bloomsbury, ISBN: 978-1-4088-2621-8); A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama by
Laura Amy Schlitz (2006, Candlewick Press, ISBN: 978-0-7636-3812-2); and From
Norvelt to Nowhere by Jack Gantos (2013, Corgi, ISBN: 978-0-44-87031-9).
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On Saturday 7 December 2013 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 30 November with Steve Rolles on drug
regulation.
Next Saturday, 14 December 2013, Kim Hill’s guests will
include Robert Harris.
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Damon Taylor
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
More information follows on Saturday's guests, repeats of previous interviews, next week's programme, and this email list. As this is live radio, guests and times may change on the day.
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RNZ_SatMorning
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