Friday, February 21, 2014

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill on Radio New Zealand National: 22 February 2014


8:15 Spencer Wells: DNA sampling
9:05 Vladimir Hachinski: stroke and recovery
9:45 Classical Music with Davinia Caddy: melody and pitch
10:05 Playing Favourites with Peter Marshall
11:05 Stephen Shafer: anaesthesia and academic misconduct
11:45 Energy with David Haywood: what is energy?

Producer: Mark Cubey

 Kim Hill photo by David White


8:15 Spencer Wells
Spencer Wells is the head of the Genographic Project at National Geographic, a study that has involved the DNA sampling of more than 650,000 people in 130 countries around the world. He will be visiting Gisborne with a PBS crew later this month to film people of Ngai Tamanuhiri being sampled, and receiving study results from Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith, an Allan Wilson Centre Principal Investigator and the Genographic Project Principal Investigator in the Oceania region for over six years. Dr Wells will deliver a presentation on the DNA-based Genographic Project at the Royal Society Auditorium in Wellington (4 March), and take DNA sampling for full genome analysis from the audience, who will learn what percentage of their DNA is affiliated with specific regions of the world and if they have traces of Neanderthal ancestry.

9:05 Vladimir Hachinski
Dr Vladimir Hachinski is Distinguished University Professor of Neurology at Western University, London, Canada. He was instrumental in establishing the world's first successful acute stroke unit, was editor-in-chief of the journal Stroke from 2000 to 2010, and is President of the World Federation of Neurology. Dr Hachinski is visiting New Zealand as a guest of the Neurological Foundation Chair of Clinical Neurology.

9:45 Classical Music with Davinia Caddy
Dr Davinia Caddy is a senior lecturer at Auckland University's School of Music, a flautist, and the author of How to Hear Classical Music (Awa Press). She will discuss melody and pitch.

10:05 Playing Favourites with Peter Marshall 
Peter Marshall is managing director of architectural firm Warren and Mahoney, part of the team selected to carry out the task of the redesign of Christchurch after the earthquakes.

11:05 Steven Shafer
Dr Steven Shafer is a professor of anaesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine at the Stanford University Medical Center and was presented with a lifetime achievement award by the International Society of Anaesthetic Pharmacology in 2011. He is editor of the Journal of Anaesthesiology and Analgesia, a world-leader on academic misconduct, and appeared as an expert witness in the Michael Jackson manslaughter trial. Dr Shafer is visiting New Zealand as a keynote speaker at the 2014 Combined AACA & ASURA Congress, hosted by the NZ Society of Anaesthetists, and will run a session, Academic Misconduct: More Tales from the A&A Case Files, on 22 February.

11:45 Energy with David Haywood
David Haywood has a Ph.D. in engineering and lives in Dunsandel. He writes the Southerly blog for Public Address, and is the author of the collection of humorous essays My First Stabbing, the children's book The Hidden Talent of Albert Otter, and The New Zealand Reserve Bank Annual 2010 (all publicaddressbooks.com). He will explain what energy is.

This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Shaun Wilson
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind

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On Saturday 22 February 2014 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 15 February with Stuart McNaughton.

Next Saturday, 1 March, Kim Hill's guests will include Hugh Macdonald and Tony Morrison.


On Saturday 8 March, Saturday Morning with Kim Hill will be broadcast live from the upstairs foyer of the St James Theatre during Writers Week at the NZ Festival. To register your interest in becoming part of the audience for this programme, please email saturdayrsvp@radionz.co.nz with the names of the people interested in attending (limit two per application), and how long you intend to stay. Successful applicants will be advised by email in the week leading up to the event.

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