8:15 Robin Grimes: nuclear energy
8:45 Nicolai Petro: Crimea
9:05 A. M. Homes: dark writing
9:45 Classical Music with Davinia Caddy: harmony
10:05 Playing Favourites with Damien Dempsey
11:05 Niall McLaughlin: star architect
11:45 Kate's Klassic: The Go-Between
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
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8:15 Robin Grimes
Professor Robin Grimes is the British Foreign Office
Chief Science Adviser, a nuclear energy specialist, and Professor of Materials
Physics at Imperial College. He is visiting New Zealand as a guest of the
British High Commission to speak at The Energy Conference 2014 in Wellington,
presented by the National Energy Research Institute and the University of
Otago.
8:45 Nicolai Petro
Nicolai Petro is professor of politics at the University
of Rhode Island, and is currently a Fulbright research scholar in Ukraine.
9:05 A.M. Homes
American writer A.M. Homes is the author of 11 books
including the novels May We Be Forgiven (2012, Granta, ISBN:
978-1-84708-323-4), This Book Will Save Your Life (2006, Granta, ISBN:
978-1-86207-933-5), Music For Torching (1999, Granta, ISBN: 978-1-84708-726-3),
The End of Alice (1996, Granta , ISBN: 978-1-84708-725-6), and Jack (1989,
Granta, ISBN: 978-1-84708-770-6), as well as non-fiction writing, and the 2007
memoir The Mistress's Daughter (Granta, ISBN: 978-1-84708-011-0). She teaches
at Princeton University and is active on the boards of The Pen American Center
and Yaddo, a 100 year old artists' colony in upstate New York. A.M. Homes is a
guest at the Auckland Writers Festival, speaking at the Gala Night (15 May),
doing a reading (16 May), and in conversation with Paula Morris (17 May).
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 harmony.
10:05 Damien Dempsey
Irish musician Damien Dempsey has been recording since
2000, and is now one of the biggest stars in his own country. He has just
released It's All Good, The Best of Damien Dempsey (Clear Records), and visits
New Zealand for the first time with four solo shows in Wellington (22 March),
Christchurch (27 March), Dunedin (28 March), and Auckland (29 March).
11:05 Niall McLaughlin
Swiss born, Irish educated and London based architect
Niall McLaughlin is a visiting Professor of Architecture at University College
London. He established his own practice in 1990, won Young British Architect of
the Year in 1998, was one of the BBC Rising Stars in 2001 and his designs have
won many awards in the UK, Ireland and the United States. As guest lecturer for
the 2014 Futuna Lecture Series, he will speak in Auckland (19 March),
Christchurch (20 March) and at Futuna Chapel's Open Day in Wellington (23
March).
11:45 Kate's Klassic: The Go-Between
Kate Camp has published five collections of poems, most
recently Snow White's Coffin (Victoria University Press, ISBN:
978-0-86473-888-2). She will discuss The Go-Between, the 1953 novel by L.P.
Hartley (Hamish Hamilton).
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On Saturday 22 March 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 March with Max Porter, editor of The
Luminaries.
Next Saturday, 29 March, Kim Hill's guests will include
Richard Roxburgh, Tami Nielson and Nicholas Agar.
Kim Hill photo by David White.
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