8:15 Max Porter: editing and publishing
8:30 Vivien Maidaborn and Richard Bartlett: collaborating
online
9:05 Alex Taylor: crows and intelligence
8:40 Rollo Wenlock: video at SXSW
10:05 Don Walker: Australian chronicler
11:05 Paul Bayly: Dr Livingstone
11:45 Poetry with Gregory O'Brien: poetry and art
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Research by Infofind
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
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8:15 Max Porter
Max Porter trained as an art historian, managed an
independent bookshop and won the Young Bookseller of the Year award. He joined
Granta Books in 2012 as Commissioning Editor, and his first publishing project
was The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton. He is visiting New Zealand as a guest of
Creative New Zealand's Te Manu Ka Tau: Flying Friends international visitors
programme in association with the Publishers Association of New Zealand. He
spoke with Eleanor Catton at Writers Week at the NZ Festival in Wellington, in
Hokitika, and is travelling to Christchurch.
8:30 Vivien Maidaborn and Richard Bartlett
Vivien
Maidaborn was the CEO of CCS Disability Action for seven years, has a
background in social policy and social work, and worked in management roles in
the community and public sectors. Richard Bartlett is an electronics engineer
with a background in open-source engineering, education and community
organising. They changed their careers in 2011 to become part of the group that
co-founded Loomio, an online collaborative decision-making platform that has
gained acclaim around the world, and is now in crowdfunding mode for global
expansion.
9:00 Alex Taylor
Dr Alex Taylor completed his BA in Biology at Oxford
University and then his PhD as a Commonwealth scholar at The University of
Auckland, where he now works as a Lecturer in the School of Psychology. Alex's
research attempts to pinpoint how humans and other animals (including corvids
and keas) think, in order to understand how intelligence evolves.
9:45 Rollo Wenlock
Rollo Wenlock is a filmmaker, and CEO of video software
start-up company Wipster. He is meeting potential clients and making videos at
South By Southwest, the music, film and interactive event in Austin, Texas,
before travelling to Washington DC to showcase his company at the 2014 Angel
Capital Association Summit.
10:05 Don Walker
Don Walker was a member of and main songwriter for the
Australian group Cold Chisel between 1973 and 1983. He now performs solo, and
with Tex Perkins and Charlie Owens as Tex, Don and Charlie. He is the author of
the acclaimed memoir Shots (Black Inc, ISBN: 9781863954990), his most recent
recording is 2013's Hully Gully, and he will visit New Zealand to play with his
own band for the first time, alongside New Zealand group The Bads, at The
Tuning Fork, Vector Arena (17 April) and Leigh Sawmill (19 April).
11:05 Paul Bayly
Paul Bayly is managing director of a merchant banking
firm, Cranleigh, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was a
project adviser and sailor on both the Borobudur Ship Expedition (a
reconstructed 700AD century ship), and the Phoenician Ship Expedition (a
reconstructed 600BC ship). He has also kayaked and explored the Zambezi River.
His book, David Livingstone, Africa's Greatest Explorer: The Man, the
Missionary and the Myth (Fonthill, ISBN: 978-1-78155-333-6), was launched in
London in February.
11:45 Poetry with Gregory O'Brien
Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien, MNZM,
is the author of a number of books, most recently the 2012 collection Beauties
of the Octagonal Pool (AUP). Greg will discuss poetry about painting, with
reference to the work of Ashleigh Young, whose most recent collection is
Magnificent Moon (VUP, ISBN: 978-0-86473-763-2).
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On Saturday 15 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 8 March with cosmologist Marcus Chown.
Next Saturday, 22 March, Kim Hill's guests will include
A.M. Homes and Niall McLaughlin.
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