8:15 Don Brash: luck and consequences
8:45 Nicholas Wood: touring Ukraine
9:05 Susan Krumdieck: transition engineering
9:40 Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins
10:05 Catherine DeAngelis: policing pharma
11:05 Nigel Beckford: mementos and sagas
11:45 Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
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8:15 Don Brash
Don Brash was Governor of the Reserve Bank for almost 14
years, led the National Party and the ACT Party, and currently chairs the New
Zealand subsidiary of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. Dr Brash
discusses his failures, regrets and successes in the memoir, Incredible Luck
(Troika, ISBN: 978-0-47326908-1).
8:45 Nicholas Wood
Nicholas Wood is a former Balkans correspondent for The
New York Times. He created Political Tours in 2009, with the aim of giving
people first-hand insight into some of the most critical regions in the world,
and is currently leading a tour in Ukraine.
9:05 Susan Krumdieck
Professor Susan Krumdieck is a Researcher in mechanical
engineering at the University of Canterbury, and a founding member of the
National Energy Research Institute.
9:40 Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins
Arthur Tompkins is a District Court Judge, and member of
Interpol’s DNA Monitoring Expert Group. He has a special interest in crimes
involving artistic masterpieces, and will discuss the multiple thefts of The
Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck.
10:05 Catherine DeAngelis
Dr. Catherine DeAngelis is University Distinguished
Service Professor, Emerita, and Professor of Pediatrics, Emerita, at Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine, and was the first woman editor-in-chief
of the Journal of the American Medical Association, from 2000 to 2011. Dr
DeAngelis is visiting Seelye Fellow at the University of Auckland, and
delivered the public lecture, Patient Care and Professionalism, and university
talk, So You Want to be an Author?
11:05 Nigel Beckford
Nigel Beckford is a Wellington writer and publisher.
Fitzbeck Publishing, the company he runs with Michael Fitzsimons, have
published best-selling visual mementos The Wellington Book (ISBN:
978-0-473-18698-2), and The NZ Book (ISBN: 978-0-473-20788-5), and will publish
The Auckland Book in May. Beckford is also the leader of the band Sven Olsen’s
Brutal Canadian Love Saga, who recently released their 50-track album The
Almanac: An Unspoken History of New Zealand on the online site Bandcamp, and as
a limited edition Super Deluxe Orange Fly Swat USB and Book Combo (ISBN:
978-0-473-27339-2).
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 (Random House). She will discuss three books: The Higher Power of Lucky
by Susan Patron, illustrated by Matt Phelan (Atheneum, ISBN:
976-1-4169-0194-5); Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate di
Camillo, illustrated by K.G. Campbell (Candlewick Press, ISBN:
978-0-7636-6040-6); and Dappled Annie and the Trigrish by Mary McCallum (Gecko
Press, ISBN: 978-1-87759-91-2).
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This Saturday’s team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Brad Warrington
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
On Saturday 12 April 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 5 April with Yannis Simonides.
Next Saturday, 19 April, Kim Hill’s guests will include
Lee Dugatkin and Francis Spufford.
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