8:15 Aubrey de Grey: extending longevity
9:05 Rachel Buchanan: newspaper sunset
9:45 Sekhar Bandyopadhyay: India election
10:05 Playing Favourites with Sandi Toksvig
11:05 Greg Hopkinson: money and monks
11:45 Kate’s Klassic: The Old Man and the Sea
This Saturday’s team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Jeremy Veal
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
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8:15 Aubrey de Grey
Aubrey de Grey is an English author and theoretician in
the field of gerontology, and the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of the
research foundation SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence). He
is Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, and a Fellow of both the
Gerontological Society of America and the American Aging Association.
9:05 Rachel Buchanan
Rachel Buchanan has worked in New Zealand and Australia
for various newspapers as a reporter, feature writer, columnist, and subeditor,
and was a lecturer in journalism at La Trobe University in Melbourne between
2007 and 2011. Her most recent book is Stop Press: the Last Days of Newspapers
(Scribe, ISBN: 978-1-922070-57-9), and her writing appears in publications such
as Australian Book Review, Meanjin, and Griffith REVIEW.
9:45 Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Professor Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is the Director of the New
Zealand India Research Institute and teaches Asian History at Victoria
University of Wellington and is interested in the history of nationalism and
caste in colonial and postcolonial India. He will discuss the result of the
biggest democratic election in the world, in India.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Sandi Toksvig
Author,
playwright and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig has written more than twenty books of
fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, most recently Boer War novel
Valentine Grey (Virago, ISBN: 978-1-84408-832-4), and Peas and Queues: the
Minefield of Modern Manners (Profile Books, ISBN: 978-1781250327). She is a
columnist for Good Housekeeping, a regular panelist on the BBC quiz programme
QI, and is currently a guest of the Auckland Writers Festival, speaking at this
week’s opening debate, Privacy is an Outdated Concept, and at An Evening with
Sandi Toksvig (17 May, with Sean Plunket), and Gender Divides (18 May, with
Eleanor Catton, Jessica Jackley, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku and Judy McGregor).
11:05 Greg Hopkinson
Greg Hopkinson was raised on the West Coast of the South
Island and studied engineering at the University of Canterbury. He had a
successful entrepreneurial career that included starting a construction
business in the Soviet Union, and establishing the Animates chain of pet
stores, before becoming a modern-day monk. He tells his story in the memoir
Boundless: a Wayward Entrepreneur’s Search For Peace (Mountford, ISBN
978-0-473-26073-6).
11:45 Kate’s Klassic: The Old Man and the Sea
Kate Camp
has published five collections of poems, most recently Snow White’s Coffin
(Victoria University Press, ISBN: 978-0-86473-888-2). Kate will discuss the
1952 novel The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
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