Friday, June 06, 2014

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 7 June 2014 - Radio New Zealand National


8:15 Mary Quin: kidnap and innovation
9:05 Nomi Prins: bankers and power
9:45 Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins: Duke of Wellington
10:05 Playing Favourites with Carl Wilson
11:05 Christina Smith: dressing stages
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Kevin Henkes

This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind



8:15 Mary Quin
Mary Quin was appointed inaugural chief executive of research and development body Callaghan Innovation in May 2013, after 20 years working overseas in senior executive roles in companies such as Eastman Kodak Company and Xerox. She recently returned to New Zealand from New York, where she gave evidence in the trial of Abu Hamza al-Masri, the Islamic cleric behind the 1998 attack on her tour group, which she wrote about in her 2004 book, Kidnapped in Yemen (Random House, ISBN: 978-1-86941-622-8).

9:05 Nomi Prins
Nomi Prins is a senior fellow at public policy think tank Demos, journalist and author whose work focuses on corporate governance, economic policy, Wall Street and the political/regulatory environment. Before becoming a journalist, she served as a managing director for Goldman Sachs in New York and ran the analytics group at Bear Stearns in London. Her new book is All the President's Bankers: the Hidden Alliances That Drive America's Power (Nation Books, ISBN: 978-1-56858-749-3).

9:45 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 Francesco Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington.


10.05 Playing Favourites with Carl Wilson 

Toronto writer Carl Wilson is the music critic at Slate, and a contributor to many other publications. His 2007 title about Celine Dion in the 33 1/3 series about record albums has just been issued in an expanded edition: Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste (Bloomsbury, ISBN: 978-1-4411-6677-7).

11:05 Christina Smith
Set and costume designer Christina Smith was lauded last year for her New Zealand Opera Madame Butterfly set, and she has just designed A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, and Shakespeare's As You Like It for Black Swan State Theatre Company in Perth. Her set and costumes for Verdi's La Traviata, built from her designs at NZ Opera's Technical Centre in Onehunga, have just debuted in Adelaide, and can be seen in the NZ Opera production in Auckland (from 19 June), and Wellington (from 11 July).

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 for 8-11 year olds by American writer Kevin Henkes:
Sun and Spoon (1997, HarperTrophy, ISBN: 978-0-06-128875-3); Olive's Ocean (2003, HarperTrophy, ISBN: 978-0-06-053545-2); and Junonia (2011, Greenwillow Books, ISBN: 978-0-06-196419-0).

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On Saturday 7 June 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 31 May with Janette Sadik-Khan on transport revolutions.


Next Saturday, 14 June, Kim Hill's guests will include Taika Waititi, Rose Blackett and Jenifer Roberts.

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