8:15 Mary Beard: tackling trolls
9:05 Peter Mullan: films and Scotland
9:45 Sol3 Mio: brio trio
10:05 Moana Maniapoto and Paddy Free
11:05 Richard Flanagan: Burma railway
11:45 Poetry with Gregory O'Brien: Puna Wai Korero
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Research by Infofind
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
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8:15 Mary Beard
Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at the University of
Cambridge, a fellow of Newnham College, and Royal Academy of Arts professor of
ancient literature. She is the best-selling author of a number of books about
the ancient world, a television presenter, classics editor of the Times
Literary Supplement, and writer of the blog, A Don's Life, which appears in The
Times, and extracted in book form as It's a Don's Life (2009, Profile, ISBN:
987-1846682513) and All In a Don's Day (2012 (Profile, ISBN: 978-1846685361).
She has also become renowned for her fight back against online abuse and
trolling.
9:05 Peter Mullan
Peter Mullan is a Scottish actor (Top of the Lake, My
Name is Joe) and director (The Magdalene Sisters, Neds). He is visiting New
Zealand to take a master class and speak In Conversation at the third annual
event for filmmakers, Big Screen Symposium 2014 (27-28 September).
9:40 Sol3 Mio
Samoan brothers Pene and Amitai Pati and their cousin
Moses Mackay record and perform as the trio Sol3 Mio. Their self-titled debut
album, featuring an operatic take on a range of traditional and popular songs,
was the biggest selling album in New Zealand in 2013. A book about their life
story, Sol3 Mio: Our Story (Penguin), will be published in late October, and a
DVD of their live show, Ladies & Gentlemen..., will be released in
November. Sol3 Mio are currently on tour, performing in Wellington (28 and 29
September) and Sydney (22 October) in advance of a 11-date UK tour in November,
supporting English singer Alfie Boe, then Christmas in the Vines (Auckland, 21
December) and a New Zealand tour in February/March 2015.
10:05 Moana Maniapoto and Paddy Free
Singer and songwriter Moana Maniapoto has been performing
and recording since 1987, and formed her band Moana in the Tribe with its
soul-haka-funk fusion in 2002, touring internationally. Paddy Free is a member
of electronic duo Pitch Black, and has been playing keyboards as a member of
The Tribe since 2013. He produced and co-wrote the fifth Moana and the Tribe
album, Rima, which has just been released.
11:05 Richard Flanagan
Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan wrote four non-fiction
books before turning to novels; his latest is The Narrow Road to the Deep North
(Vintage Australia, ISBN: 978-1-741666700), about prisoners of war on the Burma
Railway during the Second World War. It has won the 2014 Western Australia
Premier's Book Award, and has been shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker prize.
11:45 Poetry with Gregory O'Brien
Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien is the
author of a number of books, most recently the collection Beauties of the
Octagonal Pool (AUP, 2012).He will discuss Puna Wai Korero: an Anthology of
Maori Poetry in English, edited by Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan (Auckland
University Press, ISBN: 978-1869408176).
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Next Saturday, 4 October, Kim Hill's guests will include
Brooke Fraser and Stefan Collini.
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