8:15 Rollo Wenlock: startups in Tel Aviv
8:40 Jeffrey E. Stern: Ebola outbreak
9:05 Rachel Dawick: boundary riders
9:45 Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins: Sarajevo Haggadah
10:05 Gayle Souter-Brown: healing landscapes
11:05 Karim Khan: active health
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: two teenage
novels
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Line producer: Melanie Phipps
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RNZ_SatMorning
8:15 Rollo Wenlock
Rollo Wenlock is a filmmaker, and CEO of video
software start-up company Wipster.
He is currently in Israel for Start Tel Aviv
Competition 2014, at which eighteen companies from around the world have seven
days in Tel Aviv to meet investors, other startups and like-minded people.
8:40 Jeffrey E. Stern
Jeffrey E. Stern is a writer and development worker whose
reporting from Afghanistan, Kashmir, and elsewhere has appeared in The
Atlantic, The New Republic, Esquire, Time and other publications. His book The
Zero Option, which follows members of Afghanistan's most vulnerable ethnic
group as they prepare for the withdrawal of foreign troops, will be published
by St. Martin's Press next year, and his article Hell in the Hot Zone, about
the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, appears in the October issue of Vanity Fair.
9:05 Gayle Souter-Brown
Landscape and urban design consultant Gayle Souter-Brown
founded Greenstone Design in 2009, and is now based between London and
Wellington. She is the author of Landscape and Urban Design for Health and
Well-Being: Using Healing, Sensory and Therapeutic Gardens (Routledge Press,
ISBN: 978-0-415-84352-2), which is being launched through the NZ Institute of
Architects' national Urban Design Speaker Series in Auckland, Napier,
Wellington, Nelson and Christchurch (22-26 September). She will also address
the conference, A Place to Live: For the Life Worth Having, in Whanganui from
16 to 19 November.
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 the 14th century book,
Sarajevo Haggadah.
10:05 Rachel Dawick
Songwriter and vocalist Rachel Dawick has spent most of
the last ten years performing in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. In 2010,
she began researching the lives of New Zealand women in the 1800s, and turning
their stories into songs. This project has resulted in the album The Boundary
Riders: Musical Tales of New Zealand Pioneer Women, and an accompanying book,
The Boundary Riders Souvenir Programme (Forgotten World Highway, ISBN: 978-0-473-27787-1).
She is launching the book in Auckland (19 September), Queenstown (20
September), and Otago (21 September), performing at a number of events during
Heritage Festival Auckland (27 September - 12 October), and at Heritage Week
Christchurch (21-27 October).
11:05 Karim Khan
Professor Karim Khan is the editor of the British Journal
of Sports Medicine and an expert in physical activity for public health. He is
visiting New Zealand to speak at the Linking the Chain conference of
Physiotherapy New Zealand.
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 two novels for older teenage
readers:
Pink Smog: Becoming Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
(2012, HarperTeen, ISBN: 978-0-06-156600-4); and Razorhurst by Justine
Larbalestier (2014, Allen & Unwin, ISBN: 978-174331-943-7).
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On Saturday 20 September 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 13 September with Margaret Lock on
dementia and aging.
Next Saturday, 27 September, Kim Hill's guests will
include Mary Beard, Moana Maniapoto and Paddy Free.
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