8:15 Bill Reid: helicopter dynasty
9:05 Doug Wilson: drugs and children's books
9:45 Thomas Buckley: insect evolution
10:05 Playing Favourites with Witi Ihimaera
11:05 Benjamin Wright: strings attached
11:30 Stephen Mulqueen: poppies, war and peace
11:45 Kate's Klassic: Persuasion
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Alex Baron
Dunedin studio: Martin Balch
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 Bill Reid
Since he began flying helicopters in the early 1970s,
Bill Reid has been involved in deer recovery, mountain rescue, fire-fighting,
heli-fishing, heavy lifting and movie work, mainly in New Zealand, but also in
Hong Kong, England and Papua New Guinea. He tells his own story, and that of
his pilot father and son, in the new book Born to Fly (Random House, ISBN:
978-1-77553-691-8).
9:05 Doug Wilson
Dr Doug Wilson is the former head of Medicine and
Regulatory Affairs for Boehringer Ingelheim in the United States. Now retired
in Taupo, he continues to work with a range of pharmaceutical companies,
including Nexus, AFT and Vaxxit, while writing stories for children, including
the successful Tom Hassler series.
9:45 Thomas Buckley
Thomas Buckley is a Research Leader at Landcare Research
where his work involves leadership of invertebrate systematics and the New
Zealand Arthropod Collection. He is also jointly employed as an Associate
Professor at the University of Auckland and is a Principal Investigator at the
Allan Wilson Centre. He was one of over 100 researchers from 10 countries who
have just published the first paper from the 1KITE study, which will ultimately
look at over 1000 insect species and shine new light on insect evolution. The
findings, "Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect
evolution", were published this week in Science.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Witi Ihimaera
Pioneering
Maori novelist and short story writer Witi Ihimaera has also written for the
stage and screen. He writes about his early life for the first time in Maori
Boy: A Memoir of Childhood (Random House, 978-1-86979-726-5).
11:05 Benjamin Wright
Dr Benjamin F. Wright is an American producer, composer
and musical director, who has worked with many musicians, including Justin
Timberlake, OutKast, The Temptations, Earth, Wind and Fire, Gladys Knight,
Aretha Franklin, Janet Jackson, and Michael Jackson (providing the string
arrangements for Off the Wall). He recently completed production on a new
single by New Zealand singer Caii-Michelle Baker, and is visiting Wellington
for her Royal Command Performance for Maori King Tukeitia and his wife Atawahi
(8 November).
11:30 Stephen Mulqueen
Dunedin jeweller Stephen Mulqueen returned this week from
a four-month journey to Europe and North America, on a Fulbright and CNZ Arts
Grant for his Poppies of War and Peace project. His most recent residency was
at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at UGA in Athens, Georgia, where he researched
the life and work of Moina Michael, the "Poppy Lady" who made paper
poppies into a fundraiser for disabled veterans.
11:45 Kate's Klassic
Kate Camp has published five collections of poems, most
recently Snow White's Coffin (Victoria University Press, ISBN:
978-0-86473-888-2). She will discuss Persuasion, the 1817 novel by Jane Austen.
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On Saturday 8 November 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 1 November 2014 with Steven Pinker on
writing and style.
Next Saturday, 15 November, Kim Hill will be broadcasting
from the Royal Opera House in Whanganui, in advance of the national event A
Place to Live, (16 -19 November), building on themes from the 2012 Transit of
Venus Forum.
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