Friday, March 16, 2012

Saturday Morning on Radio NZ National with Kim Hill: 17 March 2012


8:15 Will Haughey: toys in Honduras
8:40 Catherine Syms: teaching ethics
9:05 Richard Davenport-Hines: Titanic lives
10:05 Playing Favourites with David Mitchell
11:05 Maramena Roderick & Julian Arahanga: music in prison
11:45 Gardening with Kath Irvine: fruit trees

8:15 Will Haughey
New Zealand-born entrepreneur Will Haughey left his job at Goldman Sachs in 2008 to work full time with his brother Chris (formerly with The Boston Consulting Group) on a startup company, Tegu, a toy business founded to address unemployment, neglected natural and human resources, and the need for entrepreneurship in Honduras.
8:40 Catherine Syms
Catherine Syms is Director for Philosophy, Religion and Ethics at Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland. She helped establish New Zealand's first school-based Centre for Ethics, which was launched by Dame Sian Elias on 9 March.
9:05 Richard Davenport-Hines
Richard Davenport-Hines is a historian and biographer, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society for Literature. His new book, published to coincide with the centenary of the sinking of the "floating microcosm of Edwardian society", is Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew (Harper Press, ISBN: 978-0-00-743122-9).
10:05 Playing Favourites with David Mitchell 
New Zealand architect David Mitchell has designed buildings for universities, schools and community projects, art galleries, public housing, apartments, and numerous private houses. He has taught design at the Auckland schools of architecture, written two books and presented a six-part television series on New Zealand architecture. In 2005, he was awarded the NZIA Gold Medal, the highest honour bestowed by the New Zealand Institute of Architects. He will be speaking at Futuna Chapel Open Day in Wellington on Sunday 18 March.
11.05 Maramena Roderick and Julian Arahanga
New Zealand filmmakers Maramena Roderick and Julian Arahanga are, respectively, the producer and director of a new thirteen-part documentary series, Songs from the Inside, which follows four New Zealand musicians as they mentor prison inmates to write and perform their own songs. The series begins screening on Maori Television on Sunday 18 March at 8pm.
11:45 Gardening with Kath Irvine
Kath Irvine has spent years teaching permaculture and gardening to schools and community groups. Her Edible Backyard workshops, run from her garden in Ohau, teach how to grow food and create edible backyards. She will talk about fruit trees.
Saturday Morning repeats
On Saturday 17 March 2012 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 10 March with Leonard Bell on Jewish lives in New Zealand.
Preview: Saturday 24 March
Kim's guests will include Nicole Foss on peak oil, Tony Taylor on fishing, and musician Nick Lowe.

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Katrina Batten
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon



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