8:15 Ross Ashcroft: renegade economics
8:40 Ian Watson: artificial intelligence
9:05 Claire Tomalin: Charles Dickens
9:45 Li Chen: kickstarting comics
10:05 Playing Favourites with Angela Meyer
11:05 Juergen Boos: books in Frankfurt
11:35 Mal Peet: explosive youth
Saturday Morning guest information and links:
8:15 Ross Ashcroft
British filmmaker Ross Ashcroft is the founder of the
Renegade Economist and Motherlode Studio, and director of the documentary Four
Horsemen, which is screening at the Documentary Edge Festival in Auckland (to
13 May) and Wellington (17 May to 3 June).
8:40 Ian Watson
Ian Watson is Associate Professor in the Department of
Computer Science at the University of Auckland, and the author of a number of
books, including The Universal Machine: From the Dawn of Computing to Digital
Consciousness (Springer, ISBN 978-3642281013). Ian also has a blog on the
history and future of computing. at http://universal-machine.blogspot.com.
He will deliver the lecture Alan Turing and the Artificial Brain: The
Development of Artificial Intelligence on 17 May, the last in the series of
2012 Gibbons Lectures on Turing’s legacy.
9:05 Claire Tomalin
English author and journalist Claire Tomalin has written
biographies of Katherine Mansfield, Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys and Thomas Hardy.
Her latest book is Charles Dickens: A Life (Viking, ISBN: 978-0670917679).
9:45 Li Chen
Auckland freelance illustrator and webcomic artist Li
Chen has just been pledged $US66,580 on Kickstarter, the world’s largest
funding platform for creative projects, to produce her webcomic series Extra
Ordinary as two books.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Angela Meyer
Angela Meyer
worked as an EFL teacher, yoghurt packer, showerer of elderly people, and
coordinator of the Real Hot Bitches dance troupe amongst other jobs, before
setting sail across the Pacific in a small yacht with her new husband and baby.
She tells her story in Sea Fever: From First Date to First Mate (Random House,
ISBN: 978-1869799175). Angela is currently Manager of Marketing and
Communications at City Galley Wellington.
wwwseafeverangelameyer.com
11:05 Juergen Boos
Juergen Boos is the president of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
11:35 Mal Peet
Mal Peet is a writer of young adult fiction, who has won
major awards including the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian children’s fiction
prize. His novels include Keeper (2003), Tamar (2005), The Penalty (2006),
Exposure (2008), and most recently, Life: an Exploded Diagram (Walker Books,
ISBN 978-1844281008), a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the
Cold War. Mal is a guest of the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival (9-13
May).
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On Saturday 5 May 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 28 April with writer Emily Perkins.
Preview: Saturday 12 May
Kim’s guests will include Jeffrey Eugenides, Oliver
Jeffers, and Simon Manchester.
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Damon Taylor
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RNZ_SatMorning
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