Friday, June 22, 2012

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 23 June 2012 on Radio NZ National


8:15 Tomm Kristiansen: Anders Breivik
8:30 Kemal Kirisci: Turkey and the Middle East
9:05 Andrew Cooper: the oil kings
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler: Henry Fuseli
10:05 Playing Favourites with Ian and Claire Athfield
11:05 Roger Ridley-Smith: medicine and Gallipoli
11:45 Gardening with Kath Irvine: pruning

8:15 Tomm Kristiansen
Tomm Kristiansen has been covering the trial of Anders Breivik for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.

8:30 Kemal Kirisci
Kemal Kirisci is Professor of Political Science at Bogazici University in Istanbul, where he holds a Jean Monnet Chair, and was recently appointed to a five-year term at the Brookings Institute in Washington DC. He has written widely on Turkish and Middle Eastern politics, and is in New Zealand for the 47th University of Otago Foreign Policy School 2012 (22-24 June).

9:05 Andrew Cooper
Dr Andrew Scott Cooper holds advanced degrees in history and strategic studies from Columbia University, the University of Aberdeen, and Victoria University, and has worked at the United Nations and Human Rights Watch. He is the author of The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East (Oneworld, ISBN: 978-1-85168-860-9).

9:45 Art with Mary Kisler
Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She will discuss the 18th century Romantic painter Henry Fuseli, whose drawings from the Gallery’s collection are featured in the exhibition, Henri Fuseli: Dark Chambers of the Mind (30 June 2012 to 13 January 2013). Images under discussion can be seen by clicking on the Art on Saturday Morning link on the right hand side of the Saturday Morning web page.

10:05 Playing Favourites with Ian and Claire Athfield

Ian and Clare Athfield have been running one of New Zealand’s most celebrated architectural practices for over four decades. Their work is celebrated in the new book, Athfield Architects: Architecture on High, by Julia Gatley (Auckland University Press, ISBN 978-1-86940-591-5), and in the exhibition of the same name which Julia has curated in association with Ian for City Gallery Wellington (22 June to 7 October).

11:05 Roger Ridley-Smith
Dr Roger Ridley-Smith graduated with a BA (Hons) in French from Victoria University of Wellington in 2006, over fifty years after he completed his BA at Canterbury University College. He also holds a medical degree from Otago University College and worked as a general practitioner in Wellington for many years. His paper, The Sick Soldiers of Gallipoli, was presented to the Third Gallipoli Conference in Istanbul in April.

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 pruning

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On Saturday 23 June 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 16 June with Dame Carol Kidu.

Preview: Saturday 30 June
Kim’s guests will include AA Gill (right, with Al Brown on stage last year at the AWRF), Aly Cook, and Shona McCullough.

Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate producer: Charlotte Graham
Wellington engineer: Marc Chesterman
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon

More information follows on Saturday's guests, repeats of previous interviews, next week's programme, and this email list. As this is live radio, guests and times may change on the day.

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