Friday, September 14, 2012

Saturday Morning on Radio New Zealand National with Mark Cubey: 15 September 2012 Kim Hill is on leave


8:15 Aeron Davis: spinning the NHS
8:40 Steve Mullinger: China and leadership
9:05 Martin Snedden: cricket, rugby, tourism
9:35 Wayne Macauley: cooking and consumerism
10:05 Playing Favourites with Robert and Duncan Sarkies
11:05 Anna Leese: opera, wine, love
11:40 Xanthe White: natural gardens

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8:15 Aeron Davis
Dr Aeron Davis is Professor of Political Communication at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has investigated communication at Westminster and the London Stock Exchange, and amongst the major political parties and across the trade union movement, interviewing close to 300 high-profile individuals employed in journalism, public relations, politics, business, finance, NGOs and the civil service. Dr Davis is the author of Public Relations Democracy (MUP, 2002), The Mediation of Politics (Routledge, 2007), and Political Communication and Social Theory (Routledge, 2010). He is currently working on a book on the rise of promotional culture.

8:40 Steve Mullinger
Steve Mullinger is head of the Asian and Middle-East business for leadership advisory firm Heidrick & Struggles. Based in Shanghai, he also runs the firm's Asian private equity business.

9:05 Martin Snedden
Martin Snedden is CEO of the Tourism Industry Association of New Zealand. He was CEO of New Zealand Cricket for nearly six years, after representing New Zealand at cricket in 25 tests and 93 one-day internationals. From 2007 to 2011 he headed Rugby New Zealand 2011 Ltd, which organised the Rugby World Cup. He tells that story in his new book, A Stadium of 4 Million (Hodder Moa, ISBN: 978-1-86971-280-8).

9:35 Wayne Macauley

Melbourne writer Wayne Macauley has received widespread acclaim for his 2011 novel, The Cook (Text Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-921758-69-0). His earlier books, 2004’s Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe (Text Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-92207-911-4) and 2007’s Caravan Story (Text Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-92207-912-1), have recently been republished.



10:05 Playing Favourites with Robert and Duncan Sarkies

Robert Sarkies directed the 1999 feature film Scarfies, and 2006’s Out of the Blue, both New Zealand Best Picture winners. He has also directed the 2010 television series, This Is Not My Life, and many television commercials. His brother Duncan is a screenwriter, playwright, stand-up comic, short story writer and novelist, who-co-wrote Scarfies and adapted his 2008 novel, Two Little Boys (Penguin, ISBN: 978-0-143-56788-2), into a film directed by Robert which will open nationwide on 20 September.

11:05 Anna Leese
Anna Leese is a New Zealand lyric soprano who has been singing professionally here and overseas for over a decade. She will sing the role of Marenka in the Opera North production of political comedy The Bartered Bride, by Smetana, restaged by The NBR New Zealand Opera, with performances in Auckland (ASB Theatre, 22, 25, 27, 29 September) and Wellington (St James Theatre, 13, 16, 18, 20 October).

11:40 Xanthe White
Landscape designer Xanthe White writes columns for the New Zealand Listener and New Zealand Garden magazines. Her new book is The Natural Garden: Landscape Ideas for New Zealand Gardeners (Godwit, ISBN: 978-1-86979-849-9).

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On Saturday 15 September 2012 during Great Encounters between 6:06pm and 7:00pm on Radio New Zealand National, you can hear a repeat broadcast of Toby Manhire’s interview from 8 September with Dr Rosamund Vallings on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Preview: Saturday 22 September
Next week, Kim Hill returns to the programme. Her guests will include Damien Echols and Caitlin Moran.

Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate producer: Sean McKenna
Wellington engineer: Jeremy Veal
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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