Thursday, April 17, 2014

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 19 April 2014 - Radio New Zealand National


8:15 Francis Spufford: books, boffins and Christianity
9:05 Lee Dugatkin: evolving goodness
9:45 Classical Music with Davinia Caddy: texture
10:05 Alice Walker: dashed dreams and hope
10:35 Jonathan Mills: Edinburgh Festival
11:05 Playing Favourites with Sharon O'Neill

This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Shaun Wilson
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind

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.


8:15 Francis Spufford
Francis Spufford is a writer working in many different genres. His books include the memoir The Child That Books Built (2002), the novel Red Plenty (2010), and non-fiction books Backroom Boys: the Secret Return of the British Boffin (2003), and Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense (2013, Faber, ISBN: 978-0-571-22522-4).

9:05 Lee Dugatkin
Dr Lee Dugatkin is Professor of Biology and Distinguished Scholar at the University of Louisville, and one of the world's leading experts on the subject of the evolution of behaviour. He will tour New Zealand during April and May as the first guest in the Allan Wilson Centre's 2014 International Speaker Series with his presentation, The Evolution of Goodness, exploring why humans and animals show altruistic, self-sacrificial behaviour, and speaking in Nelson (28 April), Christchurch (29 April), Dunedin (1 May), Wellington (2 May), Tauranga (5 May), and Auckland (6 May).

9:45 Classical Music with Davinia Caddy
Dr Davinia Caddy is a senior lecturer at Auckland University's School of Music, a flautist, and the author of How to Hear Classical Music (Awa Press). She will discuss texture in music.

10:05 Alice Walker
American author and activist Alice Walker is best known for her 1982 novel The Color Purple, which won her the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her new collection of meditations, many previously unpublished, is The Cushion in the Road (The New Press, ISBN: 978-1-59558-872-2), and her new collection of poems is The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers (The New Press, ISBN: 978-1-59558-876-0). She makes one guest appearance at the Auckland Writers Festival, in discussion with Dr Selina Tusitala-Marsh (18 May).
(During the interview, Alice Walker mentions the book Indaba My Children by Credo Mutwa.) http://alicewalkersgarden.com http://writersfestival.co.nz/events/the-color-purple-alice-walker/

10:35 Jonathan Mills
Sir Jonathan Mills has been Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Festival since 2007. He is in New Zealand for the launch of Creative New Zealand's major new international initiative, NZ@Edinburgh, which will see around 200 leading New Zealand artists taking part in the world's most high-profile arts festivals in Edinburgh this August.

11:05 Playing Favourites with Sharon O'Neill New Zealand singer and songwriter Sharon O'Neill rose to fame in New Zealand and Australia during the 1980s, and worked with a number of artists including Robert Palmer and When the Cat's Away. She has been based in Australia for 30 years, and returns here next week for the release of a remastered career retrospective, Words: The Very Best of Sharon O'Neill.

***********
On Saturday 19 April 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 12 April with Don Brash.


Next Saturday, 26 April, Kim Hill's guests will include Jim Al-Khalili, Linda Colley, and the musical trio behind the Wheel of Experience tour.

No comments: