8:15 Arthur Baysting: legalising marijuana
8:40 Gideon Lewis-Kraus: history of autocorrect
9:05 Paul Roy: Filipino slum life
9:45 Charlotte Graham: Edinburgh festivals
10:05 Playing Favourites with Jyoshna La Trobe
11:05 Thom Conroy: channeling Dieffenbach
11:45 Poetry with Gregory O'Brien
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Shaun Wilson
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RNZ_SatMorning
8:15 Arthur Baysting
Arthur Baysting represented NZ composers and songwriters
on the board of APRA for 18 years. During that time he lobbied with Mike Chunn
and many others for increased NZ content on radio and television and for his
efforts he was given the Inaugural OnFilm/Spada Industry Champion award in
2001. He's known in Australia for his children's songs written with Peter
Dasent and sung by Playschool star Justine Clarke (who won Best Children's
Album at the 2013 ARIA music awards). Arthur now lobbies for children's rights,
and will discuss the cultural changes around the world on the issue of
marijuana and how New Zealand might benefit socially and economically from
these changes.
8:40 Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Gideon Lewis-Kraus is an American journalist and author
(A Sense of Direction, ONE, ISBN: 978-0957548824), who will speak about his
recent article for WIRED: The Fasinatng ... Frustrating ... Fascinating History
of Autocorrect.
9:05 Paul Roy
Producer, director, writer and cameraman Paul Roy is
co-director of Iguana Film Productions, a New Zealand and Australia-based
company which has been making award-winning television documentaries and
documentary series for over 30 years in over 40 countries. His latest six-part
observational series, The Slum, follows the lives of slum dwellers over six
months in Manila's Tondo district and will screen on the Al Jazeera English
network from 18 September www.paulroy41.com
http://www.aljazeera.com/
9:45 Charlotte Graham
Charlotte Graham is a producer and presenter at Radio New
Zealand. She is in Edinburgh reporting on New Zealand's presence at the
Edinburgh International Festival (8-31 August) and Edinburgh Festival Fringe
(1-25 August). (Travel support provided by Creative New Zealand.) http://www.eif.co.uk/ https://www.edfringe.com/ http://nzatedinburgh.com/ https://www.facebook.com/NZatEdinburgh
10:05 Playing Favourites with Jyoshna La Trobe
Auckland-based ethnomusicologist and musician Dr Jyoshna La Trobe recently
returned from India, where she has been collecting audio/visual documentation
of indigenous music and ecstatic performance for the British Library World
Music Archives, where she has her own collection. Her recent work in New
Zealand includes founding the annual VoSE Festival at Kawai Purapura, working
with Richard Nunns, founding a choir at hospice, and composing the soundtrack
to the 2013 film Stars in Her Eyes.
11:05 Thom Conroy
Thom Conroy is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at
Massey University, who also writes under the pen name Thomas Gough, and has had
short stories published locally and internationally. His first novel, The
Naturalist (Vintage, ISBN: 978-1-77553-648-2), is based on the life of Dr Ernst
Dieffenbach, the German naturalist who voyaged to New Zealand in 1839 on the
expedition to buy land from Maori.
11:45 Poetry with Gregory O'Brien
Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien is the
author of a number of books, most recently Beauties of the Octagonal Pool (AUP,
2012). He will discuss "difficult" poetry, with reference to the
recent collection, Heartland by Michele Leggott (AUP, ISBN 978-1-86940-808-4),
a finalist in the Poetry category of the New Zealand Book Awards.
On Saturday 9 August 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 2 August with Claire Hall on New Zealand
and the Vietnam War.
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