Friday, October 10, 2014

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 11 October 2014 on Radio New Zealand National



8:15 Karen Armstrong: religion and violence
9:05 Natalie Jeremijenko: reimagining environmentalism
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler: Light Show
10:05 Dave Dobbyn and Don McGlashan: together again
11:05 Kirsty Gunn: home
11:30 Martin Edmond: childhood
11:50 Hannah August: WW1 departure

This Saturday’s team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
                                  Research by Infofind



8:15 Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong is Britain’s foremost scholar of world religion and the author of a number of books, most recently Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence (The Bodley Head, ISBN: 978-1847921864). She launched the Charter for Compassion as a global peace initiative in 2009.

9:05 Natalie Jeremijenko
Australian-born artist Natalie Jeremijenko, whose work blends engineering, bioscience, art and design, is an Associate Professor in Art at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education & Human Development, New York University. She is visiting New Zealand to deliver the keynote address, Reimagining Environmentalism, at the art and science symposium Breaking Ice, in Christchurch (11 October), then delivering her xLECTURE at the Massey School of Art in Wellington (14 October).

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 Light Show, an exhibition organised by the Hayward Gallery, London, in association with Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. It is the first major presentation of international light-based art to be seen in New Zealand (Auckland Art Gallery, 11 October 2014 to 8 February 2015. To see images from the exhibition, click on this link:

10:05 Dave Dobbyn and Don McGlashan
Dave Dobbyn and Don McGlashan are two of New Zealand’s pre-eminent songwriters. They will perform on stage together on the 2015 Winery Tour, joined by Supergroove and Anika Moa. The Winery Tour will play nine shows in nine wineries around New Zealand between late January and the start of March (Tauranga, Auckland, Matakana, Havelock North, Martinborough, Hamilton, New Plymouth, Upper Moutere and Waipara).

11:05 Kirsty Gunn

Kirsty Gunn is a novelist (Rain, The Big Music) and short story writer, and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Dundee. She writes about her “Katherine Mansfield project” in her recently published book Thorndon: Wellington and Home (BWB Texts, ISBN: 978-1-927277-67-6), which is part of the BWB Texts series (“short books on big subjects”) from Bridget Williams Books.

11:25 Martin Edmond
Martin Edmond is a writer of non-fiction, biography, poetry and screenplays. His new book, Barefoot Years (BWB Texts, ISBN: 978-1-927277-67-6), is a memoir of childhood, and part of a longer forthcoming work.

11:50 Hannah August
Hannah August was given the job of profiling ten representative Wellingtonians who were involved in World War 1, as part of the city’s free multi-media event, Wellington - Lest We Forget, curated by the Wellington City Council in association with the Film Archive, Te Papa, and Archives New Zealand to commemorate the departure of ships taking soldiers to war on 16 October 2014.

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On Saturday 11 October 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 with taxi driver David Ifill from 4 October 2014.

Next Saturday, 18 October, Kim Hill’s guests will include Dr Justin O’Sullivan and Damian Skinner.


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