8:15 Emma Marris: nature and cuisine
8:30 Adura Onashile: Henrietta Lacks
9:05 Justin O'Sullivan: secrets of cells
9:45 Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins: Tissot theft
10:05 Playing Favourites with Shaun Barnett and Chris
Maclean
11:05 Damian Skinner: jewellery and makers
11:45 Energy with David Haywood: solar photovoltaic
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Jeremy Veal
Auckland engineer: John Butterworth
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
Research by Infofind
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8:15 Emma Marris
Emma Marris is an environmental writer and reporter for a
number of publications, and author of the 2011 book, Rambunctious Garden: Saving
Nature in a Post-Wild World (Bloomsbury USA, ISBN: 9781608194544). She wrote
the article, Beyond Food and Evil: Nature and Haute Cuisine After the Chez
Panisse Revolution, for the Spring 2014 issue of The Breakthrough, and is
currently seeking backing for her project on wild wolves in the 21st century.
8:30 Adura Onashile
Adura Onashile is the performer and co-creator (with the
Scottish performance company, Iron-Oxide) of HeLa, a solo show about Henrietta
Lacks, a Baltimore woman whose cancer cell sample, taken without her permission
by John Hopkins Hospital, was used as the raw material for some of the most
important scientific discoveries of the past 100 years. Performed earlier this
month in Christchurch as part of art-science symposium Breaking Ice, and in
Wellington at the Otago School of Medicine, HeLa will also play at Q Theatre,
Auckland (21-25 October).
9:05 Justin O'Sullivan
Dr Justin O'Sullivan is senior research fellow at the
Liggins Institute, University of Auckland. His work at Gravida, an
inter-institutional, inter-disciplinary virtual research network, and one of
New Zealand's seven Centres of Research Excellence, involves new discoveries
about cellular organisation and the unique role mitochondria play in the way
cells work.
You can watch Dr Justin O'Sullivan explain the 'folding'
of DNA inside a cell nucleus on an explanatory video on our website page.
9:45 Art Crimes with Arthur Tompkins
Arthur Tompkins is a District Court Judge, and member of
Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group, who has a special interest in crimes
involving artistic masterpieces. He will discuss the 1998 theft from the
Auckland Art Gallery of Still on Top, the 19th century painting by James
Tissot.
10.05 Playing Favourites with Shaun Barnett and Chris
Maclean
Shaun Barnett edits the Federated Mountain Clubs' Bulletin, has been a
full-time photographer and writer since 1996, and has written a number of books
on tramping. Chris Maclean is an historian with an interest in outdoor themes,
and has written books about John Pascoe, the Tararua Ranges and Kapiti Island.
Both are long-time trampers, and have joined forces to create the new,
illustrated book, Tramping: A New Zealand History (Craig Potton Publishing,
ISBN: 9781927213230).
11:05 Damian Skinner
Damian Skinner is an art historian and curator of Applied
Art and Design at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, and author of a number of
books, most recently Place and Adornment: a History of Contemporary Jewellery
in Australia and New Zealand (Bateman, ISBN: 978-1869538200) with Kevin Murray,
and Fingers: Jewellery for Aotearoa New Zealand, with Finn McCahon Jones
(Bateman, ISBN: 978-1869538620). The latter book informs a retrospective
exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of Fingers Jewellery Gallery
(Objectspace, Auckland, 7 November to 20 December).
11:45 Energy with David Haywood
David Haywood has a Ph.D. in engineering and lives in
Dunsandel. He writes the Southerly blog for Public Address, and is the author
of the collection of humorous essays My First Stabbing, the children's book The
Hidden Talent of Albert Otter, and The New Zealand Reserve Bank Annual 2010
(all publicaddressbooks.com). He will discuss solar photovoltaic energy.
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On Saturday 18 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 from 11 October 2014 with Karen Armstrong on
religion and violence.
Next Saturday, 25 October, Kim Hill's guests will include
Toa Fraser and Tony Blakely.
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