8:15 James Cameron: deep sea filming
8:35 Tony Blakely: health in NZ
9:05 Lloyd Spencer Davis: penguins
9:40 Mark Mazengarb and Loren Barrigar: guitar duo
10:05 Playing Favourites with Toa Fraser
11:05 Eddie Izzard: marathon standup
11:45 Poetry with Gregory O'Brien: untimely deaths
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Dominic Godfrey
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Dunedin engineer: Ian Telfer
Music engineer (Loren and Mark): Jason McClelland
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
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Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
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8:15 James Cameron
James Cameron first received widespread acclaim as a
movie director in 1984 with The Terminator, and has gone on to produce and
direct many of the most successful films of all time (Aliens, Terminator 2:
Judgment Day, Titanic, Avatar). He is the executive producer of a new
documentary, Deepsea Challenge 3D, which he produced in association with
National Geographic. It chronicles his passion for deep sea diving, as he
pilots a solo submersible to the depths of the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench,
the deepest point on Earth. Deepsea Challenge 3D will have a special preview screening
with Skype Q&A session from James Cameron on 27 October (Embassy,
Wellington, 3.45pm), and goes on general New Zealand release from 6 November.
8:35 Tony Blakely
Tony Blakely is professor of Public Health at the
University of Otago, Wellington. He is the author, with Alistair Woodward, of
The Healthy Country? A History of Life and Death in New Zealand (Auckland
University Press, ISBN: 978-1-86940-813-8).
9:05 Lloyd Spencer Davis
Award-winning writer, photographer and filmmaker Lloyd
Spencer Davis is Stuart Professor of
Science Communication and director of the
Centre for Science Communication at the University of Otago. His latest book is
Professor Penguin: Discovery and Adventure with Penguins (Random House New
Zealand, ISBN: 978-1-77553-725-0).
9:40 Mark Mazengarb and Loren Barrigar
Mark Mazengarb is a New Zealand musician based in New
York, who tours full time with American guitarist and singer Loren Barrigar as
international guitar duo Loren and Mark. After touring Russia, Germany,
Switzerland, and the United States, they are in New Zealand for an extensive
North and South Island tour during October and November, in conjunction with
Arts on Tour, before returning to the US.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Toa Fraser
Toa Fraser is a
playwright, screenwriter, and director of theatre and film (No. 2, Dean
Spanley). He directed the pre-European Maori action movie The Dead Lands, which
opens in New Zealand on 30 October, and is the writer and director of the new
play, Pure and Deep, a sequel to his 1998 debut work Bare. It will play at the
Herald Theatre in Auckland from 12 to 23 November.
11:05 Eddie Izzard
Eddie Izzard is a stage and screen actor, producer and
standup comedian. His standup show Force Majeure has played in 25 countries on
five continents since March 2013, including seasons in France performed
entirely in French, and in Berlin entirely in German. Izzard brings Force
Majeure to New Zealand in 2015 for performances in Wellington (14 February),
Christchurch (16 February), Hamilton (18 February) and Auckland (19 February).
11:45 Poetry with Gregory O'Brien
Gregory O'Brien is a painter, poet, curator and writer,
and his exhibition of paintings, Whale Years, is showing at Tauranga Art
Gallery to 8 February 2015. He will discuss two new books, focused on real life
tragedies:
How To Be Dead in a Year of Snakes by Chris Tse (AUP,
ISBN: 978-1-869408183), about the murder of a Cantonese gold miner in
Wellington in 1905; and Dear Neil Roberts by Airini Beautrais (VUP, ISBN:
978-0-86473-973-5), about the man who tried to blow up the Wanganui police
computer in 1982.
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On Saturday 25 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 18 October 2014 with Justin O'Sullivan.
Next Saturday, 1 November, Kim Hill's guests will include
Sir Peter Gluckman, Steven Pinker, and the Wellington International Ukulele
Orchestra.
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