8:15 Eileen
Ormsby: drugs and the dark net
8:45 Rob
Fenwick: pest control
9:05 Atul
Gawande: being mortal
9:45 Art
Crime with Arthur Tompkins: Mona Lisa
10:05
Playing Favourites with Victoria Spackman
11:05
Jolisa Gracewood and Susana Andrew: non-fiction
11:30
Pauline Scanlon, Gerry Paul, and Warren Maxwell: combining cultures
This
Saturday’s team:
Producer:
Mark Cubey
Wellington
engineer: Carol Jones
Research by
Anne Buchanan, Infofind
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
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8:15 Eileen
Ormsby
Eileen
Ormsby is an Australian writer, journalist, sometimes travel hacker, and
blogger of All Things Vice. Her new book, The Silk Road (Macmillan
Australia, ISBN: 9781742614090), tells the story of the online drug cartel
dubbed “the eBay of drugs”. Orsmby was recently in Portugal presenting on drugs
and the internet to a conference run by the European Monitoring Centre for
Drugs and Drug Addiction.
8:45 Rob
Fenwick
Rob Fenwick
is a businessman and company director with interests closely aligned to
promoting sustainable development. He has had a long association with
Antarctica: for nine years until 2007 he was a director and later chairman of
Landcare Research, one of several CRIs involved in Antarctic research, and is a
former chairman of the Antarctic Heritage Trust. He is a co-founder and
director of Living Earth Ltd, NZ’s principal organic waste management business,
and has been a member of several government working groups in these areas. He
is a special advisor to the Department of Conservation, and was instrumental in
the creation of the Predator Free New Zealand Trust, which unveiled the first
stage of its vision at the A Place to Live conference in Whanganui earlier this
week.
9:05 Atul
Gawande
Surgeon and
writer Atul Gawande is a surgeon at Brigham
and Women's Hospital in Boston, a professor at Harvard Medical School, director
of health system innovation centre Ariadne Labs, chairman of safe surgery
nonprofit Lifebox, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of three
best-selling books. His new book is Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What
Matters in the End (Profile, ISBN: 978-1781253946).
9:45 Art
Crime with Arthur Tompkins
Arthur
Tompkins is a District Court Judge, and member of Interpol’s DNA Monitoring Expert
Group. He has a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces, and
will discuss the 1915 theft by Vincenzo Perugia of the Mona Lisa.
10:05
Playing Favourites with Victoria Spackman
Victoria
Spackman is an owner, and chief executive, of the screen production company
Gibson Group. She is a director of Screenrights in Australia, and has served
six years on the board of the Screen Production and Development Association.
She has been chair for twelve years of BATS Theatre Limited; the Wellington
theatre recently reopened its Kent Terrace space after extensive renovation.
11:05
Jolisa Gracewood and Susanna Andrew
Jolisa
Gracewood is a writer, editor and reviewer. Susanna Andrew is the books editor
of Metro magazine. They are the editors of Tell You What: 2015 (Auckland
University Press, ISBN: 978-1-869408244), a collection of some of the best
recent New Zealand nonfiction writing. It will have its Wellington launch, with
tag-team readings from the editors and Elizabeth Knox, Giovanni Tiso, Sarah
Bainbridge, Tina Makereti and others, on 22 November at Moon (Riddiford St, Newtown).
11:30 Pauline Scanlon, Gerry Paul and Warren Maxwell
Pauline Scanlon (of Lumiere) is an acclaimed
Irish singer. New Zealand international touring guitarist and connector Gerry
Paul plays in musical trio Keeva with Irish musicians Alan Doherty (flute) and
Tola Custy (fiddle). They will all join Trinity Roots (Warren Maxwell, Rio
Hemopo, Ben Lemi) for the cross cultural project Motu :: Oileain, with shows
in Paraparaumu (22 November) and Wellington (23 November), before Pauline and
Keeva tour to New Plymouth (26 November), Auckland (27 November), Raglan (28
November) and Hastings (29 November).
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On Saturday
22 November 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
15 November 2014 with Mike Dickison on moa.
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