Friday, December 05, 2014

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 6 December 2014 - Radio New Zealand National



8:15 Eldon Tate: cleaning water
8:30 Karl Iremonger: fertility and stress
9:05 Jane Gleeson-White: accountancy and capitalism
10:05 Playing Favourites with Tom Scott
11:05 Yvonne Todd: psychological photography
11:30 Poetry 2014 with Gregory O'Brien

This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Brad Warrington
Auckland engineer: Tony Stamp
Dunedin studio: Martin Balch
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind



8:15 Eldon Tate
Eldon Tate is a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington, who this week received $10,000, along with business support and mentoring advice, as an AMP National Scholarship recipient. He aims to create a solar-powered water treatment system, using unique nano-composite materials he has created in his research, to generate clean drinking water. He will use the Scholarship to build a prototype to test the project's viability.

8:30 Karl Iremonger
Dr Karl Iremonger is Principal Investigator at the Centre for Neuroendocrinology in the Department of Physiology at the University of Otago. This week he was awarded the 2014 Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize for work on fertility circuits in the brain. His research is currently focused on understanding how stress networks in the brain process information and adapt in a changing environment.

9:05 Jane Gleeson-White
Australian writer Jane Gleeson-White has degrees in economics and literature and is the author of the prize-winning 2011 book Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World. Her new book is Six Capitals: the Revolution Capitalism Has to Have - or Can Accountants Save the Planet? (Allen & Unwin, ISBN: 978-1-74331-916-1) http://janegleesonwhite.com/

10:05 Playing Favourites with Tom Scott
Lyricist and vocalist Tom Scott is a member of the groups HomeBrew and @Peace, and the Young Gifted and Broke collective of artists, and is now based in Melbourne.. Since his last appearance on the programme in 2012, HomeBrew's debut double album went to number one on the New Zealand charts, and @Peace have followed their 2012 debut with two more albums, Guirl Songs and @ Peace and the Plutonian Noise Symphony.

11:05 Yvonne Todd
Auckland photographer Yvonne Todd won the inaugural Walters Prize in 2002 for her final-year submission at Elam, Asthma & Eczema, and her work has been showcased in numerous exhibitions, nationally and internationally. Creamy Psychology, curated by Robert Leonard, is the largest exhibition of her work to date, and includes around 150 images made since the 1990s. It is showing at City Gallery Wellington (6 December 2014 to 1 March 2015), the first time the entire gallery has been devoted to just one artist. An illustrated book, Creamy Psychology (Victoria University Press, ISBN: 978-0-86473-977-3), accompanies the exhibition and features contributions from Todd, Leonard, and other curators and critics..

11:35 Poetry 2014 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 New Zealand poetry in 2014, with reference to the following books:
Young Country by Karry Hines (AUP, ISBN: 978-1-86940-823-7); The Night We Ate the Baby by Tim Upperton (HauNui Press, ISBN: 978-0-473-28839-6); You Fit the Descripton: the Selected Poems of Peter Olds (Cold Hub Press, ISBN: 978-0-473-29803-6); Sweeping the Courtyard: the Selected Poems of Michael Harlow (Cold Hub Press, ISBN: 978-0-473-27420-7); Si No Te Hubieras Ido / If Only You Hadn't Gone, by Rogelio Geudea, translated by Roger Hickin (Cold Hub Press, ISBN 978-473-28658-3); Otari by Louise Wrightson (Otari Press, ISBN: 978-0-473-28879-2); Halcyon Ghosts by Sam Sampson (AUP, ISBN: 978-1-869-40816-9); Autobiog of A Marguerite by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle (Hue & Cry Press, ISBN: 978-0-473-28412-1); Tree Space by Maria Macmillan (VUP, ISBN: 978-0-86473-928-5); Gathering Evidence by Caoilinn Hughes (VUP, ISBN: 978-0-86473-926-1); Horse with Hat by Marty Smith (VUP, ISBN: 978-0-86473-927-8) Sleeping on Horseback by Frances Samuel (VUP, ISBN: 978-0-864-73972-8); The Art of Excavation by Leilani Tamu (Anahera Press, ISBN: 978-0-473-29004-7); How Does it Hurt? by Stephanie de Montalk (VUP, ISBN: 978-0-864-73969-8 Dirty Politics by Nicky Hager (Craig Potton Press, ISBN: 978-1-927-21336-0).

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On Saturday 6 December 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 29 November 2014 with Andrew Roberts on his biography of Napoleon.


Next Saturday, 13 December, Kim Hill's guests will include Marcus du Sautoy on maths and art.

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