Friday, July 30, 2010


Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 
31 July 2010 - Radio New Zealand National
 
8:15 Justice Edwin Cameron: AIDS and South Africa 8:40 Joe Randazzo: the Onion
9:05 Kathryn Schulz: wrongology
9:45 Robyn Bargh: publishing Te Reo
10:05 Playing Favourites with Donna Dean 11:10 Lydia Wevers: farm fiction
11:45 Kathy Marks: multiculturalism in Bennelong

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell

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Saturday Morning guest information and links:

8:15 Justice Edwin Cameron
Edwin Cameron is a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and was a judge in the Supreme Court of Appeal for eight years, and a High Court judge for six. In 2006, his memoir, Witness to AIDS, was awarded South Africa's most prestigious literary award for non-fiction, the Sunday Times/Alan Paton prize. Justice Cameron is in New Zealand as a guest of the University of Otago and its Faculty of Law, as a University of Otago James and Jean Davis Prestige Visitor, and presented a public lecture, Constitutionalism, the Politics of Power and AIDS, at Otago University and at the New Zealand Centre for Public Law at Victoria University.

8:40 Joe Randazzo
Joe Randazzo is editor of The Onion, the world's most popular satirical newspaper. Started as a college newspaper in 1988, The Onion has grown to include a successful website and online news channel, with a planned move to television in 2011.

9:05 Kathryn Schulz
Kathryn Schulz is the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (Portobello, ISBN: 978-1-84627-073-4). She has been a reporter and editor in Chile, and reported from throughout Central and South America, Japan, and, most recently, the Middle East. Her freelance magazine work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Nation, and other publications.
twitter.com/wrongologist

9:45 Robyn Bargh
Robyn Bargh is Managing Director of independent New Zealand publishing company, HUIA Publishers, whose work includes a Maori language publishing programme. Robyn's 20 years in publishing builds on a long-standing interest in education through her work as a teacher, educational researcher and policy analyst.

10.05 Playing Favourites with Donna Dean 
Donna Dean grew up in Auckland and has travelled the world with her music. She wrote the title track on the 2010 Grammy-nominated Bluegrass album Destination Life for American artist Rhonda Vincent, and her album Money, recorded in Nashville and featuring the Amazing Rhythm Aces, won two New Zealand Tui Awards in 2003. Her new album, What Am I Gonna Do?, has just been released, and Donna is touring the country with dates in Wellington (30 July), Raumati South (1 August), Auckland (13 & 20 August), and Whangarei (2 October, following a tour abroad).
11:10 Lydia Wevers
Lydia Wevers is the director of the Stout Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington, and is about to depart for Washington DC as Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University. Lydia is a literary critic, historian, editor and reviewer whose area of scholarship is New Zealand and Australian literature. Her new book is Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World (Victoria University Press, ISBN: 978-0-86473-635-2).

11:45 Kathy Marks

British journalist Kathy Marks is the Sydney-based Asia-Pacific correspondent for The Independent, and wrote the 2008 book, Pitcairn: Paradise Lost (HarperCollins). Her article, Mixing it up in Bennelong: a Recipe for Australian Multiculturalism, appears in issue 29 of Griffith Review, the quarterly Australian magazine of writing and ideas (ISBN: 978-1-921656-17-0).

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Saturday Morning repeats:

On Saturday 31 July 2010 during Great Encounters between 6:06pm and 7:00pm on Radio New Zealand National, you can hear an edited repeat of Kim Hill's interview from Saturday 26 July with psychiatrist David Healy.

Preview: Saturday 7 August 2010

Kim Hill's guests will include Simon Singh, Harold Fromm and Cindy Gallop.

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