Friday, February 24, 2012

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 25 February 2012


Radio New Zealand National 101.4FM

8:15 Susan Orlean: Rin Tin Tin
9:05 Christopher Kennedy Lawford: drug addiction
9:45 Mike Shepherd: wild rides
10:05 Playing Favourites with Daniel Beban
11:05 Chris Stringer: origins of species
11:45 Richie Meyer: silent movies
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
8:15 Susan Orlean: Rin Tin Tin
Susan Orlean is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and the author of the 2000 best-seller, The Orchid Thief. Her new book is Rin Tin Tin: the Life and Legend of the World’s Most Famous Dog (Atlantic Books, ISBN: 978-0857896292).
9:05 Christopher Kennedy Lawford
Christopher Kennedy Lawford is a nephew of US President John F Kennedy, an actor, and the author of three best-selling books on drug addiction, including Symptoms of Withdrawal: a Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption (2005, William Morrow, ISBN. 978-0060732486). In March 2011 he was appointed the first United Nations Goodwill Ambassador on Drug Dependence, Treatment and Care, and is visiting New Zealand in that role as a guest of the NZ Drug Foundation.
9:40 Mike Shepherd
Mike Shepherd started the theatre company Kneehigh in 1980, and it has become one of Britain’s most lauded touring companies. Kneehigh brings its production of The Wild Bride to the 2012 New Zealand International Arts Festival from 24-27 February.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Daniel Beban
Daniel Beban is a musician, sound artist, instrument maker and sound engineer. He is the founder of the Frederick Street Sound and Light Exploration Society, and curates the Sound Explorers record label and the Fredstock Festival. One of his musical groups, Orchestra of Spheres, recently toured Europe; they will play in Wellington this weekend at San Francisco Bath House (with Thought Creature and Badd Energy, 24 February), and at Alphabet Street, a “funk for the whole family” event at Capital E in Wellington on 26 February.
11:05 Chris Stringer
Professor Chris Stringer is Merit Researcher at the Department of Paleontology, Natural History Museum, London, and is acclaimed as Britain’s foremost expert on human origins, His new book is The Origin of Our Species (Allen Lane, ISBN: 978-1-846-14140-9). Professor Stringer is visiting New Zealand to give a lecture (Human Evolution: Neanderthals and ancient pathways from Africa to Britain), in Auckland (22 February), Christchurch (23 February), Dunedin (24 February) and Wellington (25 February, 5.30pm, Embassy Theatre), as a guest of the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, with support from the Royal Society of New Zealand.
11:45 Richie Meyer
Dr Richard J Meyer teaches film studies at Seattle University, Washington, and is President Emeritus of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. He has published widely in film and journalism periodicals, and worked in all phases of film and educational television production, and is the author of two books about Chinese actors of the 1920s and 1930s: Ruan Ling-Yu: The Goddess of Shanghai (Hong Kong University Press, ISBN: 978-9622093959), and Jin Yan: The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai (Hong Kong University Press, ISBN: 9789622095861). Richie is a visiting scholar at the New Zealand Film Archive, where he is researching First World War propaganda.
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Saturday Morning repeats
On Saturday 25 February 2012 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 February with entrepreneur Derek Handley.
Preview: Saturday 3 March
Kim’s guests will include Claire Tomalin, Gerry Paul, and Ron Rash.

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