8:15 Michael
Hastings: general operations
8:45 Paul Roy: Indian hospital
9:05 David B. Agus: ending illness
10:05 Playing Favourites with
Hamish McKeich
11:05 Jim Marchbank: science museums
11:45 Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
8:15 Michael Hastings
American journalist and writer Michael Hastings is a
contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine where he covers politics and
international affairs, including the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. His
2010 article, The Runaway General, resulted in the removal of US General
McChrystal from his Afghanistan command; his new book, The Operators: the Wild
and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan (Orion Books, ISBN
978-1-4091-4487-8), expands on that article. Michael Hastings is covering the
US Presidential election for the Buzzfeed website, and will be a guest at three
sessions (11, 12 and 13 May) during the 2012 Auckland Writers and Readers
Festival.
8:45 Paul Roy
Producer, director, writer and cameraman Paul Roy is
co-director of Iguana Film Productions, a New Zealand and Australia- based
company which has been making award winning television documentaries and
documentary series for over 25 years in over 30 countries. His latest six-part
series, Indian Hospital, was filmed in Bangalore for Al Jazeera English, and
will screen on the network in early May.
9:05 David
Agus
Dr. David B.
Agus heads the Westside Prostate Cancer Center and the Center for Applied
Molecular Medicine at the University of Southern California, where his research
focuses on the application of proteomics and genomics for the study of cancer
and the development of new therapeutics for prostate cancer. He is the founder
of Oncology.com, the largest online cancer resource and virtual community, and
Navigenics, a consumer-focused healthcare technology and wellness
company. He is the author of new best-seller The End of Illness (Simon
& Schuster, ISBN: 978-1-84983-915-0)
10:05 Playing Favourites with Hamish McKeich
Hamish McKeich has forged an international conducting
career, and has had a long partnership with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra,
serving as the orchestra's Associate Conductor from 2002 to 2006, and
continuing to perform with them, most recently with Peter and the Wolf at the
2012 New Zealand International Arts Festival. He also conducts and directs
contemporary and experimental performances with New Zealand's two premiere
music ensembles, Stroma and 175 East.
11:05 Jim Marchbank
Jim Marchbank was CEO of Science North in Ontario,
Canada, from 1987 to 2011. Under his direction Science North grew to be the
largest tourist attraction in Northern Ontario, and Canada’s second largest
science centre, encompassing a Special Exhibits Hall, Butterfly Gallery, 2D/3D
IMAX Theatre, and digital dome planetarium. Jim was the first President of the
Canadian Association of Science Centres and has executive produced four large
format films. He is visiting New Zealand as keynote speaker for the 2012
Museums Aotearoa Conference in Wellington (18-20 April).
11:45 Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
New Zealand writer Kate De Goldi is the author of a
number of books, including the multi-award winning novel, The 10pm Question.
She will discuss four more books from the New York Review
Children's Collection:
Terrible, Horrible Edie, by EC Spykman (NYR
Children's Collection, ISBN 978-1-59017-353-4);
Lizard Music, by Daniel Pinkwater (NYR Children's
Collection, ISBN: 978-1-59017-387-9);
Supposing..., by Alastair Reid and Bob Gill (NYR
Children's Collection, ISBN: 978-1-59017-369-5); and
Three Ladies Beside the Sea, by Rhoda Levine and
Edward Gorey (NYR Children's Collection, ISBN 978-1-59017-354-1).
Saturday Morning repeats
On Saturday 21 April 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 14 April with Mitchell Pham.
Preview: Saturday 28 April
Kim’s guests will include Chandran Nair, Marti
Anderson, Sam Wills and Emily Perkins.
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Shaun D Wilson
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RNZ_SatMorning
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