Friday, April 13, 2012

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill on Radio New Zealand National: 14 April 2012


8:15 Keith Yamashita: leadership and design
9:05 Mitchell Pham: Vietnam and technology
10:05 Playing Favourites with Tom Scott of HomeBrew
11:05 Damon Salesa: Pacific health
11:45 Paul Ward: screen moments


8:15 Keith Yamashita
Keith Yamashita is chairman of SYPartners, co-founder of sister company Unstuck, and an author and essayist on leadership and design. For the past two decades, he has worked alongside CEOs and leadership teams at companies that include Apple, IBM, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, eBay, and Nike. Last month, Keith was a keynote speaker at Design Your Future, the Better By Design CEO Summit 2012 in Auckland.

9:05 Mitchell Pham
Mitchell Pham came to New Zealand at the age of 13 as a refugee from Vietnam, and is now a business and social entrepreneur. He is a co-founder and director of technology group Augen, with companies in both New Zealand and Vietnam, and is a strategy and subject matter adviser and participant in a number of NZ-Asia government initiatives, industry trade missions, research projects, business engagements and public service initiatives. He is a member of the Action Asia Advisory Group of the Asia New Zealand Foundation, an Asia 21 Fellow and an Associate Fellow of the Asia Society, a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a board member of Refugee Services Aotearoa, and a trustee of the Auckland Refugee Family Trust.

10:05 Playing Favourites with Tom Scott
Tom Scott formed Auckland hip-hop crew HomeBrew in 2007 with Haz Huavi and Lui Gamaka. The group will release their debut double album on 4 May, and throw a 48-hour release party in an old brothel in Kingsland from 5-7 May. Tom has also recorded in collaboration with Lui Tuiasau, producing the @Peace album last year.

11:05 Damon Salesa
Professor Toeolesulusulu Damon Salesa graduated from the University of Oxford with a Doctor of Philosophy in modern history, the first Rhodes Scholar of Pacific descent. He has spent the last ten years at the University of Michigan, and returned to New Zealand as Associate Professor at the University of Auckland’s Centre for Pacific Studies. Earlier this month, Professor Salesa was a keynote speaker at the Growing Pacific Solutions for Our Families conference, focusing on mental health, addiction and disability issues for Pacific peoples.

11:45 Paul Ward
Paul Ward is a screenwriter, and an editor at NZ On Screen, the online repository of local television and film. The recent NZ On Screen collection Legendary NZ TV Moments has been very popular, and new collections of archive material will be launched for Anzac Day, and for New Zealand Music Month in May.

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Saturday Morning repeats

On Saturday 14 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 7 April with poet and artist Greg O’Brien.

Preview: Saturday 21 April
Kim’s guests will include Michael Hastings, David B. Agus, and Hamish McKeich.

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Katrina Batten
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell

More information follows on Saturday's guests, repeats of previous interviews, next week's programme, and this email list. As this is live radio, guests and times may change on the day.


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