Friday, May 18, 2012

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 19 May 2012 - Radio NZ National

8:15 Lawrence Krauss: the plausible universe
9:05 Chris Szekely: rāhui and libraries
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler: Angelica Garnett
10:05 Playing Favourites with Dave Moskovitz
11:05 Hilary Mantel: Cromwell revisited
11:45 Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi

8:15 Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss is Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications and nine books including Atom: A Single Oxygen Atom's Journey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth... and Beyond (2002, Back Bay Books, ISBN 978-0316183093), Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (2010, Penguin, ISBN 978-0393340655), and this year’s A Universe from Nothing (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1451624458). Professor Krauss visited New Zealand as a 2012 Hood Fellow at The University of Auckland, and spoke at the 2012 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival.

9:05 Chris Szekely
Chris Szekely (left) is Chief Librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library. His 2011 book Rāhui (Huia, ISBN 978-1869694708), in Maori and English language versions with illustrations by the late Malcolm Ross, won the picture book category at the 2012 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards.

9:45 Art with Mary Kisler
Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She curated the touring exhibition Angels and Aristocrats: Early European Art in NZ Collections (based on her book), which is currently showing at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery (to 29 July). Mary will discuss the portrait of Angelica Garnett by Duncan Grant. Images under discussion are available for view by clicking on the Art on Saturday Morning link on the right hand side of the Saturday Morning web page.

10:05 Playing Favourites with Dave Moskovitz 
Dave Moskovitz is an entrepreneur and angel investor, who co-founded one of Wellington’s early web development companies and took it from the garage to strategic trade sale. He is chairman of online startup launch company WebFund, and of musician and fan connector MusicHype. He runs Think Tank Consulting, is an active member of AngelHQ, is on the council of InterentNZ, and is a Global Facilitator for the Startup Weekend organisation, which has events planned for June (Auckland), July (Wellington), August (Palmerston North) and September (Perth, WA). He has worked on numerous dictionaries, including the Online Dictionary of NZ Sign Language, and He Pātaka Kupu, the largest reference work ever published in Te Reo. Dave is also involved in inter-religious dialogue and is the Jewish co-chair of the Wellington Council of Christians and Jews. Dave blogs at dave.moskovitz.co.nz.


11:05 Hilary Mantel
English novelist, short story writer and critic Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker Prize in 2009 for Wolf Hall. That novel’s sequel, Bring Up the Bodies (4th Estate, ISBN 978-0007353583), continues her exploration of the lives of Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII.

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 two new New Zealand books:
Reach, by Hugh Brown (HarperCollins, ISBN 978-1-86950-956-9); and The Bridge, by Jane Higgins (Text Publishing, ISBN 978-1-921758-33-1).

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On Saturday 19 May 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 12 May with novelist Jeffrey Eugenides.

Preview: Saturday 26 May
Kim’s guests will include Bill Brewster and Steve Keen.

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Dominic Godfrey
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon

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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