Saturday, September 21, 2013

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 21 September 2013


8:15 Lisa Matisoo-Smith: Africa to Aotearoa
8:35 Bridget Griffen-Foley: Australian media
9:05 Matthew Tukaki: the United Nations
9:30 Pamela Gay: citizen science and space
10:05 Playing Favourites with Orla Boylan
11:05 Lisa Harper: cheese and rural women
           
As this is live radio, guests and times may change on the day (particularly depending on results in America's Cup racing).

8:15 Lisa Matisoo-Smith
Lisa Matisoo-Smith is a Professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of Otago. Last year, she was awarded a James Cook Research Fellowship to fund her work collecting DNA samples from New Zealanders for her genetic ancestry study, From Africa to Aotearoa: The Longest Journey. She will talk about her project during Genetics Week at the university, as part of the panel discussion, The Seven Faces of Genetics: An Overview of the Many Facets of Genetics Research (27 September).

8:35 Bridget Griffen-Foley
Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley is the director of the Centre for Media History at Macquarie University in Sydney, author of a number of books about media in Australia, and historical consultant to the new Channel 9 television miniseries, Power Games: The Packer - Murdoch Story. On Suffrage Day, she delivered the Inaugural Marcia Russell Annual Lecture at the University of Auckland:(Un)happy Families: The Murdoch, Fairfax and Packer Media Dynasties.

9:05 Matthew Tukaki
Matthew Tukaki is a New Zealander based in Australia, who was recently appointed to chair the new United Nations Global Compact Local Network Advisory Group. He is a former head of the world's oldest and largest employment company, Drake International, executive chairman and CEO of the Sustain Group, and a board director of a number of public, private and community organisations such as the Australian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce and Suicide Prevention Australia. He is currently in New York attending the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit.

9:30 Pamela Gay
American astronomer Pamela Gay hosts the weekly podcast, Astronomy Cast, and an advocate of citizen science. Earlier this month she presented a talk this week at Carter Observatory, Wellington, focusing on the preservation and protection of the night sky.


10:05 Playing Favourites with Orla Boylan 
Irish soprano Orla Boylan worked as a cell biologist before embarking on an untrained career as a professional opera singer. Her current role is Senta, in the New Zealand Opera production of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, which has one more performance in Wellington (21 September) before its Auckland season (5, 8, 10 and12 October).

11:05 Lisa Harper
Lisa Harper is an artisan cheesemaker and farmer who was awarded the Enterprising Rural Woman Award in 2011. She has been travelling the world this year on a Nuffield Scholarship, and has just published her memoir, The Wharf at Waterfall Bay (Random House, ISBN: 978-1-77553-456-3).

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On Saturday 21 September 2013 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 September with Andrew Adamson about his film of Mr Pip.

Next Saturday, 28 September 2013, Kim Hill's guests will include Bill Bryson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Samantha Geimer and Lorde.


Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Dominic Godfrey
New Plymouth engineer: Juliet Larkin
Dunedin engineer: Martin Balch



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