Friday, September 06, 2013

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill on Radio New Zealand National: 7 September 2013


 Live in front of a studio audience from the New Zealand Broadcasting School, CPIT, Christchurch.
As this is live radio, guests and times may change on the day.

8:15 Joanna Norris: The Press and Christchurch
8:40 Jessica Halliday: FESTA
9:05 Shaun Hendy: innovation
9:45 Juliet Arnott: rekindling
10:05 Paul Cleave: life of crime
10:40 Delaney Davidson: troubadour
11:05 Liam Ryan: sound of Christchurch
11:45 Nikki Berry & A Capellago: world choir


Joanna Norris became the editor of The Press in October 2012. She is the former digital editor of dompost.co.nz, and a former chief reporter at The Press.

Architectural historian Dr Jessica Halliday is the director of the Festival of Transitional Architecture (FESTA), a new annual event for the city of Christchurch that explores urban regeneration and revitalision. This year, FESTA will present a city-within-the-city over Labour Weekend (26-28 October).

Shaun Hendy (FRSNZ) is a Professor of Computational Physics at Victoria University of Wellington and an Industry and Outreach Fellow at Callaghan Innovation. He won the Callaghan Medal and the Prime Minister’s Science Media Communication prize in 2012, writes A Measure of Science at SciBlogs, is the co-creator of the online game Pounamu, and talks regularly to Bryan Crump about physics on Radio New Zealand Nights. His new book, written with the late Sir Paul Callaghan, is Get Off the Grass: Kickstarting New Zealand’s Innovation Economy (AUP, ISBN: 978-1-86940-762-9) and he will talk with Kim Hill (2:00pm, 7 September) at one of five events presented by The Press Christchurch Writers Festival during the Christchurch Arts Festival (to 22 September) http://macdiarmid.ac.nz/our-people/principal-investigators/professor-shaun-hendy

Juliet Arnott is an artist and designer, and has been an occupational therapist for 17 years. Last year, she founded Rekindle, a social enterprise that makes furniture and other useful objects from waste wood.


Christchurch author Paul Cleave has written six internationally bestselling crime novels. His seventh, Joe Victim (Penguin, ISBN: 9788-0-143-57042-4), is the sequel to his 2006 debut, The Cleaner.

For the last ten years (and counting), Lyttleton musician Delaney Davidson has been on a solo tour that has taken him to Ireland, Germany, Italy, Brazil, UK, Switzerland, Mexico, Austria, Romania, Belgium, Holland, Russia, France, USA, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand. His album with Marlon Williams, Sad But True – The Secret History of Country Music Songwriting Vol. 1, won the New Zealand Music Award for Best Country Album 2013, and their single, Bloodletter, was awarded the Apra Best Country Song 2013.

Musician and producer Liam Ryan is Performing Arts Manager at CPIT’s Department of Creative Industries, leading lead the Jazz School and National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Artdegree programmes. A member of 1980sw Christchurch band the Narcs, and inaugural member of the NZ Music Commission, he has held leadership and management positions at Waikato Institute of Technology, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, and Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology. He has continued to pursue his music practice, and is currently involved with The Sou’Westers (whose album Going West has just been released), The Lizard Kings, the Narcs, and his recording label, Torch Music.

Nikki Berry is the founder of A Capellago, a group of singers and musicians who share a love of world music. They will be performing at St Augustine’s Church at 2:00 on Sunday 8 September along with the Rockers of Ages choir. Nikki is also the founder of the Muse Community Music Trust and is responsible for helping hundreds of “non-singers” to become singers over a period of about twenty years.

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On Saturday 7 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 31 August with Richard Davenport Hines on the Profumo Affair and 1960s England.


Next Saturday, 14 September 2013, Kim Hill’s guests will include Pamela Gay and Davinia Caddie.

Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate producer: Zoe Ferguson
Christchurch engineers: Colin Pearce, Chris Keogh, Andrew Collins Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith CPIT liaison: Ross Paterson

Studio band: House of Brown
Manny Addis (guitar), Jimmy Rainey (tenor sax), Jono Brown (double bass)

More information follows on Saturday's guests, repeats of previous interviews, next week's programme, and this email list.

Kim Hill photo - David White.

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