8:15 Linda Colley: union and disunion
9:05 Jim Al-Khalili: physics paradoxes
9:40 Mary Kisler: Felix Kelly and Greer Twiss
10:05 David Ward and Peter Daube: Wheel of Experience
11:05 TBC
11:45 Energy with David Haywood: electric vehicles
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Alex Baron
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
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Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
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8:15 Linda Colley
Linda Colley is the Shelby MC Davis 1958 Professor of
History at Princeton, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her books include
Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837, Captives: Britain, Empire and the World
1600-1850, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh, and most recently Acts of Union and
Disunion: What Has Held the UK Together and What is Dividing It? (Profile
Books, ISBN: 978-1781251850).
9:05 Jim Al-Khalili
Iraqi/English theoretical physicist, author and
broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili OBE holds a chair in the Public Engagement in Science
at the University of Surrey and is president of the British Humanist
Association. His latest book is Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Science
(Black Swan, ISBN: 978-0-552-77806-0). He is a guest of the Auckland Writers
Festival, speaking at The University of Auckland Festival Debate: Privacy is an
Outdated Concept (14 May, with Frank Dikotter, Bob Stevens, and Sandi Toksvig),
and at A Question of Civilisations (16 May, with Yasmine El Rashidi and Reza
Aslan), and Science and the Big Questions (17 May, with Shaun Hendy).
9:40 Art with Mary Kisler
Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection,
International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She will discuss
two new books: Fix: the Art and Life of Felix Kelly by Donald Bassett (Creative
Educational Press, ISBN: 978-0-95707-965-6), and Greer Twiss by Greer Twiss and
Dr Robin Woodward (Ron Sang Publishing, ISBN: 978-0473258764).
10:05 David Ward and Peter Daube
Writers and performers David Ward (The Dentist's Chair,
Guru of Chai, Kiss the Fish) Peter Daubé (King Skinny, Stories Told To Me By
Girls) and Dave Khan (The Bads, Tim Finn, Don McGlashan Band) are the creators
of Wheel of Experience, a musical show that brings the 'wild west' of New
Zealand to life. They are travelling the country throughout May under the
auspices of Arts on Tour, visiting Onewhero, Coromandel, Thames, Paeroa,
Tauranga, Opotiki, Rotorua, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Reefton, Hokitika, Okarito,
Tarras, Earnscleugh, Stewart Island, Riverton, Invercargill, Owaka, Oamaru,
Twizel, Amberley, and Akaroa.
11:05 TBC
11:45 Energy with David Haywood
David Haywood has a Ph.D. in engineering and lives in
Dunsandel. He writes the Southerly blog for Public Address, and is the author
of the collection of humorous essays My First Stabbing, the children's book The
Hidden Talent of Albert Otter, and The New Zealand Reserve Bank Annual 2010
(all publicaddressbooks.com). He will discuss electric vehicles.
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On Saturday 26 April 2014 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 April with Sir Jonathan Mills,
director of the Edinburgh Festival.
Next Saturday, 3 May, Kim Hill's guests will include
artist Rod Moss and musician Tiny Ruins.
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