8:15 Elizabeth Pisani: Indonesia
9:05 Rachel Boynton: oil rush in west Africa
9:40 Art with Mary Kisler: Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino
10:05 Playing Favourites with Rob Thorne
11:05 Ruth Reichl: food and fiction
11:30 Viv Chandra: women and the Net
This Saturday’s team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RNZ_SatMorning
8:15 Elizabeth Pisani
Elizabeth Pisani has an MSc in Medical demography and a
PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, and has worked as a foreign
correspondent for Reuters, the Economist, and the Asia Times. Her new book is
Indonesia Etc: Exploring the Improbable Nation (Granta, ISBN:
978-1-78378-014-3).
9:05 Rachel Boynton
Rachel Boynton is the producer and director of the
documentary Big Men, about oil deals in Ghana and Nigeria. It will screen in
Auckland (21, 30 July, 3 August), Wellington (26, 29 July), Dunedin and
Christchurch during the New Zealand International Film Festival (from 17 July).
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
the exhibition, Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino: Diverging Paths of Mannerism,
currently showing at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, and a response by contemporary
artist Bill Viola.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Rob Thorne
Palmerston North-based
musician Rob Thorne (Ngati Tumutumu) has been working with Taonga Puoro
instruments since 2001, after many years in the independent and noise music
scenes. This year he released his debut album, Whāia Te Māramatanga (Rattle
Records), and this weekend he will give a lecture and demonstration at Otago
University (11 July); a Matariki event, Taonga Puoro in Otepoti, at the Dunedin
Public Art Gallery (11 July); a talk at Orokonui Sanctuary in Waitati (12
July); and a performance at Waterlines III (Puaka Matariki Festival) in Port
Chalmers (12 July).
11:05 Ruth Reichl
New York writer Ruth Reichl wrote her first cookbook at
21 and was the editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine for ten years until it
folded in 2012. She is the author of three bestselling food memoirs, Tender at
the Bone (1999), Comfort Me With Apples (2001) and Garlic and Sapphires (2005).
She has been the restaurant critic at the New York Times and the food editor
and restaurant critic at the Los Angeles Times.
Her first novel is Delicious
(Allen & Unwin, ISBN: 9781743319765). Ruth Reichl will be a guest at the
WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival (27-31 August), and at an
Auckland Writers Festival and NZ Guild of Food Writers event, Delicious Dining
with Ruth Reichl, at the Langham Hotel, Auckland.
11:40 Vivian Chandra
Vivian Chandra is ICT and Database Manager at Amnesty
International New Zealand, and has been involved with the organisation since
1996, initially as part of the high school student activist network. She is one
of the editors of the Amnesty blog, writes at her own website, and is a
prolific Twitter user. She attended this week’s Net Hui conference in Auckland,
facilitating the session (Em)Powering Women Using the Net (Men Welcome Too).
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On Saturday 12 July 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 5 July with Derek Grzelewski on unknown
and extreme New Zealand.
Next Saturday, 19 July, Kim Hill’s guests will include
James Lee Burke and Arthur Tompkins.
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