8:15 David Carlson: oceans and climate
8:40 Dave Butler: wildlife sanctuaries
9:05 Alex Munro: paper history
10:05 Playing Favourites with Rhona Fraser
11:05 Nikolas Rose: brains and cities
11:45 Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins: Portrait of Wally
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 David Carlson
Dr David Carlson is Director of the World Climate
Research Programme in Geneva, and an oceanographer who researches climate
predictability and human impact on future climate. He will visit New Zealand to
speak at World Science Week New Zealand, an interrelated series of
international science summits in Auckland from 25 August to 3 September.
WorldScienceWeek.org.nz
8:40 Dave Butler
Dr David Butler has worked in conservation for more than
20 years, first for the New Zealand Department of Conservation including
heading up one of its first mainland island projects, and more recently as a
self-employed consultant focused on bird conservation and the management of pest
animals, particularly in the South Pacific. He also chairs the board overseeing
one of the larger sanctuaries near Nelson. With Tony Lindsay and Janet Hunt, he
has written Paradise Saved (Random House NZ, ISBN: 9781869796860), the history
of New Zealand's wildlife sanctuaries.
9:05 Alex Munro
Alexander Munro has written widely on historic and
contemporary China. His first book is The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of
the World's Greatest Invention (Allen Lane, 978-1-846-14189-8).
10:05 Playing Favourites with Rhona Fraser
Rhona Fraser
is the producer of small scale, intimate opera productions in Days Bay,
Wellington. Her latest production, directed by Sara Brodie, is Der
Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the
composer's birth. It will be performed at the new hall at Wellesley College, on
21, 23 and 24 August.
11:05 Nikolas Rose
Nikolas Rose is Professor of Sociology at King's College,
London. His current research concerns biological and genetic psychiatry and
behavioural neuroscience, and its social, ethical, cultural and legal
implications. He is visiting New Zealand to deliver the keynote address, Making
Us Resilient: Responsible Citizens for Uncertain Times, at the Competing
Responsibilities conference at Victoria University of Wellington, co-hosted by
the University of Auckland (15-17 August). He will also deliver a public
lecture in Auckland on the topic of Mental Life in the Metropolis: Urban
Brains, Urban Lives and the Embodiment of Urbanicity (20 August).
11:45 Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins
Arthur Tompkins is a District Court Judge, and member of
Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group. He has a special interest in crimes
involving artistic masterpieces, and will discuss the theft of Portrait of
Wally, the 1912 oil painting by Austrian painter Egon Schiele.
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On Saturday 16 August 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 9 August with filmmaker Paul Roy on his
upcoming television series The Slum, filmed in Manila.
Next Saturday, 23 August, Kim Hill's guests will include
Helen Garner, Lucy Sargisson, and Steve and Riley Hathaway.
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