Friday, August 01, 2014

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 2 August 2014 - Radio New Zealand National


8:15 Tim Keating: WW100
8:40 Paul or Louise Ramsay: beaver rewilding
9:05 Claire Hall: war in Vietnam
10:05 Playing Favourites with Kristin Hersh
11:05 Hinemoana Baker: poems and boys' homes
11:45 Kate's Klassic: Storm of Steel

This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Research by Anne Buchanan, Julie Daly, Infofind


8:15 Tim Keating
Lieutenant General Tim Keating MNZM was appointed to a three-year term as Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force on 1 February 2014, following his tenure as Vice Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, and Chief of Army. He will talk about the Defence Force's participation in Monday's Centenary Day commemoration Monday's Centenary Day commemoration and other WW100 events.

8:40 Paul Ramsay
Paul and Louise Ramsay run the Bamff Estate in Perthshire, Scotland. They brought beavers to large enclosures on their estate in 2002, and also campaigned for a population of wild beavers that has been establishing in the catchment of the River Tay since 2001.

9:05 Claire Hall
New Plymouth writer and historian Claire Hall managed the Vietnam War oral history and digital archiving project for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, curating five exhibitions over the project's life. She has also produced numerous multimedia features and a documentary film about the Vietnam War, and her first book is No Front Line: Inside Stories of New Zealand's Vietnam War (Penguin, ISBN: 978014357188).

10:05 Playing Favourites with Kristin Hersh 
American songwriter and guitarist Kristin Hersh founded indie art-punk group Throwing Muses at the age of 14. She has since released eleven albums with the band (most recently 2013's Purgatory / Paradise), as well as nine solo records and a number of other collaborations. She writes about her life in the 2010 memoir Paradoxical Undressing (Atlantic Books, ISBN: 9781848872394; known as Rat Girl in the United States), and will be a guest at the 2014 WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival (27-31 August), speaking at the opening gala (29 August), and the sessions Rock & Roll Lives, Read it Again! (both 30 August), and Lyrical Writing (31 August), and performing a song and spoken word solo concert at the Transitional Cathedral (Words + Music, 30 August). She will also perform the solo show, An Evening with Kristin Hersh, in Wellington (Bodega, 28 August) and Auckland (Q Theatre, 31 August).
In 2007, Kristin Hersh recorded four songs for a Music 101 session in Auckland. You can listen to that here:

11:05 Hinemoana Baker
Hinemoana Baker is a published poet, a singer-songwriter, recording artist, teacher of creative writing and occasional broadcaster. She is currently writer-in-residence at Victoria University, where she is researching a book about the years her father and his brothers spent at Sunnybank, a Catholic boys' home in Nelson. Her new poetry collection, Waha / Mouth (VUP, ISBN: 978-0-864739704), has just been published.

11:45 Kate's Klassic: Storm of Steel
Kate Camp has published five collections of poems, most recently Snow White's Coffin (Victoria University Press, ISBN: 978-0-86473-888-2). Kate will discuss Storm of Steel (Penguin Modern Classics, ISBN: 978-014118691), the memoir of German officer Ernst Junger's experiences on the Western Front during the First World War, originally printed privately in 1920.

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On Saturday 2 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 26 July with filmmaker Rolf de Heer (Charlie's Country), and her interview from September 2003 with Gisborne speed-chess coach Genesis Potini (1965 - 2011), whose life story was the inspiration behind the film The Dark Horse, which opened this week in New Zealand cinemas.

Next Saturday, 9 August, Kim Hill's guests will include Thom Conroy and Geoff Stahl.


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Kim Hill photo - David White

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