8:15 Helen Garner: murder and men
9:05 Reed Kroloff: buildings and disasters
9:45 Classical Music with Davinia Caddy: symphonies
10:05 Playing Favourites with Steve and Riley Hathaway
11:05 William Kentridge: art, law, and apartheid
11:40 Energy with David Haywood: waves
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Alex Baron
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
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 Helen Garner
Australian author, screenwriter and journalist Helen
Garner is known for her novels (Monkey Grip, The Children's Bach, The Spare
Room) and non-fiction works, the latest of which is This House of Grief: The
Story of a Murder Trial (Text, ISBN: 9781922079206), in which she followed the case
of murder accused Robert Farquharson for eight years through the courts.
9:05 Reed Kroloff
Architectural writer and commentator Reed Kroloff is a
principal at jones | kroloff. He is a former editor-in-chief of Architecture
magazine, and director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit, and was Dean
of Architecture at Tulane University in New Orleans when the city was struck by
Hurricane Katrina. He will visit New Zealand for the WORD Christchurch Writers
Festival (27-31 August) to give the talk, Lessons from Adversity: Life in New
Orleans and Detroit (30 August).
9:45 Classical Music with Davinia Caddy: symphonies
Dr
Davinia Caddy is a senior lecturer at Auckland University's School of Music, a
flautist, and the author of How to Hear Classical Music (Awa Press). She will
discuss symphonies.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Steve and Riley Hathaway
Steve Hathaway is an underwater filmmaker based north of Auckland, whose
passionate advocacy for New Zealand's oceans and sea life is expressed through
his 93% initiative. Steve helped his daughter Riley create the Young Ocean
Explorers television series, and they have just launched a Kickstarter appeal
to raise money to put a DVD of the series and accompanying book into every
school in New Zealand.
11:05 William Kentridge
South African artist William Kentridge has been acclaimed
worldwide for his combinations of cinema, theatre, drawing, sculpture and music.
His five-screen machine-powered installation, The Refusal of Time, will be
exhibited at City Gallery, Wellington (6 September to 16 November).
You can view images of this work in this gallery:
or watch this video:
11:45 Energy with David Haywood: waves
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 wave energy.
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On Saturday 23 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 16 August with Alexander Monro on the
history of paper.
Next Saturday, 30 August, Kim Hill's guests will include
John Lanchester, Michael Schmidt, and Claire Murdoch.
Photograph of Kim Hill above by David White.
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