8:15 Alan Cooper: exploring human history
9:05 Robin Robilliard: hard country
9:45 Laura O'Connell Rapira: ideas for change
10:05 Playing Favourites with Arthur Meek
11:05 Lucy Sargisson: utopia
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Alex Baron
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
Email: Saturday@radionz.co.nz
Web page: http://radionz.co.nz/saturday
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8:15 Alan Cooper
New Zealand evolutionary biologist Alan Cooper is
Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of
Adelaide. He has just been awarded a Laureate Fellowship by the Australian
Research Council, which will fund his Centre for a five-year project using
ancient micro biomes and genomes to study human origins, disease and Aboriginal
genetics. Professor Cooper returned to New Zealand briefly late last month, from
field work in the permafrost areas of Canada and a trip to Natural Trap Cave in
Wyoming, for the Queenstown Molecular Biology conference. (He was interviewed
on the Saturday programme in May about his paper in Science on the evolutionary
history of the kiwi.) http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/alan.cooper
9:05 Robin Robilliard
Robin "Robby" Robilliard and her husband Garry
have owned the Rocklands farm near Takaka since the late 1950s. A former
journalist and keen walker, she has written the memoir, Hard Country: A Golden
Bay Life (Random House NZ, ISBN: 9781775536635).
9:45 Laura O'Connell Rapira
West Auckland social entrepreneur Laura O'Connell Rapira
was selected as part of the inaugural Live The Dream social enterprise
accelerator program last summer, and has since developed Our Place Events,
which connects the crowd to the cause, RockEnrol, a campaign to build and
activate political power for young people, and Fill Bellies Not Bins, which
aims to provide a free meal for 5000 people in Aotea Square in 2015 using food
that would otherwise have gone to waste. She is a guest speaker at Festival for
the Future 2014 in Auckland (5-7 September).
10:05 Playing Favourites with Arthur Meek
New Zealand
playwright Arthur Meek has been living in New York as the third recipient of
the Harriet Friedlander New York Residency. His 2011 play, On the Upside Down
of the World, has been staged around New Zealand, and has just finished a
season at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Later this year he will adapt his
early work, On the Conditions and Possibilities of Helen Clark Taking Me as Her
Young Lover (with a title change substituting Hillary Clinton for Clark), and
will perform it as part of a festival of New Zealand performance at La Mama,
New York in March 2015. The Auckland Theatre Company's world premiere
production of his family drama, Trees Beneath the Lake, is playing now at
Auckland's Maidment Theatre (to 27 September).
11:40 Lucy Sargisson
Lucy Sargisson is Professor of Utopian Studies at the
University of Nottingham, and the author of four books and numerous articles on
the topic of political utopianism. Last month, she delivered the 2014 Robert
Chapman Lecture, Utopianism in the Twenty First Century, at the University of
Auckland.
11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
New Zealand
writer Kate De Goldi is the author of many books, most recently, The ACB with
Honora Lee (Random House). She will discuss three novels for middle readers
(10-12 years):
Ghost Hawk, by Susan Cooper (2013, Random House, ISBN:
978-0-552-56818-0); The One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate (2012,
HarperCollins, ISBN: 978-0-00-745533-1); and One Crazy Summer, by Rita
Williams-Garcia (2010, Amistad, ISBN: 978-00-607-60908).
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On Saturday 6 September 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 30 August with John Lanchester on the
language of money.
Next Saturday, 13 September, Kim Hill's guests will
include the Topp Twins.
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