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with Kim Hill
Saturday, 8am - Midday
Audio from Saturday, 03 May 2008
Not all audio is available due to copyright restrictions.
- 08:12 Foreign Correspondent : Thomas Kohnstamm
- Travel writer who caused a storm within the industry with his book Do Travel Writers Go To Hell (duration: 19′12″)
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- 08:35 Glen Lauder, on Gandhi and the environment
- Recently returned from facilitating a meeting at the Satyagraha Project in New York (duration: 25′36″)
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- 09:05 Eric Wilson,on melancholy and happiness
- Professor of English from North Carolina,and author of Against Happiness : In Praise of Melancholy (duration: 36′07″)
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- 09:45 Kate,s Klassic : Doctor Zhivago
- Kate Camp discusses Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (duration: 13′12″)
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- 10:06 Kim reads emails
- Kim reads emails from listeners (duration: 7′47″)
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- 10:14 Antoinette Halloran, opera singer
- Australian soprano who stars in the NBR New Zealand Opera,s forthcoming season of La Boheme (duration: 13′42″)
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- 10:33 Kim reads emails
- Kim reads emails from listeners (duration: 4′14″)
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- 10:38 Rob Stewart, on shooting sharks
- Canadian filmmaker who visited 15 different countries over four years to make the award - winning documentary Sharkwater (duration: 22′04″)
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- 11:05 Food with Jason Dell : gravalax and olive oil
- Executive chef at Blanket Bay Lodge in Glenorchy and guest presenter at the wine and food event Savour New Zealand 2008 (duration: 16′25″)
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- 11:25 Mani Bruce Mitchell, on being intersex
- Counsel for the Intersex Trust of Aotearoa New Zealand, who is profiled in the exhibition Assume Nothing at The New Dowse. (duration: 17′00″)
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- 11:45 Gregory O'Brian,on painting for the young
- Painter, poet, curator and writer, his latest book is Back and Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young and Curious (duration: 14′52″)
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Guest details for Saturday 3 May 2008
8:12 Foreign Correspondent: Thomas Kohnstamm
Thomas Kohnstamm was hired in 2002 to contribute to Lonely Planet's guidebook on Brazil, and was subsequently involved with almost every one of their Latin American books in some capacity. He writes of his disillusionment with the industry in Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? (Pier 9, ISBN: 9781741961119), and is a guest at two sessions on Sunday 18 May at the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival '08.
8:25 Glen Lauder
Dr Glen Lauder is a Wellington-based facilitator and researcher focusing on the interface between organisations and addressing the barriers to collaboration. He recently facilitated a meeting at the Satyagraha Project in New York for the Garrison Institute's Initiative on Transformational Ecology, looking at how the ideas of Mohandas K. Gandhi relate to current environmental issues.
9:05 Eric Wilson
Eric G Wilson is Professor of English at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and has written five books on the relationship between literature and psychology. His new book is Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy (Sarah Crichton Books, ISBN: 978-0-374-24066-0).
9:45 Kate's Klassic
Kate Camp will discuss Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari (Vintage, ISBN: 9780099448426).
10:00 Antoinette Halloran
Australian soprano Antoinette Halloran is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and has an Honours Degree in Music from the University of Melbourne. She studied at the Torre Del Lago in Italy, and performed there, London and extensively in Australia. She performs the role of Mimi in The NBR New Zealand Opera's forthcoming season of La Boheme by Puccini, fresh from her starring performance in the role earlier in the year with Opera Australia. La Boheme opens in Wellington on Saturday 10 May and in Auckland on Thursday 29 May.
10:30 Rob Stewart
Canadian filmmaker Rob Stewart began photographing the underwater world aged 13. As chief photographer for the Canadian Wildlife Federation's magazines and as an award-winning freelance photojournalist, he has logged thousands of hours underwater. An assignment to photograph sharks in the Galapagos Islands led to his leaving his photography career behind at the age of 22; over the next four years he visited 15 different countries to make the award-winning documentary Sharkwater, which will feature in the programme of the 2008 New Zealand Film Festival.
11:05 Food with Jason Dell
Jason Dell is executive chef at Blanket Bay Lodge in Glenorchy, near the head of Lake Wakatipu. A former New Zealand Chef of the Year, he is a guest presenter at the wine and food event Savour New Zealand 2008, from 1 to 4 May in Auckland. His class, The Luxe Experience, will include interactive olive oil tasting, and explain how to use fresh salmon, cure salmon for gravalax, and hot smoke salmon.
11:25 Mani Bruce Mitchell
Mani Bruce Mitchell is an activist, spokesperson and counselor for the Intersex Trust of Aotearoa New Zealand. Born with indeterminate genitals, for the first year of her life she was regarded as a boy and called Bruce. She did not discover she was intersex until the age of 40. Mani is one of 17 ingersex people profiled in the exhibition Assume Nothing, at TheNewDowse in Lower Hutt (to 30 August).
11:45 Gregory O'Brien
Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien is the author of a number of books. His latest is Back & Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young & Curious (Auckland University Press, ISBN: 978-1-86949-404-8). To see examples of the paintings featured in the book, click on the Art on Saturday Morning link on the right-hand column of this page.
Music played on the programme
Timmy Thomas: Why Can’t We Live Together?
The 1972 single
(TK Records)
Played at around 8:30am
Los Aragon: Tema de Lara (Lara’s Theme)
From the 1992 album: 20 Exitos…Con Amor
(Musart Balboa)
Played at around 9:05am
Jamie Liddell: Little Bit of Feel Good
Single from the forthcoming album: Jim
(Warp)
Played at around 9.40am
Antoinette Halloran with the Queensland Orchestra conducted by Stephen Mould: Donde lieta usci from La Boheme
From the 2008 album: Puccini Romance
(ABC Classics)
Played at around 10.10am
Bill Wolfgramm and his Islanders: Tiger Shark
From the 1997 album: South Sea Rhythm
(BMG)
Played at around 10.30am
Ballyscully: The Shetland Reels
From the album: Ballyscully Live
(www.ballyscully.com)
Played at around 11:20am
Split Enz: Titus
From the remastered version of the 1975 album: Mental Notes
(Mushroom)
Played at around 11:40am
Operators
Wellington engineer: Tony Schwartz
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Listener Feedback
A selection of email and text responses to interviews.
Future Broadcasts
20 March
Great Encounters - Dr John Sentamu
A repeat of Kim Hill's interview from 13 March 2010.
Dr John Sentamu is the 97th Archbishop of York, the second most senior Anglican leader in the Church of England. Formerly a high court judge in Idi Amin's Uganda, he fled to the UK in 1974, and became the first black archbishop in the Church of England in 2005. He is visiting New Zealand for the consecration of a new cathedral, formerly the parish church of St Mary's in New Plymouth, as the centre of the recently formed Bishopric of Taranaki within the Diocese of Waikato.
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