Guest details for Saturday Morning 14 February 2009

8:12 Seth Godin

Marketing guru and bloggerSeth Godin created the term "permission marketing", and is the best-selling author of business books The Dip: the Extraordinary Benefits of Knowing When to Quit (Piatkus, ISBN: 0-7499-2830-1), and Meatball Sundae: How New Marketing is Transforming the Business World (Piatkus, ISBN: 978-0-7499-2831-5). His latest book is Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us (Piatkus, ISBN: 978-0-7499-3975-5).

8:35 Mike Morwood

Mike Morwood, is Professor in Archaeology at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, and at the School of Human and Environmental Sciences at the University of New England. He is the discoverer of the skeletal remains of Homo floresiensis, a hobbit-like human species found on the island of Flores in Indonesia. He is visiting New Zealand as the first speaker in the 2009 Allan Wilson Centre Lecture Series on Human Evolution, giving hour-long public lectures starting 5.30pm in Dunedin (16 February, Otago Museum), Christchurch: (17 February, Christchurch Art Gallery), Wellington (18 February, Rutherford House, Victoria University), Palmerston North (19 February, University House, Massey University), and Auckland (20 February, Owen G Glenn Building, University of Auckland). He is also speaking at BioED2009, another event organised by the Allan Wilson Centre, which takes place from 12-15 February at the Christchurch Convention Centre, and is one of six coordinated international events celebrating the birth of Charles Darwin: the Darwin 200 Symposia, run under the auspices of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS), Commission on Biological Education (CBE) and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).

9:05 Alan Dixson

Alan Dixson is a Professor at the School of Biological Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington. His research has involved comparative studies of reproductive biology and the evolution of sexuality in primates. He has held posts at the Zoological Society of London, the Medical Research Council in the UK, and the International Medical Research Centre in Gabon. He was Director of Conservation and Science at the Zoological Society of San Diego, and has published more than 140 papers and books. Professor Dixson is giving a Plenary (free public) lecture at 1.30pm on Sunday 15 February at BioED2009.

9:45 Kate's Klassic

Kate Camp will discuss the 1960 novel Rabbit, Run by recently deceased American author John Updike (Popular Penguins, ISBN: 978-0-14-103752).

10.00 Playing Brazilian Favourites with Batucada

Tim Cooke was one of the first members of Wellington Batucada, and has become a director and leader of the drumming troupe, which will join Auckland's AKSamba, Tauranga Samba and Samblasta Rotorua for New Zealand's biggest ever Batucada street clash at this year's tenth anniversary Cuba Street Carnival. Tim has participated in the Notting Hill Carnival and Rio Carnival, and helped build floats for the Cuba Street Carnival parade, including the winning float from 2007.
Carnival queen Clo Mudrik hails from Sao Paolo, Brazil, and is a trapeze artist, acrobat, capoeira teacher, percussion player, DJ, costume designer, teacher aide and clown. She has been dancing samba since the age of two.
They will be joined in the studio by two singers (Alda Rezende, Nicky Rich) and four drummers (Brazilian multi-instrumentalists Taciano Milford and Ze, bass drummer Emily Efford, and Alex Eden, another musical director for Wellington Batucada).
Listeners wishing to see Wellington Batucada in action can check out the Newtown Festival website where the short film of Wellington's other major Street Carnival highlights their performance.

11.10 Malcolm Rogers

Dr Malcolm Rogers is the director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. He is visiting New Zealand to attend the opening of Monet and the Impressionists at Te Papa (14 February to 17 May). The exhibition is jointly organised by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, home to one of the world's leading collections of Impressionist art, and the Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and features some of the world's most famous Impressionist paintings, including around 30 works by Claude Monet and masterpieces by Renoir, Pissarro, Degas, Sisley and Cézanne.

11:35 Lama Ole Nydahl

Lama Ole Nydahl was born in Denmark, and is the founder of Diamond Way Buddhism, a world-wide lay organisation of Karma Kagyu Buddhism.

Music played on the programme (between 10:00-11:00am)

Members of Wellington Batucada*: Canto Das Tres Racas
Live in the Wellington studio of Radio New Zealand

Sergio Mendes: Fanfarra (Cabua-Le-Le)
From the 2006 album: Brasileiro
(Elektra/WEA)

Members of Wellington Batucada*: Morena Du Mar
Live in the Wellington studio of Radio New Zealand

Olodum: Berimbau
From the 2000 album: 20 Anos
(Sony International)

Members of Wellington Batucada*: Negrume da Noite
Live in the Wellington studio of Radio New Zealand
Composer: Ile Aiye

*Tim Cooke, Alex Eden, Clo Mudrik, Taciano Milford, Ze, Emily Efford, Nicky Rich, Alda Rezende

Studio operators

Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Christchurch engineer: Hamish Doake