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8:15 Alex Gibney: unwrapping Scientology

Alex Gibney is an American filmmaker, whose documentaries include Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side, Client 9: the Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, We Steal Secrets: the Story of Wikileaks, and The Armstrong Lie (all of which he has discussed previously on Saturday Morning). His new film, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, will screen at this year’s New Zealand International Film Festivals.

 

8:40 Chris Bowler: planktonic discoveries

Dr Chris Bowler is a research director at the National Centre for Scientific Research. Since 2010 he has been in charge of the environmental and evolutionary genomics section at the biology Institut in the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. An expert in plant biology, he is one of the scientific coordinators for the Tara Oceans expedition, which has collected 35,000 samples of planktonic organisms from all layers of the ocean, during a three-year global expedition. You can explore examples in the gallery below:

Ctenophores move using 8 iridescent rows of comb plates. This juvenile specimen was collected in the Mediterranean Sea. Christian Sardet, 'Plankton – Wonders of the Drifting World', Univ. Chicago Press 2015

The Tara was originally the Seamaster, The same yacht Sir Peter Blake was sailing when he was killed by Brazilian pirates in 2001. Photo: F. Latreille/Tara Expeditions.

Courtesy Tara Expeditions

This Liriope medusa caught and ate a large part of a juvenile fish. Christian Sardet, 'Plankton – Wonders of the Drifting World', Univ. Chicago Press 2015

This small medusa collected in the Mediterranean Sea is a close relative of Turritopsis thought to be an immortal jellyfish. Christian Sardet, 'Plankton – Wonders of the Drifting World', Univ. Chicago Press 2015

Plankton collected in the Pacific Ocean with a 0.1 mm mesh net. This is a mixture of multicellular organisms – small zooplanktonic animals, larvae and single cell protists (diatoms, dinoflagellates, radiolarians). Christian Sardet, 'Plankton – Wonders of the Drifting World', Univ. Chicago Press 2015

Plankton collected in winter in the Mediterranean Sea with a 0.2mm mesh net. This is a mixture of zooplanktonic animals and larvae, together with single cell protists. Christian Sardet, 'Plankton – Wonders of the Drifting World', Univ. Chicago Press 2015

Plankton collected in the Pacific Ocean with a 0.1 mm mesh net. This is a mixture of multicellular organisms – small zooplanktonic animals, larvae and single cell protists (diatoms, dinoflagellates, radiolarians). Christian Sardet, 'Plankton – Wonders of the Drifting World', Univ. Chicago Press 2015

Plankton collected in the Pacific Ocean with a 0.1 mm mesh net. Here we see a mixture of single cell protists – diatoms, dinoflagellates, and foraminiferans – surrrounding a colony of radiolarians in the center. Christian Sardet, 'Plankton – Wonders of the Drifting World', Univ. Chicago Press 2015

Plankton collected in the Atlantic Ocean with a 0.1 mm mesh net. This is a mixture of single cell protists – diatoms, dinoflagellates, radiolarians and foraminiferans. Christian Sardet, 'Plankton – Wonders of the Drifting World', Univ. Chicago Press 2015

The Tara Oceans expedition collected these small zooplanktonic animals in the Indian Ocean: a molluscan pteropod on the right, and 2 crustacean copepods. On the left is a fragment of orange paint from Tara’s hull. Christian Sardet, CNRS, 'Tara Oceans'.

Three different pteropod molluscs. The two in the back have fragile calcareous shells. They are natural prey for the third species (in front) which does not have a shell. Christian Sardet, 'Plankton – Wonders of the Drifting World', Univ. Chicago Press 2015

Common zooplanktonic creatures are displayed together here. From left to right: a tiny crustacean copepod, a spider crab larva, an amphipod, a baby squid, a Phronima amphipod, and an Atlanta pteropod mollusc. Christian Sardet, 'Plankton – Wonders of the Drifting World', Univ. Chicago Press 2015

Radiolarians are protists – unicellular creatures - that often live in symbiosis with algae, visible here as tiny ocre-colored dots. On the top left is a colonial radiolarian. Christian Sardet, 'Plankton – Wonders of the Drifting World', Univ. Chicago Press 2015

SonnyTau9:05 Sonny Tau: advancing Ngapuhi

Raniera (Sonny) Tau has been chairman of Te Runanga a Iwi o Ngapuhi since 2008, and played a pivotal role in leading northern iwi and others to support the model for allocation of the Maori Fisheries Settlement. He is the chair of the Tūhoronuku Independent Mandated Authority, the group mandated by Ngapuhi to settle its Treaty claims, and which is now negotiating cultural and commercial settlement for the iwi following the recent signing of the Terms of Negotiation with the Crown.

Massey University and Auckland Museum conference The Treaty on the Ground will debate what happens beyond Treaty settlements, and what the post-Treaty era might hold for New Zealand.

 

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10:05 Playing Favourites with Leila Adu

Leila Adu is a New Zealand musician of Ghanaian descent who works in theatre, dance and film. She is in her third year of PhD studies in Composition at Princeton University, New York, and she has been working on Musicambia, a project teaching music to inmates at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. She is Orchestra Wellington’s Emerging Composer-in-Residence, and has written a song cycle for voice and orchestra, Rain as Blessings Fall, to be performed on 20 June as part of Orchestra Wellington’s 2015 season.

Useful Chamber, with Leila Adu, performing 'Negative Space'

Graeme Wake11:05 Graeme Wake: industrial maths

Graeme Wake is Professor Emeritus of Industrial Mathematics at Massey University, and is the leader of the new Mathematics-in-Industry NZ group. The first MINZ event, in conjunction with KiwiNet, is a collaborative approach to industry problem solving, with over a hundred mathematical scientists brainstorming real-world problems from six companies: Eyedentify, Fonterra, Compac, Fisher & Paykel, Transpower, and Livestock Improvement Corporation (29 June to 3 July).

11:45 Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi

New Zealand writer Kate De Goldi is the author of many books. Her new novel will be published later this year. She will discuss a young adult novel, a children’s book, and a picture book:
Havoc by Jane Higgins (Text Publishing);
Mr and Mrs Bunny - Detectives Extraordinaire by Mrs Bunny; translated from the Rabbit by Polly Horvath, illustrated by Sophie Blackall (Yearling); and
Bye-Bye Grumpy Fly by Ruth Paul (Scholastic).

This Saturday’s team:

Producer: Mark Cubey|
Associate producer: Melanie Phipps
Wellington engineer: Brad Warrington
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Research by Infofind

Music played in this show

Playing Favourites with Leila Adu:

Artist: Skeptics

Song: Mamouth

Composer: Skeptics

Album: I Will if I Can

Label: Flying Nun, 1992

Broadcast: 10:14

 

Artist: Yamoah

Song: Serwa Akoto

Composer: Yamoah

Album: Serwa Akoto High-Life Collection Vol. 2

Label: Owusek Productions, 2007

Broadcast: 10:28

 

Artist: Useful Chamber (with Leila Adu)

Song: Negative Space

Composer: Leila Adu

Album: A Dream Within a Dream

Label: Useful Chamber, 2015

Broadcast: 10:41

Duration: 5:04

 

Artist: Kendrick Lamar

Song: Good Kid

Composer: Pharrell Williams

Album: Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City

Label: Interscope, 2012

Broadcast: 10:54

 

Artist: The National Youth Choir

Song: Carol to Saint Stephen

Composer: Jack Body

Album: Te Roopu Rangatahi Waiata o Aotearoa

Label: Manu, 1992

Broadcast: 11:04

Duration: 3’51

 

 

Other music:

Artist: Marlon Williams

Song: I’m Lost Without You

Composer: Marlon Williams

Album: Marlon Williams

Label: Caroline

Broadcast: 11.40

Duration: 5:18