Saturday Morning for Saturday 24 April 2010

Guest details for Saturday Morning 24 April 2010

8:15 Mark Urban

British journalist Mark Urban is diplomatic and defence editor for BBC Newsnight. He covered the Iraq campaign from start to finish, and is the author of Task Force Black: the Explosive True Story of the SAS and the Secret War in Iraq (Little, Brown, ISBN: 978-1-4087-0265-9).

8:35 Bob Rigg

Bob Rigg is former senior editor of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (1993-2002) and former chairman of the NZ National Consultative Committee on Disarmament (2003-2005). He recently returned to New Zealand from Tehran, where he chaired a panel, Disarmament Challenges, at the international disarmament conference, Nuclear Energy for All, Nuclear Weapons for None (17-18 April).

9:05 Sheena Iyengar

Sheena Iyengar is the inaugural S.T. Lee Professor of Business in the management division at Columbia Business School and the Research Director at the Jerome A Chazen Institute of International Business. She is considered one of the world's experts on choice, and is the author of The Art of Choosing (Little, Brown, ISBN: 978-1-4087-0003-7).

9:45 Kate's Klassic

Kate Camp's fourth collection of poetry, The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls (VUP, ISBN: 9780864736215), was recently published. She will discuss Eugene Onegin, the 1833 novel in verse by Russian writer Alexander Pushkin (Penguin Classics, ISBN: 978-0-140-44810-8; a new translation by Stanley Mitchell).

10:05 Christine Vachon

Christine Vachon is co-owner of American independent film production company Killer Films, and is involved with Massify, an online content creation network. Killer Films has produced most of the films by director Todd Haynes (Poison, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, Far From Heaven, I'm Not There), and many other critical successes including the Academy Award-winning feature Boys Don't Cry, Happiness, Infamous, One Hour Photo, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, I Shot Andy Warhol, A Dirty Shame, and Kids. Christine visited New Zealand as a guest of Script to Screen, for a one-day seminar and to work intensively with two feature film teams.

10:40 Mark Seabrook-Davison

Dr Mark Seabrook-Davison is one of the first PhDs to graduate from the Ecology and Conservation group, part of the College of Science at the Albany campus of Massey University. His thesis, An Evaluation of the Conservation of New Zealand's Threatened Biodiversity, makes a case for nationally coordinated legislation to protect the country's native plants, fish, birds, insects and mammals listed as threatened with extinction.

11:10 Julian Clary

Comedian, novelist and television host Julian Clary is visiting New Zealand with his Lord of the Mince show, which plays at the 2010 NZ International Comedy Festival in Auckland (24 April) and Wellington (26 April).

11:45 Ashley Ekins

Ashley Ekins is the Head of the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. He contributed the introduction to the third edition of The ANZAC Book (UNSW Press, 978-1-74223-134-1), originally published in 1916 and written and illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of ANZAC.

Music played during the programme

That Petrol Emotion: Big Decision
From the 1987 album: Babble
(Polydor)
Played at around 9:05

Arthur Lewis: Far Side of Town
From the 2010 EP: If We Were
(arthurthefourth.com)
Played at around 9:40

The Carpenters: Superstar
The 1971 single
(A&M)
Played at around 10.05

Robert Wyatt: Shipbuilding
The 1982 single
(Rough Trade)
Played at around 11:30

Studio operators

Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon