Saturday Morning for Saturday 7 August 2010

Guest details for Saturday Morning 7 August 2010

8:15 Simon Singh

Simon Singh is an author, journalist and TV producer, specialising in science and mathematics. His books include The Code Book (1999), Big Bang (2004) and most recently, Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial, co-authored with Edzard Ernst. Earlier this year Simon successfully defended a libel action taken against him by the British Chiropractic Association, which he had accused in a Guardian article of promoting "bogus treatments".

8:45 Nesrine Malik

Sudanese-born writer and commentator Nesrine Malik works in a London-based private equity firm. She recently wrote in the Daily Telegraph about how she has become accustomed to wearing an abaya (full-length cloak).

9:05 Cindy Gallop

Cindy Gallop is a former chair of leading advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty and was voted Woman of the Year by Advertising Women of New York in 2003. In 2005 she left the industry, and has since launched MakeLoveNotPorn, to begin a dialogue around how real people have sex, and started IfWeRanTheWorld, a web platform designed to turn good intentions into action, one micro-action at a time. She is visiting Auckland to assist with a Waitakere initiative on this new platform, and explore other opportunities in New Zealand for IfWeRanTheWorld.

9:45 Kate's Klassic

Kate Camp will discuss One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Penguin Modern Classics, ISBN: 978-0-141-18474-6); first published in the November 1962 issue of Novy Mir.

10.00 Playing Favourites with Tracey Collins

Tracey Collins is a visual artist and designer specialising in design for performance and drama. She is production and costume designer for the new local drama series This is NOT My Life, currently screening on TV ONE.

11:05 Harold Fromm

Harold Fromm is University Associate in English at the University of Arizona. He is the author of the 2009 book The Nature of Being Human: From Environmentalism to Consciousness (ISBN: 9780801891298), and is co-editor of The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. His writings have appeared in a wide range of journals.

11:40 Scott Bregmen

Scott Bregmen has been working in the area of adult education for the past 20 years and is a Senior Tutor for WelTec's Community Education and Vocational Learning Skills programme. He has specialised and has extensive knowledge in working with people with disabilities in a variety of settings, and has just been awarded the Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award for sustained teaching excellence.

Music played during the programme

Joel Plaskett: Deny, Deny, Deny
From the 2010 album: Three to One
(Blue Grace Music/New Scotland Records)
Played at around 9:45

Ken Ellis: One Minute in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
From the 1980 album: Miniatures, a sequence of fifty-one tiny masterpieces
(Cherry Red Records)
Played at around 9:48

Parliament: Flash Light
The 1978 single
(Casablanca)
Played at around 11:40

Playing Favourites with Tracey Collins

Berlin: The Metro
The 1983 single from the album: Pleasure Victim
(Enigma/Geffen)
Played at around 10:25

Wiley, featuring Emeli Sande: Never Be Your Woman (Herve Re-Work)
The 2009 single
(Island)
Played at around 10:35

Johnny Cash: Solitary Man
From the 200 album: American III: Solitary Man
(American)
Played at around 10:50

Cheryl Cole, featuring will.i.am: 3 Words.
From the 2009 album: 3 Words
(Polydor)
Played at around 11:05

Studio operators

Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon