Saturday Morning for Saturday 8 December 2012
Guest details for Saturday Morning 8 December 2012
8:15 Michael Nugent
Michael Nugent is a writer from Dublin who chairs the advocacy group Atheist Ireland, and has written on blasphemy law in Ireland.
8:40 Richie McCaw
Richie McCaw is the captain of the All Blacks. He tells his story, with Greg McGee, in Richie McCaw: The Open Side (Hodder, ISBN: 9781869712761).
9:05 Kathleen Sharp
Kathleen Sharp is a journalist, and author of four acclaimed non-fiction books. Her latest book is Blood Medicine: Blowing the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever (Plume, ISBN: 9780-452-29850-7).
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler
Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She will discuss a new exhibition at the gallery, Partner Dance: Gifts from the Patrons of the Gallery (to 7 April 2013), which celebrates 25 years of patrons' gifts. Images under discussion are available for view by clicking on the Art on Saturday Morning link.
10:05 Playing Bluegrass with the Pipi Pickers
Barry Torkington (guitar, dobro), Nathan Torkington (banjo), Garry Bigwood (guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Jenine Abarbanel Torkington (bass, vocals) are the Leigh-based bluegrass band, The Pipi Pickers. They will perform at the Wellington Bluegrass Society in Petone on 8 December, at the 2013 Auckland Folk Festival (25-28 January), and as one of 13 bands on the 19-day Bluegrass Music Cruise in February.
11:05 Rebecca Watson
Rebecca Watson leads a team of female activists at Skepchick.org, and appears on the weekly Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast. She travels around the world delivering talks on science, feminism, and scepticism. There is currently an asteroid orbiting the sun with her name on it.
11:30 Brianna Fruean
Brianna Fruean, 14, is one of the main coordinators of 350.org in Samoa. She has represented her country as a youth environment ambassador in Korea and Japan, and at this year’s Rio Earth Summit as part of the Pacific Media team. She is a guest speaker at NZ-Pacific 2012 Power Shift, a gathering of students, young professionals and emerging leaders from across the Pacific region addressing climate change (University of Auckland Recreation Centre, 7 -9 December), organised by 350 Aotearoa and Generation Zero.
11:45 Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Kate De Goldi is the author of the award-winning book The 10PM Question, and recently published a young adult novel, The ACB with Honora Lee (Longacre, ISBN: 978-1-86979-989-2). Kate discusses:
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, by Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrated by Robert Byrd (2008, Candlewick Press, ISBN 978-0-7636-5094-0); and
Bull Run by Paul Fleishman (1993, HarperTrophy; ISBN: 978-0-06-440588-1);
Music played during the programme
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards: Amazing Grace
From the album: The Amazing Sound of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
(RCA)
Played at around 8:55
The Pipi Pickers: Bringing in the Georgia Mail
Performed live in the Radio New Zealand studio, Wellington
Played at around 10:05
The Pipi Pickers: What Does the Deep Sea Say?
Performed live in the Radio New Zealand studio, Wellington
Played at around 10:15
The Pipi Pickers: Turn the Page Again.
Performed live in the Radio New Zealand studio, Wellington
Played at around 10:35
The Pipi Pickers: Southern Buster.
Performed live in the Radio New Zealand studio, Wellington
Played at around 10:45
The Pipi Pickers: Annabelle
Performed live in the Radio New Zealand studio, Wellington
Played at around 10:55
Studio operators
Pipi Pickers engineer: Kevin Golding
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell