Friday, July 12, 2013

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill on Radio New Zealand National: 13 July 2013


8:15 Alex Gibney: uncovering secrets
9:05 Lloyd Geering: the Big Bang and God
9:45 Eureka Winner
10:05 Playing Favourites with Lisa Harper-Brown and Michael Paget
11:05 Philip Hoare: into the sea
11:45 Kate's Klassic: The Diary of Anne Frank


8:15 Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney is an American filmmaker, whose documentaries include the Oscar-nominated Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room, the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, and Client 9: the Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (he has discussed these and other films on the programme in 2008 and 2011). He made two films in 2012: We Steal Secrets: the Story of Wikileaks, about Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, and Silence in the House of God, about the Catholic Church and its cover-up of sexual abuse by its priests. The films will both screen in Auckland and Wellington during the New Zealand International Film Festival.

9:05 Lloyd Geering
Sir Lloyd Geering is a leading New Zealand thinker and commentator on theological issues, and a former Presbyterian minister and professor of religious studies. He is the author of a number of books, most recently From the Big Bang to God (Steele Roberts, ISBN: 978-1-92724-214-8), which compiles his 2012 lecture series (Evolution: the Real Genesis), and his forthcoming series on the emergence of human thought, through to the emergence of God, and beyond.

9:45 Eureka! Winner
The winner of the second Sir Paul Callaghan Award for Young Science Orators, announced on the evening of 12 July at the 2013 Eureka! Symposium.

10:05 Playing Favourites with Lisa Harper-Brown and Michael Paget British-born soprano Lisa Harper-Brown grew up in Australia, and is now based in Wellington with a global operatic career. She will sing the role of Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, the NZ Opera's first main-stage production in Christchurch since Southern Opera joined the company last year. She is married to Michael Paget, who is Layout Technical Director for Weta Digital, and has worked on film productions that include Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Adventures of Tintin, Prometheus, Iron Man 3, and The Hobbit.

11:05 Philip Hoare
Writer and historian Philip Hoare is Visiting Fellow at Southampton University, and Leverhulme Artist-in-residence at The Marine Institute, Plymouth University, which awarded him an honourary doctorate in 2011. His book, Leviathan or, The Whale (Fourth Estate, ISBN: 9780007230143), won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and he spoke about that on the programme in 2010). He has written and presented documentaries about whales, and is also co-curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read. His new book is The Sea Inside (Fourth Estate, ISBN: 978-0-00-741211-2).

11:45 Kate's Klassic: The Diary of Anne Frank Kate Camp has published five collections of poems, most recently Snow White's Coffin (Victoria University Press, ISBN: 978-0-86473-888-2). Kate will discuss The Diary of a Young Girl, the 1947 collection of writings kept by Anne Frank while hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

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On Saturday 13 July 2013 during Great Encounters between 6:06pm and 7:00pm on Radio New Zealand National, you can hear a repeat broadcast of Kim Hill's interview with Bill Andrews about ageing, from 6 July.

Next Saturday, 20 July 2013, Kim Hill's guests will include Geoff Murphy, Paul Jenden, Brian Foster and Jack Liebeck.

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith




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