Friday, May 11, 2012

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 12 May 2012


8:15 Catherine Fieschi: right wing populism
8:30 Oliver Jeffers: pictures and books
9:05 Jeffrey Eugenides: marriage and plots
9:45 Simon Manchester: potter Len Castle
10:05 Playing Favourites with Thomas Wartenberg
11:05 Andre Cointreau: Cordon Bleu
11:45 Gardening with Kath Irvine: fruit trees and rootstock
  
8:15 Catherine Fieschi
Dr Catherine Fieschi is the Director of Counterpoint, a British research and advisory group that focuses on the cultural and social dynamics of risk. She is a contributing editor for Prospect Magazine, and writes extensively on extremism, populism, citizenship and identity politics.

8:30 Oliver Jeffers
Painter, author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers grew up in Belfast and studied visual communications at the University of Ulster, and is a co-founder of the art collective OAR. He now lives in New York, where he writes and illustrates award-winning picture books for all ages, including How To Catch A Star (2004, HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0007324613), Lost and Found (2005, HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0007304349), The Way Back Home (2007, HarperCollins, ISBN 078-0007323272), The Incredible Book Eating Boy: Pop-up Book (2009, HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0007320912), and The Heart and the Bottle (2010, HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0007429004). Oliver is a guest at the 2012 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, with a one-hour session at 11.30am on 12 May.
 
9:05 Jeffrey Eugenides
American novelist and short story writer Jeffrey Eugenides is Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University. He is best known for his 1993 novel The Virgin Suicides (Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1-4088-2570-9), and for 2002's Middlesex (Bloomsbury, ISBN: 978-1-4088-2569-3), which won him a Pulitzer Prize. His new novel is The Marriage Plot (Fourth Estate, ISBN 978-0-00-744128-0), and he is a guest at the 2012 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, speaking with Emily Perkins and Jolisa Gracewood on The Future of the Novel (11.30am, 12 May) and in an hour's conversation with Kate De Goldi (10am, 13 May).

9:45 Simon Manchester
Wellington collector and ceramics historian Simon Manchester has loaned works from his collection of the work of arguably New Zealand's most significant potter for the exhibition Len Castle: A Tribute, at The Dowse in Lower Hutt (12 May to 19 August).

10:05 Playing Favourites with Thomas Wartenberg
 Thomas E. Wartenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, and the author of Big Ideas for Little Kids (Rowman and Littlefield Education, ISBN 978-1-60709-334-3). As a visiting Fulbright US Senior Scholar he has been working with Island Bay School in Wellington to implement his award-winning Teaching Children Philosophy programme, while teaching a course on philosophy and popular culture at Victoria University of Wellington.

11:05 Andre Cointreau: Cordon Bleu
Andre J. Cointreau is the president and CEO of l'Ecole de Cuisine et de Pâtisserie Le Cordon Bleu, better known as Le Cordon Bleu, which will open a New Zealand school later this year.

11:45 Gardening with Kath Irvine
Kath Irvine has spent years teaching permaculture and gardening to schools and community groups. Her Edible Backyard workshops, run from her garden in Ohau, teach how to grow food and create edible backyards. She will talk about garden design for fruit trees, and the importance of rootstock.

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On Saturday 12 May 2012 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 from 5 May with Ian Watson, on Alan Turing and computing.

Preview: Saturday 19 May
Kim's guests will include Hilary Mantel, who has just published the sequel to her award-winning novel, Wolf Hall.

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell


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