Radio New Zealand National
8:15 Susan Freinkel: plastics
8:40 Tarell Alvin McCraney: brothers/sisters
9:05 Michael Morpurgo: horses and war
9:45 Tasmin Little: naked violin
10:05 Playing Favourites with Clive Neeson
11:05 Cameron Sinclair: optimistic architecture
11:30 AC Grayling: good words
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Dominic Godfrey
Christchurch engineer: Joseph Veale
Science, health and environment writer Susan Freinkel is the author of the 2009 book American Chestnut: the Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree (University of California Press, ISBN: 978-0520259942), and has just published Plastic: a Toxic Love Story (Text Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-921758-48-5).
8:40 Tarell Alvin McCraney
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s debut play The Brothers Size premiered simultaneously in New York and London in 2007. It is the first play in a trilogy - The Brother/Sister Plays - which saw him being lauded as the leading young voice of the African American theatre. Tarell was 2009/2010 international writer-in-residence to the Royal Shakespeare Company. The SILO Theatre production of The Brothers Size opens at Auckland’s Herald Theatre on 27 May (to 18 June).
9:05 Michael Morpurgo
English author, playwright and poet Michael Morpurgo has written over 120 children’s books. His 1982 book, War Horse (Scholastic, ISBN: 978-0-439-79663-7), about a farm horse and his owner during the First World War, was made into a stage play at London’s National Theatre in 2007, using life-size puppets of horses, and transferred in 2010 to New York. A film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, is due for release later this year.
9:45 Tasmin Little
British violinist Tasmin Little’s 2008 project, The Naked Violin, offered a free downloadable recital of works for solo violin, and led to a series of workshops and concerts around the UK. She has played with many of the world's greatest orchestras, has made 25 recordings, and is visiting New Zealand for a series of events, including the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (19 May), a free concert in Christchurch (20 May), Naked Violin performances in Wellington (22 May), Hamilton (24 May) and Auckland (10 June), and the adjudication of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Clive Neeson
Taranaki filmmaker, physicist and extreme sports pioneer Clive Neeson grew up the son of wildlife cinematographers in east Africa, and had an idea for a movie at age 17. Four decades of filming later (from improvised hand-wound cameras, through 16mm to digital HD), after living a double life between extreme sports enthusiasts and the scientific community, he has produced the adventure documentary Last Paradise, about extreme sports innovation, a wilderness lost, and the science that may save it. Last Paradise was the most-seen New Zealand film at the 2010 New Zealand Film Festival, and is on release now in Wellington, with other centres following from 26 May.
11:05 Cameron Sinclair
Cameron Sinclair is Chief Eternal Optimist and co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit design services firm that provides time and expertise through a network of 40,000 professionals. He is one of the speakers at TEDxEQChCh, a one-day event on 21 May that brings together global experts, national leaders, local business owners and residents to coalesce around a shared vision for Christchurch.
11:30 A. C. Grayling
Dr Anthony Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at the University of London, and writes a column for the Times, is a frequent contributor to the Literary Review, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Times Literary Supplement, Index on Censorship and New Statesman, and is a broadcaster on the BBC. He has written and edited over twenty books on philosophy and other subjects, including Liberty in the Age of Terror (Bloomsbury, ISBN: 978-1-4088-0307-3) and Thinking of Answers (Bloomsbury, 978-1-4088-0953-2), and has just published The Good Book: a Secular Bible (Bloomsbury, ISBN: 978-0-7475-9960-9).
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Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 21 May 2011 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 14 May with climate scientist James Hansen
Preview: Saturday 28 May
Kim Hill’s guests will include science writer James Gleick.
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