8:15 Sigurbjorg Sigurgeirsdottir: Iceland
8:35 Dusty Gedge: living roofs
9:05 Paul Bennett: surf, drugs, redemption
10:05 Playing Favourites with Neil and Sharon Finn
11:05 Christine Winterbourn: free radicals
11:40 Colleen McCullough: thorny life
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
8:15 Sigurbjorg Sigurgeirsdottir
Sigurbjorg Sigurgeirsdottir is lecturer in public policy at the University of Iceland. She has her PhD in Social Policy from London School of Economics. She has done advisory and consultancy work for the Department for Education and Skills in the UK, for the World Bank, the European Commission and the OECD. She worked for the Icelandic government as a strategic policy adviser at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Health from July 2007, the month the stock market started to fall on Wall Street, and until the autumn of 2008 when the three big Icelandic banks collapsed and crushed the rest of the Icelandic economy.
8:35 Dusty Gedge
British naturalist, ecologist and ornithologist Dusty Gedge is on a Presentations, Workshop and Living Roof Tour to Christchurch, Wellington, Whangarei (21 November), and Auckland (22-23 November). His visit was organised by Living Roofs, an independent organisation promoting the uptake of green roofs in New Zealand, with assistance from Unitec Institure of Technology, Nuralite and other sponsors.
9:05 Paul Bennett
Paul Bennett was a top New Zealand surfer whose life and career was wrecked by drug and alcohol abuse. His 2005 book, Walking with the Taniwha (ISBN: 978-0-473-12755-8), has just been reissued in a revised and updated version to cover issues of mental health awareness, addiction and rehabilitation.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Neil and Sharon Finn
Neil and Sharon Finn formed their new group, Pajama Club, as a fun musical project at their home earlier this year. With additional members Sean Donnelly and Alana Skyring, they are playing two shows next month in support of their debut self-titled album (Wellington 3 December, Auckland 4 December).
11:05 Christine Winterbourn
Professor Christine Winterbourn is a biochemist, and director of the Free Radicals Group at the University of Otago, Christchurch. She is the 2011 winner of the Rutherford Medal, New Zealand’s top science and technology honour, and the first woman to receive the award since it was established 20 years ago.
11:40 Colleen McCullough
Australian author Colleen McCullough is best known for her 1977 novel, The Thorn Birds. She has just published a memoir, Life Without the Boring Bits (HarperCollins, ISBN: 978-0-7322-9448-9).
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Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 19 November 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 12 November with Richard Gough.
Preview: Saturday 26 November
Kim Hill’s guests will include filmmaker Gerard Smyth, musician and drag-racer Bill Ward, and Jane Gleeson-White on double-entry bookkeeping.