8:15 Jane Gleeson-White: double entry bookkeeping
9:05 Gerard Smyth: quakes on film
9:40 Andrew Clifford: sculpture in Waikato
10:05 Playing Favourites with Bill Ward
11:05 Annabel Langbein: free-range and France
11:40 David Veart: archeology and food
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Jeremy Veale
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
8:15 Jane Gleeson-White
Jane Gleeson-White is the fiction editor of the Australian literary journal Overlander, and blogs about books at Bookishgirl.com.au. Her third book, Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World (Allen & Unwin, ISBN: 978-1-74175-755-2), resulted from her internship at the Peggy Guggeneheim Museum in Venice, and her study for an economics degree.
9:05 Gerard Smyth
Christchurch filmmaker Gerard Smyth has told many New Zealand stories in over 60 documentaries. His new film about the Canterbury earthquakes, When a City Falls, opened nationwide on 24 November.
9:40 Andrew Clifford
Andrew Clifford works as curator at The University of Auckland, where he manages the Gus Fisher Gallery and The University of Auckland Art Collection. He is a board member for the Audio Foundation and co-curated their international experimental music festival from 2004 to 2007. Andrew curated the outdoor art exhibition, Summer: Sky Above, Earth Below, for The Waikato Sculpture Trust, at the Sculpture Park, Waitakaruru Arboretum (to 4 March 2012).
10.05 Playing Favourites with Bill Ward
Bill Ward was the original guitarist for 60s group The Human Instinct. He now lives in the Bay of Plenty, and custom builds guitars and drag-racers. In 1979, he was the first New Zealander to race a car on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, and with another self-built roadster, he won a land speed record there in 2008. He and his team are planning another attempt for 2012, hoping to break the 200 miles per hour limit.
11:05 Annabel Langbein
Annabel Langbein is a cook, author, and television presenter. Her 2010 book, The Free Range Cook sold close to 150,000 copies in New Zealand, and since been published in Australia, the UK, and France (as Annabel au Naturel). Her new book is Free Range in the City (Annabel Langbein Books, ISBN: 978-0-9582668-5-7).
11:40 David Veart
David Veart is Programme Manager, Historic, at the Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai, and a member of the Heritage Advisory Panel of the Auckland Council. He is the author of the 2008 book, First Catch Your Weka: a Story of New Zealand Cooking, and is a guest speaker at the New Zealand Food History’s fifth Symposium for Food History in Auckland (25-27 November). His new book is Digging Up the Past: Archaeology for the Young and Curious (AUP, ISBN: 978-1-86940-465-9).
Saturday Morning repeats:
On Saturday 26 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 19 November with Christine Winterbourn, the 2011 winner of the Rutherford Medal.
Kim Hill’s guests will include Bernard Spolsky, Robert Catto and Nick Carman.