8:15 Kate Camp in Berlin
8:30 Marcus Chown: tweeting the universe
9:05 Sharad Paul: skin and books
10:05 Playing Favourites with John Jamieson
11:05 Michel Tuffery: Pacific projections
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
8:15 Kate Camp
Kate Camp is the 2011 recipient of the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently last year's The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls (Victoria University Press, ISBN: 9780864736215), which won the Poetry category at the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards.
8:30 Marcus Chown
Writer and broadcaster Marcus Chown is cosmology consultant of the weekly science magazine New Scientist. His many books include last year's Solar System (Faber/Touch Press, ISBN: 978-0-571-277771-1), developed from the Solar System iPad App. His new book, written with Govert Schilling, is Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas (Faber, ISBN 978-0571278435).
9:05 Sharad PaulDr Sharad Paul (left-Glenn Jeffrey photo) is director of the Skin Surgery Clinic in Auckland, and teaches skin cancer surgery in Australia and New Zealand. He is the Chair of the Skin Cancer College of New Zealand, owns the Baci Lounge bookstore café, and his latest novel is To Kill a Snow Dragonfly (Fourth Estate India, ISBN: 978-93-5029-139-9). Dr Paul is a finalist in the 2012 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Awards.
http://www.bacilounge.com/ http://www.nzawards.org.nz/NewZealanderoftheYear/tabid/27939/Default.aspx
10:05 Playing Favourites with John Jamieson
Dr. John Jamieson is Senior Translator for NZTC International. He began his career working for the Translation Service of the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs, then worked as a freelance translator before joining NZTC in 1988, specialising in the translation into English of legal, financial and business documents from over 25 western and eastern European languages.
11:05 Michel Tuffery
Michel Tuffery, MNZM, is a New Zealand-based artist of Samoan, Rarotongan and Tahitian heritage. His Siamani Samoa suite of paintings, sculpture and multimedia installations addressing Germany's brief history in Samoa is currently on show at Pataka Museum in Porirua (to 19 February 2012). His next project, First Contact, is a giant digital artwork projected onto the western wall of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. First Contact has been commissioned as the opening night free public event at the New Zealand International Arts Festival 2012, and will run nightly for the duration of the Festival (24 February to 18 March).
http://festival.co.nz/family-events/first-contact-2012/
First Contact 2012 PIC CREDIT Artist Concept Image by Mi
Preview: Saturday 4 February
Kim's guests will include Wael Ghonim, Ted Noten, Megan Salole and Antony McCarten.
Monday 6 February: Waitangi Day Special at Puke Ariki, New Plymouth
On Waitangi Day from 8am to midday, Kim Hill and Paul Diamond (Curator, Maori, at the Turnbull Library) will host a Korerorero at Ouke Ariki, with invited guests.
On Sunday 5 February at Puke Ariki, we will be recording a one-hour panel discussion that will play as part of that programme.
On Waitangi Day from 8am to midday, Kim Hill and Paul Diamond (Curator, Maori, at the Turnbull Library) will host a Korerorero at Ouke Ariki, with invited guests.
On Sunday 5 February at Puke Ariki, we will be recording a one-hour panel discussion that will play as part of that programme.
Members of the New Plymouth public are invited to come along and be part of the audience on both the Sunday and Monday. Entry is free, but seating is limited.