Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 5 May 2012 - Radio New Zealand National


8:15 Ross Ashcroft: renegade economics
8:40 Ian Watson: artificial intelligence
9:05 Claire Tomalin: Charles Dickens
9:45 Li Chen: kickstarting comics
10:05 Playing Favourites with Angela Meyer
11:05 Juergen Boos: books in Frankfurt
11:35 Mal Peet: explosive youth

Saturday Morning guest information and links:

8:15 Ross Ashcroft
British filmmaker Ross Ashcroft is the founder of the Renegade Economist and Motherlode Studio, and director of the documentary Four Horsemen, which is screening at the Documentary Edge Festival in Auckland (to 13 May) and Wellington (17 May to 3 June).

8:40 Ian Watson
Ian Watson is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, and the author of a number of books, including The Universal Machine: From the Dawn of Computing to Digital Consciousness (Springer, ISBN 978-3642281013). Ian also has a blog on the history and future of computing. at http://universal-machine.blogspot.com. He will deliver the lecture Alan Turing and the Artificial Brain: The Development of Artificial Intelligence on 17 May, the last in the series of 2012 Gibbons Lectures on Turing’s legacy.

9:05 Claire Tomalin
English author and journalist Claire Tomalin has written biographies of Katherine Mansfield, Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys and Thomas Hardy. Her latest book is Charles Dickens: A Life (Viking, ISBN: 978-0670917679).

9:45 Li Chen
Auckland freelance illustrator and webcomic artist Li Chen has just been pledged $US66,580 on Kickstarter, the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects, to produce her webcomic series Extra Ordinary as two books.

10:05 Playing Favourites with Angela Meyer 
Angela Meyer worked as an EFL teacher, yoghurt packer, showerer of elderly people, and coordinator of the Real Hot Bitches dance troupe amongst other jobs, before setting sail across the Pacific in a small yacht with her new husband and baby. She tells her story in Sea Fever: From First Date to First Mate (Random House, ISBN: 978-1869799175). Angela is currently Manager of Marketing and Communications at City Galley Wellington.
wwwseafeverangelameyer.com

11:05 Juergen Boos
Juergen Boos is the president of the Frankfurt Book Fair.

11:35 Mal Peet
Mal Peet is a writer of young adult fiction, who has won major awards including the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian children’s fiction prize. His novels include Keeper (2003), Tamar (2005), The Penalty (2006), Exposure (2008), and most recently, Life: an Exploded Diagram (Walker Books, ISBN 978-1844281008), a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Cold War. Mal is a guest of the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival (9-13 May).

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On Saturday 5 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 28 April with writer Emily Perkins.

Preview: Saturday 12 May
Kim’s guests will include Jeffrey Eugenides, Oliver Jeffers, and Simon Manchester.

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Damon Taylor
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell



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