Saturday Morning for Saturday 19 April 2008

Guest details for Saturday 19 April 2008

8:12 Foreign Correspondent: Frances Kennedy in Rome

Frances Kennedy is a New Zealand journalist based in Rome.

8:25 Te Maire Tau

Te Maire Tau is a historian of Ngai Tahu descent, who lectures at the University of Canterbury. His 2003 book, Nga Pikituroa o Ngai Tahu, draws on a range of historical document and whakapapa to present an account of tribal history. With Atholl Anderson, he co-authored Ngai Tahu: A Migration History (Bridget Williams Books, ISBN: 978-1-877242-39-7), which tells how the iwi moved from Wellington to the South Island, drawing on the text recorded by journalist Hugh Carrington in the 1930s. The book will be launched by Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu on the evening of Monday 21 April at the Canterbury Museum.

9:05 Stanislas Dehaene

Mathematician turned cognitive neuropsychologist Dr Stanislas Dehaene has been working since 1997 at the National Institute for Health and Medical Research near Paris, where he has directed the Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit since 2001. In 2005 he was elected as a full professor and the newly created chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the College de France in Paris. He is the author of the 1997 book, The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics (Oxford University Press, ISBN13: 9780195132403).

9:40 Sandy Callister

Dr Sandy Callister is one of New Zealand's leading brand and communication strategists and an Honorary Research Associate in the History Department at the University of Auckland. On 9 May, her 2006 doctoral thesis for the University of Auckland will be published as The Face of War: New Zealand's Great War Photography (Auckland University Press, ISBN: 978-1-86940-407-9). Selected archival images (see example, left) from the fifth chapter of the book, 'Broken Gargoyles': Photographic Representation of Severely Wounded New Zealand Soldiers, will be mounted as an exhibition, The Hidden Faces of War: New Zealand's Great War Medical Photography, at the University's Gus Fisher Gallery from 31 May.

10:05 Nicole Stott

Nicole Marie Passonno Stott is a NASA flight engineer. She is scheduled to take part in the Expedition-19 mission to the International Space Station in March 2009, where she will stay for up to six months. Nicole is visiting New Zealand to meet scientists and academics and talk to high school students, and will attend the twentieth anniversary of the Life Education Trust on 19 April at Te Papa in Wellington. She will also give a free public presentation at Te Papa on Monday 21 April at 6:30pm.

10:30 Nigel Brown

Invercargill-born artist Nigel Brown graduated from Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts in 1972. With poets Bill Manhire and Chris Orsman, he traveled to Antarctica on the inaugural Artists to Antarctica scheme in January 1998, creating paintings, woodcuts, monoprints, drawings, poems and work in mixed media. He is a participant in Sinfonia Antarctica at the New Dowse, a multi-disciplinary exhibition (to 30 August) that brings the continent to life using words, paintings, photographs, music and sculpture. Some of Nigel's Antarctic works, including a number that have not been previously exhibited, are included in his latest exhibition, Antarctic Visions, at the Williams Gallery in Petone (to 11 May). Nigel will give a talk about his Antarctic experience at the opening on Saturday 19 April.

11:05 Jane Webster

Jane Webster sold her Melbourne house and took her four children to a grand but neglected chateau in the village of Bosgouet, pursuing her dream of establishing a cookery school. She tells that story in At My French Table: Food, Family and Joie de Vivre in a Corner of Normandy (Penguin, ISBN: 978-0-670-07032-9).

11:25 Henry Rollins

American spoken word artist, singer and songwriter, author, actor, and publisher Henry Rollins first rose to prominence as the vocalist of 1980s hardcore band Black Flag and later project The Rollins Band. He hosts the radio show Harmony in My Head, and weekly cable TV talk show, The Henry Rollins Show, which screens on SKY's Rialto Channel. He releases spoken word albums and books through his own publishing company, 2.13.61 and travels constantly around the world. His spoken word performance, Henry Rollins Provoked: An Evening of American Storytelling, comes to Wellington on 29 April and Auckland on 30 April.

Music and spoken word played during the programme

Henry Rollins: Language
From the 2000 album: A Rollins in the Wry
(Quarterstick Records)

William Shatner with Henry Rollins: I Can't Get Behind That
From the 2007 album: Has Been
(Shout!)

She and Him: I Was Made For You
From the 2008 album: Volume One
(Merge)

Vernon Green and the Medallions: Rocket Ship
The 1960 single
(Dootone)

Black Flag: Rise Above
From the 1981 album: Damaged
(SST)

Wellington engineer: Damon Taylor
Christchurch engineer: David McMartin