Guest details for Saturday Morning 15 November 2008

8:12 Alan Duff

Alan Duff came to national attention in 1990 with his debut novel Once Were Warriors and has been a full-time writer of fiction and non-fiction ever since. He set up the Books in Homes programme in 1992, to bring books to disadvantaged children throughout New Zealand. He is currently living in the Loire Valley in France, and his new novel is Dreamboat Dad (Vintage, ISBN: 978-1-86979-024-0).

8:45 Harvey Wasserman

Harvey Wasserman is a journalist, historian, teacher, book publisher, radio talk host and anti-nuclear activist. With Bob Fitrakis, he helped break many of the major stories surrounding the theft of the 2004 presidential election in Ohio, and co-authored the books What Happened in Ohio? A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election (New Press, ISBN: 978-1595580696), and As Goes Ohio: Election Theft Since 2004 (CICJ Books, ISBN: 978-1934849095). He helped found NukeFree.org, and edits that website and Freepress.org. Harvey is also the author of the 2007 futuristic novel Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030 (harveywasserman.com, ISBN: 978-0975340240), which features an introduction from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and a song by Pete Seeger.

9:05 Terry Heiler

Dr Terry Heiler was appointed as the inaugural chief executive of Irrigation NZ in 2006. He spent 25 years as a principal research engineer, and 11 years as director of the New Zealand Agricultural Engineering Institute at Lincoln University, and is now an international consultant in natural resources, specialising in water management and irrigation, and runs a small farming business based in central Canterbury.

9:45 Kate's Klassic

Kate Camp will discuss The Call of the Wild by Jack London (Puffin ISBN: 9780141321059), which was first serialised in the Saturday Evening Post in 1903.

10:05 Gerry Fialka

Gerry Fialka is an American media ecologist, film curator, writer, lecturer and culture jammer. He is a guest speaker at Blow '08, the Creative Arts Festival at Massey University in Wellington from 7-22 November. He will run two free workshops in Wellington at the Old Museum Building in Buckle Street: Who's Jammin' the Jammers? (1:30-3:00pm on Saturday 15 November), and The Art of Experimental & Documentary Film Fakery (1:30-3:00pm on Sunday 16 November), and on Thursday 20 November from 5:00-6:30pm at The Film Archive, he will present The Best of Pixl This, a programme of 14 videos made with the PXL 2000, a 1980s plastic toy video camera that records sound and images on to audiocassettes.

10:45 Stephen Bain

Stephen Bain was a founder of choreographic theatre group Under Lili's Balcony and has furthered his reputation for innovative and visually adventurous theatre with Winning Productions, the company he founded in 2004 to integrate his interest in video and cross-discipline performance. His latest production, an adaptation by Dean Parker of Franz Kafka's The Trial, is currently being staged in conference rooms beneath the Aotea Centre in Auckland.

11:05 Food with Simon Gault

Simon Gault is master chef for the Nourish Group of restaurants, which includes Euro, Pasha, Shed 5 and Pravda. His new book, Nourish (Random House, ISBN 978-1-86979-050-9), features photography by Kieran Scott, and recipes from the menus of his current and previous restaurants. The book will be launched at three-course luxury lunches in Euro in Auckland (12.30pm, 18 November), and Shed 5 in Wellington (12.30pm, 19 November).

11:40 Sarah-Kate Lynch

Journalist, novelist and NZ Women's Weekly columnistSarah-Kate Lynch has her sixth novel published this month: On Top of Everything (Black Swan, ISBN: 978-1-86941-997-4).

Music played on the programme

Al Green: Take Me to the River
The 1974 single from the 2005 compilation album: Simply Beautiful: the Very Best of Al Green
(Hi Records)
Played at around 9:05am

Wayne McGhie & the Sounds of Joy: I Can See Mother Nature
From the 2008 re-release of the 1970 album: Wayne McGhie & the Sounds of Joy
(Light in the Attic/Rhythmethod)
Played at around 10:40am

Sia: Death by Chocolate
From the 2008 album: Some People Have Real Problems
(Monkey Puzzle Records/Rhythmethod)
Played at around 11:35am

Studio operators

Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Christchurch engineer: Hamish Doake