Saturday Morning for Saturday 25 July 2009

Guest details for Saturday Morning 25 July 2009

8:15 Luke Harding

Luke Harding is the correspondent for The Guardian in Moscow. He will discuss the murder of Russian human rights campaigner Natalia Estemirova.

8:30 Christopher Reid

Award-winning British writer Christopher Reid is the author of 13 collections of poetry, from 1979's Arcadia (Bowering Press, ISBN: 0-19-211-889-7), to this year's collections, A Scattering (Arete Books, ISBN: 978-0-9554553-6-0) and The Song of Lunch (CB Editions, ISBN: 978-0-9561073-0-5). He is a former editor at Faber & Faber, where he edited the Letters of Ted Hughes (Faber, ISBN: 978-0-571-22138-7) and worked with many major poets, and is cited as co-founder with Craig Raine of the 'Martian School' of poetry, which employs unusual metaphors to render everyday experiences and objects unfamiliar. He will talk with Bill Manhire about his career in poetry and publishing on Monday 27 July from 12.15 to 1.15 pm at Te Papa, as part of the Writers on Monday series presented by Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters.

9:05 Neil White

Neil White has been a newspaper editor, magazine publisher, advertising executive and federal prisoner. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where he operates a small publishing company, writes plays and essays, and teaches memoir writing. In 1992 he received an 18-month sentence for fraud, which he served in an isolated prison in Carville, Louisiana, that was also home to the last people in the continental United States disfigured by leprosy. He recounts the experience in his memoir, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts (Murdoch Books, ISBN: 9781741965476).

9:45 Jo Randerson

Playwright, author and performer Jo Randerson will discuss the online animation The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard, and the work of British documentary maker Adam Curtis. The new work by her Barbarian theatre company, Good Night - The End, starts its world premiere season at Downstage Theatre in Wellington from 11 September.

10:10 Mandy Patinkin

American actor and tenor vocalist Mandy Patinkin has had a long stage career, and appeared in a number of TV series (Chicago Hope, Criminal Minds), and films (The Princess Bride, The Music of Chance). He visits Auckland with fellow Broadway star Patti LuPone for a one-off concert on his tour showcasing songs from great musicals and the work of Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim, at the ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre, on Wednesday 29 July.

10:35 John Hanlon

Singer-songwriter John Hanlon won New Zealand Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year three years in succession during the 1970s for his albums Garden Fresh (featuring the hit single Damn the Dam), Higher Trails, and Use Your Eyes. He also won the APRA Silver Scroll twice, before leaving the music industry here for Australia, and returning to the advertising industry. He returns to music with Just Quietly, the first of a projected series of three self-released albums.

11:10 Laura Faire

Chef, food writer and stylist, Laura Faire has cheffed at Auckland restaurants Euro and The Musket Room, at Leith's School of Food and Wine in London, and is now working in the Maggi Test Kitchen. She is the author of Crockpot Cooking for New Zealand Homes (Random House, ISBN: 978-1-8679-162-9), and adapted Scottish author Kathryn Hawkins' book for a local audience: Shop Local, Eat Well: Cooking with Seasonal Produce in New Zealand (New Holland, ISBN: 9781869662592).

11:45 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi

Kate De Goldi will talk about books by American writers Vera and Bill Cleaver, including Where the Lilies Bloom (1969), Grover (1970), and The Mock Revolt (1974).

Music played on the programme

Julie Feeney: One More Tune
From the 2009 album: Pages
(Mittens)
Played at around 8:25

Sharon Robinson: Invisible Tattoo
From the 2008 album: Everybody Knows
(Floating World)
Played at around 9:45

Mandy Patinkin: Beat out Dat Rhythm on a Drum
From the 1995 album : Oscar & Steve
(Nonesuch)
Played at around 10:05

John Hanlon: Damn the Dam
The 1974 single from the 2003 compilation: The Very Best of John Hanlon
(EMI)
Played at around 10:25

John Hanlon: I Had To Walk Away
From the 2009 album: Just Quietly
(www.johnhanlon.com.au)
Played at around 10.55

Haunted Love: Sweet Baby
From the 2009 EP: Darkness in Diamond City
(Haunted Love)
Played at around 11:10

The Decemberists: The Rake's Song
From the 2009 album: The Hazards of Love
(Capitol)
Played at around 11:40

Studio operators

Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell