Saturday Morning for Saturday 27 August 2011

Guest details for Saturday Morning 27 August 2011

8:15 Pepe Escobar
Brazilian journalist Pepe Escobar writes for Asia Times Online, where his column, The Roving Eye, is currently focusing on the Great Arab Revolt. He is the author of three books, most recently Obama Does Globalistan (2009, Nimble Books, ISBN: 978-1934840832).

8:30 Bruce Hayward
Bruce Hayward is a geologist and marine ecologist, and former president of the Geological Society of New Zealand. With Graeme Murdoch and Gordon Maitland, he has co-authored Volcanoes of Auckland: the Essential Guide (AUP, ISBN: 978-1-86940-479-6), with photographs by Alastair Jamieson.

Gallery: Volcanoes of Auckland.

9:05 John Banas
John Banas is a New Zealand born script writer, actor, director and teacher who has worked extensively in New Zealand, Australia and the United States. His first love was theatre and from there he moved into television and film working in such diverse areas as fight choreography and directing. He’s worked on award winning shows including Homicide, Headland and Water Rats and his latest work has been writing the script for Underbelly New Zealand: Land of the Long Green Cloud. 

10:05 Playing Favourites with Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith was a member of New Zealand bands Naked Spots Dance and The Newmatics, and among other things, has run a Spanish restaurant and an animation company, designed and built a medical simulator, and started Transition Town Orewa and the YouTube channel DeepGreenVideo. Jeff is the director of Deep Animation, a design company that specialises in 3D animation. His new documentary, Rumble & Bang, is about the 1960s garage rock group, Chants R&B, and their short-lived reign in Christchurch. It screens on 27 August in Christchurch as part of this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival.

11:05 David Eagleman
Neuroscientist and writer David Eagleman directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action, and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, and is best known for his work on time perception, synesthesia, and neurolaw. His international bestselling book SUM: Forty Tales from the Afterlives was the only book of fiction in New Scientist magazine's selection of Best Books of 2009. His 2010 book Why the Net Matters: How the Internet Will Save Civilization is also available as a digital book and app for the iPad. His new book, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Text Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-921-75820-1), is about the nervous system and unconscious brain.

11:45 Poetry with Peter Bland
Peter Bland is well known as a poet, broadcaster, actor (Came a Hot Friday) and co-founder of Wellington’s Downstage Theatre. Over a 55 year period he has published 11 collections of poetry, most recently Coming Ashore (Steele Roberts, ISBN: 978-1877577499). Earlier this week, he was one of three recipients of the 2011 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement.

 

Music played during the programme:

The Quincy Conserve: Volcano
From the album: The Very Best of The Quincy Conserve
(EMI)
Played at around 8:34

Th’ Dudes: Be Mine Tonight
From the 2001 compilation: Where are the Girls
(FMR)
Played at around 9:09

Dragon: April Sun in Cuba
From the album: Greatest Hits Volume 1
(CBS)
Played at around 9:57

Coldplay: Life In Technicolour
From the album: Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
(Parlophone)
Played at around 11:35
 

Playing Favourites with Jeff Smith

Chants R&B: I'm Your Witchdoctor
The 1966 single from the compilation album: Stage Door Witchdoctors
(Zero)
Played at around 10:15

Rocking Horse: Thru the Southern Moonlight
From the compilation album: The Kiwi Rock Scene 1970 – 1975
(EMI)
Played at around 10:22

The Newmatics:  Riot Squad
The 1981 single from the 2002 compilation album: Riot Squad
(FMR)
Played at around 10:30

Darcy Clay: Jesus I Was Evil
From the album: Jesus I Was Evil
(Antenna)
Played at around 10:40

Bachelorette: Her Rotating Head
From the 2009 album: My Electric Family
(Particle)
Played at around 10:57 

Studio operators

Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate producer: Amelia Nurse
Wellington engineer: Katrina Batten
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell