Saturday Morning for Saturday 15 June 2013
8:15 Sibel Edmonds
Sibel Edmonds is the publisher and editor of Boiling Frogs Post, the author of the 2012 memoir, Classified Woman: the Sibel Edmonds Story (ISBN: 978-0-61560-222-6), and the founder and president of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition. She has a MA in Public Policy and International Commerce from George Mason University, a BA in Criminal Justice and Psychology from George Washington University, and is the recipient of the 2006 PEN Newman’s Own First Amendment Award for her “commitment to preserving the free flow of information in the United States in a time of growing international isolation and increasing government secrecy”.
9:05 Terry Speed
Professor Terry Speed is a world leader in bioinformatics and is regarded as one of Australia’s most important statisticians. His work has helped to identify areas of the human genome that contribute to cancer, genes that are vital for embryonic development and malaria proteins responsible for initiating infection in human red blood cells. Professor Speed is a Fellow of the Royal Society, London, was presented with the 2012 Thomson Reuter’s Citation Award and the 2012 Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation, and is visiting New Zealand as 2013 Distinguished Visitor for the Royal Society of New Zealand, presenting the talk, Understanding Epigenetics Through Mathematics, in Dunedin (18 June), Christchurch (19 June) and Wellington (20 June).
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler
Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She will discuss Modernisme and Modernism in Spanish architecture. Images under discussion are available for gallery viewing by clicking the Art on Saturday Morning link on the right hand side of this web page.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham
Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham live in Devon, England, but have been based in Wellington since March, while Mal runs his Writing for Young Adults class at Victoria University’s International Institute for Modern Letters. His books, including three football novels (Keeper, The Penalty, Exposure) and Life: an Exploded Diagram, have won major awards including the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian children’s fiction prize. Elspeth also writes for children, and has collaborated with Mal on the children’s picture books Cloud Tea Monkeys, illustrated by Juan Wijngaard (Walker Books; ISBN: 978-1-4063-3386-2),Mysterious Traveller, illustrated by P J Lynch (Walker Books; ISBN: 978-1-4063-3707-5), and the forthcoming Night Sky Dragons. Elspeth is also a director of the children's learning website Think2Read.
11:05 Charles Pigden
Charles Pigden is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Otago. He has published on a number of topics including Hume on Is and Ought, the ethics of Bertrand Russell, and conspiracy theories.
11:45 Hadleigh Frost
Hadleigh Frost is studying physics at the University of Canterbury, and won the inaugural Sir Paul Callaghan Award for Young Science Orators at the 2012 Eureka! Symposium. This year’s symposium will be held on 12 July.
Music played during the programme
Details of tracks and artists will be listed on the Playlist section of this page shortly following broadcast.
Studio operators
Wellington engineer: Damon Taylor
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
Dunedin engineer: Martin Balch
Music played in this show
Playlist
Rick Bryant and the Jive Bombers: Laid Low
From the 2013 album: The Black Soap from Monkeyburg
(Red Rocks Records)
Played at around 11:40
Playing Favourites with Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham
Miles Davis: Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
From the 1970 album: Bitches Brew
(Columbia)
Played at around 10:15
Khaled: Sahra
From the 1996 album: Sahra
(Universal)
Played at around 10:35
St Germain: Sure Thing
From the 2000 album: Tourist
(Blue Note)
Played at around 10:55