Saturday Morning for Saturday 15 December 2018

 

8:09  Anne Perkins - Brexit latest

Anne Perkins is a political commentator, writer and broadcaster, and the former deputy political editor of  The Guardian. She will talk to Kim about a week in which it was revealed British PM Theresa May has lost about a third of her party's support, as she heads into a contentious final vote on the shape of the Brexit deal.

 

 

8:30 Paula Morris - Bonjour Menton

Novelist, short story writer and essayist, Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whātua) is the 2018 Katherine Mansfield Fellow, announced by the Arts Foundation this week. She will spend at least four months in Menton, southern France, with access to the writing room below Villa Isola Bella, where Katherine Mansfield created some of her most important work. She joins a long list of celebrated New Zealand writers who have taken up the fellowship. Morris has been awarded numerous residencies and fellowships, including Bellagio (the Rockefeller Foundation) in Italy, Brecht's House in Denmark, Passa Porta in Belgium, and the International Writers and Translators' House in Ventspils, Latvia. Since 2003 she has taught creative writing at universities, including Tulane University in New Orleans, and the University of Sheffield in England. She is convenor of the Master in Creative Writing programme at the University of Auckland.

9:06 Professor Mohamad Abdalla - Muslim in Australia

Professor Mohamad Abdalla is one of Australia's most prominent Muslim leaders. Over the last 15 years, he played a leading role in establishing Islamic Studies (Research and Teaching) as an academic area of study in Australia, including securing $8m to establish the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies (NCEIS), a collaboration between the University of Melbourne, Griffith University and the University of Western Sydney. Professor Abdalla has been a guest of Victoria University's Faculty of Education in the past week.

 

9:35 Matt Preston - Sharp suit, great kai

Australian food writer, author and TV personality Matt Preston is a familiar face to Kiwi fans of MasterChef Australia. He is one of the show's three judges and is known for his cravats and colourful, occasionally outrageous, suits. Preston writes a weekly food column for Newscorp's metro newspapers and he is a senior editor for Delicious and Taste magazines. His new cookbook is called Yummy, Easy, Quick: Around the World.

 

10:04 Debs Martin - Pelorus Sound long-tailed bat project

Debs Martin has been the regional manager for Forest & Bird in the top of the South Island since 2004.  In recent years she has helped develop several biodiversity strategies for the region - and is currently working to preserve the critically endangered New Zealand long-tailed bat which is headed for extinction unless populations are identified and protected.  Martin became involved in bat conservation in South Canterbury in the early 2000s as a volunteer for Forest and Bird, and then in Marlborough in 2005 after identifying long-tailed bats flying around the Pelorus Bridge Scenic Reserve one warm November evening.

 

 

 

10:20   Dr Mike Murphy - Developing anti-oxidants that fight aging

Dr Mike Murphy is one of the world's leading scientists in mitochondrial research.  Originally from Ireland, he is nowadays the programme leader at the Mitochondrial Biology Unit at Cambridge University. Dr Murphy studied at Otago University, where he developed MitoQ, a mitochondria-targeting anti-oxidant, which looks likely to be effective in preventing cardiovascular disease and other diseases of aging. Dr Murphy was in New Zealand to be the keynote speaker at the Society of Free Radical Research Australasia Conference at the University of Auckland.

 

 

 

11:04  Kate De Goldi and Laura Kroetsch - Reading 2018

Kate De Goldi is a children's author, publisher, and reviewer. Her latest book is From The Cutting Room of Barney Kettle, and she is a regular guest on Saturday Morning to discuss children's literature. Laura Kroetsch lives in Adelaide, where she was director of the Adelaide Writers' Week for seven years - stepping down after the 2018 event to work for Hobart's Dark Mofo festival where she is programme director of the Dark and Dangerous Thoughts symposium. De Goldi and Kroetsch join Kim to talk about their favourite and most memorable reads of 2018. 

 

 

Books mentioned in this episode

 

The Impossible State

by Wael Hallaq

Columbia University Press

ISBN 9780231162562

 

Yummy, Easy, Quick: Around the World

By Matt Preston

ISBN: 9781760555368

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Kate De Goldi's picks: 

 

(Kate De Goldi chose a number of her books after listening to the Backlisted podcast

 

Ulverton & Pieces of LIght by Adam Thorpe

 A long way from Verona by Jane Gardam

A year and a day by William Mayne (cf Katherine Rundell's work & The Mapmaker's Race by Eirlys Hunter)

Barking Dogs by Rebekah Clarkson (cf Amy & Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout)

Draw your weapons & Breaking up with God by Sarah Sentilles

Mr Godley's Phantom by Mal Peet

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Reader, come home by Maryanne Wolf

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew  Battles

 

Audio books:

Tana French's backlist

The Dry & The Lost Man by Jane Harper

 

Currently reading: 

Milkman by Anna Burns (Booker winner)

 

Holiday reading:

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

Everything under by Daisy Johnson

Rewording the Brain by David Astle

Rotoroa by Amy Head

 

Laura Kroetsch's books:

 

Crime:

Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel by Lawrence Osborne

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

 

Fiction:

An American Marriage by Tarayi Jones

Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

Florida by Lauren Groff

The Afterlives:  A Novel by Thomas Pierce  (Hall of Small Mammals is an earlier book of short stories)

The Third Hotel by Laura Van Den Berg

 

Biography

In Extremis by Lindsay Hilsum

Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel

 

Memoir

Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Painter

 

 

 

Music played in this show

Artist: Anika Moa
Song: Buttercup
Composer: Anika Moa
Album: Anika Moa
Label: DIAMONDKOWHAI
Played at: 8:10