Saturday Morning for Saturday 13 April 2024
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Mark Staufer and Neil Harding: The Lost Boys of Dilworth
8:14 AM.Auckland's Dilworth boarding school was set up to to provide education to boys from disadvantaged backgrounds for free. Last year an independent inquiry into sexual and physical abuse at the school… Read more Audio
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Bonnie Garmus: how a bad day at the office sparked a glittering new career
9:05 AM.Bonnie Garmus had been a successful advertising creative for decades when she started writing the worldwide bestseller Lessons in Chemistry. That day, Garmus says a surge of anger about sexism… Read more Audio
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Alice Taylor's adventures in cakeland
9:40 AM.Alice Taylor may not have won Masterchef in 2022, but she won the hearts of fans, and the judges' attention. Competing in the show inspired the 24 year old to pivot from a planned career in politics… Read more Audio
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Prof Karen Willcox: The predictive power of digital twins
10:05 AM.New Zealand born Aerospace engineer Karen Willcox is on the frontline of the rapidly developing field of digital twins. Digital twins are two-way data driven virtual representations that predict real… Read more Audio
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Prof Tim Ryley: the seaplane rises again
10:40 AM.Holidays, work trips, cargo, freight and parcels; we rely on aviation personally and for business. But aviation's carbon footprint is huge, so what are some of the sustainable technology changes… Read more Audio
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Deborah Frances-White: The Guilty Feminist
11:05 AM.Deborah Frances-White opens each episode of her podcast with a confessional catch phrase "I'm a Feminist but.." It's an acknowledgement that you don't have to be perfect in the pursuit of social… Read more Audio
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Leah McFall: books my friends borrowed and never returned
11:40 AM.Writer and reviewer Leah McFall reckons one of the best endorsements for a book is when your friend borrows it and it never comes back. Leah shares three great non-fiction titles currently missing… Read more Audio
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8.10 Mark Staufer and Neil Harding: The Lost Boys of Dilworth
Auckland's Dilworth boarding school was set up to to provide education to boys from disadvantaged backgrounds for free.
Last year an independent inquiry into sexual and physical abuse at the school uncovered a "catalogue of damage and injustice" spanning more than half a century.
Broadcaster turned screenwriter Mark Staufer was one of the boys physically and sexually abused while under Dilworth's care.
He's written and features in The Lost Boys of Dilworth, a docu-drama revealing his experiences along with several other abuse survivors including Neil Harding, who is leading the legal charge to hold Dilworth to account.
The Lost Boys of Dilworth premieres on TVNZ 1 at 8.30pm Sunday 14 April.
Theo Rimmer-Riley as Mark Staufer in "The Lost Boys of Dilworth" Photo: Matt Klitscher
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9.05 Bonnie Garmus: how a bad day at the office sparked a glittering new career
Bonnie Garmus' much-loved debut novel about a female scientist-turned-TV-cooking star is now on the school curriculum.
Lessons in Chemistry has been rapturously received, selling seven million copies so far, snapped up by forty publishers world-wide and adapted for tv.
Perhaps as astonishing, Bonnie published the novel in her early sixties, launching a new literary career after decades working as a copy writer.
Bonnie is appearing at the Auckland Writer's Festival next month to discuss what longer life experience brings to fiction.
Photo: supplied by Auckland Writers Festival
9.40 Alice Taylor's adventures in cakeland
Alice Taylor may not have won Masterchef in 2022, but she won the hearts of fans, and the judges' attention.
Competing in the show inspired the 24 year old to pivot from a planned career in politics to fully embrace her love of baking. She's now working as a pastry chef at Auckland's Paris Butter and has just released a cookbook - Alice in Cakeland.
Packed with tips and tricks, it has easy, affordable and adaptable recipes for cakes, desserts, biscuits, breads, brioche, crepes, donuts and more.
Photo: Supplied by Allen & Unwin NZ
10.05 Prof Karen Willcox: The predictive power of digital twins
Professor Karen Willcox Photo: supplied by
New Zealand born Aerospace engineer Karen Willcox is on the frontline of the rapidly developing field of digital twins.
Digital twins are two-way data driven virtual representations that predict real world outcomes, with applications spanning aviation, aerospace, medicine and climate change.
Willcox is director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. Willcox spent 17 years as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she served as the founding co-director of the MIT Center for Computational Engineering.
10:40 Prof Tim Ryley: the seaplane rises again
Holidays, work trips, cargo, freight and parcels; we rely on aviation personally and for business.
But aviation's carbon footprint is huge, so what are some of the sustainable technology changes taking it into the future?
A handful of manufacturers are looking at reviving the production of seaplanes for a new age in aviation, including Amphibian Aerospace Industries in Darwin.
Professor of Aviation at Brisbane's Griffith University Tim Ryley weighs in on the future of seaplanes.
Albatross G-111 seaplane Photo: Leonardo Correa Luna/Amphibian Aerospace Industries
11.05 Deborah Frances-White: The Guilty Feminist
Deborah Frances-White opens each episode of her podcast with a confessional catch phrase "I'm a Feminist but.."
It's an acknowledgement that you don't have to be perfect in the pursuit of social change.
Recorded live on stage, with guest comedians and experts The Guilty Feminist is a joyous mashup of comedy and activism.
The podcast has racked up 100-million downloads in eight years, and is coming to Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch as part of the NZ International Comedy Festival.
Deborah Frances-White Photo: Daniel Hambury
11.40 Leah McFall: books my friends borrowed and never returned
Writer and reviewer Leah McFall reckons one of the best endorsements for a book is when your friend borrows it and it never comes back.
Leah shares three great non-fiction titles currently missing from her bookshelves: Amy Liptrot's The Outrun, Ruth Reichl's Garlic and Sapphires and Craig Brown's One, Two. Three, Four.
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Books featured on the show:
Lessons in Chemistry
By Bonnie Garmus
Published by Penguin
ISBN: 9781804990926
Alice in Cakeland
by Alice Taylor
Published by Allen & Unwin NZ
ISBN: 9781991006431
Finding Hildasay
by Christian Lewis
Published by Pan MacMillan
ISBN: 9781035006823
The Outrun
by Amy Liptrot
Published by Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781786894229
Garlic and Sapphires: the secret life of a critic in disguise
by Ruth Reichl
Published by Penguin
ISBN: 9780143036616
One Two Three Four: the Beatles in time
by Craig Brown
Published by 4th Estate
ISBN: 9780008340032
Music played in this show
Song: May Ninth
Artist: Khruangbin
Time played: 10:40
Song: Mary Boone
Artist: Vampire Weekend
Time played: 11:40
Song: You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
Artist: Lou Rawls
Time played: 12:57