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Saturday, 3 May 2008

Thomas Kohnstamm on travel writing, Glen Lauder on Gandhi and the environment, Eric Wilson on melancholia, Kate Camp’s Klassic (Doctor Zhivago), soprano Antoinette Halloran, sharkophile Rob Stewart, Mani Bruce Mitchell on being intersex, Greg O'Brien on painting for the young.

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Saturday, 26 April 2008

Pramod Parajuli on Nepal, novelist Helen Garner, philosopher John Gray, photographer Harvey Benge, architect Brendan Macfarlane, Helen Leach on pavlovas, Gemma Gracewood on arts TV, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi (books featuring dolls).

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Saturday, 19 April 2008

Frances Kennedy in Rome, Te Maire Tau on Ngai Tahu, mathematician Stanisalas Dehaene, Sandy Callister on photography of WW1 soldiers, astronaut Nicole Stott, artist Nigel Brown, food with Jane Webster, spoken word performer Henry Rollins.

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Saturday, 12 April 2008

Jill Worrall in Bhutan, Janna Levin on Kurt Godel and Alan Turing, Joanna Woods on Charles Baeyertz and the Triad, Eric Arnold on wine making in Marlborough, musician Suzi Quatro, model maker Greg Broadmore, Janice Marriott and Virginia Pawsey on friendship and gardening, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi (the Little House books).

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Saturday, 5 April 2008

Raed Jarra on Iraq, Jill Trevelyan on Rita Angus, ‘Bodies’ creator Jed Mercurio, Kate Camp’s Klassic (Catch 22), Gary Dexter on Catch 21 and other titles, musicologist Allan Thomas, Farmer John Peterson, Paul Hagesawa-Overacker on Cindy Sherman.

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Saturday, 29 March 2008

John Powers on Tibet, Annie Goldson on murder in Fiji, teacher and writer Bernard Beckett, Martin Silink on diabetes, the NZTrio playing favourites, Peter Calder on theatre criticism, Sarah Hodge on growing and eating green plants, Russell Brown on digital TV, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi (three new books).

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Saturday, 22 March 2008

Pauline Horrill of Médecins Sans Frontières, actor and director Oliver Driver, actress Lisa Harrow and scientist Roger Payne on their show Seachange , Rex Munday on brassicas, UK DJ Norman Jay, Frederick Kaufman on the American stomach, Anna Broinowski on the lies of Norma Khouri, Sally Rippin on censorship of young adult literature.

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Saturday, 15 March 2008

Cheryl Sucher in New York, Amotz Asa-El on Israel, Ruth Reichl on restaurant criticism, Don Thompson on the value of art, members of the Green Fire Islands show, oral poet Christian Bok, guitarist John Williams.

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Saturday, 8 March 2008

Racing driver Sir Jackie Stewart, novelist James Meek, Japan based musician Ben Kemp, permaculturalist Geoff Lawton, dancer and choreographer Akram Khan, Kate Camp’s Klassic (All Quiet on the Western Front).

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Saturday, 1 March 2008

Earl Hutchinson on Barack Obama, economics writer Tim Harford, marathon rower Roz Savage, Anita Amirrezvani on Iran, writer and performer Duncan Sarkies, Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi (the Betsy Byars books).

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Saturday, 23 February 2008

Stephen Zunes on Kosovo, anti-landmine campaigner Jody Williams, director Francois Girard, art collector Dr Dick Quan, stage designer Tony Rabbit, children’s book author Ursula Dubosarsky.

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Saturday, 16 February 2008

Broadcast from Auckland featuring guest host Oscar Kightley, with Peter Heller reporting from Mexico, Ruud Kleinpaste on kiwis, Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords, John Taylor of Duran Duran, Dominic Roskrow on whisky, Nathan Rarere on rugby, actor Dave Fane.

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Saturday, 9 February 2008

Duncan Fallowell on his New Zealand travel book, David Wiltshire on dark energy, cartoonist Garry Trudeau, musical creator Stephen Schwartz, food with Annabel Langbein, Don Long and Kate De Goldi on banned children’s books.

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Saturday, 2 February 2008

Live from FOO Camp in Warkworth: Nat Torkington on Silicon Valley, Ian Wright on electric racing cars, Liz Calder of Bloomsbury Publishing, Richard Naylor and Andy Linton on CityLink and big pipes, David ten Have of Ponoko Design, Regan and Rachel Cunliffe of the Throng TV website.

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Saturday, 26 January 2008

Novelist David Mitchell, Andrew Penman from Salmonella Dub, astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Anton van Helden on whales and magic, and Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi (the Ramona books).

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