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Recent items from Saturday Morning
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Kate's Klassic: Georgy Girl
11:40 AM.Guest host Philippa Tolley and Kate Camp discuss the 1965 novel Georgy Girl by English writer Margaret Forster, who died in February. Audio
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Miranda McKearney: reading and empathy
11:10 AM.Guest host Philippa Tolley talks to British social justice entrepreneur and reading advocate Miranda McKearney who founded The Reading Agency and recently set up EmpathyLab. Audio
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Hannah Smith and Ralph McCubbin Howell: beards & bookbinders
10:40 AM.Guest host Philippa Tolley interviews theatre director Hannah Smith and playwright Ralph McCubbin Howell whose Trick of the Light Theatre company is about to take two shows to festivals in the UK. Audio
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Caitlin Moran: class, feminism and dufflecoats
10:05 AM.Caitlin Moran talks with Philippa Tolley about her latest book and the risk of making Britain 'stupider as a country' by cutting social services. Read more Audio
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Suad Amiry: conservation architecture and Palestine
9:40 AM.Guest host Philippa Tolley interviews Palestinian conservation architect and writer Suad Amiry, founder of the Riwaq Centre for Architectural Conservation, and author of Sharon and My Mother in Law… Read more Audio
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Barbara Brookes: a history of New Zealand women
9:10 AM.Guest host Philippa Tolley interviews Barbara Brookes, Professor of History at the University of Otago, about her new book A History of New Zealand Women. Read more Audio
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Ian Tannock: personalised cancer care
8:30 AM.Guest host Philippa Tolley interviews Dr Ian Tannock, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Medical Biophysics at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and University of Toronto and a major international… Read more Audio
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Smári McCarthy: Iceland, the Pirate Party and the Panama Papers
8:12 AM.Guest host Philippa Tolley interviews Smári McCarthy, chief technologist for the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, and founder of the Iceland Pirate Party. Read more Audio
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Listener Feedback to Saturday 2 April 2016
11:55 AM.Colin Peacock reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 2 April. Audio
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"Ukulele Russ" Copelin: one-man Alaskan band
11:37 AM.Colin Peacock interviews a survivalist and ukulele virtuoso from Fairbanks, Alaska, who makes his second visit here for masterclasses, workshops and concerts in Auckland, and plays two songs live on… Read more Audio
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Fiona Pardington: photography, family and objets trouve
11:07 AM.Colin Peacock interviews one of New Zealand's most celebrated photographers whose new book, A Beautiful Hesitation, is published in tandem with the largest exhibition of her work to date, currently… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Paul McLaney: Shakespeare, soliloquies and song
10:35 AM.Colin Peacock interviews Paul McLaney - composer, singer and guitarist, and deputy chair of the NZ Music Commission. He is the creator of Play On: a Musical Imagining of the Great Soliloquies, the… Read more Audio
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Dafydd Davis: trails and mountain bikes
10:06 AM.Colin Peacock interviews a leading Welsh trails consultant and advocate for sustainable land management who is visiting New Zealand to help develop a master plan for Makara Peak Mountain Bike Park. Audio
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Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins: Madonna of the Yarnwinder
9:45 AM.Colin Peacock interviews Arthur Tompkins, member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group with a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces, about the theft and recovery of Leonardo… Read more Audio
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Michael Moore: Where To Invade Next
9:30 AM.Colin Peacock interviews American documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, whose first film in six years, Where To Invade Next, looks at social welfare programmes across Europe, Scandinavia and the Middle… Read more Audio
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Yossi Alpher: Israel's place in the Middle East
9:07 AM.Colin Peacock interviews the Israeli writer and consultant who co-founded and edited the Israeli-Palestinian online publication bitterlemons.net. He is the author of Periphery: Israel's Search for… Read more Audio
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Simon Kuper: football, money and Leicester City
8:35 AM.Colin Peacock interviews the sports columnist for the Financial Times, and co-author of Soccernomics, a 2009 book about how money influences the game. Audio
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Karen McCluskey: reducing violence in Scotland
8:12 AM.Colin Peacock interviews the Director of the Violence Reduction Unit, a national centre of expertise on violence based in Glasgow. The VRU was established in 2005 to take a public health approach to… Read more Audio
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Listener Feedback from Saturday 26 March 2016
11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 26 March, including feedback on climate change, the flag, and wasps. (There is more information about wasps on the websites… Read more Audio
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Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Ratenburg and Lullaby
11:45 AM.Kate De Goldi discusses two new New Zealand books: The Road to Ratenburg by Joy Cowley, illustrated by Gavin Bishop, and Lullaby by Bernard Beckett. Audio
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Jackson Browne: music, politics and ecology
11:10 AM.Songwriter and recording artist who has a long history of political activism. He will perform with his six-piece band in Auckland in April. Read more Audio
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Christina Bu: electric vehicles in Norway
10:42 AM.Secretary General of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association who visited New Zealand as a guest of Drive Electric to talk about Norway's world-leading uptake of electric vehicles. Read more Audio
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Julian, Christian and Mabelle Dennison: filming Wilderpeople
10:08 AM.Hutt Valley school student Julian Dennison stars alongside Sam Neill in the new Taika Waititi film, Hunt for the Wilderpeople. He is joined in the studio by his mother, Mabelle, and his twin brother… Read more Video, Audio
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The Egg in Art with Mary Kisler
9:40 AM.Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, discussing the depiction of eggs in art. Audio
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Paul Muldoon: Ireland, America and poetry
9:08 AM.One of the world's leading poets and poetry editor of The New Yorker, who has published over thirty collections, and is coming to the Auckland Writers Festival in May. Read more Audio