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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
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James Hansen: sea level rise
8:45 AM.Veteran climate scientist who works at the Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions Program, at the Earth Institute, Columbia University. Audio
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Jonathan Bamber: ice sheets and sea level rise
8:12 AM.Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Bristol, and an international expert on the thinning polar ice sheets and projections on sea level rise, who will visit New Zealand to address the… Read more Audio
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Listener Feedback to Saturday 19 March 2015
11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 19 March including quite a lot of talk about wasps. Audio
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Poetry with Gregory O'Brien: Andrew Johnston
11:45 AM.Gregory O'Brien discusses the new collection of poetry by Andrew Johnston, Fits & Starts. Audio
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Thomas Mallon: Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Trump
11:05 AM.American novelist, essayist, and critic, whose books include Watergate: a Novel and Finale: a Novel of the Reagan Years. He is a guest at the Auckland Writers Festival. Read more Audio
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Amelia Dunbar and Emma Newborn: bitches and woolsheds
10:30 AM.Creators of the hit touring show The Bitches' Box, who are acting as dogs again in the new show, Sons of a Bitch, which tours to 19 woolsheds throughout the South Island in April, alongside… Read more Audio
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Mackenzie Crook: detectoring
10:05 AM.English actor, writer, director, and stand-up comedian, best known for his roles in The Office, and The Pirates of the Caribbean, whose new comedy-drama TV series Detectorists, is set around the lives… Read more Audio
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Claris Jacobs and Elsie Bollinger: the Candle Wasters
9:45 AM.With Sally Bollinger and Minnie Grace, Claris Jacobs and Elsie Bollinger are The Candle Wasters, creators of the Shakespeare-inspired vlog YouTube series, Nothing Much To Do and Lovely Little Losers… Read more Audio
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Ann Goldstein: translating Elena Ferrante
9:05 AM.Ann Goldstein is editor at The New Yorker, and translator to English of many Italian writers, including Primo Levi and the reclusive Elena Ferrante, author of the Neapolitan Quartet. She is a guest at… Read more Audio
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Martin Peat: crowd dynamics at the Olympics
8:50 AM.New Zealand engineer who worked on crowd modelling and pedestrian movement at the Olympics in London, Sochi, and now Rio de Janeiro. He is the winner of the 2016 IPENZ Young Engineer of the Year… Read more Audio
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Andrew Digby: kakapo genomics and conservation
8:12 AM.Former astronomer who became captivated with conservation when he came to New Zealand in 2006, and is now the scientist on the Kakapo Recovery team, providing advice to guide the conservation of the… Read more Audio
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Christopher McDougall: running hero
11:28 AM.War correspondent in Rwanda and Angola, before becoming the guru of alternative running with his 2009 book, Born to Run. His new book is Natural Born Heroes: the Lost Secrets of Strength and… Read more Audio
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Anouk van Dijk: chunky complexity
11:06 AM.Dutch choreographer, artistic director and dancer, who has been artistic director at Melbourne-based dance company Chunky Move since 2012. She developed her new dance/theatre show Complexity of… Read more Audio
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Sunburst Finish
10:50 AM.Psychedelic free jazz band, featuring Wellington musicians Tom Callwood on bass, Daniel Beban on guitar and keyboards, Riki Gooch on drums, and Steve Roche on horns and biscuit-tin guitar. Audio
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Damien Wilkins
10:34 AM.Director of the International Institute of Modern Letters, founding editor of literary journal Sport, author of novels, stories, poems and a play, and a musician and songwriter. His new novel, Dad Art… Read more Audio
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Sally Gardner
10:08 AM.Prolific award-winning British author who worked in costume design and illustration before deciding to write for children full-time. Her books, including Tinder, Maggot Moon, and I, Coriander, have… Read more Audio
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Mark Anderson, Jony Easterby and Kathy Hinde: For the Birds
9:45 AM.Leaders of the team of artists who have created the walk-through art experience For the Birds in the native forest of Otari-Wilton's Bush during the New Zealand Festival. Read more Audio
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Morgan Godfery: rethinking New Zealand
9:31 AM.Wellington writer, commentator and trade unionist who specialises in Maori politics and international indigenous issues. He is the editor of a new collection of essays, The Interregnum: Rethinking New… Read more Audio
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Mallory Ortberg: texting classics
9:08 AM.Co-founder and editor of website The Toast, and advice columnist for Slate. Her first book, Texts from Jane Eyre: and Other Conversations with Your Favourite Literary Characters reimagines… Read more Audio
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Anthony McCarten: playing up
8:45 AM.Internationally successful writer and producer for stage and screen (Ladies Night, The Theory of Everything), who is a guest at the Spotlight on Playwrights series of events at Circa Theatre during… Read more Audio
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Andrew O'Hagan: war, Afghanistan, Assange
8:10 AM.Contributing editor for the London Review of Books, and ghostwriter of Julian Assange's abandoned memoir. Two of his books have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize, his new novel is The… Read more Audio
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Listener Feedback to Saturday 5 March 2015
11:59 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 5 March. Audio