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Recent items from Saturday Morning
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Andrea Eimke: textiles in Atiu
9:40 AM.German migrant who established the Atiu Fibre Arts Studio on the remote South Pacific tropical island of Atiu. Audio
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Bill McKibben: doing the maths
9:05 AM.American environmentalist, author, and journalist who led the organisation of 350.org, and will visit New Zealand on his Do the Maths Tour. Audio
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Joshua Oppenheimer: re-enacting genocide
8:30 AM.Filmmaker whose new documentary, The Act of Killing, features unrepentant former members of Indonesian death squads. Audio
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Dana Karunaratna: eradicating rabies
8:15 AM.Asia Pacific Inhumane Culling Campaign Manager for the World Society for the Protection of Animals, who runs the mass dog vaccination programme, Collars not Cruelty, in Bangladesh. Audio
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Listener Feedback
11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio
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Barbara Else: creating Fontania
11:45 AM.Author of The Queen and the Nobody Boy, a finalist in the Junior Fiction sections of the 2013 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, and 2013 LIANZA Esther Glen Medal. Audio
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Derek Handley: entrepreneurial heart
11:05 AM.New Zealand entrepreneur (Hyperfactory, Booktrack, Snakk Media), who tells his story in the new how-to book, Heart to Start. Audio
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Playing Favourites with Richard Hulse
10:10 AM.Webmaster at Radio New Zealand, where his team has just relaunched the radionz.co.nz website. Audio
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Howard Brenton: theatre of politics
9:10 AM.English playwright and screenwriter whose 2010 play, Anne Boleyn, is the next production from the Auckland Theatre Company. Audio
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Andrew Quilty: documenting disasters
8:40 AM.Australian photographer whose career includes commissions from TIME, GEO and The New York Times, covering the Queensland floods, the Black Saturday bush fires, Cyclone Yasi, and Hurricane Sandy. Audio
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Allan Savory: restoring grasslands
8:10 AM.President and co-founder of the Savory Institute, which promotes large-scale restoration of the world's grasslands through holistic management. Audio
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Listener Feedback
11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio
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Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
11:45 AM.Kate discusses three 'animal' books: Blue Moon Bird by Sabrina Malcom, and Cloud Tea Monkeys, and Mysterious Traveller, both by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham. Audio
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Lauren Beukes: serial killers and time travel
11:10 AM.South African novelist, TV scriptwriter, documentary maker and comics writer whose latest book, The Shining Girls, is about a time-travelling serial killer. Audio
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Playing Favourites with Gifford Jackson
10:10 AM.New Zealand industrial design pioneer who spent his early working life in New York, and whose life is celebrated in the new book, Gifford Jackson: New Zealand Industrial Design Pathfinder. Audio
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Phoebe Hayman: garden gnomes
9:45 AM.CEO of toy craft-kit design company Seedling NZ, whose garden gnomes are being showcased in London this week at the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show. Audio
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David Skegg: science challenges
9:05 AM.New Zealand epidemiologist, and the President of the Royal Society of New Zealand, talking about the new science challenges, and longevity. Audio
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Joan Baez: activism and music
8:35 AM.American musician, songwriter and activist who will visit New Zealand in August for the first time in more than 20 years. Audio
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Huw Lewis-Jones: George Lowe and Everest
8:10 AM.Historian and author who is involved with books of letters and photos by George Lowe, who was on the 1953 Everest expedition with Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Audio
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Listener Feedback
11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio
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David Cameron: teaching English to Asia
11:42 AM.Founder and CEO of LearnKo, which delivers online learning programs to English language organisations in Asia, and has just completed the twelve-week Lightning Lab programme. Audio
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Peter Doherty: vets and viruses
11:05 AM.Former Australian of the Year whose research into human immune systems earned him the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, and is visiting New Zealand for Massey University's celebration of 50… Read more Audio
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Playing Favourites with Cassandra Wilson
10:08 AM.Mississippi-born jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter and producer, who is visiting New Zealand for one concert with her sextet during the Wellington Jazz Festival. Audio
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Louis Chambers: zero generation
9:50 AM.Founder of youth-led zero carbon advocacy group Generation Zero, and Law for Change, which is focused on public interest law. He has a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University from October. Audio
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Masha Gessen: Putin's Russia
9:06 AM.Russian-American journalist whose new book is The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, and is a guest at the 2013 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival. Audio