Saturday Morning for Saturday 21 April 2018
This Saturday Morning: Kim talks to world leader in sustainable development, Professor Jeffrey Sachs; Myanmar specialist Francis Wade on his new book about Buddhist nationalism and anti-Muslim sentiment which has seen the Rohingya flee the country; poet and author Eileen Myles discusses their memoir of their late dog, Rosie; Dr Karen Stockin talks about what's going on for whales and their human rescuers during whale strandings; and the musical director of the NZ Secondary Students Choir, Andrew Withington, who has pioneered a system on how to teach choirs to sing in tune, joins Kim to play some of his favourite music.
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Jeffrey Sachs on inequality and sustainable growth
8:12 AM.The United States is living through an inequality crisis which is distorting and weakening its society, says Jeffrey Sachs, world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development… Read more Audio
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Francis Wade - Myanmar's Enemy Within
9:07 AM.Francis Wade is a UK foreign correspondent who is a Myanmar specialist. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, Asia Times Online, Foreign Policy, and Los Angeles Review of Books… Read more Audio
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Eileen Myles - A Dog Memoir
10:06 AM.Poet, novelist, performer, librettist, and one-time presidential candidate Eileen Myles moved to New York to be a poet in 1974. They found fame as part of the St Mark's Poetry Project, studying with… Read more Audio
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What happens to the whales we put back to sea
10:35 AM.Mass whale strandings are relatively common in New Zealand, but we don't yet know enough about what happens to the marine mammals when we intervene, says Dr Karen Stockin from Massey University's… Read more Audio
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Andrew Withington - Teaching the world to sing
11:06 AM.Andrew Withington is musical director and conductor of the New Zealand Secondary Students Choir - a 60-strong chorus of teenagers who work with top vocal and acting coaches and perform across the… Read more Audio
8:09 Jeffrey Sachs - Leading Sustainable Development
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Jeffrey Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 100 countries. He is the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for environmental leadership. Sachs is director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, special advisor to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals, and director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He is chair and founder of SDG USA, a non-governmental initiative to promote the Sustainable Development Goal concepts in the US. Sachs is also co-founder and chief strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance. He is taking part via video link in next week's inaugural NZ Sustainable Development Goals Summit in Wellington.
9:06 Francis Wade - Myanmar's Enemy Within
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Francis Wade is a UK foreign correspondent who is a Myanmar specialist. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, Asia Times Online, Foreign Policy, and Los Angeles Review of Books. He previously worked as an editor and reporter for the Democratic Voice of Burma, an exiled Burmese news organisation based in Thailand. His latest book is Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other', which examines the origins of Buddhist nationalism and anti-Muslim sentiment in Myanmar - sentiment that has recently led more than half a million Rohingya people to flee the country for neighbouring Bangladesh. Wade will be appearing at this year's Auckland Writers Festival.
10:04 Eileen Myles - A Dog Memoir
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Poet, novelist, performer, librettist, and one-time presidential candidate Eileen Myles moved to New York to be a poet in 1974. They found fame as part of the St Mark's Poetry Project, studying with the likes of Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley. Their poetry has appeared in The New Yorker and Paris Review among others, while more than a dozen volumes of poetry and fiction have also been published. Myles will be appearing at this year's Auckland Writers Festival to talk about Afterglow, a memoir of their late dog Rosie.
10:35 Karen Stockin - The ethics of rescuing whales
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Dr Karen Stockin is a senior lecturer and director of the Coastal-Marine Research Group at Massey University, where her research focuses on marine mammal biology, ecology and behaviour. She serves on the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Intersessional Steering Group for Strandings where, as one of 25 international experts, she advises the IWC Scientific Committee on matters relating to best practice, protocols and welfare at whale strandings. Stockin is speaking at a Fascination Science event at Massey's Albany campus next week about whale strandings and the social, ethical and animal welfare issues surrounding rescue attempts.
11:04 Andrew Withington - Teaching the world to sing
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Andrew Withington is musical director and conductor of the New Zealand Secondary Students Choir - a 60-strong chorus of teenagers who work with top vocal and acting coaches and perform across the country and around the world. He has just completed his PhD which involved creating his own system on how to teach choirs to sing more reliably and consistently in tune. He joins Kim to explain how his method works, and to play some of his favourite music. NZSSC will once again sing at the official ANZAC Day service at Pukeahu Park this year, and give two cathedral concerts in Wellington next week.
Books mentioned in this episode
The End of Poverty
by Professor Jeffrey Sachs
The Age of Sustainable Development
by Professor Jeffrey Sachs
Dark Age Ahead
by Jane Jacobs
Our Final Century
by Lord Martin Rees
The Revenge of Gaia
by James Lovelock
Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'
by Francis Wade
Published by Zed Books
Afterglow
by Eileen Myles
Published by Grove Press
Music played in this show
Artist: Netherlands Chamber Choir
Song: Kyrie from Mass for Double Choir
Composer: Frank Martin
Played at: 11:10
Artist: New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir
Song: Heilig from The German Liturgy
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Album: New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 2009-2010 In Concert
Label: RNZ
Played at: 11:20
Artist: New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir
Song: Geistliches Lied
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Album: Akoako i te rangi
Label: NZSSC
Played at: 11:30
Artist: New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir
Song: Salve Regina
Composer: David N. Childs
Album: New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 2009-2010 In Concert
Label: RNZ
Played at: 11:40
Artist: New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir
Song: Tofa Mai Feleni
Composer: Steven Rapana
Album: Akoako it te rangi
Label: NZSSC
Played in online version of this interview
