Saturday Morning for Saturday 15 June 2024

8:10 Sandy Inglis: Life as a surgeon in Southern Gaza

Kiwi surgeon in Southern Gaza, Dr Sandy Inglis has helped establish a new field hospital in Southern Gaza, under the banner of the ICRC - the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The southern city of Rafah has been a refuge for over a million Gazans forced to flee from fighting in the North.

Aside from the field hospital, just one working hospital - a maternity unit - remains functional in Rafah.  The healthcare worker death toll has reached 500.

Inglis is a Senior Medical Officer in the ICRC war surgery team.

8:35 Dr Jo Cribb: how to thrive in the new world of work

With the exponential growth of AI-based technology many people are left wondering if their jobs will exist in the not-too-distant future. However, Dr Jo Cribb and her co-author David Glover reckon we should embrace emerging technologies and ready ourselves for the high-speed changes ahead.

The former CEOs have revised their popular 2018 book, Don't Worry About the Robots, to help guide readers through the future of work and how they can not only survive, but actually thrive.

Dr Cribb is the former Chief Executive of the Ministry for Women and she was the Deputy Children's Commissioner. She has a doctorate in public policy, and regularly works as a consultant and coach for leadership teams.

 

9:05 James Comey: FBI director turned crime writer

Former FBI director turned crime writer, James Comey, takes readers into the world of high finance and corporate espionage in his new thriller Westport.

Comey, an American lawyer, became the seventh director of the FBI in 2013, and remained in that role until his very public termination in 2017. Fired by President Donald Trump - unhappy about his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

What does an ex-FBI boss do after that? Become a crime novelist of course.

Central Park West was his first novel in the Nora Carleton series. His follow up Westport has just been released. He chats to Colin Peacock.

9:40 Dr Andrew Faleatua: fusing jazz with traditional Pasifika sounds

Composer, performer, and educator Dr Andrew Faleatua has been announced as the 2024 Jazz Composer-in-Residence at the New Zealand School of Music. The prestigious six-month appointment comes with a salary and a research grant to develop a significant body of work.

During his residency, Andrew intends to go "full throttle into a fusion of traditional Samoan instruments with a jazz ensemble", a fusion of two very different genres that he has already been experimenting with for a few years. He speaks with Colin Peacock about how he discovered his love of jazz and its freedom of expression, and his journey to connect with his Samoan heritage.

10.05 Dr Janja Lalich: how cults hook people in

Former cult member turned professor of sociology, Dr Janja Lalich is considered an international authority on cultic groups and coercive control.

In the late 70s and early 80s, Dr Lalich was a member of the San Francisco-based Democratic Workers Party, a political cult that controlled her income and cut her off from family.  The organisation was disbanded in 1985, and she eventually went on to dedicate her life to understanding cults and helping survivors. She is the founder and CEO of the Lalich Center on Cults and Coercion in California, has authored six books, appeared in multiple documentaries, and serves as an expert witness in civil and criminal legal cases.

Dr Lalich will be appearing as part of the DeCult Conference taking place 19-20 October at the Turanga Central Library in Christchurch.

10:40 Lisa Beauchamp: Activist and avante-garde artist Derek Jarman

UK artist and gay rights activist Derek Jarman is best known for his defiantly provocative avant-garde films, including Caravaggio (1986) and The Garden (1990) starring longtime collaborator and muse Tilda Swinton. 

Jarman was also a prolific painter, writer, set designer, performer and gardener.

He died 30 years ago at just 52 of an AIDS related illness - but remains hugely influential.

Aotearoa's first ever exhibition of his work in opens at Auckland's Gus Fisher Gallery this week.

Derek Jarman​: Delphinium Days is co-curated by Lisa Beauchamp who joins us to talk about his life, art and creative legacy.

11:05 Toby Manhire: Rogernomics and me

This week marks forty years since Robert Muldoon's now-notorious, inebriated, snap election announcement which set in motion a seismic chain of events in New Zealand politics, the impacts of which still remain raw for many.

With strongman prime minister Rob Muldoon replaced by a Labour Party led by charismatic David Lange and finance minister Roger Douglas's introduction of "Rogernomics" imposing a commercial model on almost every facet of our nation's life.

The Spinoff Editor at Large, and co-host of the Gone by Lunchtime politics podcast, Toby Manhire, has interviewed more than 20 people at the heart of the social, cultural and economic changes that resulted from the pivotal 1984 snap election. The result is Juggernaut a six part podcast series, released weekly, with the first episode out now.

In the series, Toby Manhire dives deep into the archives, with audio of David Lange that has never been heard publicly, to tell the story of an incredible, whiplash chapter in New Zealand history.

11:40 Kate De Goldi: Reading for pleasure

Kate De Goldi is one of New Zealand's most celebrated authors, an Arts Foundation Laureate, and a voracious reader.

She joins Colin to share three books she's loved; two novels; Tell by Jonathan Buckley and Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan, plus Richard Flanagan' memoir Question 7.

 

Books featured on this programme:

Westport
by James Comey 
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN    9781837932726

Tell
by Jonathan Buckley
Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN    9781804270721

Kick the Latch
by Kathryn Scanlan
Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN       9781914198250

Music played in this show

Song: Feeling Good
Artist: Nina Simone
Time played: 09.06

 

Song: How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful 
Artist: Florence and the Machine
Time played: 10.36