Saturday Morning for Saturday 22 June 2024

8.10 Sequoia Schmidt: A life on the edge

Adventurer and best-selling author Sequoia Schmidt's childhood was spent travelling the world with her father, well-known Kiwi mountaineer Marty Schmidt, before she went on to launch a publishing house Di Angelo Publications in Texas at just 16 years old.

Navigating the loss of both her father and brother in a 2013 avalanche on the mountain K2 and in more recent years the brain cancer diagnosis of her husband, Sequoia's new book, Dream of Flight, delves into her passion of base jumping and her need for extreme sports as a way of dealing with trauma.

Sequoia will be speaking at the New Zealand Mountain Book and Film Festival in Queenstown this coming Monday.

8.40 Dr Hinemoa Elder: Cycles of life and the turning of the moon

Many people know that Māori knowledge of the turning of the moon, Maramataka, was used as a practical guide to fishing and gardening, but it also provides a framework for emotional self-knowledge.

Māori child and adolescent psychiatrist and author Dr Hinemoa Elder (Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kurī, Te Rarawa and Ngāpuhi) is on a mission to share the value of these mātauranga Māori methods for making meaning in our lives.

Her best selling 2020 book Aroha, guided readers through a year of whakataukī. The follow up Wawata, offered daily wisdom inspired by Maramataka. Her latest creation is Waitohu: A Journal for Making Meaning, is fuelled by the whakataukī  'ka mua, ka muri', 'walking backwards into the future' and encourages people to cycle back and forwards to notice the patterns in their lives.

9.05 'The Click Trap' doco exposes nefarious world of online ads

How do digital advertisers target people to sell their products? And how much do they really know about us? 

In a world increasingly lived online, our personal information is a precious resource highly sought after by advertisers. In his documentary The Click Trap, director Peter Porta exposes the dark side of digital advertising and highlights how major tech firms claim to restrict disinformation, but ultimately profit from the spread of harmful content.

Porta is joined by Canadian journalist Craig Silverman, who has spent more than a decade investigating online misinformation and media manipulation.

The Click Trap is screening as part of Doc Edge Festival, click here for times and tickets.

9.40 Graham Leonard: Is it ok to ski on an active volcano?

Every winter skiers flock to Mt Ruapehu, an active volcano with several priors in recent memory: substantial eruptions in 1995 and 1996, a crater lake lahar in 2007 followed by an eruption later that year, and an eruption from neighbouring Mt Tongariro in 2012.

So how risky is it to ski on Ruapehu, and what have we learned from previous eruptions, both recent and historic?

GNS Principal scientist Graham Leonard joins us. 

10.05 Temuera Morrison's new act 

New film Ka Whawhai Tonu - Struggle Without End tells the historical story of a pivotal 1864 battle in the first New Zealand land wars in the Waikato region. Adapted from Ranginui Walker's 1990 book of the same name.

The movie is based on real accounts of survivors of the battle of O-Rākau. It's the debut feature from director Michael Jonathan, and features Temuera Morrison, Cliff Curtis and Miriama Smith alongside standout newcomers Paku Fernandez and Hinerangi Harawira-Nicholas.

Actor Temuera Morrison, is one of New Zealand's foremost actors having appeared in both local content, like Once Were Warriors and Shortland Street, as well as international block busters including Star Wars and Aqua Man. He spoke to Susie ahead of the film's release.

10.35 The Beatles in NZ: 60 Years on

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Beatles historic – and hysterical – visit to Australasia. The tour remains a significant social landmark in New Zealand's history, for its contribution to our developing youth culture, and also a major highlight of the Beatles’ career.

When We Was Fab: Inside The Beatles Australasian Tour 1964 is the culmination of a lifetime’s research by Beatles experts, Andy Neill and Greg Armstrong, and features many previously unseen photographs and never before shared stories from the time. 

Gisborne born, Andy Neill, is a leading music writer, researcher and historian, considered by many as one of the foremost Beatles researchers in the world. 

Susie speaks to Andy Neill ahead of the book launch. 

11.05 Playing Favourites with Mike McRoberts

Mike McRoberts has been a regular sight on our screens for nearly 20 years as co-anchor of the nightly 6pm news bulletin on channel Three. But following the shock announcement that Warner Bros Discovery would be closing down Newshub's operations, McRoberts revealed he would be hanging up his presenter's hat and retiring from the news. However, the veteran broadcaster has since taken up a new role as the Te Ao Māori Editor for NBR, National Business Review. 

Mike joins Susie to chat about what this new role means, the changing face of the media, and to play a few favourite tracks.

 

Books featured on this programme:

Dream of Flight
by Sequoia Schmidt
Published by Di Angelo Books
ISBN 9781955690973

Waitohu: A Journal for Making Meaning
By Dr Hinemoa Elder
Published by Penguin
ISBN: 9781776950898

When We Was Fab: Inside The Beatles Australasian Tour 1964
By Andy Neill and Greg Armstrong
Published by Woodslane Press
ISBN: 9781922800688

 

 

Music played in this show

Song: Can't buy Me love
Artist: The Beatles
Time played: 9.35am

 

Song: He Hōnore Nui
Artist: Te Matatini, Te Hokowhitu-a-Tu Concert Party, Hamiora Tuari, Tatana Tuari, Tame-Hoake Tuari
Time played: 11.18

 

Song: Landslide
Artist: Smashing Pumpkins
Time played: 11.30

 

Song: Different Drum
Artist: P.P. Arnold
Time played: 11.41

 

Song: Make Way For Love
Artist: Marlon Williams
Time played: 11.52

 

Song: One Day Like This
Artist: Elbow
Time played: 11.57