Saturday Morning for Saturday 12 October 2024

7.10 Negar Mortazavi

Senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington Negar Mortazavi

 

7.20 The Humanitarian toll in Lebanon

While casualties mounting in Lebanon UNICEF is becoming increasingly concerned about all out war in the wider region.

UNICEF spokesperson and humanitarian worker Tess Ingram in Beirut tells Perlina even though Israel and Lebanon have been exchanging strikes for the past year, the current escalation still shocked people in Lebanon.

 

7.30 Susana Leiataua: Manawanui latest

Susana reports from Samoa ahead of a big weekend there - Samoa Lotu Tamaiti, White Sunday, amid conflicting reports of whether oil is leaking from the HMNZS Manawanui.

 

7:35 Missing Marokopa children's mum Cat

The mother of the three missing Marokopa kids says she's dumbfounded by the trolling and nasty comments she has experienced since 2021.

Jayda, Maverick and Ember were recently filmed tramping across fields and into the bush north of Marokopa in the King Country.

Their father Tom Phillips has been on the run with them since 2021.

She talks exclusively to Mihi about how she is coping.

 

7.45 National Perinatal Bereavement Care Pathway

Health NZ has announced a technical advisory group, to help develop a National Perinatal Bereavement Care Pathway. 

Each year, hundreds of whānau experience the loss of a baby, and thousands are affected by miscarriage.

The co-chairs of the group, Dr Vicki Culling and Dr Kendall Stevenson talk to Mihi about why a new pathway is needed.

 

7.55 Jeanine Clarkin: Caulerpa on the catwalk

Artist and fashion designer Jeanine Clarkin who's transforming an invasive seaweed into something truly special.

 

8.10 Tim Winton: the reality of climate inaction is science fiction

Australian "Living Treasure" Tim Winton's new novel Juice is a dystopian thriller mapping out a future so devastated by climate catastrophe it's near unbearable.

Hot winters, suffocating ash, ice storms, and fatal summers force characters underground in a world which has become largely uninhabitable.

Over his 40-year literary career, Winton has published more than 30 novels, short story collections, non-fiction and plays. He has won the Miles Franklin Award four times and has been nominated twice for the Booker Prize.

 

8:45 My Marae - Te Pai o Hauraki

In 1779 Captain Cook took a longboat up the Waihou River to Netherton, just a few kilometres from where the township of Paeroa would be built.  

Around 300 years earlier, it's thought local iwi settled in the area.

Today there are a number of marae still operating, including Te Pai o Hauraki, a Ngāti Tamaterā marae.

Mihi's joined by historian and kaikōrero Larn Wilkinson to hear more about the marae and its history. 

 

9:05 Guerilla gardener Mark van Kaathoven's sponge garden

Mark van Kaathoven has created some amazing gardens right in the middle of Auckland city.

He's sent no more than four bags of green waste to the tip in the last 15 years - instead using that waste to make sponge gardens.

Apart from reducing waste, they've also protected his home in drought and flood.

During Cyclone Gabrielle, many of his neighbours' homes were drenched but his sponge gardens absorbed all the extra moisture and kept his home safe and dry.

He talks to Mihi about his unconventional approach to gardening and why he believes everyone should do the same.

 

9:35 Susie Ferguson - Bloody Minded

When she was just 25, Susie Ferguson became a war correspondent. She was the only woman among hundreds of soldiers serving in Iraq in 2003. None of them knew she was taking 15 painkillers a day, reliant on opioids to stem the pain of what she would later learn was endometriosis.

The former Morning Report presenter and current host of Saturday Morning has written a behind-the-scenes memoir that tells of a childhood in Scotland, bullying and treading the boards, putting on a flak jacket, motherhood and battling for her own health.

Susie joins Perlina to talk about Bloody Minded.

 

10.05 Estrogen gel: women's health expert Bev Lawton

From November 1st, Pharmac will fully fund Estrogel, which currently costs at least $40 a month.

It's hoped the estrogen gel will provide a solution to the ongoing shortage of HRT patches.

A GP in Wellington for 17 years, co-founder of the Wellington Menopause Clinic, and founder/director of Te Tātai Hauora o Hine (the National Centre for Women's Health Research Aotearoa) at Victoria University of Wellington, Professor Bev Lawton has been researching topical eostrogen. 

Bev's also conducted a lot of research around the recently introduced at-home smear test, and is on a quest, along with the Cancer Society to end cervical cancer.

She joins Mihi to discuss menopause, the gel and the impact so far of the HPV self test.

 

10:35 A love letter to bookshops

A photo book paying tribute to 32 of New Zealand's indie book stores has hit the shelves, fittingly on New Zealand Bookshop Day.

Bold Types - Indie Bookshops of Aotearoa New Zealand is a collection of crafted stories and quirky insights - with the booksellers describing their businesses, their communities and the joy of pairing readers with the right books.

The shops' unique characters, their backrooms and even resident pets, have been captured by one of the country's most celebrated photographers, Jane Ussher.

Jane and Masterton bookshop owner David Hedley - whose family has been in the book business since 1907 -  join Perlina to discuss Bold Types, and the art of selling books.

 

11.05 Elizabeth Banks: new NZ hospital drama

Actor Elizabeth Banks has taken a step away from her usual block busters (The Hunger Games, Pitch Perfect, Charlie's Angels, to name just a few...) to play the lead role in a New Zealand medical drama.

'A Mistake', directed by Kiwi filmmaker Christine Jeffs and based on the the novel by Wellington author Carl Shuker, sees Banks playing a talented surgeon, Beth Taylor, whose life unravels after making a fatal mistake on the operating table.

The medical thriller is set in a bureaucratic Auckland hospital and looks at the dangers of human fallibility and the need for black and white answers in a world of nuance.

Actor Elizabeth Banks, director Christine Jeffs, and author of the novel, Carl Shuker discuss the film.

 

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 Perlina and Mihi to share some great books: Delirious by Damien Wilkins, Small Bomb at Dimperley by Lissa Evans, and Edith Collier by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor, & Greg Donson.

 

Books on today's show

Bold Types - Indie Bookshops of Aotearoa New Zealand
Edited by Jemma Moreira 
Photographs by Jane Ussher
Published by Ugly Hill Press

Bloody Minded
Susie Ferguson
HarperCollins

Delirious
By Damien Wilkins
Published by Te Herenga Waka Press

Small bomb at Dimperley
By Lissa Evans
Published by Penguin UK

Edith Collier
By Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor & Greg Donson
Published by Massey University Press

 

Music played in this show

Song: Octopus's Garden
Artist: The Beatles
Time Played: 9.34

Song: Only Women Bleed
Artist: Tina Arena
Time Played: 10.35

Song: Peaceful Place
Artist: Leon Bridges
Time Played: 10.55

Song: Total Control
Artist: The Motels
Time Played: 11.35

Song: OK Love You Bye
Artist: Olivia Dean
Time Played: 11.57