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Saturday, 25 January 2014

Graham Murdock on internet surveillance, Willard Wigan on making microscopic art, Classical Music with Davinia Caddy, roots rocker Steve Earle, theatre creator Robert Lepage, Energy with David Haywood.

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Saturday, 18 January 2014

Summer Selections from Saturday Morning with Kim Hill 2013, featuring repeat interviews with designer David Trubridge, documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer, young science orator Hadleigh Frost, Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Eleanor Catton, cheese-maker Lisa Harper

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Saturday, 11 January 2014

Summer Selections from Saturday Morning with Kim Hill 2013 featuring repeat interviews with Eleanor Learmonth on disaster and survival, Jeremy Scahill on America’s dirty wars, singer/songwriter Peter Skellern, Quuinn Berentson on the moa

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Saturday, 4 January 2014

Summer Selections from Saturday Morning with Kim Hill 2013 featuring repeat interviews with John Lennox on science and god , Mary Ruefle on poetry and life, physics combatants Ollie Hughes, Jared Lee and Lily Mason Mackay, singer  Rick Bryant, chemist  Roald Hoffmann

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Saturday, 28 December 2013

Summer Selections from Saturday Morning with Kim Hill 2013 featuring repeat interviews with Hordur Torfason on Iceland,  Pavan Sukhdev and global economics, Evan Brenton Rule on invasive species, children’s author Ted Dawe, novelist Graeme Simsion, and Lorde

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Saturday, 21 December 2013

Felix Salmon on the Internet and media revolution, Ben Schott on miscellanies and German words, Dan Collyns on Chile and free education, Playing Favourites with Sarah Longbottom of Nga Rangatahi Toa Creative Arts Initiative, Kate De Goldi and Laura Kroetsch on books in 2013.

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Saturday, 14 December 2013

Robert Harris on the Dreyfus scandal, Carl Zimmer on the end of flu, Nicholas Wood on political tourism, Arini Loader on engaging with te reo, Playing Favourites with new privacy commissioner John Edwards, Harold Hillman on leadership, Kate Camp on Fahrenheit 451.

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Saturday, 7 December 2013

Aislinn Laing on Nelson Mandela and South Africa,  John Fitzgerald on Ireland, money and politics, Ann Dowsett Johnston on women and alcohol, Art with Mary Kisler: Freedom Farmers, Playing Favourites with Tim Westergren of Pandora, Iris DeMent on singing the delta, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi

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Saturday, 30 November 2013

Andy Buchanan on timber construction and earthquakes, Deborah Blum on poisons, Bob Rigg on Syria and chemical weapons, Playing Favourites with Cathie and John Rae, Nancy Swarbrick on the history of pets in New Zealand, Yanetta Hiko on whanau fitness.

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Saturday, 23 November 2013

Steve Jones on genetics and religion, Sir Geoffrey Palmer on his memoir of  reform, Mary Kisler on three shows at the Adam Art Gallery, Playing Favourites with Kelly Joe Phelps, Huhana Smith on guarding wetlands, and Kate Camp on Love in a Cold Climate.

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Saturday, 16 November 2013

Richard Langston is guest host. His guests include Mark Lewisohn on The Beatles up to 1962, John Boys and Grant Covic on Inductive Power Transfer, Adrian Kinnaird on the history of comics in New Zealand, Playing Favourites with Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket, Rebecca Macfie on Pike River Mine, and Steve August on the iHunch and the Backpod.

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Saturday, 9 November 2013

Noelle McCarthy is guest presenter. She will discuss the NSA and civil liberties, and talk to Mandy Hager about youth, Vincent and the Menton Prize, Jill Trevelyan about Peter McLeavey, Mark Loewen on king of gore Lythronax Argestes, Playing Favourites with Jeremy Hansen, Sebastian Faulks on channeling PG. Wodehouse, Howell Round on medical physics.

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Saturday, 2 November 2013

The programme is guest presented by Megan Whelan, one of the team running TheWireless.co.nz. Guests are: Cecile Richards on family planning, Andrew Jack on censorship, Ruby Brunton on dating in NYC, Di White on crime, justice and theatre, James Robinson on voyaging and US politics, Lorna Piatti-Farnell on vampires and Goths, David Dallas on NZ hip hop, Dolly Parton on her world tour and Miley Cyrus, Playing Favourites with rapper  Tourettes, Uther Dean on trials and fear in the theatre, Stacy Gregg on horses and princesses, comedian Joseph Harper on bonsai, and rapper Randa AKA Mainard Larkin.

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Saturday, 26 October 2013

Mark Cubey is guest presenter. He talks to David Peace about Bill Shankly, Liverpool Football Club and socialism, Robin Moore about saving amphibians, filmmaker Robert Connolly about Tim Winton’s The Turning, Playing Favourites with Sunny Amey, Elizabeth Knox on horror, and Elaine Aron on highly sensitive people.

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Saturday, 19 October 2013

Susie Ferguson is guest presenter. She talks to Martin Jacques on the rise of China, Gary Greenberg on psychiatry, Tim Woodhouse on editing Everest in 3D, Playing Favourites with choreographer Travis Payne, Craig Rossiter on breast cancer, and actress Olympia Dukakis on her new movie.

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Saturday, 12 October 2013

Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga on Vatican reform, Paul Steely White on cycling reform, Moya Brennan on 40 years of Clannad, Paul Brewer on the restoration of Alexander Palace, Playing Favourites with creative director Matt Checkowski, Patricia Edgar on praising ageing, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi

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Saturday, 5 October 2013

Sir John Sulston on how humans can flourish on a finite Earth, Dame Margaret Drabble on her first novel in seven years, Mary Kisler on the online recreation of an 1813 exhibition, Playing Favourites with Eddie Rayner, Samantha Geimer on Polanski and afterwards, Kate Camp on The Group by Mary McCarthy.

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Saturday, 28 September 2013

Bill Bryson on the US summer of 1927, Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat, Pray, Love fame, on her new novel set in the1800s, Playing Favourites with merchant bankers and adventurers Paul and Andrew Bayly, chart-topping musician Lorde, and two new children’s books with Kate De Goldi.

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Saturday, 21 September 2013

Lisa Matisoo-Smith on her Africa to Aotearoa genetics study, Bridget Griffen-Foley on Australian media dynasties, Matthew Tukaki on the United Nations, Pamela Gay on citizen science and space, Playing Favourites with soprano Orla Boylan, Lisa Harper on artisanal cheese and her Nuffield Scholarship.

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Saturday, 14 September 2013

Mike White on the Scott Guy case, Andrew Adamson on the film of  Mr Pip, Matthew Trundle on money in Ancient Greece, Playing Favourites with Davinia Caddy, Jan Preston on the life of the piano, Kate De Goldi on Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein.

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Saturday, 7 September 2013

Broadcasting live in front of a studio audience from the New Zealand Broadcasting School, CPIT, Christchurch. Guests include Joanna Norris of The Press, Jessica Halliday of FESTA, Professor Shaun Hendy on innovation, Juliet Arnott on Rekindle, Paul Cleave on crime, troubadour Delaney Davidson, musician and producer Liam Ryan, and Nikki Berry and the A Capellago choir. Studio band is House of Brown.

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Saturday, 31 August 2013

Richard Davenport-Hines on the Profumo affair in 1963 England, Craig Stanford on the prospect of a planet without apes, Jacob Rajan on the success of his Indian Ink company, Playing Favourites with White Ferns bowler Sian Ruck, Liz Evans on managing addiction in Vancouver, and Toby Morris on documenting a year of fatherhood.

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Saturday, 24 August 2013

Janice Galloway on her ‘anti-memoirs’, Professor  Kwame Anthony Appiah on morals and honour, Leon Wadham on Lord of the Flies, Playing Favourites with Malcolm Rands of Ecostore, Lloyd Jones on his family history and Christchurch, Chris Norman on pickled eggs.

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Saturday, 17 August 2013

Ian Black and Nopha Radwan on Egypt and the Middle East, Andrew Bovell on writing for stage and screen, Mary Kisler on the artist Turner, Playing Favourites with singing teacher Christina Bevan, MaryJane Thomson on her memoir of mental illness, mathematician Geoff Whittle on solving Rota’s Conjecture

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Saturday, 10 August 2013

Andrew Beaujon on newspaper sales,  Derek Grzelewski on trout, Lou Sanson on Antarctica, Ollie Hughes, Jared Lee and Lily Mason Mackay on their physics fight, Playing Favourites with cult beer bar owner Dominic Kelly, Quinn Berentson on the moa.

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Presented by Susie Ferguson and Mihingarangi Forbes. In-depth feature interviews, current affairs and news across a broad range of topics on RNZ National and online.

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