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Saturday, 20 February 2010

Adrian Raeside on the Winter Olympics, Dr Peter Gill on forensic DNA, James Crampton on fossil hunting in NZ, Kate’s Klassic: Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger, Playing Favourites with playwright Hone Kouka, Ian Dunbar on dog training, Art with Mary Kisler: interpreting ballet.

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Saturday, 13 February 2010

Sefton Eruera Buchler Darby on extractive transparency, Peter Brook on theatre and tolerance, Robert Connolly on Balibo, Amanda Wright on Splore, Playing (NZ) Favourites with Nick Bollinger, futurist Mark Pesce, Maths with Gaven Martin: fractals

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Saturday, 6 February 2010

Hector Busby on building and restoring waka, waka captain Joe Conrad, history student Sam Kaelin, Jeanette King on te reo’s influence on NZ pronunciation, local hero Sam Chapman, Keith Anderson and Chris Lawrence from the NZ Navy Band, Liz Marsden on the tino rangatiratanga flag, Michael Pannett on policing Waitangi, Daniel Morrison on singing anthems, Pita Paraone:of the Waitangi National Trust.

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Saturday, 30 January 2010

Dr Nina Fedoroff on genes and food, musician Lucien Johnson on Haiti, Philip Hoare on whales, Playing Favourites with Scottish singer Eddi Reader, Fariba Hachtroudi on Iran, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Christchurch library treasures.

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Saturday, 23 January 2010

Sherman Young on the future of the book (from 2009), Joyce Fleming on her life and naturism (from 2009), Sister Loyola Galvin on her life and gardening (from 2008).

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Saturday, 16 January 2010

Matthew Weiner, creator of Mad Men, playwright David Hare, artist Karl Maughan

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Saturday, 9 January 2010

Jill Bolte Talor on her stroke (from 2008), and Chris Knox plays favourites (from 2006).

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Saturday, 2 January 2010

Repeats of interviews with artist Bill Culbert, and Barnaby Weir and Dick Weir on the Fly My Pretties project.

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Saturday, 26 December 2009

Boxing Day poets, with Bub Bridger and Sam Hunt.

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Saturday, 19 December 2009

Marcus Chown on light, the universe and everything, scientist Paul Callaghan, writer David Vann on boats and suicide, Art with Mary Kisler: restoration, dub musician Tom Bailey, Greg Broadmore on illustrations, guns and District 9, members of the Jubilation Choir, Kate De Goldi on what makes a great children’s book.

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Saturday, 12 December 2009

Anne C. Heller on Ayn Rand, Daniel Kruger on sex and shopping, Richard Faull on brain research, Kate’s Klassic: The Big Sleep, Martin Perna on Fela Kuti, Maths with Gaven Martin: infinity, Valerie Browning on the Afar of Ethiopia.

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Saturday, 5 December 2009

Kamila Shamsie on Pakistan, Simon Kuper on soccernomics and the 2010 World Cup, Jenny Uglow on Charles II and the Restoration, Maths with Gaven Martin: counting, singer/songwriters Carole King and James Taylor, Colin Gibson on hymns.

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Saturday, 28 November 2009

Roger Donaldson on Burt Munro, Steve Jones on chasmology (yawning), Judith Binney on 100 years of Tuhoe, Language with Jen Hay, Playing Favourites with Lawrence Arabia, Adrian Raeside on his grandfather and the Antarctic, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: new books.

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Saturday, 21 November 2009

Tom Feiling on cocaine and Colombia, Rod Carr on revenue generation in Canterbury, Richard Gage on the architecture of 9/11, Kate Camp’s Klassic: Anna Karenina, Jarvis Cocker on life during and after Pulp, David Burton on cooking and kina, Peter Hunter on body modelling and the Rutherford Medal.

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Saturday, 14 November 2009

Simon Schama on the past, present, future of the USA, Nomi Prins on the backroom bailouts on Wall Street, Paul Trotman on the donation and dissection of cadavers, Matthew Weiner on the creation and production of Mad Men, Hugh Fletcher on Fletcher Challenge and a century of building, Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Alison Uttley.

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Saturday, 7 November 2009

Greg Browne on dinosaur footprints, Garth Smith on luo han, Robert P. Kirshner on the accelerating universe, Art with Mary Kisler: five gifted works, Playing Favourites with artist and musician Reg Mombassa, Walter Mischel on the marshmallow test, Jeremy Pope on travel and transparency.

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Saturday, 31 October 2009

Daniel Knorr on incarceration and art, Tino Tabak on cycling and cheating, John Perriam on Bendigo Station and Shrek the sheep, Maths with Gaven Martin: differential equations, Ruth Reichl on her mother and Gourmet magazine, Kirk Torrance on his play Flintlock Musket and Outrageous Fortune, Sebastian Sylwan on making 3D movies, Matt Elliot on Billy T James.

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Saturday, 24 October 2009

Phillip Darnton on cycling in the UK, Isaac Mao on blogging, sharism and censorship in China, Mark Harris on ACTA, counterfeiting and trade, Language with Jen Hay: T and L, Playing Favourites with Sue Paterson, executive director of the New Zealand International Arts Festival, writer Peter Temple on truth and consequences, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: three new books.

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Saturday, 17 October 2009

Alan Walker on active ageing, John Leslie on the fall of the Berlin Wall, David Hare on political staging, Playing Favourites with Jan Hellriegel, Paul Barry on James Packer.

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Saturday, 10 October 2009

Bridget Kendall on Russia and the Forum, Matt Latimer on writing speeches for George W. Bush, Stephen Page on Faber and Faber, Kate Camp on Dante’s Inferno, Playing Favourites with American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tim O’Brien, Mike Whittaker on the Scary Washing Machine honeymoon in Samoa, Dick Frizzell on his expressionist pop art.

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Saturday, 3 October 2009

Mark Goodwin on saving bees, Gaven Martin on pure mathematics, Richard Stallman on digital freedoms, Art with Mark Amery: public galleries and Maori artists, Playing Favourites with Ian Chapman aka Dr Glam, Food with Peter Gordon, Marti Friedlander on photographing New Zealand.

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Saturday, 26 September 2009

Tobias Harris on the new Japanese government, Muriel Watt on solar power, writer Nick Hornby on movies, music and autism, Playing Favourites with blind runner Rob Matthews, Food with Annabelle Langbein, Christine Fernyhough on high country life.

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Saturday, 19 September 2009

Suzanne Gordon on changing perceptions of nursing, Marko Cunningham on rescuing the tsunami dead in Bangkok, James Belich on the settler revolution and rise of the Angloworld, Playing Favourites with Jonathan Owen of Svengali, Peter Proctor on biodynamic faming in India and New Zealand, Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: new picture books.

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Saturday, 12 September 2009

Jenny Weston on the Mongol Derby, Michael Cathcart on Australia and water, Sir Martin Evans on stem cells and gene therapy, Jen Hay on changing vowel sounds, Playing Favourites with dancer Richard Chen See, Chris Rojek on celebrity culture, Gardening with Sally Cameron

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Saturday, 5 September 2009

Angela Kearney on child safety and trafficking, Allan Pease on men, sex, women and love, Dana Beal on ibogaine and addiction, Leonhard Emmerling on the Venice Biennale, Playing Favourites with music and travel writer Graham Reid, Gary Taylor on polyamory, Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Charles Keeping.

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