RNZ: Saturday Morning

Arthur Tompkins is a District Court judge, and editor of Art Crime and its Prevention: A Handbook for Collectors and Art Professionals (Lund Humphries). He has a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces, and writes a bi-monthly series of articles in the online magazine Versopolis about stolen masterpieces now back on public display. He'll talk to Kim about the 1994 theft of Shade and Darkness - the Evening of the Deluge, one of a pair of J. M. W. Turner's late-career paintings to deal with the biblical flood.

US film-maker Michael Galinsky and his wife Suki Hawley have produced numerous documentaries, many of which have achieved cult status, include Malls Across America, Half-Cocked, All the Rage and Battle for Brooklyn. Hawley produced and Galinsky co-directed Working in Protest, which covers 17 years of protest and activism in America from processions by the KKK and events celebrating the Confederate Flag, to the Occupy Wall Street movement and rallies for Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Working in Protest is screening at the NZ International Film Festival.

British Labour MP for the constituency of Batley and Spen, Jo Cox, was murdered on June 16th, 2016 as she met with constituents. A campaigner and an active member of her community, Jo was a wife, daughter, sister and mother of two, and her death galvanised calls for a return to civility in political discourse. Jo's husband Brendan Cox has spoken out about growing xenophobia and intolerance across Europe in the wake of his wife's murder, and has now written a book, Jo Cox: More in Common, which has just been released. Royalties from the book will go to the Jo Cox Foundation, which supports humanitarian causes around the world.

Kim speaks to Scott MacLean, Group Controller, Emergency Management Otago, about the states of emergency, slips and floods, road closures and evacuations that have happened overnight.

Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme.

A persistent streak of anti-Asian sentiment is rooted in the history of New Zealand, says Emma Ng, a second-generation Chinese New Zealander and author of the new book Old Asian, New Asian.

Leading dramatic soprano Kathryn Harries has recently announced she is stepping down at the end of the year as director of the National Opera Studio in London after nearly a decade in the role. Harries says she was going to be a pharmacist like her dad, but "mercifully, I decided on a career in music and with that single decision I saved countless lives". She fell in love with New Zealand during a visit in 1989, was here as a judge for the Lexus Song Quest in 2014, and has been back again as director of The Kiri Programme, in its first year of nurturing young singers.

In her new book A Woman's Place, Joan Withers weighs in on the question of how to get more women into the top tiers of management. She talks with Kim Hill.

Named as an Aucklander of the Year in 2005 by Metro magazine, and four-time Director of the Year by The New Zealand Listener, Shane Bosher is one of New Zealand's most prolific theatre makers. During his 13-year tenure as artistic director of Silo Theatre his works included ambitious productions including Angels in America and Holding the Man. Bosher, who is now based in Sydney, has returned to Auckland to direct A Streetcar Named Desire for Silo Theatre's 20th milestone year. He'll also bring his award-winning production of Cock to the Herald Theatre. Bosher's 2015 Sydney production of Cock was nominated for four Sydney Theatre Awards including Best Production, Best Direction, Best Actress and Best Lighting Design. The production won the 2015 Mardi Gras Festival Award for Best Arts Event.

Matt Tyrnauer is a US director and regular contributor to Vanity Fair. His film, Valentino: The Last Emperor was short-listed for Best Documentary Feature Academy Award. His documentary, Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, tells the story of an epic struggle in the early 1960s, when activist Jane Jacobs took on powerful developer Robert Moses over the fate of New York city. Moses knocked down neighbourhoods to build high-rises and motorways, while Jacobs led a grass-roots campaign to thwart his plan to plough an expressway across town, right through Lower Manhattan. Citizen Jane is screening at the NZ International Film Festival.

Katie Somerville is the Senior Fashion and Textiles Curator at the National Gallery of Victoria, and has spent the last three years pulling together the stunning House of Dior exhibition that opens at the NGV in August. Her job has been to source the garments, collating their fascinating stories, and understanding the unique history behind each piece - a task that has required frequent trips abroad and late night calls to Paris. She has been in a fashion and textiles curatorial role with the NGV since 1995.

Nazneen Rahman is professor of human genetics at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, and head of cancer genetics at the Royal Marsden Hospital. Her work focuses on identifying gene mutations that predispose some people to getting cancer. She is also a singer-songwriter and has just released her second album Questions no Answers. She talks to Kim about her work, her unusual career combination and the difficulty of answering the question "what do you do?"

Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme.

Graphic designer Marcus Thomas and photographer Neil Silverwood have just published a book, Caves: Exploring New Zealand's Subterranean Wilderness, which takes readers on a journey into New Zealand's longest and deepest caves.

Lisa-Maria Neudert is a research assistant at the Computational Propaganda Project (ComProp) and a graduate student at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). She talks to Kim about the ComProp data memo on social bots and fake news during the German Federal Elections, which she authored as part of the wider study into the impact of the use of social media to manipulate public opinion in several countries during election campaigns, recently released by the OII. Selected as a Fulbright and German Academic Exchange (DAAD) Scholar, Neudert studied Communication Technologies & Diplomacy at the Georgetown University, Washington DC; and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Science and Economics from the Ludwig-Maxmillians-University, Munich.