RNZ: Saturday Morning

Linda Tyler will talk nudes to mark the imminent end of The Body Laid Bare: Masterpieces from Tate exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki. Tyler is an associate professor and director of the Centre for Art Studies at the University of Auckland. She also directs the Gus Fisher Gallery in Shortland Street, and curates its art collection. She will focus on works by Irish artist Francis Bacon in The Body Laid Bare, and the 1998 movie Love is the Devil which explores Bacon's masochistic relationship with his self-destructive young lover George Dyer. The movie screens July 1 at the gallery and The Body Laid Bare exhibition runs until July 16. https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/ http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/our-faculty/schools-programmes-and-centres/centre-for-art-studies.html http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/galleries-and-collections/gus-fisher-gallery.html

Professor Rhema Vaithianathan is co-director of the Centre for Social Data Analytics at AUT. She is widely published in the research areas of health and development economics and applied microeconomics, has been a policy analyst for the New Zealand Treasury, and was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard. Previously, Vaithianathan was an associate professor at the University of Auckland, where she led a team that developed a mathematical method of predicting child abuse. She has recently used that model as a basis for work in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where a predictive tool developed by her and her team assists call screeners to decide which calls about alleged child maltreatment should be investigated further. The modelling is now being used and assessed by states across the US. https://csda.aut.ac.nz/

Part of the reason people are suspicious of severe depression is that we're all a little depressed, says writer Daphne Merkin.

Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere is a senior lecturer at the University of Otago Faculty of Law, teaching public law, the law of torts and animals and the law. His research interests include the status of animals within the law. Ferrere completed his Master of Laws at the University of Toronto, he was a judges' clerk at the High Court of New Zealand and practiced as a solicitor at Chapman Tripp in Wellington. He will be speaking on the topic of 'animal sentience and the law' at the NZ Animal Law Association's first conference, on July 1 in Auckland. http://nzala.org/

Charlotte (Polly) Fisher is a sailor who raced for 11 years as a member of the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, including in the Wellington Harbour and Coastal Offshore Series. In 1990, Polly was the sole woman in a crew of eight that raced the Auckland to Noumea Ocean Classic on the fast racer Flojo. She and husband Robert Fisher have attended four America's Cup competitions - Sir Peter Blake's first win in 1995 in San Diego, 2000 and 2003 in the Hauraki Gulf and the 2013 competition in San Francisco. Fisher, who is based in Wellington, will talk to Kim about how this year's America's Cup racing stands alongside the earlier regattas, what 'velocity made good' (VMG) means, and why Team New Zealand must beat Oracle Team USA at all costs. https://www.americascup.com/

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

Dropping the traditional gender roles of 'caregiver' and 'breadwinner' would benefit everyone, says former Green MP Holly Walker, who's written a memoir The Whole Intimate Mess: Motherhood, Politics and Women's Writing.

Auckland-based husband and wife team, lawyers Anthony and Sandra Grant, have just opened a hugely ambitious art project near Matakana, north of Auckland, called Sculptureum. For 12 years, the couple have filled their 10ha vineyard and restaurant site with hundreds of sculptures - including the most substantial piece of glass art on public display in Australasia (a chandelier by Dale Chihuly), works by Cezanne, Matisse, Chagall and Rodin, brightly coloured animals by the Cracking Art Group and hundreds of other pieces by New Zealand and international artists. Anthony Grant also co-authored The Law of Intellectual Property in New Zealand (1989) and wrote the New Zealand chapter in ADR and Trusts: An international guide to arbitration and mediation of trust disputes (Grant Jones and Peter Pexton, 2015).

Romain Troublé is managing director of the Tara Expeditions Foundation - the Tara is formerly Sir Peter Blake's vessel Seamaster. With a double degree in biotechnology and business management, Troublé also participated in the America's Cup in 2000 and 2003. Tara has traveled 350,000km since 2003, completing 10 expeditions to study and understand the impact of climate and ecological change on the ocean. The schooner returns to New Zealand on Saturday, July 1 for the first time since the death of the Kiwi yachtsman and environmentalist Sir Peter and, while berthed in Auckland, there will be a (free) outdoor photo and video exhibition, with a focus on oceans.

Warren Brookbanks was a Professor of Law at Auckland University, where he taught from 1983 to 2016. He is co-author of New Zealand's leading criminal law textbook Principles of Criminal Law (4th ed) with Andrew Simester, and has authored and co-edited a number of other leading texts on criminal justice and psychiatry and the law. Brookbanks is a founding trustee of the Odyssey House Trust (NZ) and is a former president of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL). He's just launched the Centre for Non-Adversarial Justice at AUT, which is the first of its kind in New Zealand, aiming to provide leadership to academics, the legal profession, and others engaged in non-adversarial problem-solving.

Mike Myers is the managing director of Australia's National Affordable Housing Consortium (NAHC) which has built over 3,500 new affordable rental homes in the last seven years, attracting $1.3b in private investment. The NAHC has also recently established a fully market-based shared-equity home ownership programme called BuyAssist Australia, to help people transition from renting to buying. With over 30 years' experience in social and affordable housing in Australia and the UK, Myers was recently in New Zealand to address the Community Housing Aotearoa IMPACT conference held in Wellington, where he shared the lessons New Zealand could learn from Australia.

Allan Lichtman,  a distinguished professor of history at American University in Washington, says in his latest book, The Case for Impeachment, President Trump could face impeachment for any number of reasons.

British stage and screen legend Vanessa Redgrave is in Sydney with her son Carlo Nero to attend the opening of their new documentary Sea Sorrow at the Sydney Film Festival. Redgrave decided to make her directorial debut on the film, which her son has produced, after seeing footage of the body of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach in 2015. Sea Sorrow focuses on efforts in the British parliament to allow more refugee children into the UK. Redgrave has been an actor since 1958, when she first appeared on London's West End, and has appeared in dozens of plays and films during her acclaimed career, winning the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, BAFTA, Olivier, Cannes, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild awards.

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

Kate De Goldi is one of New Zealand's most celebrated authors and a Saturday Morning regular. Her most recent novel, From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle (Longacre), won the junior fiction category at the 2016 Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. She will discuss The Blue Cat by Ursula Dubosarsky (Allen & Unwin); The Journey by Francesca Sanna (Flying Eye Books); and Stepping Stones by Margriet Ruurs, artwork by Nizar Ali Badr (Orca Book Publishers).