RNZ: Saturday Morning

Kim Hill talks to London barrister Julian Milford, who represented the British Labour Party in the legal challenge to the system of voting for their party leadership. He is also a pianist, and a founding member of the London Conchord Ensemble, a supergroup of British classical musicians who are currently touring New Zealand.

Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 8 October.

Kim Hill talks to Ben Grosser, Assistant Professor in the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois, and a faculty affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He is also an artist focused on cyber-security who has been described as the "unrivaled king of ominous gibberish". His works include the Interactive Robotic Painting Machine, and the Gmail extension Scaremail, which aims to drown the National Security Agency in nonsense. He joins a roster of security experts, academics, former spies, and privacy advocates, who offer perspectives on surveillance in the new interactive documentary I Spy, created by Justin Pemberton (Chasing Great) and filmed across the Five Eyes countries (USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand).

Kim Hill talks to occupational therapist Juliet Arnott, who is the founder and director of Christchurch reuse business Rekindle. She is currently driving the Design for Reuse - Resource: Rise Again project in Wellington, Auckland and Whangarei, and is the organiser of the Design.Craft.Enable.Value. symposium at FESTA, the biennial weekend celebration of urban creativity in Christchurch (21-24 October).

Kim Hill talks to Brisbane singer-songwriter Robert Forster, best known for his work with songwriting partner Grant McLennan, with whom he co-founded The Go-Betweens. The band, formed in 1977, made nine albums between 1981 and 2005, and Forster has made six solo albums, written music criticism for a number of magazines, and published The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll: Collected Music Writings 2005-09, and new memoir, Grant & I: Inside and Outside the Go-Betweens.

Kim Hill talks to Arthur Tompkins, District Court Judge and editor of Art Crime and its Prevention: A Handbook for Collectors and Art Professionals. He has a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces, and is writing a bi-monthly series of articles in the online magazine Versopolis about stolen masterpieces now back on public display. He discusses the history of Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr Gachet, and two stolen paintings by the artist found in a police raid in Italy.

Kim Hill talks to molecular palaeontologist Professor Beth Shapiro, who is Director for Conservation at the University of California Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, and Research Associate of the Denver Museum of Natural History. She runs the Paleogenomics Lab at UCSC with Professor Richard (Ed) Green, and is visiting New Zealand as a guest of Allan Wilson at Otago and NZ Genomics Ltd, with the support of the Australasian Genomic Technologies Association and the Next Generation Sequencing Conference, to present two free talks based on her book, How to Clone a Mammoth: the Science of De-Extinction, in Dunedin and Auckland.

Kim Hill talks to Gerard van Bohemen, New Zealand's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. New Zealand is currently a non-permanent member of the Security Council.

Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 1 October.

Kim Hill talks to painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien, who discusses The Collected Poems of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, and the new edition of Small Holes in the Silence: Collected Works by Hone Tuwhare.

Kim Hill talks to Doryun Chong, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at M+ Hong Kong, and former Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA. He is the judge of the 2016 Walters Prize.

Kim Hill talks to artist, writer and curator Shannon Te Ao, whose current research interests include performance and video art practices. He lectures at Whiti o Rehua School of Art, Massey University. He won the 2016 Walters Prize for his 2013-14 work, Two Shoots That Stretch Far Out, and an exhibition of his work and those of the other finalists (Lisa Reihana, Joyce Campbell, Nathan Pohio), is currently on exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (to 30 October).

Kim Hill talks to graphic designer, illustrator, and writer Sarah Laing. She is co-editor (with Rae Joyce and Indira Neville) of Three Words: an Anthology of Aoteraoa/NZ Women's Comics (Beatnik Publishing), and the author of the new book Mansfield and Me: a Graphic Memoir (VUP). An exhibition based on the book will be opening at the Katherine Mansfield House and Garden on 14 October, Mansfield's 128th birthday.

Kim Hill talks to David Lawrence is research and development consultant for the Popup Globe, and director of The Bacchanals, a Wellington theatre company he founded in 2000 to explore text-based theatre and redefine classic works. David will discuss Two Gentlemen of Verona, considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play.

Kim Hill talks to Al Bramley, CEO of Zero Invasive Predators (ZIP) in Wellington, a research and development entity focused on developing the tools and techniques to enable the complete removal of rats, stoats, and possums from large mainland areas for the long term.