RNZ: Saturday Morning

CEO of Be Accessible, a company challenging New Zealand businesses to undergo radical accessibility assessments.

Director of the Wales International Academy of Voice who is visiting New Zealand to judge emerging singing talent at the Lexus Song Quest 2012.

Collector of British and European decorative art from 1870 to 1970, who gifted his collection to Te Papa in 1992.

Professor in the faculty of education at the University of Auckland, and the author, with Kuni Jenkins, of He Korero - Words Between Us: First Maori-Pakeha Conversations on Paper.

Oceanographer, explorer, author and lecturer who has been at the frontier of deep ocean exploration for four decades; currently visiting Rarotonga to support the work of Conservation International in the Pacific, and the development of the Cook Islands Marine Park.

British author of Incendiary, The Other Hand, and Gold, who is visiting New Zealand for The Press Christchurch Writers' Festival and other events.

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

Kerouac and the Beats Auckland teacher and playwright whose play Beautiful Losers, based on the relationship between Beat icons Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, is about to open for a return season in Auckland.

Grammy-award winning American guitarist, singer and composer who has just released his sixteenth album, Election Special.

Actress, director and playwright, internationally acclaimed for her one-woman show The Case of Katherine Mansfield, and currently appearing in the solo production of The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.

Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, who is working with the art team at Te Papa to exhibit more of the nation's art more often.

Palliative care and euthanasia Professor of palliative medicine at Cardiff University School of Medicine, and a life peer since 2001, who is visiting New Zealand for a conference and public meeting on end-of-life care.

Swedish film maker and journalist whose documentary Bananas led to him being sued for defamation by Dole, a story he tells in his new film, Big Boys Gone Bananas.

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

Kate discusses three American novels for middle reader to young adult: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos, As Easy as Falling off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins, Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead.