The Best of Saturday Morning 2014

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• Steven Pinker: writing and style

  1 Nov 2014

  Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University and author of ten books, most recently The Sense of Style: the Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.

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• Rebecca Mead: Middlemarch

  5 Apr 2014

  Staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of The Road to Middlemarch : My Life with George Eliot, detailing her relationship with the 1874 novel. Audio

• Willard Wigan: micro art

  25 Jan 2014

  British artist who creates micro-sculptures visible only through a microscope. Audio

• Don Walker: Australian chronicler

  15 Mar 2014

  Main songwriter for Australian group Cold Chisel, and author of the acclaimed memoir Shots, who is visiting New Zealand in April with his band. Audio

• Helen Garner: murder and men

  23 Aug 2014

  Australian author, screenwriter and journalist known for her novels and non-fiction works, the latest of which is This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial. Audio

• Peter Mullan: Scotland, politics, anxiety

  27 Sep 2014

  Scottish actor (Top of the Lake, My Name is Joe) and director (The Magdalene Sisters, Neds), who is visiting New Zealand for the Big Screen Symposium. Audio

• John Lanchester: speaking money

  30 Aug 2014

  British journalist and author whose new book is How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say - and What They Really Mean. Audio

• Simon Coley: fair trade and farmers

  14 Jun 2014

  Simon Coley of All Good Organics on how sourcing cola from Sierra Leone helped them win world's Fairest Fair Trader. Audio

• Elizabeth Kolbert - extinctions

  29 Mar 2014

  American author, and staff writer for The New Yorker, whose new book is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Audio

• Alan Cooper: kiwi evolution

  24 May 2014

  Evolutionary biologist and Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide, whose paper on the evolutionary history of the kiwi was published this week in the journal… Audio

• Alex Taylor: crows and intelligence

  15 Mar 2014

  Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland; his research attempts to find out how humans and other animals, including corvids and keas, think. Audio

• Alan Cooper: exploring human history

  6 Sep 2014

  Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide who has been awarded a Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council, using ancient micro biomes and genomes to… Audio

• Richard Louv: nature and children

  1 Nov 2014

  Co-founder of the Children & Nature Network and The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder Audio

• Lotta Dann: stopping drinking

  28 Jun 2014

  New Zealand journalist who deciding to stop drinking alcohol and started the anonymous blog, Mrs D is Going Without, which is also the title of her new memoir. Audio

• Vladimir Hachinski: stroke and recovery

  22 Feb 2014

  President of the World Federation of Neurology who was instrumental in establishing the world's first successful acute stroke unit. Audio

• Margaret Lock: dementia and aging

  13 Sep 2014

  Professor Emerita in Social Studies in Medicine at McGill University in Montreal and author of The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging. Audio

• Atul Gawande: being mortal

  health life and society

  22 Nov 2014

  American surgeon and writer, whose new book is Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End. Audio

• Robin Robilliard: hard country

  6 Sep 2014

  Owner with her husband Garry of the Rocklands farm near Takaka, who has written the memoir, Hard Country: A Golden Bay Life. Audio

• David Ifill: black cab driver

  4 Oct 2014

  London taxi driver previously interviewed by Kim Hill in his black cab on a Saturday Morning programme in June 2006. Audio

• Helena Wisniewska Brow: Polish orphans

  4 Oct 2014

  Author of the book, Give Us This Day: a Memoir of Family and Exile, which tells the story of her father, one of the exiled Polish children offered refuge in New Zealand in 1944. Audio