On Nine to Noon Today

9:05 Tax Cuts
Interview with Bernard Hickey from Interest.co.nz; Alisdair Thompson, Northern EMA; and Cameron Bagrie, Chief Economist at ANZ

9:20 Career Change
Interview with Peter Hudson, cameraman who now runs a vineyard near Lake Ferry, Wairarapa

9:30 Gordon Brown lookalike
Interview with Alison Jackson, UK film-maker/photographer who is desperately seeking a Gordon Brown lookalike to make a behind the scenes film on what it is like being the British Prime Minister

9:45 Europe Correspondent Seamus Kearney

10:05 Peace campaigner appointed to key UN committee on disarmament Interview with Kate Dewes, long time peace campaigner and only New Zealander appointed to UN Secretary General to Disarmament Committee

10:30 Book Review with Penny Ashton
'Phone Home Berlin: Collected Non-Fiction' by Nigel Cox.
Published by Victoria University Press, ISBN 978 086 473 5676

10:45 Reading. "Just Who Does he think He Is?" (Part 4 of 10)
Written & read by George Webby

11:05 Politics with Laila Harre and Matthew Hooten

11:30 Guest Chef Jeremy Jones
Green Lipped Mussel soup and Crayfish Salad

11:40 Wine with John Hawkesby

11:45 Sophist and provocateur Tommy Honey
What do we change our minds about and why?