Nine To Noon for Friday 29 February 2008

On Nine to Noon Today

9:05 ABC Learning Centres in financial trouble
Scott Emerson, ABC Learning Centres spokesman; Louise Tarrant, from the Australian childcare union; and Deborah Brennan, Professor in Social Policy at University of NSW

9:20 ABC Learning Centres share price troubles
Nancy Bell, NZ Childcare Assocation - Chief Executive

9:25 Captured - Hunt for Nai Yin Xue (Pumpkin's father)

9:30 Glass chomping native cockatoos take bites of Melbourne's Arts Centre:
Jeremy Vincent, Manager, Corporate Communications the Arts Centre in Melbourne

9:45 Asia correspondent Phil O'Sullivan

10:05 Capture of Nai Yin Xue, Pumpkins father
Ed Millar, from America's Most Wanted television show

10:15 Forever Blonde
Sunny & Greg Thompson, actress and writer/director of one woman play about Marilyn Monroe which is being staged in New Zealand

10:35Children's Book Review with John McIntyre

'Weather Watch New Zealand' by Sandra Carrod
(Reed ISBN 978-1-86978-027-2)

'Tahi One Lucky Kiwi' by Melanie Drewery, illustrated by John O'Reilly/ Ali Teo
(Random House ISBN 978-1-86941-930-1)

'Out of the Egg' by Tina Matthews
(Walker Books ISBN 978-1-921150-35-7)

10:45 Book Reading: 'The Quince Café' by Sue Francis
( Part 4 of 5 )

11:05 Music with Manu Taylor

Jeffrey Foucault - 'Ghost Repeater' - Signature Sounds Recordings

Eilen Jewell - 'Letter From Sinners And Strangers' - Signature Sounds
Recordings

Solal Presents - 'The Moonshine Sessions' (Philippe Solal from Gotan
Project) - Filter Music

11:30 Sports commentator Richard Becht

11:45 Week That Was with Radar and Gemma Gracewood