Nine To Noon for Wednesday 9 April 2008
On Nine to Noon Today
9:05 Olympic torch protest intensifies in USA
Nyung Than, Burmese American Democratic Alliance; and Kate Woznow, International Campaigns Director for Students for a Free Tibet
9:20 Windfarming - friend or foe to the environment
Maria McCaffery, British Wind Energy Association representative visiting New Zealand, talks about the UK experience of windfarming
9:30 Stand Up Comedy School
Logan Murray runs a course called Stand Up and Deliver - teaching people how to be funny (London)
9:45 Australia correspondent Paul Barclay
10:05 Feature Interview - Gertrude Matshe
Gertrude Matshe is a Zimbabwean woman living in Wellington who has written her spiritual memoirs Born on the Continent - Ubuntu. The book sales are a fund raising tool that generates money to support what is now 'The Africa Alive Education Foundation' - which now cares for 350 children.
10:30 Book Review: Northline by Willy Vlautin
Reviewed by Gina Faafoi
(Published by Faber, ISBN 978 057 123 5704)
10:45 Book Reading: The Rope Of Man by Witi Ihimaera
Part 3 of 13
11:05 Marty Duda 's Artist of the Week - Ella Fitzgerald
Tracks featured:
A-Tisket, A-Tasket - Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and his Orchestra
1938 single taken from the 2000 album Ken Burns Jazz
(Verve)
Flying Home - Ella Fitzgerald with Vic Schoen and Orchestra
1945 single taken from the 2000 album Ken Burns Jazz
(Verve)
Night And Day - Ella Fitzgerald with Buddy Bregman and Orchestra
Taken from the 1956 album Sings The Cole Porter Song Book
(Verve)
Cry Me A River - Ella Fitzgerald
From the 2008 album Forever Ella
(Universal)
11:30 Law with Robert Lithgow
11:45 Film review with Graham Tuckett