Nine To Noon for Friday 9 May 2008
On Nine to Noon
9:05 Red Cross flight to Myanmar
Jeremy Francis, Regional Logistics Co-ordinator for the Red Cross in Kuala Lumpur. Aid finally trickles in to Myanmar.
9:20 Employment figures and impact on women
Diane Forman, Auckland business woman, Chair of the Emerald Group, owner of Emerald Foods, part owner of Mercy-Ascot Hospital and Director of the recruitment company, Emergent; and Carol Beaumont, Secretary, Council of Trade Unions
9:30 New Zealand urban architecture - are we getting it right?
Cathy Simon, American Architect who specialises in urban public spaces - and thinks New Zealand has a way to go to get it right. Cathy is founding principal of SMWM, one of the largest women-owned design firms in the United States, founded with a vision of reinvigorating public architecture
9:45 Pacific correspondent Mike Field
10:05 Anne Enright
Mann Booker prize winning novelist who shot to fame with The Gathering
10:30 Children's Book Review with John McIntyre
The Magpies by Denis Glover/Dick Frizzell
(Published by Godwit ISBN 978-1-86962-042-4)
Baxter Basics by James K Baxter
(Published by Steele Roberts ISBN 978-1-877448-18-8)
Hairy MacLary From Donaldson's Dairy 25th Anniversary Edition by Lynley Dodd
(Published by Mallinson Rendel ISBN 978-1-877423-14-7)
10:45 Book Reading: Dances With Marmots by George G. Spearing
Read by Jason Whyte
Episode 10 of 10
11:05 Music Review with Manu Taylor
Amy Macdonald - This is The Life
(Melodramatic Records/Mercury Records)
Sera Cahoone - Only As The Day Is Long
(SubPop Records SPCD759)
Van Morrison - Keep It Simple
(Exile/Polydor UK 1763078)
11:30 Sports commentator Richard Becht
11:45 The Week That Was with Radar and Gemma Gracewood