Nine to Noon for Monday 23 June 2008

9:05Zimbabwe election

Interview with Frank Chicowore, political journalist in Harare. The political climate of Zimbabwe descends further into chaos, with Morgan Tsvingirae and the MDC announcing that they'll pull out of the presidential run off, claiming the vote will be nothing more than a "violent, illegitimate sham."

9:10 Zimbabwe election

Peter Greste, RNZ Africa corresondent, for analysis of the MDC's decision.

9:30 Medical Mistakes

Interview with Dr Jim Bajian. Amid a push in New Zealand for more open reporting of medical mistakes, doctors have warned that errors will go underground instead. Jim Bagian is a US expert who speaks on how to achieve reporting without hiding mistakes.

A former NASA astronaut who helped investigate the tragic explosion of the space shuttles Columbia and Challenger now he's in charge of the effort to reduce medical errors at the National Patient Safety Agency for the Veterans Health Administration in the USA.

Dr Bajian is in New Zealand for the launch of a new policy - the New Zealand Safety Improvement Programme

9:45 Middle East correspondent Professor Paul Rogers

Professor Paul Rogers talks about the current climate in the Middle East, canvassing the oil prices summit in Saudi Arabia and also developments in Afghanistan with an unfortunate upsurge in violence there. Professor Rogers is a security analyst with Oxford Research.

10:05 Science of sleep

Chris Krishna Pillay, Education Centre Manager at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia

10:30 Book Review: Deaf Sentence by David Lodge

Reviewed by Kate Blackhurst
Published by Harvill Secker, ISBN 978 184 655 1680

10:45 Book reading: Shanghai Sheba: The China Monologues

Written and told by Sheba Williams

11:05 Politics with Matthew Hooton and Laila Harre

11:30 Guest Chef Lauraine Jacobs

Lauraine Jacobs' Hearty Winter Vegetable and White Bean Soup and Cream of Potato, Leek and Watercress Soup

11:30 Wine with John Hawkesby

11:45 A Modest Proposal or Two with David Slack