Nine To Noon for Tuesday 15 July 2008

Nine to Noon on 15 July 2008

9:05 Pope's apology for New Zealand Catholic Church's treatment of sex abuse victims

Interview with Lyndsay Freer, director of Catholic Communications and 'Liz from Wellington'. One of Liz's family member's was repeatedly sexually abused by a Catholic priest - the abuse started when her relative was an 11 year old altar boy in a South Island centre and it continued into his late teens. Liz says the Church is not proactive enough.

9:40 Doctor Strikes

John Matheson, Orthopaedics Association president calls for Government to ban strikes in essential health services to preserve patient safety.

9:45 USA correspondent Richard Adams

Richard is Washington editor of The Guardian

10:05 Bigger, Stronger, Faster

Christopher Bell, filmmaker and weightlifter, is the maker of the latest 'Supersize me' type documentary Bigger, Stronger, Faster. It is about the rampant use of steroids in top level sport, in America's gyms, and in his own family - and the body obsession that drives much of it. The documentary screens in the New Zealand International Film Festival.

10:30 Book Review: The Pessimist's Guide to History by Dorix Flexner & Stuart Berg Flexner

Reviewed by Jane Myhill
Published by HarperCollins USA, ISBN 978 006 143 1012

10:45 Book reading: Of a Boy by Sonya Hartnett

Part 7 of 10

11:05 Business with Rod Oram

11:30 Alice Tawhai, writer

Her latest book of short stories, Luminous, is a finalist in the Montana Book Awards in the Fiction category.

11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch