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Nine To Noon for Monday 21 July 2008

  • NZ First's Owen Glenn Donation

    9:08 AM.Can Winston Peters explain away the donation to his legal fighting fund, and what will other political parties make of it? Audio

  • Transport Planning

    9:17 AM.Increasing petrol prices are reducing the number of cars on the road - should transport planners start taking this into account? Audio

  • Implode-o-Meter

    9:37 AM.Aaron Krowne started the very popular website http://ml-implode.com which tracks failing businesses' impending doom. Audio

  • Middle East Correspondent - Irris Makler

    9:51 AM.The latest from the Middle East including the prisoner swap and return of the Israeli soldiers' bodies. Audio

  • Feature Guest - Cornel de Ronde

    10:09 AM.GNS scientist and explorer conducting world-leading research into active volcanoes on the sea floor around New Zealand. Audio

  • Book Review - Attachment

    10:35 AM.Jane Westaway reviews Isabel Fonseca's Attachment. Published by Chatto and Windus. Audio

  • Politics - Jabs from the Left and the Right

    11:09 AM.Commentary on today's issues from Matthew Hooton and Laila Harre . Audio

  • Food and Wine

    11:30 AM.With Dish Magazine editorial director and guest chef Catherine Bell with wine authority Steven Morris matching. Audio

  • A Modest Proposal or Two

    11:45 AM.Offerings from the virtual world for those of us that live in the real one. Audio

Nine to Noon for Monday 21 July 2008

09:05 Donations

$100,000 donation from ex-pat billionaire, Owen Glenn, towards the cost of Winston Peters 2005 electoral petition against National MP Bob Clarkson.
Rodney Hide, ACT Leader; and Winston Peters, New Zealand First Leader.
Mr Peters says his lawyer never told him where the $100-thousand donation came from, and that many people contributed towards the fund, including himself.
ACT leader Rodney Hide has confirmed to us this morning that he is drawing up a complaint to the Speaker of Parliament, on the grounds that Mr Peters did not declare the donation towards his legal bills as a gift in the MPs' register of pecuniary interest.

09:20 Petrol Prices

Increasing petrol prices are reducing the number of cars on the road - should transport planners start taking this into account?
Cameron Pitches, convenor of the lobby group Campaign for Better Transport; Tim Reddish, from the NZ Taxi Federation; and Roly Frost, Transit General Manager for Network Operations.

09:30 Misery in the US housing market

Aaron Krowne started website implode-o-meter

09:45 Middle East correspondent Irris Makler

10:05 Exploring Undersea Active Volcanoes

Cornel de Ronde, undersea volcanoligist, GNS scientist and explorer conducting world leading research into active volcanoes on the sea floor around New Zealand.

10:40 Book Review with Jane Westaway

Attachment by Isabel Fonseca
Published by Chatto and Windus
ISBN 978 070 118 3028

10:45 Reading

11:05 Politics

Matthew Hooton and Laila Harre.

11:30 Guest Chef

Catherine Bell, Editorial Director of Dish Magazine with wine reviewer Stephen Morris.

11:45 A Modest Proposal or Two from David Slack