Nine To Noon for Friday 1 August 2008

Nine to Noon on Friday 1 August 2008

9:05 Gardasil vaccine

Interview with Diane M Harper, a professor and director at the Gynaecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at Dartmouth. She also has a private practice as a Gynaecologist specialing in treating Human Papilloma Virus infections in women and men.

From next month Gardasil will be offered free to girls and women aged 12 - 26 - but a leading US researcher who was involved in the clinical trials of the vaccine is concerned it has been rushed out and parents are not being fully informed.

9:20 Retiring in Pacific

Vince McBride, Chief Executive of the Pacific Cooperation Foundation on the suggestion that more New Zealanders should be encouraged to retire to Pacific Island nations, such as Niue, Tokelau and the Cook Islands

9:30 The Jim Smith Society

Jim Smith, the host of this year's Fun Fest

9:45 Pacific correspondent Mike Field

10:05 Reading fiction affects our psychology

Keith Oatley, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University of Toronto, Canada

To take the test go to www.glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/Faces/EyesTest.aspx

10:30 Children's Book Review with John McIntyre

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Published by Harper Collins ISBN 0-060250665-6

A Light In The Attic by Shel Silverstein
Published by Harper Collins ISBN 978-0-06-025673-9

Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
Published by Harper Collins ISBN 978-0-06-024802-4

Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Published by Harper Collins ISBN 978-0-06-052734-1

The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein
Published by Harper Collins ISBN 978-0-06025671-5

The Missing Piece Meets The Big O
Published by Harper Collins ISBN 978-0-06-025657-9

10:45 Book reading: The Mesmerist written and read by Barbara Ewing

Part 10 of 15
Published by Sphere, ISBN 978-1847-440228.

11:05 Music review with Manu Taylor

Jamie Liddell - Jim - Warp Records - WARPCD160

Micah P. Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra - Micah P. Hinson and the Red
Empire Orchestra - POD/Inertia Music 2008 - PODCD0721

Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis - Two Men With the Blues - Blue Note
Records/EMI - 50999 5 04454 2 4

11:30 Beijing Olympics

Joseph Romanos, sports journalist on the countdown to the XXIX Olympiad

11:45 Week That Was with Radar and Michele A'Court

Radar and Michele A'Court take a light hearted look over the events that made this week's headlines.