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Nine To Noon for Tuesday 12 August 2008

  • P Babies Starting School

    9:05 AM.Principals in the Waikato say a generation of P babies is now entering the primary school and causing huge problems. Audio

  • Antikythera Mechanism

    9:30 AM.Dr Tony Freeth, a member of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project, the super-computer of the ancient world. Audio

  • US Correspondent

    9:50 AM.Richard Adams reports on the latest in the USA. Audio

  • Feature Guest - Christina Thompson

    10:05 AM.Controversial American academic. Author of 'Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All' Audio

  • Book Review - 'My Name is Will'

    10:40 AM.Kate Blackhurst reviews 'My Name is Will' by Jess Winfield. Published by Allen and Unwin. Audio

  • Business Commentator

    11:05 AM.Business and Economic commentator Rod Oram. Audio

  • Starbucks Failure in Australia

    11:30 AM.Nick Wailes, Professor in Strategic Management, Faculty of Business and Economics at University of Sydney. Audio

  • Beijing Olympics

    11:45 AM.Joseph Romanos reports from the Games. Audio

Nine to Noon on Tuesday 12 August 2008

9:05 P Babies causing problems for schools

John Cubitt, The Principal of Pekerau School in Te Awamutu

School principals in the Waikato say a generation of P babies is now entering the primary school system and causing huge problems for schools.

9:20 Impact of methamphetamine on the developing brain

Trecia Wouldes is a Senior Lecturer in psychological medicine at the Auckland School of Medicine - she is involved in a long term study of the impact of the use of methamphetamine by mothers on foetuses and infants.

9:30 The Antikythera Mechanism

Dr Tony Freeth, a member of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project

It was the super-computer of the ancient world: a mechanism so complex that the greatest minds and the best technology of our modern era are only now deciphering how it worked and what it was for. Now, an Anglo-Greek group of scientists known as the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project believe they have started to unravel the mystery regading its function and significance.

It's called the 'Antikythera Mechanism', after the Greek Island near to where it was found on the seabed more than a hundred years ago.

Details at: www.antikythera-mechanism.gr and www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/antikythera

9:45 US correspondent Richard Adams

Richard is Washington editor of The Guardian

10:05 Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All

Christina Thompson is the author of this book on observations on New Zealand and its race relations.

Published by Bloomsbury USA (July 22, 2008)
ISBN-13: 978-1596911260

10:30 Book Review: My Name is Will by Jess Winfield

Reviewed by Kate Blackhurst
Published by Allen & Unwin
ISBN 9781741756029

10:45 Book Reading: On The Wings Of Mercury - The Lorraine Moller Story

Episode 2 of 6

11:05 Business with Rod Oram, Business and Economic commentator

11:30 Starbucks failure in Australia

Nick Wailes, Professor in Strategic Management, Faculty of Business and Economics at University of Sydney, Australia

11:45 Beijing Olympics

Joseph Romanos updates us from the XXIV Olympiad in Beijing, China