Nine To Noon for Tuesday 21 October 2008
09:05 World economic meltdown
Bob Litan, Economist from the Brookings Institution.
Bob Litan is an economist and lawyer who has served in a variety of federal agencies and White House posts, Bob Litan is an expert on antitrust; banking; Internet policy; and other financial and regulatory issues. He is also vice president of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation.
09:30 The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute.
09:45 US correspondent Jack Hitt
10:05 Steve Gurney - Multisport endurance athlete
Steve Gurney is New Zealand's best known multi-sport endurance athlete - having competed in the Speights Coast to Coast 19 times - winning it 9 times. An ankle injury forced his retirement from the sport in 2005, and triggered a serious bout of depression forcing him to question why winning was so important to him. His biography is titled Lucky Legs.
10:30 Book Review with Don Rood
Kippenberger: The Gift of Leadership by Denis McLean
Published by Random House NZ
ISBN 978 1869790264
10:45 Book Reading: Fancy Work a short story by Jean Louise Allen
11:05 Business with Rod Oram, Business and Economic commentator
11:30 The Atlas of Health - Mapping the Challenges and Causes of Disease
Diarmuid O'Donovan, Irish Director of Public Health who has won British Medical Association prizes for his atlas of health - which maps the challenges and causes of the world's diseases.
Dr Diarmuid O'Donovan has earned high praise for his book charting recent and emerging trends to show how health, poverty and human rights are inextricably linked, and how inequalities are both avoidable and unsustainable.
The atlas maps the causes and incidences of the major diseases as well as the economic, social and environmental factors that impact on people's health worldwide.
It brings together the latest data and charting recent trends in health and disease, it also addresses how health needs are identified, health policy is developed, and the delivery and quality of health services.
A medical doctor in Galway, where he's landed himself in trouble for drawing attention to the poor quality of the local water supply, he's also lived and worked in Sub-Saharan Africa.
11:45 Media with Denis Welch
