Nine To Noon for Thursday 16 April 2009
09:05 Fiji
Sir Paul Reeves, former NZ Governor General and the Commonwealth Secretary General's Special Envoy to Fiji
09:15 Situation in Fiji
Jim Sherlock, owner/operator of the Lagoon Resort on Viti Levu; and Ben Plumber, Manager Wananavu Beach Resort
09:30 Replacing oil with green energy
The end of our reliance on oil and the beginnng of a global response to replacing our addiction to fossil fuels with green energy.
David Strahan, British journalist.
More details about David can be found at www.davidstrahan.com/index.html.
Including a map that shows which countries are still producing oil and which have run out: www.davidstrahan.com/map.html.
09:40 Vertical farming
Professor Dickson Despommier, environmental health orofessor, Columbia University.
09:50 UK correspondent Matthew Parris
10:05 Escape from Cooperites sect
Phil and Israel Cooper, father and son who escaped from the Cooperites sect and left their mother behind.
10:30 Book Review with Graham Beattie
The Italian Wedding by Nicky Pellegrino
Published by Orion
ISBN 9780752888682
10:45 Reading: Home by Charlotte Grimshaw read by Barnie Duncan
(Part 1 of 2)
A dissolute son returns home to Auckland.
11:05 New Technology with Colin Jackson
11:30 Script and scribble
Author Kitty Burns Florey laments the loss of handwriting skills.
11:45 Television review with Simon Wilson
A look at TV art and book shows