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Nine To Noon for Monday 20 April 2009

  • Fertility treatment price plans

    9:05 AM.Fertility associates offers new flat fee scheme pay for 3 cycles up front, and get 70% of your money back if there is no baby. Audio

  • Gluten intolerance

    9:20 AM.Jessica Maxwell suffered from migraines and poor health for years before adopting a gluten free diet and a return to top health. Audio

  • Talking to plants

    9:30 AM.James Rudoni of the Royal Horticultural Society on why it's investigating whether speaking to plants works. Audio

  • Europe correspondent - Seamus Kearney

    9:55 AM.Russia and Czech Republic news. Audio

  • Feature guest - Jon Tanner

    10:08 AM.Head of Organics New Zealand, discusses what has gone wrong with the world's food supply. Audio

  • Book review - Grey Ghosts

    10:40 AM.'Grey Ghosts' by Deborah Challinor. Published by HarperCollins. Reviewed by Don Rood. Audio

  • Politics

    11:08 AM.With commentators Matthew Hooton and Laila Harre. Audio

  • Food and wine

    11:35 AM.Food: Quintin Quider (Owner/winemaker of Wild Earth Wines in Central Otago). Wine: John Hawesby. Audio

  • Tommy Honey

    11:50 AM.The Sophist and provocateur discusses unusual prefabs. Audio

09:05 Fertility associates offers new flat fee scheme

Fertility associates offers new flat fee scheme - pay for 3 cycles up front, and get 70 percent of your money back if there is no baby at the end.

Dr Andrew Murray, medical director of Fertility Associates Wellington; Maria Van Den Berg, president of the Auckland branch of Fertility NZ, who has been through four unsuccessful cycles of IVF.

09:20 Gluten intolerance

Dr Rodney Ford, gastroenterologist, paediatrician, food allergy specialist on the issue of gluten sensitivity which he says is vastly under diagnosed by the country's GPs; Jessica Maxwell, who suffered from migranes and poor health for years before adopting a gluten free diet and a return to top health.

Manufactured Food Database

09:30 Talking to plants - does it work?

James Rudoni, Britain's Royal Horticultural Society on why its investigating whether speaking to plants does work.

09:45 Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney

10:05 Organics

Jon Tanner, head of Organics New Zealand, discusses what has gone wrong with the world's food supply, and what role organics should play in our agricultural future.

10:30 Book Review with Don Rood

Grey Ghosts by Deborah Challinor
Published by HarperCollins
ISBN 9781869507718

10:45 Reading: Free Will by Charlotte Grimshaw told by Matt Whelan

(Part 1 of 2)

A lawyer abandons his establishment duties.

11:05 Politics with Matthew Hooton and Laila Harre

11:30 Guest chef

Quintin Quider, owner/winemaker, Wild Earth Wines in Central Otago; and wine commentator John Hawkesby

11:45 Sophist and provocateur Tommy Honey

Tommy asks if kitset housing is a way out the recession for the construction industry.

Useful websites:

New Zealand:

Steel fold-out houses: http://www.habode.com/

The shipping container bach designed by Atelier: http://www.port-a-bach.com/

Modular construction by Stanley Modular: http://www.stanleygroup.co.nz/page/35-Stanley-Modular

Strawberry Homes designed by Roger Walker: http://www.strawberryhomes.co.nz/

Bathrooms by de Geest: http://www.degeest.com/09/

International:

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art: http://www.momahomedelivery.org/

Dwell Magazine: http://www.dwell.com/search/?type=15724&type=15029&type=15699&type=15684&keywords=prefab <http://www.dwell.com/search/?type=15724&amp;type=15029&amp;type=15699&amp;type=15684&amp;keywords=prefab>

Michelle Kaufmann Designs: http://www.mkd-arc.com/homes/

Logical Homes: http://logicalhomes.com/1/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=88&Itemid=113 <http://logicalhomes.com/1/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=88&amp;Itemid=113>

Livinghomes: http://www.livinghomes.net/primer.html;jsessionid=3182DFD737B1B0B0DECE418B0E7A3307

Office of Mobile Design: http://www.designmobile.com/

Prefab Friday at inhabitat.com: http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/04/17/the-annie-residence-bercy-chen-studio/#more-24573

The daily blog at prefabcosm.com: http://prefabcosm.com/blog/2009/04/

Modernist prefab dwellings at: http://fabprefab.com/

Custom made designer items at: http://www.ponoko.com/