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Nine To Noon for Tuesday 28 April 2009

  • Julia Peters

    9:08 AM.The Clinical Director for Auckland Regional Public Health on swine flu and fears of a pandemic. Audio

  • Hilda Garcia

    9:20 AM.Mexico swine flu epidemic, Hilda is based in Mexico City. Audio

  • Dr David Katz

    9:35 AM.On the link between sleep and colds, getting good sleep should count among the priorities of health-conscious people. Audio

  • US correspondent - Jack Hitt

    9:50 AM.The U.S. government deals with the treatment of prisoners over the last 7 years and swine flu. Audio

  • Feature guest - Margaret Foster

    10:08 AM.Netball coach and cancer survivor. Audio

  • Book Review - The Kit-Kat Club

    10:35 AM.Friends Who Imagined a Nation by Ophelia Field. reviewed by Jane Westaway, published by Fourth Estate. Audio

  • Business - Rod Oram

    11:08 AM.Business and Economic commentator looks at the life cycles of companies. Audio

  • Professor James Flynn

    11:30 AM.The Flynn Effect, how a persons IQ increases over time. Audio

  • Media - Denis Welch

    11:45 AM.A weekly look at media issues. Audio

09:05 Mexico swine flu

Hilda Garcia - online editor, El Universal.

09:15 Swine flu and fears of a pandemic

Julia Peters, clinical director for Auckland Regional Public Health.

09:30 Sleep and Colds

A recent study at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh has come to the conclusion that people who sleep less than seven hours per night have a three times higher risk of catching a cold than those who get 8 hours shut-eye or more.

Dr David L Katz is a public health professor at Yale University, specialising in preventive medicine. He has authored ten books to date, is a syndicated health columnist for the New York Times and a medical contributor for ABC News.

He says getting good sleep should count among the priorities of health-conscious people.

09:45 US correspondent Jack Hitt

10:05 Margaret Foster - Netball coach and cancer survivor

Silver Linings - Margaret Foster has written a book called Silver Linings about her fight to survive cancer and her netball career - it is an honest account of her life, career and cancer battles, mixed with self help style tips for athletes, coaching and those battling cancer.

10:30 Book Review with Jane Westaway

The Kit-Kat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation by Ophelia Field Published by Fourth Estate

10:45 Reading. Telegraph Tales by J Edward Brown (Part 2 of 5)

The second in a series of five stories about Jimmy Preston - cadet telegraphist.

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

11:30 Flynn Effect - How IQ rises over time

Professor James Flynn is a Distinguished Associate of The Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge and Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago (New Zealand), recipient of the University's Gold Medal for Distinguished Career Research. As a psychologist, he is best known for the 'Flynn Effect', the discovery of massive IQ gains from one generation to another, and he has been profiled in Scientific American. The American Psychological Association has devoted a symposium and a book to his research.

As a philosopher, his latest book is How To Defend Humane Ideals. Professor Jeremy Waldron of Columbia has described its treatment of race and class as 'magnificent'. He has been Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford) and Distinguished Visiting Speaker at Cornell. He has been featured in Scientific American and Newsweek and awarded his university's Medal for Distinguished Career Research.

11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch's weekly look at media issues