Nine To Noon for Tuesday 7 July 2009
09:05 Floating interest rates - why aren't they coming down
Bernard Hickey, managing editor of www.interest.co.nz.
09:20 Severity of swine flu
Michael Baker, doctor involved in a review of data into how severe swine flu actually is.
The swine flu outbreak might be spreading rapidly in New Zealand but two local researchers believe the pandemic could be up to 100 times LESS severe than first estimated.
Early predictions had the death rate as high as 4 in one thousand people - but work done by Otago University's Influenza Research Group suggests that deaths from the virus will be much, much lower than originally feared. Up to a third of New Zealanders could contract swine flu - but as few as one in a hundred thousand will die.
Associate Professor Michael Baker was one of the leaders of the study which reviewed available data on the spread of swine flu and was published in the online journal - Eurosurveillance.
09:30 Research findings into Generation Y work ethics
Two Waikato University students have separately taken a look at the attitutudes and work ethics of Gen Y-ers (those people born in the early 1980s onwards) and the results may surprise.
Krisy Thurston, 34-year-old psychology student Waikato University; and Rachel Jens, 21-year-old management studies honours student at Waikato University.
09:45 US correspondent Jack Hitt
10:05 Thalidomider and Film-maker
German film-maker Niko von Glasow was disabled by the drug thalidomide but has always avoided the label - he faced his fears by making a documentary that sees him and 11 other Thalidomiders bare all.
10:30 Book Review with Sonja de Freiz
Think! by Edward de Bono
Published by Vermillion
10:45 Reading. The 10PM Question by Kate De Goldi
(Part 2 of 10, RNZ)
Only his Ma takes 12-year-old Frankie Parsons's worrying questions seriously. But she is the cause of the most worrying question of all - the one Frankie can't ask.
11:05 Business and economic commentator Rod Oram
11:30 Water Shortage in Canterbury
The Canterbury water wars - as more farms convert to dairy the water shortage worsens, pitting farmers against conservationists.
Murray Rodgers, outdoorsman and fly fisherman who is fighting what he calls the degradation of Canterbury's waterways; and Lachlan McKenzie, Dairy Chairman of Federated Farmers - dairy farmers are the biggest water users in the region.
11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch
The latest media issues including the battle for the Sunday newspaper market.