Nine To Noon for Friday 24 July 2009

09:05 Justice Ministers reforms, particularly on rape/sex cases

Professor Mark Henaghan, Dean of law and professor of law at Otago University

09:20 Surge in demand for au pairs

Cecilia Robinson, managing director of Au Pair Link; and Belinda Ware, mother with an au pair.

09:40 Impro muso

Adam Page makes his living from making things up on the spot - using clever technology to instantly layer his sounds to create a composition featuring several instruments - all played by himself.

09:50 Pacific correspondent with Mike Field

10:05 The Painted Garden - Christopher Johnstone

See images in the Nine to Noon Gallery.

Montana book award finalist Christopher Johnstone on how our gardening history interracted with our cultural development as a nation.

Christopher Johnstone, Art historian and author of The Painted Garden in New Zealand Art is a finalist in the Reference and Anthology category of the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards (winners announced Monday night). The Painted Garden in New Zealand Art is a collection of 100 works that tell us the story of our gardening history and how it interracted with our artistic and cultural development as a nation.

10:30 Book Review with Harry Ricketts

Aloe & Other Poems by Diana Bridge
Published by Auckland University Press/Macmillan

10:45 Reading: The Orphan Gunner by Sara Knox

(Part 5 of 10)

An unconventional romance set in bomber command in Lincolnshire during WWII.

11:05 Music review with Manu Taylor

Greg Brown - "Dream City - Essential Recordings Vol 2 1997 - 2006" - 2009 Red House Records RHRCD218

Helen Henderson - "Twisting Wind" - 2009 Ranui Records HH14

Wilco - "Wilco (The Album)" - 2009 Nonesuch records 7559798496

11:30 Sports commentator Richard Boock

11:45 Week That Was with Radar and Michele A'Court

A light hearted look at the news stories that hit the headlines.