Nine To Noon for Wednesday 5 August 2009
09:05 Taito Phillip Field's conviction
Dr Michael Bassett, former Labour cabinet minister and historian
09:20 Community education - night classes funding slashed
Maryke Fordyce, president of Community Learning Association through Schools, Trevor Bentley, a Continuing Education Coordinator in South Waikato; and Tracey Gayner, an Adults Continuing Education Coordinator in the Counties Manukau area.
09:45 Moriah School buttons
The tiny school that's collecting 1.5 million buttons in memory of the holocaust.
Moriah College - which caters for the Jewish community and has a role of just 28 pupils - is aiming to collect one button for each child who died in the Holocaust.
Since the project kicked off a year ago, they've collected just over half a million - the ultimate aim is to create a memorial scultpure in Wellington city, using the buttons. The children have come up with 3 design options, and last night the community gathered to vote on a winning design.
Justine Hitchcock, Moriah School Principal, Ariel Rosenbaum Moriah School student (13-yr-old); and Jonah Ease, Moriah School student (11-yr-old).
Anyone wishing to donate buttons to the Moriah School project can send them to:
Moriah School
Button Project
P O Box 27-233, Marion Square, Wellington
09:45 Australia correspondent Paul Barclay
10:05 Julie Myerson - The Lost Child
British author and journalist, who wrote a book about her son's descent into skunk addiction, very potent form of marijuana, The Lost Child. Julie Myerson sparked a backlash in Britain when she kicked her drug-addicted son out of the house and then wrote a book about it. She explains why she took such drastic action.
10:30 Book Review with Sonja de Freiz
The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
10:45 Reading: The Madonna In The Suitcase by Huberta Hellendoorn
(Part 3 of 5)
A story of the challenges and rewards a Dutch New Zealand family experience in caring for a daughter with Down Syndrome.
11:30 Legal commentator Robert Lithgow
Defence lawyer Robert Lithgow discusses some of the controversies surrounding rape trials and the way victims are treated on the stand.
11:45 Film review with Dan Slevin
Dan reviews Michael Mann's latest movie Public Enemies, starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, as well as the latest animation film Coraline and Battle in Seattle.