Nine To Noon for Wednesday 19 August 2009
09:05 Proposed changes to driving rules
Kathy Condon, whose husband Graham was killed by a carload of teenagers in September 2007 while he was on his usual Saturday morning bike ride in Christchurch; and Robert Isler, director of the Road Safety Research Group, in the Psychology Department of University of Waikato
09:20 H1N1 UK
Alan Hay, director of the World Influenza Centre in London.
09:30 Mock Submarine
Wayne Eyre, along with Dean Johnstone has built a mock submarine in his Spencerville, Canterbury house.
09:45 Australia correspondent Paul Barclay
10:05 Dr Rosaly Lopes, vulcanologist and planetary geologist who has just released a tourist guide to the world's volcanoes
Principal scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr Lopes has studied volcanoes on Earth, Mars, Jupiter's moon Io and Saturn's moon Titan. She was included in the 2006 Guinness Book of World records for discovering the greatest number of active volcanoes (71 on Io). She has published four books, including The Volcano Adventure Guide, the first travel guidebook to volcanoes.
10:30 Book Review with Graham Beattie
Bloodline by Mark Billingham
Published by Little, Brown
Visit Beattie's Book Blog
10:45 Reading: Landings by Jenny Pattrick
(Part 3 of 15)
A tale of the early 20th-century Whanganui River community.
11:05 Music review with Marty Duda
Marrakesh Express - Crosby, Stills & Nash taken from 1971 album "Woodstock Two" (Cotillion)
Evil Ways - Santana taken from 2009 album "The Woodstock Experience" (Columbia/Legacy)
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival taken from 2009 album "Woodstock 40" (Rhino)
Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane taken from 1970 album "Woodstock: Original Soundtrack" (Cotillion)
11:30 Legal commentator Mai Chen
11:45 Film review with Graeme Tuckett
Graeme Tuckett tells us about the Peter Jackson-produced District 9, and the documentary about Wellignton art dealer Peter McLeavey, The Man In The Hat.