Nine To Noon for Friday 4 September 2009
09:05 Violence in Schools
Senior Sergeant Mike Fulcher, community service manager for Counties Manukau. He oversees the Cops in Schools programme.
09:20 Expert witnesses
This weekend doctors, dentists and other practice staff will gather in Wellington to learn from some of the top legal minds about how to be a good expert witness - and avoid some of the pitfalls of the courtroom.
Roy Beran, president of the Australian College of Legal Medicine, consultant neurologist and qualified lawyer.
09:30 Proposal to charge for evening parking in central Auckland
Alex Swney, chief executive of business group Heart of the City; and Ken Baguley, chair of Auckland City Council's Transport Committee.
09:45 Pacific correspondent Sean Dorney
10:05 Nathan Mullins - Aid volunteer
Nathan Mullins is a former police officer and security consultant who has worked in some of the world's most volatile areas including Iraq. Now a volunteer with Australian Aid International, he's written about some of his hair-raising experiences in his new book How to Amputate a Leg.
10:30 Book Review with Louise O'Brien
The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi
Published by Bloomsbury
10:45 Reading: Landings by Jenny Pattrick
(Part 15 of 15)
A tale of the early 20th-century Whanganui River community.
11:05 New Music with Sean McKenna
Artist: Willie Nelson
Album: American Classic
Song: Always On My Mind
Video: Bio-Willie
Artist: Taken By Trees
Album: East of Eden
Track: Watch The Waves
Video: Taken By Trees version of 'Sweet Child O' Mine'
Artist: Mayer Hawthorne
Album: A Strange Arrangement
Track: Make Her Mine
Video: Mayer Hawthorne Barbershop Quartet perform 'When I Said Goodbye'
11:30 Sports commentator Richard Boock
11:45 Week That Was with Radar and Michele A'Court