Nine To Noon for Friday 25 September 2009
09:05 Families of victims from Erebus disaster say Air New Zealand could do more to mark the 30th anniversary than offer a few people a trip to the site
Jackie Nankervis, her father, Ian O'Connor, and her mother's brother, Ronald Brehaut, were both killed in the crash; Catherine Carter, eldest daughter of Captain Jim Collins.
09:20 Foundation for the Deaf to commercially develop an invention designed by a 10-year-old to monitor noise levels at preschools
16-year-old Inglewood High School student Jamie Fenton has designed a decibel machine (when she was 10 for a science fair) which is being picked up by the Foundation for the Deaf to monitor noise at preschools. The Foundation for the Deaf survey has found that the hearing of one in five children is affected by noisy play and they want to commercially develop the invention to monitor noise levels at preschools.
09:30 Space jump from 120,000 feet
Stunt-man and ex-SAS soldier Steve Truglia tells us why he's leaping out of a balloon from the stratosphere - 120,000 feet to be precise.
09:45 Asia correspondent Phil O'Sullivan
10:05 Green MP Sue Bradford has resigned from Parliament after losing her bid to become co-leader of the Green Party
10:15 Peter Wells - Writer and film-maker
Writer and film-maker Peter Wells has just won the country's top non fiction prize to work on a daring re-examination of the life of one of our great colonial forefathers, William Colenso.
10:30 Children's Book Review with John McIntyre from The Children's Bookshop, Kilbirnie, Wellington
Glory by Fifi Colston
Published by Scholastic
ISBN 978-1-86943-868-5
Kyla by Frances Cherry
Published by Scholastic
ISBN 978-1-86943-883-8
Under The Mountain by Maurice Gee
Published by Puffin
ISBN 978-0-14331849-1
10:45 Reading. An Angel in an Apron - a short story by Valerie W. Smith
A woman who has had a stroke takes courage from her dead mother to come to terms with her new situation.
11:05 Sue Bradford explains here resignation as an MP
11:15 New Music with Sean McKenna
Artist: Oumou Sangare
Album: Seya
Track: Seya
Video: Live at WOMAD 2003
Artist: Monsters of Folk
Album: Monsters of Folk
Track: Baby Boomer
Video: Cover of Dylan's 'Girl From The North Country'
Artist: Split Enz
Album: Tim Finn - North, South, East, West - Anthology
Track: Maybe
Video: Trippy Split Enz video for 'Maybe'
11:30 Sports with Joseph Romanos
Joseph discusses if the All Blacks fans are too harsh in their judgement of our national team, and looks at Irene Van Dyk's contribution to New Zealand netball.
11:45 Week That Was with Radar and Irene Pink