Nine To Noon for Tuesday 6 October 2009
09:05 Reform of the criminal justice system
Simon Power, Minister of Justice
09:30 Oliver Yeh - MIT $150 space photos
Oliver Yeh, a 20 year old MIT student, spent $150 on a second hand cellphone, a camera, a weather balloon and a polystyrene chilly bin - sent it into near space and took incredible photos showing the curvature of the earth... to prove that you don't need a big budget to get results.
See the pictures here: 1337arts
Earth from 93000 feet. Long Island in the background.
09:45 US correspondent Jack Hitt
10:05 Alice Eve Cohen - author of What I thought I Knew
10:30 Book Review with Rae McGregor
Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd
Published by Chatto & Windus
10:45 Reading: Juggling with Mandarins by V M Jones
(Part 7 of 10, RNZ)
Pip feels he is being called on to fulfill sporting ambitions his father can no longer achieve. He is also struggling with his changing feelings for the girl next door. As well as learning to juggle mandarins, he learns how to juggle new feelings and relationships, and to succeed in indoor rock climbing.
11:05 Business and economic commentator Rod Oram
International Trade Awards
11:30 SME's: How to grow your small business
David Irving, co-founder of ICEHOUSE and honorary professor of Enterprise and Management at the University of Auckland Business School. He is one of the authors of a new book called Changing Gears:how to take your Kiwi business from the kitchen table to the board table.
11:45 Media with Denis Welch
The magazine market, and circulation figures