Nine To Noon for Wednesday 4 November 2009
09:05 Expulsion of New Zealand and Australian envoys from Fiji
Aiyaz Sayed-Khayum, Fji's interim Attorney-General
09:20 What's wrong with the US healthcare system and Obama's legislation
Paul Hochfield, Oregon emergency medicine physician, producer of the film Health, Money and Fear and member of the group Mad as Hell Doctors.
09:45 Australia correspondent Ray Moynihan
10:05Carl Doy
Pianist, composer, arranger and one of NZ's most successful musicians.
Carl William Doy, ONZM (born Camberley, Surrey, England) is a pianist, composer and arranger. One of New Zealand's most successful musicians, Carl is probably best known for his multi-platinum selling Piano By Candlelight albums.
Doy has just completed his fifth series as Musical Director for TVNZ's Dancing With The Stars.
Doy Together Collection was featured on Oprah, where Oprah Winfrey said "It is so fabulous, I think it's the best.".
Doy is New Zealand's only American platinum selling solo musician.
In the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours he was awarded Officer of the NZ Order of Merit.
10:30 Book Review with Emma Hart
The Dogs and the Wolves by Irene Nemirovsky
Published by Chatto & Windus
10:45 Reading: Eric Of Epsom a short story by Julia Brannigan
At 90, Eric hopes to carry on one way or another; in memories and jumbled genes.
11:05 Music review with Marty Duda
Today's feature artist: Little Feat
1. Willin' (2:54) - Little Feat taken from 1972 album "Sailin' Shoes" (Warner Bros.)
2. Dixie Chicken (3:55) - Little Feat taken from 1973 album "Dixie Chicken" (Warner Bros.)
3. Time Loves A Hero (3:48) - Little Feat taken from 1977 album "Time Loves A Hero" (Warner Bros.)
4. Fat Man In The Bathtub (4:50) - Little Feat taken from 2009 DVD "Skin It Back" (Eagle Rock)
11:30 Legal commentator Catriona MacLennan
Restorative justice
11:45 Art commentator Courtenay Johnston
Getting school kids face-to-face with real art.