Nine To Noon for Thursday 25 February 2010
09:05 Water management problems in Canterbury
Bede O'Malley, Ashburton Mayor; Chris Todd, Forest & Bird's South Island Conservation Manager; and Nick Smith, Environment and Climate Change Minister.
09:35 Electric car charging stations
Evan Thornley, CEO, A Better Place Australia
"Charge spots will be everywhere, like parking meters, only instead of taking money from you when you park, they give you electrons."
09:45 UK correpondent Matthew Parris
10:05 Jackie Collins - best-selling author
Dubbed a "raunchy moralist" by late director Louis Malle, Jackie Collins is one of the world's top-selling novelists. The British-born author says her glittering tales of sex, Hollywood power politics and crime are actually tamer than reality and many of her characters are based on real people. Her latest novel is called "Poor Little Bitch Girl", is published by Simon & Schuster.
10:30 Book Review with Kate Blackhurst
The Wife's Tale by Lori Lansens
Published by Virago
10:45 Reading: Tipface Bunyan By Suzie Pointon (Part 4 of 5, RNZ)
Gordon 'Tipface' Bunyan is a hulk of a man with an unusual empathy for chickens.
11:05 New Technology with Colin Jackson
11:30 Psychologist and parenting expert Nigel Latta discusses sibling fights
11:45 TV reviewer Simon Wilson looks at Beyond the Darklands documentary on killer, Mark Lundy