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Nine To Noon for Thursday 18 March 2010

  • Waihopai aquittals

    9:09 AM.Three men charged over an attack on the Waihopai spy base near Blenheim in 2008 have been acquitted . Father Peter Murnane, Adrian Leason and Sam Land had been on trial in the Wellington District… Read more Audio

  • Over-representation of Indigenous people in prison populations

    9:36 AM.Professor Chris Cunneen is the Professor in Justice and Social Inclusion at James Cook University, Queensland. He is currently Chief Investigator on a large Australian Research Council project called… Read more Audio

  • UK correspondent - Kate Adie

    9:51 AM.Despite no election date announced British politicians and media seem to be in campaigning mode. Audio

  • Feature guest - Melissa Clark-Reynolds

    10:05 AM.Entrepreneur Melissa Clark-Reynolds was a teen mum, a gifted child and the youngest woman to ever attend university in NZ. She established a health and safety and ACC consultancy which became New… Read more Audio

  • Book review - Lola

    10:44 AM.Carole Beu reviews 'Lola' by Elizabeth Smither. Published by Penguin. Audio

  • New Technology with Nigel Horrocks

    11:09 AM.Has the internet killed the movie critic? There's possible competition to the Southern Cross broadband connection. Audio

  • Spring-free trampolines

    11:29 AM.Keith Alexander is the engineering professor who designed and created the springgfree trampoline, which is now sold around the world, and Doug Hill is the company's New Zealand Managing Director. Audio

  • TV with Simon Wilson

    11:51 AM.Simon Wilson reviews Real Crime: Crime and Punishment and Q.I. Audio

09:05 Waihopai aquittals

Dr Ron Smith, The Director of Intelligence and Security studies at Waikato University.

09:20 Over-representation of Indigenous people in prison populations

Professor Chris Cunneen - Professor in Justice and Social Inclusion at James Cook University, Queensland. He is currently Chief Investigator on a large Australian Research Council project called 'Australian Prison Project'.

He is visiting NZ for a Victoria University hosted symposium on imprisonment, where he will discuss some of Australia's pressing imprisonment issues and how they relate to New Zealand, including the incarceration of indigenous peoples.

09:45 UK correspondent Kate Adie

10:05 Melissa Clark-Reynolds - entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Melissa Clark-Reynolds was a teen mum, a gifted child and the youngest woman to ever attend university in NZ. She established a health and safety and ACC consultancy which became New Zealand's largest private accident compensation insurer - Fusion. She's become an environmental crusader and has set up a social networking website for kids, www.minimonos.com, launched in February this year.

10:30 Book Review with Carole Beu

Lola by Elizabeth Smither
Published by Penguin

10:45 Reading: The Windmill by Alice Miller

The challenges of musical composition chart the twists and turns of a relationship. (Winner of the 2009 BNZ Katherine Mansfield Short Story Competition) (Part 1 of 2, RNZ)

11:05 New Technology with Nigel Horrocks

Movie critic sites www.rottentomatoes.com and www.metacritic.com.

US government broadband plan (pdf)

Miley Cyrus on the Internet

You can also see these links and contact Nigel on his blog.

11:30 Spring-free trampolines

Keith Alexander, the engineering professor who designed and created the spring-free trampoline, which is now sold around the world, and Doug Hill, is the company's New Zealand managing director.

11:45 TV reviewer Simon Wilson critiques Stephen Fry's Q.I.