Nine To Noon for Tuesday 23 March 2010
09:05 Mining on conservation land
John Banks, Mayor of Auckland City; Tony Kokshoorn, Grey District Mayor; Doug Gordon, Chief Executive of the NZ Minerals Industry Association; and Denis Tegg, spokesperson for Coromandel Watchdog and a local lawyer.
09:30 Undercover operation reveals sale of whale meat at an LA sushi restaurant
Crystal Galbraith from the Oceanic Preservation Society is one of the people who posed as wealthy customers and were served the whale meat, which they then placed in specimen bags for testing.
09:45 USA correspondent Luiza Savage
10:05 Andrea Levy - British novelist
Andrea Levy, author of The Long Song. She is a British writer of Jamaican descent, who draws on her experience of growing up black in what she says was still a very white England.
The Long Song by Andrea Levy
Published by Headline
Andrea Levy has several speaking engagements in NZ:
Matakana 23 March 7 pm Reading at The Village Bookshop
Wellington 24 March 5:30 pm Talk and reading, Marsden Books
Christchurch 25 March 8 pm In conversation event, Our City O-Tautahi
10:30 Book Review with Alison Laurie
Leading the Way by Megan Hutching
Published by HarperCollins
10:45 Reading: Leonard's Monday written & told by Ellie Smith
Leonard's driving instructor teaches him the way to freedom. (RNZ)
11:05 Business and economic commentator Rod Oram discusses mining and how it creates economic value
11:30 Taika Waititi - film actor, writer and director
LA-based New Zealand director, writer and actor Taika Waititi whose latest film Boy is about to hit the screens here - after scoring positive reviews at the Sundance film festival. He has just landed a key acting role in a Hollywood 3D Blockbuster - which he's about to start filming.
11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch
The battle of the TV Sunday daytime current affairs shows - The Nation and Q and A.