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Nine To Noon for Thursday 25 March 2010

  • Foreign owned local dairying

    9:08 AM.What are the implications of a foreign based company buying into New Zealand's dairy industry? An enormous amount of dairy farms may be sold to Hong Kong based Natural Dairy Holdings. Audio

  • The World Oral Literature Project

    9:38 AM.Dr Mark Turin, leader of the World Oral Literature Project. The University of Cambridge-based project aims to safeguard the world's 6,000 spoken languages, half of which are in danger of dying out… Read more Audio

  • UK Correspondent - Jon Dennis

    9:50 AM.The British budget has just been announced. Audio

  • Feature Guest - Chloe Hooper

    10:09 AM.Author of The Tall Man, an award-winning book about the death in custody of Cameron (Mulrunji) Doomadgee after he swore at a policeman on Palm Island. She wrote the book after being invited by the… Read more Audio

  • Book Review - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

    10:39 AM.Phil Smith reviews 'Major Pettigrew's Last Stand' by Helen Simpson. Published by Allen and amp; Unwin. Audio

  • Technology

    11:06 AM.Nat Torkington discusses Google's cyber-turfwar with China, conservation mining, and women in computing. Audio

  • Parenting

    11:28 AM.Psychologist and parenting expert Nigel discusses kids on planes and other public places. How do you ensure they behave in public, and what should you do if someone else's kids are driving you nuts? Audio

  • TV Review

    11:48 AM.Simon Wilson reviews the first episode of the second series of NZ comedy Go Girls, and the Prime documentary Haiti's Killer Quake. Audio

09:05 Sale of NZ dairy farms to a Hong Kong based Natural Dairy (NZ) Holdings

Kerry Knight, partner at Knight Calidicott - law firm representing Natural Dairy (NZ) Holdings; Arthur Lim, Auckland independent investment consultant; and

Murray Horton, spokesperson for the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa.

09:30 The World Oral Literature Project

Dr Mark Turin, director of the World Oral Literature Project.

The Cambridge University-based project aims to record and archive dying languages. It's estimated about half of the world's 6,500 spoken languages could be extinct by the end of this century.

09:45 UK correspondent Jon Dennis

10:05 Chloe Hooper

Author of The Tall Man, an award-winning book about the death in custody of Cameron (Mulrunji) Doomadgee after he swore at a policeman on Palm Island. She wrote the book after being invited by the defence to witness and to write about this case, which is now the subject of a long running inquest.

10:30 Book Review with Phil Smith

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simpson
Published by Allen & Unwin

10:45 Reading: Caught In Claywritten & told by Ellie Smith

Violet's husband leaves her after 19 years. He's gone north to be a potter and find himself. (RNZ)

11:05 Emerging technologies with Nat Torkington

Google's cyber-turfwar with China, conservation mining, and women in computing.

Google Faces Fallout as China Reacts to Site Shift (NY Times)
China hits back at Google's uncensored Hong Kong servers (The Register) Comparing proposed mine sites to places you know
Finding Ada, my three women who are Tabitha Roder, Amber Craig, and Julie Starr.

11:30 Psychologist and parenting expert Nigel Latta

Kids on planes and other public places - how do you ensure they behave in public, and what should you do if someone else's kids are driving you nuts?

11:45 Television review with Simon Wilson

Simon discusses the new series of NZ comedy Go Girls, and the Prime documentary Haiti's Killer Quake.