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Nine To Noon for Wednesday 5 May 2010

  • Poaching of schoolboy rugby players

    9:08 AM.A high decile school has been accused of poaching a rugby player from a lower decile school. Audio

  • UK polling

    9:21 AM.Joe Twyman is the Director of Political Research at research company YouGov. Yougov predicted the 2005 British election with extremely accurately. Audio

  • Microlending

    9:37 AM.Emmanuelle Javoy the Managing director of microfinance rating agency Planet Rating explains what microfinance is and how it makes a difference in some of the poorest areas of the planet. Audio

  • Australia Correspondent - Ray Moynihan

    9:51 AM.Tax battles, policy backflips and teachers vowing to boycott national tests. Audio

  • Feature Guest - Yiyun Li

    10:10 AM.Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing before moving to the US in 1996 to study immunology, before becoming a writer. Her first book, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, is a collection of short stories about… Read more Audio

  • Book Review - The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

    10:40 AM.Anne Buchanan reviews 'The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ' by Philip Pullman. Published by Text Publishing. Audio

  • Music review with Marty Duda

    11:08 AM.Gil Scott-Heron has released his first album in some years. Audio

  • Law

    11:35 AM.Robert Lithgow talks about a guideline judgment case. Audio

  • Film review

    11:50 AM.Graeme Tuckett reviews 'Iron Man 2' and attempts to review 'The Hedgehog' despite not really seeing it. Audio

09:05 Poaching of schoolboy rugby players

Steve Cole, Principal of St Kentigern College; and Manoj Daji, College Sport Chief Executive.

09:20 British election - what are the pollsters picking?

Joe Twyman, Director of Political Research at research company YouGov

09:30 Microlending

Emmanuelle Javoy, managing director of microfinance rating agency Planet Rating.

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09:45 Australia correspondent Ray Moynihan discusses tax battles, policy backflips and teachers vowing to boycott national tests

10:05 Yiyun Li - Chinese writer

Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing before moving to the United States in 1996 to study immunology, before becoming a writer. Her first book, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, is a collection of short stories about modern China. Her second book, a novel The Vagrants, looks at the effect of a public execution on a Chinese town, drawing on her memories of seeing condemned prisoners at denounciation meetings when she was a school girl.

The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
HarperCollins
ISBN13: 9780007196654 NZ

10:30 Book Review with Anne Buchanan

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
Published by Text Publishing

10:45 Reading. Lucky Bastard by Peter Wells

Did Eric Keelings actions constitute a further war crime? His two children are confronted with an ugly possibility. (Part 3 of 15)

11:05 Music review with Marty Duda

Feature artist: Gil Scott-Heron

1. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2:50) - Gil Scott-Heron taken from 1970 album "Small Talk At 125th & Lenox" (RCA)

2. The Bottle (5:14) - Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson taken from 1973 album "Winter In America" (Strata-East)

3. Johannesburg (4:52) - Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson taken from 1976 album "From South Africa To South Carolina" (Arista)

4. I'm New Here (3:33) - Gil Scott-Heron taken from 2010 album "I'm New Here" (XL)

11:30 Legal commentator Robert Lithgow discusses criminal law

11:45 Film reviewer Graeme Tuckett

Iron Man 2 and The Hedgehog.