Nine To Noon for Monday 10 May 2010
09:05 UK election
Michael Portillo, British journalist, broadcaster and former Conservative Party politician and Cabinet Minister.
09:25 Death of Kings College student James Webster
Bradley Fenner, Headmaster Kings College
09:30 Cellphone study
Dr Mireille Toledano, from the School of Public Health at Imperial College London is one of the principal investigators of the Cohort Study on Mobile Communications (or Cosmos for short), which will span for up to 30 years, and will follow hundreds of thousands of participants from five European countries.
10:05 Google and privacy
Alma Whitten, Google's global engineering team leader on privacy.
She's just been to New Zealand for a privacy forum and discusses the issue of privacy and online censorship.
www.google.com/governmentrequests
10:25 Book Review with Quentin Johnson
The Mango Orchard by Robin Bayley
Published by Preface
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 6 of 15)
11:05 Politics with Andrew Campbell and Matthew Hooton
11:30 Guest Chef Lauraine Jacobs and wine commentator John Hawkesby
Pork Fillet on a Warm Salad of Roast Chickpeas, Beetroot and Spinach with Horseradish Cream
11:45 Urbanist Tommy Honey discusses the evils of PowerPoint
Links:
NY Times article, We have met the enemy and he is PowerPoint
Edward Tufte, The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching our Corrupts
Wired article, PowerPoint is Evil