Nine To Noon for Tuesday 18 May 2010
09:05 The Government's assistance package for leaky home owners
John Green, Principal Adjudicator of the Building Disputes Tribunal
09:20 How to prevent the "fat finger" from sending stock markets into a plunge
Professor Robert A. Schwartz, of the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, City University of New York.
09:30 Cringe Parties
Sarah Brown, organiser of cringe parties where people bare their teenage souls ... cheaper and funnier than therapy, its a chance for people to get together and read out bits of their teenage diaries in a pub in front of a crowd.
Cringe: Toe-Curlingly Embarrassing Teenage Diaries, Letters and Bad Poetry by Sarah Brown
Published by Michael O'Mara Books
Cringe: Teenage Diary Writers Unite! Facebook Group
09:45 USA correspondent Jack Hitt
10:05 Planned Parenthood 50 years on
Fifty years after the introduction of pill we speak to the head of the International Planned Parenthood council, Alexander Sanger - whose own grandmother Margaret spearheaded the birth control movement in the United States a century ago.
10:30 Book Review with Sonja de Freiz
Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
Published by Abacus
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 12 of 15)
11:05 Business and economic commentator Rod Oram looks at the business of budgets
11:20 Tristan de Chalain - plastic surgeon whose first novel draws on his experience in the Angolan war
Auckland-based plastic surgeon and president of NZ Foundation for Cosmetic Plastic Surgeons who has written a novel based partly on his experiences as a surgeon working in the US and in the Southern African Angolan war of the 1980s.
Wolf's Paw by Tristan de Chalain
Published by Strategic Book Group (New York)
11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch discusses how sensitive should the media be in cases of personal tragedy?