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Nine To Noon for Tuesday 18 May 2010

  • The Government's assistance package for leaky homeowners

    9:08 AM.Principal Adjudicator of the Building Disputes Tribunal John Green joins Lynn Freeman to discuss the Government's assistance package for leaky homeowners. Audio

  • How to prevent"fat finger"

    9:27 AM.Prof. Robert A. Schwartz of the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, City University of New York talks about how to prevent"fat finger"from sending stock markets into a plunge. Audio

  • USA correspondent

    9:42 AM.We join correspondent Jack Hitt for the latest news and current affairs from the USA. Audio

  • Cringe Parties

    9:51 AM.Sarah Brown is the 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… Read more Audio

  • Feature guest - Alexander Sanger

    10:08 AM.50 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… Read more Audio

  • Book review - Corduroy Mansions

    10:37 AM.Sonja de Freiz reviews Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith. Audio

  • Business with Rod Oram

    11:09 AM.Business and Economic commentator Rod Oram looks at the business of budgets. Audio

  • Wolf's Paw

    11:24 AM.Auckland-based plastic surgeon and President of NZ Foundation for Cosmetic Plastic Surgeons Tristan de Chalain has just written a novel 'Wolf's Paw', based partly on his experiences as a surgeon… Read more Audio

  • Media with Denis Welch

    11:50 AM.Discusses how sensitive should the media be in cases of personal tragedy? Audio

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.

Alexander Sanger's blog

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?