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Nine To Noon for Wednesday 26 May 2010

  • Impact of ETS on power prices

    9:10 AM.With Richard Gordon - Spoksperson for State owned Genesis Energy, Brian Leyland - Independent power industry consultant and Graeme Purches - TrustPower spokesperson. Audio

  • Elliot Washer

    9:35 AM.An education expert visiting NZ as guest of Te Kura, The Correspondence School. Big Picture Learning is based on individualizing learning according to what kids are interested in and taking it into a… Read more Audio

  • Australia correspondent - Paul Barclay

    9:50 AM.Israeli diplomat expelled for counterfeiting Australia passports. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy at war with Google for"single greatest privacy breach". Australian Reserve Bank currency firms… Read more Audio

  • Feature Guest - Sir Max Hastings

    10:06 AM.British author, journalist, editor and historian. His new memoir "Did you really shoot the television? A Family Fable" is about his childhood and journalist parents. He also talks about his adult life… Read more Audio

  • Book Review - The Dead Republic

    10:42 AM.Written by Roddy Doyle, reviewed by John King and published by Jonathan Cape. Audio

  • Music - Marty Duda

    11:08 AM.The featured artist is Levon Helm. Audio

  • Sam Knowles

    11:30 AM.Kiwibank's CEO who has just announced that he is stepping down. Audio

  • Law

    11:42 AM.With Robert Lithgow. Audio

  • Film review - Graeme Tuckett

    11:54 AM.'Robin Hood', The Out takes film festival and 'Letters to Juliet'. Audio

09:05 Impact of ETS on power prices

Richard Gordon, spoksperson for state-owned Genesis Energy; Brian Leyland, independent power industry consultant; and Graeme Purches, TrustPower spokesperson.

09:20 Elliot Washer, founder, Big Picture Education

Education expert visiting New Zealand as guest of Te Kura, The Correspondence School. Big Picture Learning is based on individualising learning according to what kids are interested in and taking it into a 'real world context'. In other words - personalised learning that is not stuck in a theory based classroom.

09:45 Australia correspondent Paul Barclay

Israeli diplomat (Mossad representative) expelled for counterfeiting Australia passports. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy at war with Google for "single greatest privacy breach", Australian Reserve Bank currency firms pay bribes to win contracts.

10:05 Sir Max Hastings

Sir Max Hastings, British author, journalist, editor and historian.

His new memoir Did You Really Shoot the Television? is about his childhood and journalist parents. He also talks about his adult life as war correspondent and editor of two Fleet St newspapers.

Did You Really Shoot the Television? A family fable by Max Hastings
Published by Fourth Estate

10:30 Book Review with John King

The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle
Published by Jonathan Cape

10:45 Reading. Skin Writing: 3 Digital Wairua by Albert Belz

Another story from the small tattoo studio called Underworld where the lines between the past and present meet every day.

11:05 Music review with Marty Duda

Feature artist: Levon Helm

1. Leave Me Alone (2:37) - Levon & The Hawks taken from 1965 single (Ware)

2. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (3:33) - The Band taken from 1969 album "The Band" (Capitol)

3. Hurricane (4:04) - Levon Helm taken from 1980 album "American Son" (MCA)

4. Growin' Trade (4:22) - Levon Helm taken from 2009 album "Electric Dirt" (Vanguard)

11:30 Legal commentator Robert Lithgow discusses criminal law

11:45 Film reviewer Graeme Tuckett

Robin Hood, The Out Takes Film Festival and Letters to Juliet.