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Nine To Noon for Wednesday 22 September 2010

  • Delhi Commonwealth Games readiness

    9:09 AM.We are joined by the mother of 14 year old Commonwealth Games diver, Gabe Armstrong-Scott and former distance runner Dick Quax, who won two silver medals: for the 1500 metres at the Edinburgh… Read more Audio

  • Stadium engineering

    9:26 AM.Joining us are John Scarry a structural engineer, who wrote a 2002 report on faulty design and construction and Dr Andrew Cleland, Chief Executive of the Institution of Professional Engineers NZ. Audio

  • Happiness economics

    9:39 AM.Nick Powdthavee, behavioural economist and author of The Happiness Equation: The Surprising Economics of Our Most Valuable Asset, which discusses the new science of happiness economics. Audio

  • Australia correspondent Paul Barclay

    9:51 AM.Paul discusses the Commonwealth Games problems and Afghanistan. Audio

  • Feature Guest - Christine Cole Catley

    10:07 AM.Christine Cole Catley set up the independant publishing company Cape Catley in 1973 and it is still going strong today. Christine also headed New Zealand's first polytechnic journalism course and has… Read more Audio

  • Book Review with Laura Kroetsch

    10:40 AM.She reveiws 'Savages' by Don Winslow, published by Heinemann. Audio

  • Music review with Marty Duda

    11:08 AM.Artist of the Week: Nick Cave with 'Happy Birthday' - The Birthday Party taken from 1980 album"The Birthday Party", 'God Is In The House' - Nick Cave and amp; The Bad Seeds taken from 2001 album"No… Read more Audio

  • Employment law specialist Andrew Scott Howman

    11:35 AM.The law as it applies at work and the Employment court. Audio

  • Science correspondent Simon Pollard

    11:50 AM.The Fire in their Eyes: evolutionary tinkering in the on-going arms race between predators and prey; and Queens of the Desert: naked mole rat, which may be a mammal, but keeps warm like reptiles and… Read more Audio

09:05 Delhi Commonwealth Games readiness

Mary Scott, Mother of 14 year old Commonwealth Games diver, Gabe Armstrong-Scott; and Dick Quax, former Distance Runner who won two silver medals for the 1500 metres at the Edinburgh Commonwealth Games in 1970, and for the 5000 metres at the Toronto Olympics in 1976; now a Manukau City Councillor.

09:20 Stadium engineering

John Scarry, structural engineer, who wrote a 2002 report on faulty design and construction; and Dr Andrew Cleland, Chief Executive of the Institution of Professional Engineers NZ.

09:20 Happiness Economics

Nick Powdthavee, behavioural economist and author of The Happiness Equation: The Surprising Economics of Our Most Valuable Asset, which discusses the new science of happiness economics.

www.powdthavee.co.uk

09:45 Australia correspondent Paul Barclay

10:05 Christine Cole Catley - publisher

Christine Cole Catley set up the independant publishing company Cape Catley in 1973 and it is still going strong today. Christine also headed New Zealand's first polytechnic journalism course and has been a book and theatre reviewer and the first television critic for The Dominion and the Dominion Sunday Times.

She has just won the Copyright Licensing Ltd (CLL) Writers' Award - to help finance her autobiography, Getting Ready.

10:30 Book Review with Laura Kroetsch

Savages by Don Winslow
Published by Heinemann

10:45 Reading

Gods and Little Fishes by Bruce Ansley

The memoir of a New Brighton boy, enjoying life in a thriving seaside township. (Part 3 of 5, RNZ)

11:05 Music review with Marty Duda

Artist of the Week: Nick Cave

1. Happy Birthday (3:59) - The Birthday Party taken from 1980 album "The Birthday Party" (Missing Link)

2. God Is In The House (5:44) - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds taken from 2001 album "No More Shall We Part" (Reprise)

3. Memory (3:42) - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis taken from 2010 album "The Road: Original Score" (Mute)

4. Heathen Child (5:01) - Grinderman taken from 2010 album "Grinderman 2" (Mute)

11:30 Employment law specialist Andrew Scott Howman

11:45 Science correspondent Simon Pollard

The Fire in their Eyes: evolutionary tinkering in the on-going arms race between predators and prey; and Queens of the Desert: naked mole rat, which may be a mammal, but keeps warm like reptiles and lives in colonies like social insects.