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Nine To Noon for Friday 8 October 2010

  • Ingrid Betancourt - politician and former hostage

    9:08 AM.Ingrid Betancourt was campaigning as a presidential candidate for a left-leaning green party in Colombia, when she was taken hostage by the guerilla movement FARC - Colombia's revolutionary Armed… Read more Audio

  • Voting draws to a close in the super city election

    9:45 AM.We are joined by Dr Andy Asquith, a senior lecturer in management at Massey University, Albany, whose research interests focus on Auckland's mismanagement and misgovernance. Audio

  • Pacific correspondent Mike Field

    9:52 AM.Topics - Fiji day celebrations and voting in Samoa. Audio

  • Feature Guest - William Gibson

    10:09 AM.William Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in a short story written back in 1982. His 1984 debut novel Neuromancer has become one of the most influential and acclaimed science fiction works of recent… Read more Audio

  • Book Review with Harry Broad

    10:44 AM.Being reviewed is 'A Perfect Gentleman: The Life of Sir Wilson Whineray' by Bob Howitt, published by HarperCollins. Audio

  • New Music with Sean McKenna

    11:07 AM.Featuring Mark Ronson and the Business Intl., Sufjan Stevens, and Halcyon Digest. Audio

  • Sports commentator Richard Boock

    11:34 AM.Commonwealth Games highlights, cricket, and Southland's biggest Ranfurly Shield challenge of the season, versus Canterbury. Audio

  • Week That Was

    11:52 AM.With Radar and Michele A'Court. Audio

09:05 Ingrid Betancourt - French-Colombian politician and former hostage

Ingrid Betancourt was campaigning as a presidential candidate for a left-leaning green party in Colombia when she was taken hostage by the guerilla movement FARC - Colombia's revolutionary Armed Forces, in 2002. For six and a half years she was held with other hostages in the jungle, until she was rescued by the Colombian Army in 2008. In her new book Even Silence Has an End Ingrid Betancourt recounts the drama of her capture and eventual rescue and describes her fight to survive, mentally and physically.

Even Silence Has an End by Ingrid Betancourt
Published by Virago

09:40 Voting draws to a close in the super city election

Dr Andy Asquith, a senior lecturer in management at Massey University, Albany, whose research interests focus on Auckland's mismanagement and misgovernance.

09:45 Pacific correspondent Mike Field

10:05 William Gibson - Science fiction writer

William Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in a short story written back in 1982. His 1984 debut novel Neuromancer has become one of the most influential and acclaimed science fiction works of recent history. These days, Gibson has abandoned the speculative world of sci-fi to write thrillers set in the present-day, and in his new novel, Zero History, he explores modern culture, particularly the cult of consumerism and marketing.

10:30 Book Review with Harry Broad

A Perfect Gentleman: The Life of Sir Wilson Whineray by Bob Howitt
Published by HarperCollins

10:45 Reading.

A Body of Land by Michele Powles, told by Loren Horsley

A woman who has had a breast removed after cancer fantasises she's part of the landscape as she is modelling for a life drawing class.

11:05 New Music with Sean McKenna

Artist: Mark Ronson & the Business Intl
Album: Record Collection
Song: Somebody to Love Me (featuring Boy George and Andrew Wyatt on vocals)

Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Album: The Age of Adz
Song: Vesuvius

Artist: Deerhunter
Album: Halcyon Digest
Song: Coronado

11:30 Sports commentator Richard Boock

Commonwealth Games highlights, cricket, and Southland's biggest Ranfurly Shield challenge of the season, versus Canterbury.

11:45 Week That Was with Radar and Michele A'Court