Nine To Noon for Thursday 14 October 2010
09:05 Wellington's first Green mayor
Celia Wade-Brown, mayor-elect of Wellington edged out incumbent Kerry Prendergast after a tight race that came down to special votes. Ms Wade-Brown has campaigned for better public transport.
09:20 How does STV really work?
Dr Andy Asquith, a senior lecturer in management at Massey University, Albany.
09:30 Adolescent sexuality
Dr Douglas Kirby, sexuality education expert. Dr Kirby has researched school and community programmes to reduce adolescent sexual risk-taking behaviours and is one of the keynote speakers at the Family Planning Conference, which starts on 15 October.
09:45 UK correspondent Matthew Parris
10:05 Randall Lane - journalist and magazine entrepreneur
Randall Lane, the former Forbes writer co-founded a magazine company Doubledown Media which launched magazines aimed at traders and the Wall Street elite and gave him a box seat of the goings-on of the rich and powerful. In his book The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the decade Wall Street Went Insane, he describes how his magazines all fed off - and encouraged - the Wall Street greed-fest before the company went belly-up in the financial crisis. Mr Lane is currently the editor-at-large of the The Daily Beast website.
The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the decade Wall Street Went Insane by Randall Lane
Published by Scribe.
10:30 Book Review with Sonja de Freiz
The Brave by Nicholas Evans
Published by Little, Brown
10:45 Reading
Slide Show, written by Carl Nixon and read by Simon O'Connor
A five part story about two boys and the uneasy relationship that develops between them and Mister McClean who lives next door. (Part 4 of 5)
11:05 New Technology with Nigel Horrocks
Nigel looks at Google's testing of cars that drive themselves, a US professor's controversial way to deal to his personal library and the growth of local community websites.
Read the Google engineer's blog about his cars that drive themselves
The debate about it on the Chronicle of Higher Learning
Check out a thriving Auckland "hyperlocal" news site that has been interviewing Len Brown
A New jersey local site held up as a good US example
11:20 Parenting
Speech-language therapist Christian Wright, discusses children's language development.
11:45 TV Reviewer Simon Wilson
TV3's volcano drama Eruption, and new series The Big C.
