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Nine To Noon for Friday 29 October 2010

  • Manawatu river pollution

    9:08 AM.The struggle to clean up the Manawatu River continues. Audio

  • Looted art database

    9:33 AM.Efforts to return art works, stolen from them, to Jewish families. Audio

  • Asia correspondent - Phil O'Sullivan

    9:47 AM.A top level appointment in China has given a strong indication as to who is in line to be the next President. Audio

  • Extragalactic astronomy and cosmology

    10:10 AM.New Zealand born Warrick Couch is working on one of the deepest mysteries of physics, dark energy. Why is the universe expanding at an accelerating pace? Audio

  • Children's Book Review

    10:35 AM.John McIntyre reviews three more children's books. Details listed below. Audio

  • New Music with Sean McKenna

    11:10 AM.With songs 'Never Too Old (To Hold Somebody)' by the artists Elton John and amp; Leon Russell off the album The Union; 'Jarabi' by various artists off the album Afrocubism; 'Shanghai Cigarettes' by… Read more Audio

  • Sports with Joseph Romanos

    11:37 AM.After their poor recent performance the New Zealand cricket team is now off to India. Audio

  • The Week That Was

    11:48 AM.A comical look at the past week with Radar and Irene Pink. Audio

09:05 Manawatu river pollution

Dairy giant Fonterra has applied to continue dumping waste into the Mangatainoka River, which feeds into the already very polluted Manawatu River. In August, Fonterra signed the Manawatu River Accord, an agreement to work with other groups and the community to clean up the river.

Russel Norman, Green Party co-leader; Dr Mike Joy, Massey University senior lecturer environmental science; Phillip Hindrup, senior consents planner, Horizons Regional Council.

09:25 Looted art database

A new online database recording more than 20,000 works of art looted by the Nazis from Jews in France and Belgium during World War II has been launched. The joint project between the US-based Claims Conference and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is based on records the Nazis produced in Paris, and is designed to help families search for art they believe may have been seized.

Wesley Fisher, Director of Research at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

09:45 Asia correspondent Phil O'Sullivan

10:05 Warrick Couch - extra-galactic astronomy and cosmology

Distinguished Professor at the Centre for Astrophysics an Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. The NZ-born professor is part of a team that is examining the universe's accelerating expansion, with the aim of finding out if it is due to dark energy or a break down in Einstein's theory of relativity.

The XXM-Newton Distant Cluster Project (XDCP)

Supernova Cosmology Project

10:30 Children's Book Review with John McIntyre

It's A Book by Lane Smith
Published by Walker Books
ISBN 978-1-921720-14-7

Hill and Hole by Kyle Mewburn, illustrated by Vasanti Unka
Published by Penguin Books
ISBN 978-0143504535

Wilbee The Bumblebee by Craig Smith & Maureen Thompson illustrated by Katz Cowley
Published by Scholastic
ISBN 978-1-86943-943-9

10:45 Reading. Heart of Darfur by Lisa French Blaker

Auckland nurse, Lisa Blaker recalls her her experiences in Western Sudan on assignment with the humanitarian organisation Medicins San Frontiere.

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11:05 New Music with Sean McKenna

Artist: Elton John & Leon Russell
Album: The Union
Song: Never Too Old (To Hold Somebody)
Videos: If It Wasn't For Bad
Leon performing High Heel Sneakers on American television in 1964

Artist: Various
Album: Afrocubism
Song: Jarabi
Video: Making of the album

Artist: Caitlin Rose
Album: Own Side Now
Song: Shanghai Cigarettes
Video: Shanghai Cigarettes
Free download: Sinful Wishing Well

11:30 Sports commentator Joseph Romanos looks at the Kiwi cricketers tour of India with stinging criticism from coach Mark Greatbatch ringing in their ears

11:45 Week That Was with Radar and Pinky Agnew