Nine To Noon for Thursday 4 November 2010
09:05 Is there the political will to make NZ smokefree by 2025?
Professor Robert Beaglehole, chair of the Smokefree Coalition; Professor Richard Edwards, leader of tobacco control research at Otago University's Wellington School of Medicine; Tau Henare, National Party MP and chair of the Maori Affairs select committee.
The long-awaited Maori Affairs select committee report into the tobacco industry outliens radical plans to dramatically cut smoking rates in a bid to make this country totally smoke-free by 2025. It calls for tobacco tax increases, a ban on retail displays, a reduction in tobacco imports and more support for those wanting to quit.
09:25 The wine industry wants the hormone-based weedkiller 24D banned
The wine industry is calling for ban of the hormone-based weedkiller 24D after another case of spray drift wiped out several hectares of vines across a number of vineyards. The herbicide is a synthetic plant hormone that is used to control weeds - and makes up almost 7 percent of total pesticide use in New Zealand.
Brian Howard, Hawkes Bay winegrower who lost six hectares of vines when they were destroyed by a weedkiller that drifted over his vineyard. He says it will cost him several hundred thousand dollars; and Philip Gregan, chief executive of New Zealand Winegrowers.
09:45 UK correspondent Jon Dennis talks about the British response to the Yemen parcel bomb plot
10:05 Alan Brady - Central Otago wine pioneer
Founder of Gibbston Valley Wines. The former Irish journalist planted pinot noir grapes in Central Otago in the late 1970s despite being told of the difficulties he would face. Alan Brady has just published his memoir Pinot Central - A Winemaker's Story.
10:30 Book Review with Julia Millen
Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft - 200 Years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry by Deborah Cadbury
Published by Fourth Estate
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. (Part 8 of 12)
11:05 New Technology with Nigel Horrocks
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.
11:20 Parenting with US parenting educator and author Janis Keyser
How to understand the non-verbal communication skills of babies and pre-schoolers.
11:45 Film Reviewer Graeme Tuckett
Winter's Bone, I'm Still Here, and After the Waterfall.
