Nine To Noon for Thursday 10 February 2011
09:05 Parole postponement
The Parole Board is considering denying a man convicted of murdering the father of a boy he was sexually obsessed with, the right to apply for parole each year. Phillip John Smith, who was given a life sentence in 1996, had earlier tracked the family from the Wairarapa, where he was facing sex charges, to the Wellington suburb of Johnsonville, where they were living in a supposedly safe house.
Lynda, relative of Phillip John Smith's victim; Alistair Spierling, manager of the Parole Board; and Tony Ellis, human rights lawyer and lawyer for Phillip John Smith.
09:20 Better World Books
Xavier Hegelsen, founder of Better World Books.
09:45 UK correspondent Michael White
10:05 Fenella France - preservation scientist
New Zealander Fenella France is a world-renowned preservation scientist - she has worked on projects including the World Trade Centre artefacts, Pre-Columbian textiles, the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, and the development of lighting standards for the preservation of cultural heritage. One of her career highlights was discovering, using hyperspectral image analysis, that the word "subjects" had been erased and replaced with "citizens" on a draft of the Declaration of Independence.
See images of Fenella France's work.
10:30 Book Review with Graham Beattie
The Payback by Simon Kernick
Published by Bantam Press
10:45Reading: Res Publica by Zireaux(Part 2 of 11)
Read by Stuart Devenie
A reading of the epic novel in verse by the poet Zireaux where Archady, a disenfranchised and disenchanted artist and husband, lays claim to a tiny island off the coast of New Zealand.
11:05 New Technology with Nigel Horrocks
The launch of what Rupert Murdoch says will be the way we access newspapers in the future and considers if the DVD format is on its way out.
Watch the video showing The Daily.
Sign up for news of New York Times News Me.
Read a list of what's in today's The Daily.
See what Flipboard is for the iPad.
Read about Murdoch's failed iGuide.
See Murdoch's Internet failures.
Hear the Egyptian Tweet messages and on online radio station.
11:20 Walking with Dinosaurs - The Live Experience
Bruce McTaggart, executive director of the Immersion Edutainment Group, which conceived Walking with Dinosaurs - The Live Experience, which is coming to New Zealand.
The production will bring 15 life-size dinosaurs to Auckland's Vector Arena next June and July, teaching audiences about the reptiles' lives, their battles and ultimately their extinction. A crew of 66 travels with the production. Each dinosaur requires three operators - one sitting inside it driving it, one operating the tail and head and another moving the mouth and eyelids, and controlling the roars.
Tickets on sale from 9:00 am Friday 11 February from Ticketmaster
Performances Times:
29, 30 June, 1, 2, July - 7:00pm
2 July - 3:00pm
3 July - 11am and 3:00pm
Left: a giant model of a Triceratop. Right: Tyrannosaurus Rex with juvenile.
Walking with Dinosaurs: Tyrannosaurus rex.
11:45 Film Reviewer Dan Slevin
The Coen Brother's latest, True Grit, as well as Inside Job, a documentary investigating the banking and finance crisis of 2007. He'll also preview the highlights of the upcoming French Film Festival.