Nine To Noon for Thursday 21 April 2011
09:05 Christchurch families suffering in lead-up to winter
Andrew Dickerson, Canterbury District Health Board member
09:20 Safeguards for foster children
Garth Young, National Manager of the Ministry of Social Development's Care, Claims and Resolution Unit
09:35 The hidden influences behind playing sports and winning games
Tobias Moskowitz, behavioural economist at the University of Chicago and co-author of Scorecasting The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won.
09:45 UK correspondent Matthew Parris on the leadup to next weekend's royal wedding
10:05 Pat White - NZ Poet
Pat White is a poet and the author of memoir How the Land Lies: Of Longing and Belonging, published by Victoria University Press.
10:30 Children's Book Review with John McIntyre
Lest We Forget by Feana Tu'akoi
Illustrated by Elspeth Alix Batt
Published by Scholastic
ISBN 9781-1-77543-021-6
Nice Day for a War - Adventures of a Kiwi Soldier in World War I by Matt Elliot and Chris Slane
Published by Harper Collins
ISBN 978-1-86950-901-9
10:45 Reading: Under the Huang Jiao Tree by Jane Carswell (Part 11 of 12)
A New Zealander's mid-life experience teaching English in Chongqing China.
11:05 New Technology commentator Nigel Horrocks
How smartphones are killing off other devices from wristwatches to cameras.
Read in full the judge's decision re Google Books (PDF)
Find out more about Flip video cameras
Watch 700 Chinese schoolkids dance to Michael Jackson
11:30 Sports commentator Joseph Romanos
Some thoughts on the Breakers victory last night, and Graham Henry's hypocrisy criticising players for going overseas for money.
11:45 The Week That Was with Radar and Pinky Agnew
