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Nine To Noon for Friday 13 May 2011

  • Priorities for the new Christchurch 'Disaster Czar'

    9:08 AM.Roger Sutton, the chief executive of networks company Orion has taken up a five-year contract as the CEO of the Christchurch Earthquake Reconstruction Authority, the top bureaucrat in the post-quake… Read more Audio

  • SlutWalk protests

    9:38 AM.A controversial viral campaign sparked by a Canadian police officer's comments about women's dress has shifted onto the streets of North America, with other marches being planned around the world. Audio

  • Pacific correspondent - Mike Field

    9:49 AM.The new brinkmanship going on with Fiji Rugby, Samoa's plans to move the dateline and HMNZS Canterbury and the Americans tour Tonga and Vanuatu. Audio

  • Feature Guest - Wil Anderson

    10:09 AM.Wil Anderson has won several awards for his comedy including the People's Choice award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival - for the second year in a row. His award winning show The Gruen… Read more Audio

  • Book Review with Harry Broad

    10:39 AM.'Making Sheep Country: Mt Peel Station and the Transformation of the Tussock Lands' by Robert Peden, published by Auckland University Press. Audio

  • New Music with Sean McKenna

    11:07 AM.The songs are 'Hoki Mai' by the artist; The Yoots off the album Sing Along With The Yoots, 'Possessions' by the artist Artist: Parallel Dance Ensemble off the album: Possessions and Obsessions… Read more Audio

  • Sports correspondent - Richard Boock

    11:39 AM.More FIFA corruption allegations, sectarian violence in Scottish football and claims referees might be unwittingly biased towards the All Black's at the Rugby World Cup. Audio

  • Week That Was

    11:48 AM.With Jeremy Elwood and Pinky Agnew. Audio

09:05 Priorities for the new Christchurch "disaster czar"

Roger Sutton, chief executive of networks company Orion has taken up a five-year contract as the CEO of the Christchurch Earthquake Reconstruction Authority, the top bureaucrat in the post-quake city.

09:25 SlutWalk protests

A controversial viral campaign sparked by a Canadian police officer's comments about women's dress has shifted onto the streets of North America, with other marches being planned around the world.

Sonya Barnett, co-founder of Slutwalk Toronto.

09:45 Pacific correspondent Mike Field

The new brinkmanship going on with Fiji Rugby, Samoa's plans to move the dateline and HMNZS Canterbury and the Americans tour Tonga and Vanuatu.

10:05 Wil Anderson

Wil Anderson has won several awards for his comedy including the People's Choice award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival - for the second year in a row. His award winning show The Gruen Transfer looks at the world of advertising, and was the ABC's highest rating regular series. He also hosted the spin-off election specials Gruen Nation - which were the highest rating shows on the network since Kath and Kim in 2003.

10:30 Book Review with Harry Broad

Making Sheep Country: Mt Peel Station and the Transformation of the Tussock Lands by Robert Peden
Published by Auckland University Press

10:45 Reading: Called to the Bar by David Hill

Chloe, a retired high school teacher with a fond tolerance of the young, challenges Captain Metallica as to the rightful ownership of a Honey'N Meganuts Fruit Bar. Read by Danny Mulheron.

11:05 New Music with Sean McKenna

More FIFA corruption allegations, sectarian violence in Scottish football and claims referees might be unwittingly biased towards the All Black's at the Rugby World Cup.

Artist:The Yoots
Album: Sing Along With The Yoots
Song: Hoki Mai

Artist:Parallel Dance Ensemble
Album: Possessions and Obsessions (digital only release)
Song: Possessions
Video:Shopping Cart

Artist: Various
Album:Delta Swamp Rock (Sounds from the South: At The Country of Rock, Country and Soul)
Songs: Bobbie Gentry - Papa, Won't You Let Me Go to Town With You
The Allman Brother - Ain't Wastin' Time No More

Sexy Sax Man video.

11:45 Week That Was with Jeremy Elwood and Pinky Agnew