Nine To Noon for Tuesday 31 May 2011
09:05 The impact of the NZ dollar's meteoric rise to a post-float high above 82 US cents
Eric Barratt, managing director of NZ fishing company and exporter Sanford; and Imre Speizer, Westpac currency strategist who is predicting the NZ dollar will reach at least 85 US cents.
09:25 Poverty bites for some quake-affected Christchurch pupils
Tricia Carroll, Central New Brighton School's Acting Principal (one of the hard hit Eastern Suburbs); and Tony Simpson, Principal of Phillipstown School in Christchurch (immediately to the east of the CBD).
09:45 US correspondent Luiza Savage
On the US Democrats belief that they've discovered the Republican weakness – Medicare; and developments in the Republican presidential field.
10:05 Dick Smith - Australian entrepreneur, philanthropist and author
Founder of Dick Smith electronics retail empire, founder of Australian Geographic magazine, adventurer and author of new book on unsustainable growth, Dick Smith's Population Crisis - The dangers of unsustainable growth in Australia published by Allen and Unwin.
10:30 Book Review with John King
Big Girl Small by Rachel Dewoskin
Published by Text Publishing
10:45 Reading: The Life and Times of a Brown Paper Bag by Kevin Milne (Part 5 of 8)
Kevin Milne shares a remarkable, amusing and sometimes very moving autobiography
Audio of this story will be available here after broadcast.
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
The positives and negatives of the NZ dollar's surge; exports to Australia; and Chinese investment in the dairy industry.
11:30 Internet internship
Michael Moore-Jones, a 16-year-old Scots College Student has been head hunted by Singapore-based social networking company MyCube for a six week internship.
He won the position after the company read an article he'd written in which he highlights what he sees as the flaws of Facebook - despite its 600 million users, and where he sees social networking going in the future.
11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch discusses the Canon Media Awards