Nine To Noon for Friday 15 July 2011

09:05 News and current affairs

09:25 Catastrophe risk management and insurance

Tom Larsen, senior vice president of product architecture at EQECAT, which uses modelling to advise the insurance industry on catastrophe risk management.

09:45 Asia correspondent Phil O'Sullivan

10:05 How to avoid getting sucked into people's bizarre beliefs and conspiracy theories

Philospher Stephen Law discusses how people defend their illogical views and manage to draw others into an intellectual black hole. He is also a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of London and the editor of the Royal Institute of Philosophy journal THINK.

Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole by Stephen Law
Published by Prometheus

10:35 Children's Book Review with Doris Mousdale

10:45 Reading

The final of five new Hartley Manners Stories.

11:05 New Music with Chris Bourke

Track: Rebel
Artist: Sweet Diss and the Comebacks
Composer: Bathgate/Dooley/Kean/Knox/Walker
Album: Stitched Up! The Songs of Toy Love Revisited
Label: Burning Sky
http://burningskyrecords.com/bsrtoylovev2.php

Track: Swimming Pool
Artist: Cokeroque
Composer: Bathgate/Dooley/Kean/Knox/Walker
Album: Stitched Up! The Songs of Toy Love Revisited
Label: Burning Sky

Track: New Day
Artist: Highway
Composer: Highway
Album: Highway
Label: Ode

Track: Senorita
Artist: Pixie Williams
Composer: Ruru Karaitiana
Album: For the Record: the Pixie Williams Collection
Label: Blue Smoke Records

11:30 Sports commentator Richard Boock

11:45 The Week That Was with Radar and Pinky Agnew