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Nine To Noon for Thursday 11 August 2011

  • Professor Gus John

    9:08 AM.Community leaders in the UK say they issued repeated warnings about a summer of violence but their voices were ignored by the country's leaders. Professor Gus John is a fellow of the London Centre for… Read more Audio

  • Solar storms

    9:28 AM.What risk do solar flares and geomagnetic activity pose to Earth? Joe Kunches is a space scientist at the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction… Read more Audio

  • UK Correspondent - Kate Adie

    9:47 AM.The causes of the riots in England. Audio

  • Feature Guest - Joe Alves

    10:08 AM.Joe Alves is the man behind the Great White Shark that terrified audiences more than 30 years ago. As the production designer for Jaws - he designed the mechanical shark that menaced the seaside town… Read more Audio

  • Book Review - The Story of a Beautiful Girl

    10:40 AM.Written by Rachel Simon, reviewed by Gina Rogers and published by Windmill Books. Audio

  • New Technology with Sarah Putt

    11:08 AM.Sarah tells us what the switch to digital TV will mean for your mobile operator, and why BlackBerry was the device of choice for London rioters. Audio

  • Parenting with Simon Rowley

    11:30 AM.Auckland hospital Paediatrician Simon Rowley discusses Immunizations for measles and influenza, how children develop immunity. Audio

  • TV with Simon Wilson

    11:45 AM.Simon reviews an NZSO tour documentary, and the final in this series of Sons of Anarchy. Audio

09:05 Community leaders in the UK say they issued repeated warnings about a summer of violence but their voices were ignored by the country's leaders

Professor Gus John is a fellow of the London Centre for Leadership in Learning at the Institute of Education, University of London and visiting faculty professor of education at the University of Strathclyde. He is chair of Parents and Students Empowerment (PaSE), a body working with parents and with excluded students and those at risk of exclusion from school.

09:30 Solar storms

What risk do solar flares and geomagnetic activity pose to Earth?

Joe Kunches is a space scientist at the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center - his expertise is in solar and geomagnetic storms, solar cycles, and auroras.

Space Environment Center Gallery of Solar Activity

09:45 UK correspondent Kate Adie

10:05 Joe Alves: production designer on Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind

As the production designer for Jaws, Joe Alves designed the mechanical shark that menaced the seaside town of Amity. He went on to work on the two Jaws sequels, including being pulled in to direct the widely panned Jaws 3D.

Jo Alves with Jaws

10:35 Book Review with Gina Rogers

The Story of a Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon
Windmill Books

10:45 Book Reading: The Angel's Cut by Elizabeth Knox

A 15 part series narrated by Jacob Rajan

The angel Xas returns in this sequel to the international bestseller, The Vintner’s Luck. Into a world of movie lots and speakeasies (L.A. 1929) comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, still nursing his broken heart, and determined only to go on living in the air.

Listen again to this reading.

11:05 New Technology with Sarah Putt

What the switch to digital TV will mean for your mobile operator and why BlackBerry was the device of choice for London rioters.

11:30 Parenting with Simon Rowley

Auckland hospital paediatrician Simon Rowley discusses immunisations for measles and influenza; how children develop immunity; and how TV affects preschoolers - especially under 2-year-olds.

11:45 TV reviewer Simon Wilson

The NZSO tour documentary, and the final of Sons of Anarchy.