Nine To Noon for Tuesday 31 January 2012
09:05 News and current affairs
09:30 Countering homophobia in UK schools
Suran Dickson, a New Zealander who gave up her teaching career to focus on preventing homophobic bullying in British schools.
Diversity Role Models: tackling homophobia through education
09:45 US correspondent Luiza Savage
10:05 Willpower - can it be strengthened?
Roy F Baumeister, world-leading social psychologist from Florida State University who's researched willpower.
10:25 Book Review with Louise O'Brien
Me and You by Niccolo Ammaniti
Published by Text Publishing
10:45 Reading: Losing It by Sandy McKay (Part 7 of 10)
Jo starts to face up to the damage she is doing to herself.
Audio will be available here after broadcast.
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
11:30 Teenage child poverty activist Jazmine Heka
A Whangarei student who was inspired by a child poverty documentary to launch a children's charter and petition calling for free healthcare and lunches for children and a warrant of fitness for rental houses. She lived in a state house for part of the time when she was growing up, which she recalls being cold and damp.
11:45 TV review with Simon Pound
New content channels.
Links:
Vlog - Shane Dawson TV (Warning: contains language that may offend some people)
Content channels coming to YouTube
YouTube Stars Making $100,000 Plus Per Year on Business Insider
Streaming Dreams: YouTube turns pro by John Seabrook on The New Yorker website