Nine To Noon for Thursday 26 April 2012

09:05 Claims that youth employment schemes will lose Government funding

Dale Williams, Otorohanga mayor and chair of the Mayors' Taskforce for Jobs; Andrew Wade, Dargaville businessman who spearheaded the establishment of the Employers Initiative Group in the town; and Bryan Cadogen, mayor of Clutha District.

09:30 Psychic comedian Chris Cox

Mindreader who can't read minds.

09:45 UK correspondent Kate Adie 

10:05 Feature Guest - Hannah Rothschild

British documentary filmmaker Hannah Rothschild has made a documentary and written a book on her great Aunt Pannonica Rothschild's very colourful life, who left the UK and her family to live among jazz legends, including Theolonius Monk and Charlie Parker.

The Baroness by Hannah Rothschild
Published by Virago

10:35 Book Review with Quentin Johnson

Hitler by A N Wilson
Published by Fourth Estate

10:45 Reading: Night Travellers, by Tina Shaw - Part 1

Read by Amy Tarleton 

The girl is happy – just an ordinary girl – but something happens to her in her home, at night, and her life changes forever.

11:05 New Technology with Sarah Putt

Telecom's new CEO, Poppy Day on Twitter, and e-Voting fail.

11:30 Science on the Ice - Antarctica

Scientist, science journalist and co-producer of Radio New Zealand's Our Changing World, Veronika Meduna.

11:45 Media commentator Gavin Ellis

Signs that TV3 is cutting back on current affairs, TVNZ and TV3 appoint new political editors and euphemism in the news.