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Nine To Noon for Thursday 19 July 2012

  • The beginning of the end for Bashar al-Assad?

    9:05 AM.Sometimes know as modern Syria's biographer, historian Patrick Seale talks about the political status quo in the country, and about the potential consequences of the suicide bombing which succeeded in… Read more Audio

  • Urban forests - Justin Morgenroth

    9:30 AM.A lecturer at Canterbury University's School of Forestry, Justin Morgenroth on new research into the lifesaving role played by trees in the Christchurch earthquakes - and the importance of urban… Read more Audio

  • UK Correspondent - Kate Adie

    9:50 AM.Faster, higher, stronger - London and the Olympics. Audio

  • Feature Guest - Claudia Pond Eyley

    10:05 AM.Artist, documentary maker, writer - Claudia Pond Eyley's work incorporates her feminism and anti-nuclear activism. Audio

  • Book Review - The Raven's Gift

    10:40 AM.Dan Rearden's 'The Raven's Gift' is reviewed by Elisabeth Easther, it's published by Text Publishing. Audio

  • New Technology with Donald Clark

    11:05 AM.NetHui 2012; the US proposes submarine cable tax; Jelly Beans for all and; the Olympic Games in super-duper HiDef - faster, higher, stronger? Audio

  • Amanda Webster's battle with her son's anorexia

    11:25 AM.Australian Doctor, author, and the mother of an anorexic boy. Her book 'The Boy Who Loved Apples : A mother's battle with her son's anorexia' chronicles their story. Audio

  • Media with Gavin Ellis

    11:48 AM.The Olympic build-up and the avalanche of stories about everything that's going wrong. Audio

09:05 A suicide bombing kills three members of the Syrian President's inner circle

Historian Patrick Seale is known as modern Syria's biographer. He is the author of a number of books on the Middle East, including The Struggle for Syria and Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East.

09:25 New research into the lifesaving role played by trees in the Christchurch earthquakes - and the importance of urban forests for the future of the city

Justin Morgenroth, lecturer at the Canterbury University School of Forestry.

09:45 UK correspondent Kate Adie

Issues being raised about the level of security for the London Olympics.

10:05 Feature guest - Claudia Pond Eyley: artist, documentary maker and writer

Claudia's work incorporates her feminism and anti-nuclear activism. She has recently illustrated her first children's book.

Gallery: recent work by Claudia Pond Eyley

10:35 Book review with Elisabeth Esther

The Raven's Gift by Don Rearden
Text Publishing
ISBN: 9781921922862

10:45 Reading:  Labour Weekend, by Sheba Williams

Work means Sheba needs to stay in town over the Labour Day long weekend but it does allow her to contemplate her connection Wellington, her home town.

11:05 New technology with Donald Clark

NetHui 2012; US proposes submarine cable tax; Jelly Beans for all; the Olympic Games in super-duper HiDef?

11:30 Amanda Webster - Australian doctor, author, mother of anorexic boy

Amanda Webster is the author of The Boy Who Loved Apples : A mother's battle with her son's anorexia, published by Text Publishing.

11:45 Media commentator Gavin Ellis

The Olympic build-up and the avalanche of stories about everything that's going wrong.