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Nine To Noon for Tuesday 25 December 2012
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Feature Guest - Edmund White
10:07 AM.Edmund White is best known for his trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty and The Farewell Symphony, and the bestselling The Flaneur: A Stroll through the… Read more Audio
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Feature Guest - Albert Wendt
10:06 AM.Albert Wendt, novelist, poet, painter, has been called the father of Pacific writing. Audio
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Feature Guest - Bunker Roy
10:10 AM.Bunker Roy is an Indian activist and philanthropist who's spent decades nurturing the rural poor in his homeland by teaching practical skills through The Barefoot College. Four decades after its… Read more Audio
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Jacqueline Fahey - artist and writer
10:08 AM.Part two of Jacqueline Fahey's memoir is called "Before I Forget" and delves into her life after her marriage to psychiatrist Fraser McDonald and becoming an artist and name in her own right. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Feature Guest - Satyajit Das
10:08 AM.Former trader who has spent 30 years working and writing about financial markets. He is the author of 16 books including 'Traders, Guns & Money and Extreme Money'. Audio
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Feature Guest - Lawrence Freedman
10:07 AM.Sir Lawrence Freedman is Professor of War Studies and vice principal at King's College London. Sir Lawrence was appointed official historian of the Falklands Campaign in 1997 and is a member of the… Read more Audio
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Irish comedian - David O'Doherty
11:30 AM.David's is in the country for the NZ International Comedy Festival - his show, David O'Doherty Is Looking Up, is about what a rubbish year it's been. Audio
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Feature Guest - Author Helen Brown
10:06 AM.Helen Brown's last book about the sudden death of her young son became a runaway success. She speaks to Kathryn about her new book 'After Cleo Came Jonah', on dealing with breast cancer and a daughter… Read more Audio
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Feature Guest - Paul Ubana Jones
10:10 AM.A remarkable guitar player with a unique singing voice, Paula Ubana Jones is a talented songwriter and song interpreter. Paul is performing at the upcoming WOMAD festival in Taranaki. He is UK-born… Read more Audio
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Feature Guest - Don Berwick
10:08 AM.Time Magazine called him "The most influential person in health." He was Barack Obama's top health official, implementing and overseeing the biggest health reforms in the US commonly known as… Read more Audio
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Feature Guest - Gilbert Enoka
10:06 AM.Gilbert Enoka discusses his work with sports men and women at the highest level. Audio
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Feature Guest - Garth Gilmour
10:07 AM.Since 1960, Auckland-based writer and journalist Garth Gilmour helped Arthur Lydiard write more than a dozen training manuals and jogging philosophies, which have been published in several languages… Read more Audio
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Fiona Eadie - head gardener at Larnach Castle
10:10 AM.Fiona Eadie is the head gardener at Larnach Castle in Dunedin, which is set in 14 hectares of ground. Audio
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Feature Guest - Rhona Fraser
10:10 AM.Rhona Fraser was the first woman after World War Two to gain her private pilot's license, and to fly solo in a tiger moth from the Wellington Aero Club. In 1960 she established the New Zealand… Read more Audio
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Feature Guest - Doris de Pont
10:06 AM.Doris de Pont has edited the book 'Black: The History of Black in Fashion, Society and Culture in New Zealand', which explores the cultural and historical relevance of black in this country. It was… Read more Audio
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Feature Guest - Marty Welch
10:07 AM.Self-taught painter Marty Welch who's just won the prestigious Adam Portraiture Award (worth $15,000 and handed out every two years). His former jobs including being a milkman, and he honed his skill… Read more Audio
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Feature Guest - David Trubridge
10:09 AM.Based in Hawkes Bay, the award winning lighting and furniture designer sells work all over the world and now has an installation in the permanent collection at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Audio
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Vint Cerf
9:10 AM.Famed US computer programmer Vint Cerf speaks out about the battle for control of the Internet. Audio
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Feature Guest - Peter Usborne
10:09 AM.Peter Usborne is the co-founder of the satirical magazine, Private Eye, and in 1973 he founded Usborne Books - a UK company that publishes simple, 'straight-talking' children's books. Audio
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Feature Guest - Kurt Elling
10:10 AM.Grammy Award-winner Kurt Elling is among the world's foremost jazz vocalists. Born and bred in Chicago, he has been named "Male Vocalist of the Year" in the DownBeat critics poll 12 years in a row… Read more Audio
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Feature Guest - Howard Bloom
10:09 AM.American Howard Bloom has been called "the next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein and Freud". Before turning his hand to paleopsychology and writing, he ran his… Read more Audio
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Feature Guest - Dave Ainley
10:07 AM.Dr Dave Ainley is a US marine bird scientist leading an international campaign to protect the Ross Sea from all fishing, the Last Ocean Project. Audio
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Rachel Armstrong - Living architecture
10:10 AM.Dr Armstrong is the co-director of the Advanced Virtual And Technological Architectural Research (AVATAR) Group and a senior lecturer at the School of Architecture & Construction at The University of… Read more Audio
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Feature Guest - Nancy Lublin
10:06 AM.One of America's most successful non-profit leaders, Nancy Lublin began Dress for Success when she was just 23 with a US$5,000 inheritance from her great-grandfather. Audio
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Feature Guest - John McCrystal
10:09 AM.Writer John McCrystal on how his painstaking research led him to identify a mystery wreck off the dangerous west coast of the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands. Audio
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Feature Guest - Merridy Eastman
10:10 AM.Merridy Eastman is an Australian author and actor. She is currently acting in "Packed to the Rafters"; and her latest book is the final part of her memoir trilogy "How Now Brown Frau" - about waking… Read more Audio
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Feature Guest - Iris Scott
10:10 AM.Iris Scott was one of the first female graduates of Massey University's s veterinary science degree, and went on to take over the 100-year-old Rees Valley station at the head of Lake Wakatipu. Her… Read more Audio
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Feature Guest - Dr Jeff Brown
10:05 AM.Jeff is a paediatrician at Palmerston North hospital and president of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (the senior doctors' union). He trains health professionals on newborn life… Read more Audio
The Best of Nine To Noon 2012
Selections from the past year's feature interviews on Nine To Noon with Kathryn Ryan, broadcast during Great Encounters after the 6 o'clock news on Saturdays and Sundays, 29 December 2012 to 27 January 2013.
Nine To Noon returns on Monday 21 January 2013.