Nine To Noon for Monday 8 July 2013

09:05 Teacher aides increasingly caring for and educating special needs children

So why do most receive no training for this?

Shelley Mercer, mother of a boy with Asperger's syndrome; and Phillip Harding, president of the NZ Principals Federation, which represents primary and Intermediate school principals.

09:30 Impact of Varroa bee mite being felt in lower South Island

Dick Coker, a commercial beekeeper from Cromwell, who runs a business called Nekta Klektaz; and Dr Mark Goodwin,  a scientist from Plant And Food Research and an expert on the varroa mite and its impact.

09:45 Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney

10:05 Quinn Norton - digital activist

US-based tech journalist and blogger Quinn Norton is best known for her work covering the hacker collective Anonymous. She has written extensively on everything from hacker culture and the Occupy movement to digital copyright, and is an exponent of the little-known art of 'body hacking'. She was a friend of Aaron Swartz, the internet activist who took his own life while facing prosecution for breaking into the computer system at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Quinn is in New Zealand to deliver the keynote address Encyclopedias, Lolcats, and Revolutions, and other Strange Consequences of an Open and Free Internet at NetHui in Wellington.

Link:

NetHui

10:35 Book Review with Graham Beattie

The Kill Room by Jeffery Deaver
Published by Hachette NZ, RRP $37.99

10:45 Reading: 'The Invisible Rider' by Kirsten McDougall (Part 4 of 6)

The story of a cycling lawyer, husband and father, who increasingly finds simple things in life baffling

11:05 Politics with Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams

Labour's so-called 'man ban'; what does Maori/Mana/Labour all add up to?; the latest on Christchurch; and Kim Dotcom versus John Key.

11:30 John Murphy from Marlborough Garlic

Recipes:

Garlic Scones
Garlic and Parsley Soup
Roasted Brussel Sprouts and Shallots

11:45 Urbanist Tommy Honey

Seven New Zealand projects shortlisted at the 2013 World Architecture Festival

387 Tamaki Drive
Alexandra Tent House
Auckland Art Gallery
Auckland Zoo Giraffe House
Ice Hotel
Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre
Mackelvie Street by RTA Studio
C3 House in Wanaka