Nine To Noon for Friday 26 July 2013
09:05 Safety of Wellington buildings in the spotlight amid Luke's Lane evacuation
The Wellington City Council says a lift shaft has developed a lean since Sunday's earthquake and it is urging people living in Lukes Lane to evacuate. Celia Wade-Brown, Wellington Mayor; and Stephanie McIntyre, director of the Downtown Community Ministry – which is based in Luke's Lane.
09:20 Rethinking the case for legalising doping in sport
Professor Julian Savulescu – the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford and the director of its Institute for Science and Ethics – believes it's time to consider legalising performance enhancers because the zero-tolerance ban on doping has failed.
09:35 The Oxford professor who helped unmask author JK Rowling
Oxford professor Peter Millican helped confirm that Harry Potter author JK Rowling was posing as Robert Galbraith, author of The Cuckoo's Calling. He is an expert in computer linguistics who developed software that analyses and compares text.
09:45 Asia correspondent Jamil Anderlini
10:05 Feature guest: Michael Apted - Filmmaker of the 'Up' series - most recently '56 Up'
British director Michael Apted is the maker of 56 Up, the eighth episode in the world's longest-running documentary series. Every seven years Apted visits the same people he first interviewed about their dreams and aspirations when they were seven years old. The first episode, 7 Up, made in 1964, with its premise taken from the Jesuit motto "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man". The series has since topped lists of the best documentaries of all time. 56 Up screens at the New Zealand International Film Festival
10:35 Children’s Book Review with John McIntyre
Blue Moon Bird by Sabrina Malcolm
Published by Scholastic
ISBN 978-1-7753-112-1
The Frog Who Lost His Underpants by Juliette McIver
Illustrated by Cat Chapman
Published by Walker Books
ISBN 978-1-921-977-3
10:45 The Reading: 'The Forrests' by Emily Perkins
Read by Fiona Samuel
(Part 5 of 12)
11:05 New music with Jeremy Taylor
Artist: Tricky
Song: Nothing's Changed, Track 6
Comp: Thaws
Album: False Idols
Label: False Idols
Artist: Tricky
Song: Does It, Track 12
Comp: Thaws, Sharon Shy, Henry Frost
Album: False Idols
Label: False Idols
Artist: Bo Diddley
Song: Soul Food
Comp: Ellas McDaniel
Album: Soul Food, Food & Music, Fat & Yummy
Label: Trikont
Artist: Willie Bobo
Song: Fried Neck Bones & Some Homefries
Comp: Willie Bobo
Album: Soul Food, Food & Music, Fat & Yummy
Label: Trikont
Artist: Roy Hamilton
Song: The Dark End Of The Street, Track 7
Comp: Dan Penn/ Chips Moman
Album: A Road Leading Home - Songs by Dan Penn
Label: Ace
11:30 Sports commentator Richard Boock
11:45 The Week That Was with Radar and Gemma Gracewood
Music played in this show
10:35am
M Ward: 'Clean Slate'
from his 2012 album A Wasteland Companion
11:45am
Barry Saunders: 'Going Fishing'
from his 2008 album Zodiac