Nine To Noon for Tuesday 30 July 2013
09:05 Cost of earthquake strengthening
Connal Townsend, chief executive of the Property Council; Alan McMahon, Colliers International national director of research and consulting; and Iona Pannett, Wellington City Councillor.
09:30 Could writing a diary about difficult or traumatic emotional events help the healing process post surgery?
Researchers at Auckland University have been studying the mind-body connection looking at whether expressing emotions about a traumatic experience in a coherent way may be important to not just mental but physical health as well.
Dr Elizabeth Broadbent, a senior lecturer in health psychology at the University of Auckland led the study.
09:45 US correspondent Luiza Savage
US Congress getting serious about overhauling NSA surveillance programmes and lawmakers are also called for an overhaul of the secretive national security court that approves surveillance orders.
10:05 Professor Alan Cooper - Ancient DNA
Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide. Alan's a former Wellingtonian who is leading groundbreaking research which uses ancient DNA to record and study evolutionary processes in real time, especially those associated with environmental change.
10:35 Book Review with Gail Pittaway
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Published by Hogarth
10:45 The Reading: 'The Forrests' by Emily Perkins
Read by Fiona Samuel
(Part 7 of 12)
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
The upcoming float of Z Energy and Labour's proposal to ban sales of houses to non-residents.
11:30 Jackson Galaxy - cat behaviourist
Jackson Galaxy believes that he can help any "problem cat" – he says that most feline behavioural problems result either from triggers in the cat's environment or from mishandling of the cat by humans.
11:45 Media commentator Gavin Ellis
Journalism, subversion and criminality, media coverage of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the demise of the press photographer.
Music played in this show
10:30am
Eden Mulholland: 'Mekong Delta'
from his 2013 album Feed the Beast
11:25am
Eilen Jewell: 'Mess Around'
from her 2005 album Boundary County