Nine To Noon for Wednesday 7 August 2013
09:05 Calls for heads to roll over Fonterra's third contamination scare
Market commentator Arthur Lim.
09:20 Calls for heads to roll over Fonterra's third contamination scare
Economic development minister Stephen Joyce.
09:30 Reading Recovery programme in schools under fire
Professor Bill Tunmer is a distinguished professor of educational psychology at the Institute of Education at Massey University whose latest literacy research project concludes New Zealand's National Literacy Strategy has failed; and Rowena Phair, a deputy secretary of student achievement for the Ministry of Education.
Link: Why the New Zealand National Literacy Strategy has failed and what can be done about it (PDF)
09:45 Australia correspondent Peter Munro
10:05 David Hamburg - author of Give Peace A Chance
Dr Hamburg is president emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York. A medical doctor, he has a long history of leadership in the research, medical and psychiatric fields. He has been Professor at Stanford University and Harvard University, President of the Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences. He was a member of former US President Bill Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, and chaired committees at the United Nations and European Union on the prevention of genocide.
Give Peace A Chance: Preventing Mass Violence by David and Eric Hamburg, Paradigm Publishers.
10:35 Book Review with Rae McGregor
The Mannequin Makers by Craig Cliff
Published by Random House NZ Vintage, RRP$37.99
10:45 Reading: Something to Look Forward To by Victoria Feltham
Inspired by a recipe for happiness in a women's magazine, 'someone to love, something to do and something to look forward to', the narrator gives her lover an ultimatum – 'Choose between your wife and me'.
11:05 Music review with Marty Duda
Gogol Bordello is a self-proclaimed "gypsy-punk" band led by Ukrainian Eugene Hutz. After living in Poland, Hungary, Austria and Italy, Hutz finally settled in New York City which is where he formed Gogol Bordello. The band has been recording since 2002 and their latest album, Pura Vida Conspiracy adds country and western and Tex-Mex to their ever-growing list of musical styles such as punk, reggae and cabaret, featuring plenty of accordions and fiddles and even more energy.
Tracks:
1. When The Trickster Starts A-Poking (Bordello Kind Of Guy) (5:06) - Gogol Bordello taken from 2002 album "Multi Kontra Culti vs Irony" (Rubric)
2. Immigrant Punk (3:45) - Gogol Bordello from 2005 album "Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike" (Side One Dummy)
3. American Wedding (3:38) - Gogol Bordello taken from 2007 album "Super Taranta!" (Side One Dummy)
4. Malandrino (3:33) -Gogol Bordello taken from 2013 album "Pura Vida Conspiracy" (ATO)
11:30 Legal commentator Mai Chen
The Fonterra scandal, and also the ongoing ructions over the GCSB bill.
11:45 Arts commentator Courtney Johnston
Conserving art using lasers and videos, and museums in surprising places.
Links
Great Pompeii project finally underway - The Art Newspaper
Diocletian’s palace gets laser facelift - The Art Newspaper
Museum in a lift-shaft
XFR STN at the New Museum
The New Museum’s new media digitisation project - Tony Rocha
Circuit - artist film and video in Aotearoa New Zealand