Navigation for Nine To Noon

Nine To Noon for Monday 11 November 2013

  • Concern over seclusion of mental health patients

    9:08 AM.Dave Peacock is the father of a mental health patient, Ashley Peacock, who is being kept in semi-permanent seclusion. Audio

  • The government's waterways plan

    9:25 AM.The government's waterways plan allows for up to 20% of freshwater flora and fauna species to be negatively impacted. We hear from representatives of Federated Farmers, Environment Canterbury, and the… Read more Audio

  • Africa correspondent - Nima Elgabir

    9:45 AM.CNN's Africa correspondent Nima Elgabir gives an insight into Kenya post the Westfield terrorist attack by Somali militants - the cross border relationship between Kenya and Somalia, the Kenyan media… Read more Audio

  • Writer Laurence Fearnley and photographer Arno Gasteiger

    10:06 AM.Novelist Laurence Fearnley has a new book out, 45 South, with photographs by Arno Gasteiger. The work comprises stories from along the wayline that marks the halfway point between the Equator and the… Read more Audio

  • Book review - Jeeves and the Wedding Bells

    10:40 AM.Phil Vine reviews Sebastian Faulks' take on the classic Wodehouse character in Jeeves and the Wedding Bells, which is published by Hutchinson. Audio

  • Politics with Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams

    11:07 AM.The political response to the Roastbusters fiasco, the alleged rapes of underage girls by young men in West Auckland; the rise in confidence of the New Nesters demographic and an upsurge in economic… Read more Audio

  • Gabriel Davidson - chocolate

    11:30 AM.Gabriel Davidson from the Wellington Chocolate Factory talks about sourcing the best chocolate and taking it from bean to bar. Audio

  • Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne

    11:50 AM.The fruiting of the beech forest, otherwise known as masting, is projected to have an abundant year or 'super mast' in the upcoming summer. Audio

09:05 Parents of mental health patient concerned about him being kept in semi-permanent seclusion

Dave Peacock is the father of Ashley Peacock. Ashley is a compulsory treatment patient at Capital and Coast Health. He has autism, post-traumatic stress disorder, a mild intellectual disability and mental health problems. His family want answers from the Capital and Coast District Health Board about why their 35-year-old son is being kept in semi-permanent seclusion.

09:25 Government's waterways plan allows for up to 20 percent of freshwater species to be negatively impacted

Environmental Defence Society chair Gary Taylor; Environment Canterbury (ECAN) director of Investigations & Monitoring Ken Taylor; and Federated Farmers national board spokesman for water and the environment Ian McKenzie.

09:45 Africa correspondent Nima Elbagir

10:05 Feature guests: writer Laurence Fearnley and photographer Arno Gasteiger

Novelist Laurence Fearnley has a new book out – with the photographs by Arno Gasteiger. The book follows their journey along the 45th parallel (halfway between the equator and the South Pole) which runs across the southern South Island.

Book: 45 South: A Journey across Southern New Zealand
Published by Penguin Group (NZ)

10:35 Book review with Phil Vine

Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks
Published by Hutchinson

10:45 The Reading

11:05 Politics with Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton

11:30 Food with Gabriel Davidson: Chocolate from source to bar

Gabriel Davidson is the co-owner of the Wellington Chocolate Factory which is about to open new premises in Eva Street in Wellington.

Gallery: Gabriel Davidson's journey to Peru

11:45 Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne

Mast years and mimicry.

Ant fly
Ultimate mimicry or wishful thinking? Goniurellia tridens, a picture-wing fly, keeps us guessing. Photographs by Peter Roosenschoon and Brigitte Howarth.