Nine To Noon for Monday 11 November 2013
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.
Ultimate mimicry or wishful thinking? Goniurellia tridens, a picture-wing fly, keeps us guessing. Photographs by Peter Roosenschoon and Brigitte Howarth.