Nine To Noon for Wednesday 25 December 2013

10:06 AM.American Amanda Knox was convicted with her former boyfriend of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Umbria, Italy in 2009. She served four years of a 26-year sentence before the… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Nelson based poet, whose work about her childhood in war torn Budapest have inspired a symphony to be performed by the Auckland Philharmonia. Audio

10:06 AM.British comedienne Jennifer Saunders is the writer and star of TV shows 'French & Saunders', 'Absolutely Fabulous' and 'Jam & Jerusalem' - the results of decades-long partnership with other comedy… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.The CEO / Chairman of Gallagher. The family's business began in a Hamilton shed in the late 1930s with a design for an electric fence that helped to transform New Zealand farming and turned it into an… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Professor Joan Dye Gussow has been called the "Matriarch of the eat-locally-think-globally food movement". She is a food pioneer, buy local campaigner, environmentalist, nutritionist, naturalist… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.The US-based tech journalist and blogger is best known for her work covering the hacker collective Anonymous. Audio

10:05 AM.Russian journalist and author Masha Gessen, says she is been forced to leave Russia because of the government's new "homosexual propoganda laws". Masha Gessen is a mother of three with her same sex… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Barry Brickell moved to the Coromandel to teach high school in the 1960s. But less than a year later he abandoned teaching to set up a pottery studio and kiln on a property in Driving Creek. Fifty… Read more Audio

10:09 AM.History and environment writer David Young on his new book on the importance of the country's rivers - how they shaped the country and its communities, the situation today, and the challenges of the… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Clarence B Jones was Martin Luther King's speechwriter, legal counsel and trusted lieutenant between 1960 and Dr King's assassination in Tennessee in 1968. He is Visiting/Diversity Professor at the… Read more Audio

10:15 AM.Saroo was lost in India as a five year old, falling asleep on a train which took him across the country to Calcutta. He lived on the streets, before being adopted by a Tasmanian couple… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head at point blank range a year ago as she travelled home on a school bus in Pakistan. The Nobel peace prize nominee shares her story of survival and what drives her… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Australian Paul Fenwick, on getting more people involved in open source software and how difficult it is to have privacy in this high tech age. Audio

10:06 AM.Acclaimed Australian author Tim Winton has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for 'The Riders' and 'Dirt Music'. His book of short stories 'The Turning' has been made into a film which is… Read more Audio

10:09 AM.Norfolk-based Mark Cocker is naturalist, environmentalist and author of nine books. He spent seven years writing his latest book, 'Birds and People', (published by Random House) which describes and… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Sir James Dyson, chief engineer and founder of Dyson Appliances in Britain. His designs - including a bagless cyclonic vacuum cleaner, air-blade hand dryers, and a fan without blades - have changed… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Dr Margaret Farley is a Catholic nun and emeritus Professor of Christian Ethics and Yale University's Divinity School, whose most recent book has been denounced by the Vatican. Just Love: "A Framework… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Jay Rayner is one of Britain's most influential food writers and critics - he believes the doctrine of local food is dead, that farmers' markets are merely a lifestyle choice for the affluent middle… Read more Audio