Nine To Noon for Monday 10 March 2014
09:05 The fate of the missing Malaysian plane with 239 people on board
Leading expert on aviation safety David Learmount, of the aviation magazine Flight Global; and Todd Curtis is a former safety engineer with Boeing who worked on its 777 wide-body jets – he is now director of the Airsafe.com Foundation.
09:20 New Zealand Law Society Executive Director Christine Grice
Gender imbalance in the law - why so few women are appointed as Queen's Counsel.
09:35 Roger Brooking and Mike Noon, General Manager Motoring Affairs AA
Calls to make alcohol interlocks mandatory for high level and repeat drink drivers. Should drug and alcohol counselling be mandatory for all drink drivers.
09:45 Europe correspondent Carsten von Nahmen reports on the latest in Ukraine.
10:05 Feature: Dr Lochie Teague – Starship Children’s Hospital
Paediatrician Lochie Teague is the author of Starship: Inside Our National Children's Hospital, which looks at the history of New Zealand's national children's hospital over the last 21 years.
10:35 Book review with Carole Beu
Where the Rekohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti. Published by Vintage.
10:45 The Reading: The Tree (Part 1) by Robin McFarland Another in the series of short stories by Robin McFarland, all set in Salt, a fictitious town on the West Coast of the South Island. Barney gets his first job learning the hard way to fell a tree.
11:05 Political commentators Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
11:30 Joseph Slater - Sodas and syrups
11:45 Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy discusses walking up the Waima River, in Marlborough, to Sawcut Gorge.
Gallery: Sawcut Gorge