Nine To Noon for Wednesday 26 March 2014
09:05 Localised drought declared along the West coast of Northland and Auckland
Northland Rural Support Trust co-ordinator Julie Jonker
09:15 Why has Egypt just sentenced 528 people to death in a mass trial?
Issandr El Amrani oversees Crisis Group's North Africa Project. Based in Cairo since 2000, and a former newspaper editor in the city, he has worked across the Middle East as a journalist, commentator and consultant.
09:25 ACT leader election year interview
Leader of the ACT party Jamie Whyte
10:05 Australia with Karen Middleton, Chief Political Correspondent for SBS
10:15 Feature guest - US author and screenwriter Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin's first writing job was for her local newspaper and a music critic, this while she was still a teenager. She has written several books, the latest being The Collected Works of AJ Fikry, which is set in a bookstore. She was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for Conversations with Other Women, a film which starred Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart.
Book: The Collected Works of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Published by Hachette New Zealand
10:35 Book review with Paul Diamond
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Published by Text
10:45 The Reading: Best Feet Forward by David Hill
A series of stories about five, ‘over sixties’ who meet every Sunday morning to walk together. As they walk, they talk, canvasing their thoughts and worries, achievements and failings. (Part 3 of 5)
11:05 Marty Duda's artist of the week - The Stranglers
Tracks:
1. Sometimes – The Stranglers taken from 1977 album, “Rattus Norvegicus” (UA)
2. Walk On By – The Stranglers taken from 1978 album, “Black And White” (UA)
3. Golden Brown – The Stranglers taken from 1981 album “La Folie” (UA)
4. Big Thing Coming – The Stranglers taken from 2004 album, “Norfolk Coast” (EMI)
11:30 Law commentator Ryan Malone
Parliamentary privilege – why can't MPs be sued for defamation for statements they make in the House.
11:45 Arts commentator Courtney Johnston
A new report predicts the six big social and technological trends coming up for museums, from social entrepreneurship to robots. What are they, and what change might we see in museums?
Links:
- The Center for the Future of Museums 2014 Trendswatch report
- Rising Tide Car Wash
- Michael Edson’s ‘Museums in an Age of Scale’
- Gore Place’s farm
- MOMA’s massive online courses
- Amy Radcliffe’s Madeleine
- Janet Cardiff’s ‘The Forty Part Motet’
- Peter Robinson’s ‘Tribe, Sub-tribe’
- Dallas Museum of Art’s Friends programme
- Pablito, the conservation robot
Music played in this show
Artist: Rosanne Cash
Song: The Sunken Lands
Composer: Cash
Album: The River And The Thread
Label: Universal
Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Song: Son Of A Preacher man
Composer: Hurley / Wilkins
Album: n/a
Label:EMI
Artist: Eddie Boyd
Song: You Got To Reap
Composer: Boyd
Album: n/a
Label:Blue Horizon
Artist: The Stranglers
Song: Sometimes
Composer: Cornwell
Album: Rattus Norvegicus
Label: UA
Artist: The Stranglers
Song: Walk On By
Composer: Bacharach / David
Album: Black And White
Label: UA
Artist: The Stranglers
Song: Golden Brown
Composer: Cornwell
Album: La Folie
Label: UA
Artist: The Stranglers
Song: Big Thing Coming
Composer: Cornwell
Album: Norfolk Coast
Label: EMI
Artist: The Lumineers
Song: Ho Hey
Composer: Schultz / Fraites
Album: The Lumineers
Label: Dualtone