Nine To Noon for Tuesday 20 May 2014
09:05 News and current affairs
09:20 Leading UK crime scientist on the keys to lower crime rates
Professor Gloria Laycock is the Founding director of the Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, at University College, London.
09:45 US correspondent Jack Hitt
10:05 Feature: Heart transplant recipient and former panelbeater retrains as doctor
Graeme Fitzclarence was a high school drop out, panel beater and Aussie stockman, but a life-threatening illness has seen Graeme Fitzclarence's professional life change dramatically. Since receiving a heart transplant he's retrained as a doctor.
10:35 Book review: The Trigger by Tim Butcher
Reviewed by Gyles Beckford, published by Chatto & Windus
10:45 The Reading: The Virgin and the Whale by Carl Nixon
A nurse looks after a returned soldier whose head injury has reduced him to an animal-like state with no memory. (Part 7 of 10).
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
11:20 Lawrence Arabia - an album a night
Credited with making some of New Zealand's most interesting music, Lawrence Arabia discusses performing three albums in three nights.
11:45 Media commentator Gavin Ellis