Nine To Noon for Friday 4 July 2014
09:05 Former MI6 counter-terrorism head on new security threat
Tighter security measures are in place at airports in the United Kingdom and Europe and on all direct flights to the United States, because of what is being described as a credible security threat - and amid reports that al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria and Yemen are developing bombs to smuggle onto planes, which may not be detectable by current screening. Analysis is provided by Richard Barrett, a former Director of Global Counter Terrorism Operations for Britain's MI6. He held the role both before and after the 9/11 2001 attacks in the United States. From 2004 to 2013 he headed the United Nations Monitoring Team concerning Al Qaeda and the Taliban, and he has also worked for the British government in MI5, and the Foreign Office. He's the co-author of a new report on how the Syrian war has been an incubator for insurgents. Mr Barrett is now Senior Vice President for the Soufan Group in New York.
09:20 Is online voting the only way to get young voters engaged?
Massey University Associate Professor Richard Shaw on a new survey of non voting students.
09:45 Pacific correspondent Mike Field
10:05 UK Author Emma Healey
Author Emma Healey on writing a who-dunnit where the heroine suffers from alzheimers and must solve a mystery before her mind deteroriates too far.
10:35 Unity Books' Review: The Emperor Waltz by Philip Hensher
Reviewed by Tilly Lloyd, published by Fourth Estate hardback, RRP$45
A novel with three narrative strands: Third-century Rome, 1920s Germany, and 1980s London. In each place, a small coterie is closely connected and separated from the larger world. In each story, the larger world regards the small coterie and its passionately-held beliefs and secrets with suspicion and hostility.
10:45 The Reading: How to Hear Classical Music, written and told by Davinia Caddy
Musicologist, historian and writer Davinia Caddy offers a guide to assist a listener to understand, interpret and appreciate classical music and an overview of the history and social mores of the genre. (Part 10 of 10).
11:05 Jeremy Taylor with new music
11:30 Sports commentator Brendan Telfer
Discusses Lou Vincent's media performances this week, the Black Caps series win, and a look ahead to the quarter finals of the FIFA World Cup... who's hot and who's not.
11:45 The week that was with Te Radar and Michele A'Court
Music played in this show
Artist: Bic Runga
Song: Listening for the Weather
Composer: Runga
Album: Live at Helen's
Label: Radio NZ
Time: 9:25
Artist: She & Him
Song: Gonna Get Along Without You Now
Composer: Kellem
Album: Volumn Two
Label: Spunk
Time: 10:05
Jeremy Taylor's picks:
Artist: Roddy Frame
Song: Forty Days Of Rain
Comp: Roddy Frame
Album: Seven Dials
Label: Analogue Enhanced Digital/ Love Da
Time: 11:10
Song: Postcard
Comp: Roddy Frame
Album: Seven Dials
Label: Analogue Enhanced Digital/ Love Da
Time: 11:15
Artist: Brian Jonestown Massacre
Song: Days, Weeks And Moths
Comp: Newcombe
Album: Revelation
Label: A Records
Time: 11:20
Artist: Chrissie Hynde
Song: You Or No One
Comp: Hynde
Album: Stockholm
Label: Caroline International
Time: 11:25
Artist: Chrissie Hynde
Song: Dark Sunglasses
Comp: Hynde
Album: Stockholm
Label: Caroline International
Time: 11:30