Sunday Morning for Sunday 18 September 2011

8:12 Insight: Trade Unions

Insight looks at the role of trade unions, and what’s ahead for organised labour.
Written and presented by Penny Mackay
Produced by Philippa Tolley.

8:40 David Admire – ADD and Criminal Justice

Retired US Judge, Assistant Professor David Admire, says failure to spot and deal with ADD and other learning disorders in children means they are at high risk of ending up in prison as adults. The father of two sons with ADHD, he talks to Chris about a course he founded, run by the Washington Learning Disabilities Association, to build anger management skills, decision making and problem solving among offenders on probation identified as learning disabled.

David Admire was in New Zealand recently for ADD/ADHD Awareness Week. He is assistant professor in the department of political science and criminal justice at Southern Utah University.

9:06 Mediawatch

Mediawatch looks at the fallout from the Rugby World Cup’s opening night problems, the search for the so-called ‘Minister of Bad Manners’, and how Cold War clichés were rolled out when Russia played the US.  Mediawatch also asks New Zealander of the Year Sir Paul Callaghan what he thinks of the media, after his comments about them in a major speech this week went unreported.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.

9:40 Steven Chown – Antarctica Under Pressure

Professor Steven Chown talks to Chris about invasion biology, and the consequences of rising CO2 emissions for life on land and in the oceans.
Steven Chown is Professor of Ecology at Stellenbosch University, in South Africa. He was visiting Victoria University recently to give the ST Lee Annual lecture on Antarctic Studies.

10:06 John Farrell – Clarence Darrow

John Farrell has a new book out on the life of legendary US defence attorney Clarence Darrow. He says that Darrow could have been rich, but preferred to champion the rights of minorities and the poor, and died penniless himself.
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned, is published by Scribe.

10.40 Notes from the South with Dougal Stevenson

But is it art? Dougal is muttering darkly about a towering pou in the Octagon.

10:45 Hidden Treasures

This week on Hidden Treasures Trevor Reekie features music from kiwi troubador Delaney Davidson as well as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix who passed away on this day in 1970.
Produced by Trevor Reekie

11.05 Ideas: Recycling – a stock-take

There was a time, not so long ago, when recycling was something of a fringe activity – a practice restricted to a few hardcore greenies. Times have changed and recycling bins are now standard in homes from Kaitaia to Bluff. Chris Laidlaw and Jeremy Rose talk to three people knee-deep in the business of recycling: Marty Hoffart – one of the founders of the immensely successful Paper for Trees initiative; Susan Coutts of Wanaka’s community-owned recycling company, Waste Busters; and Roger Freemantle the manger of Carter Holt Harvey’s Fullcircle baling plant in Seaview north of Wellington.
Presented by Chris Laidlaw
Produced by Jeremy Rose

11.55 Feedback

What you, the listeners, say on the ideas and issues that have appeared in the programme.