Monday, September 22, 2014

Week ahead on Nine to Noon September 23-26


TUESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER
9-10am: News and current events; new reports of indescribable atrocities in Syria; how Estonia became the world’s most hi-tech country; US correspondent Jack Hitt.
10-11am: Novelist and short story writer, Elspeth Sandys opens up on her exhaustive search for her birth family and her career as a writer; Louise O’Brien reviews “The Children Act” by Ian McEwan; reading: “My Brother's Keeper” – written by Donna Malane and read by Alison Bruce (part 11 of 12).
11-12pm: Business commentator Rod Oram; Annette Parry of New Zealand’s Richard III Society discusses the latest scientific developments in the analysis of Richard III’s remains; media commentator Gavin Ellis.

WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER
9-10am: News and current events; the Islamist militia group that’s taken over Tripoli; Australia correspondent Peter Munro.
10-11am: Disability rights campaigner Sophie Morgan, who is walking again after ten years in a wheelchair, with the help of a high tech wearable robot; Quentin Johnson reviews “Dumont d'Urville - Explorer and Polymath”, by Edward Duyker; reading: “My Brother's Keeper” – written by Donna Malane and read by Alison Bruce (part 12 of 12).
11-12pm: Marty Duda features the music of his artist of the week; legal commentator Dean Knight; arts commentator Courtney Johnston.

THURSDAY 25 SEPTEMBER
9-10am: News and current events; youth voter participation; UK correspondent Jon Dennis.
10-11am: Indian-Canadian author Jaspreet Singh on recording and recovery from a nation’s shame; Paul Diamond reviews “White Ghosts, Yellow Peril - China and New Zealand 1790-1950”, by Stevan Eldred-Grigg with Zeng Dazheng; reading: “Mrs Taylor Jump-Starts the War”, written by Wix Hutton and read by  Fiona Truelove.
11-12pm: New technology commentator Sarah Putt; parenting commentator Christian Wright; film reviewer Dan Slevin.

FRIDAY 26 SEPTEMBER
9-10am: News and current events; Asia correspondent Jamil Anderlini.
10-11am: David Stuart Maclean on his harrowing memoir of forgetting, “The Answer to the Riddle Is Me”; Tilly Lloyd from Unity reviews books; reading.
11-12pm: Jeremy Taylor from Slow Boat Records plays new music; Radio New Zealand’s sports reporter Stephen Hewson on sports; comedians Te Radar and Michele A’Court tell jokes about the week’s news.

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