Nine To Noon for Tuesday 27 May 2008

Nine to Noon for Tuesday 27 May

9:05 Emission Trading Scheme

Jeanette Fitzsimons, Co-leader of the Green Party

9:20 Shortcomings in palliative care at rest homes

Diane Millins, whose brother Ian Crutchley was last week convicted of the manslaugher of their mother by giving her an extra dose of morphine as she was dying at her Taumaranui rest home; and Dr Rod MacLeod, Medical Director of the Hibiscus Coast Hospice, and honorary clinical professor at University of Auckland, a renowned specialist in palliative care.

9:45 US correspondent Jack Hitt

10:05 The Story of Forgetting

Stefan Merrill Block's novel - The Story of Forgetting - deals with a nerdy teenage boy, and old man rancher, and the Alzheimer's gene that unites them, in more ways than one. The adolescent is on a quest to solve the riddle of his family's 'curse'. This is perhaps what Stefan Merril Block was doing when he wrote it because in real life, nearly everyone on his mother's side of the family has developed Alzheimer's. Stefan Merril Block himself faces the likelihood that he himself will one day develop the disease.

10:30 Book Review: Cold Steel: The Multi-Billion Dollar Battle for a Global Industry

By Tim Bouquet and Byron Ousey
Reviewed by Don Rood
Published by Little, Brown ISBN 978 031 602 8073

10:45 Book Reading: Kingdom Of The Sky by Matthew O'Sullivan

Te second of five Hartley Manners stories

11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram

11:30 The Holocaust - a survivor's story

Sabina Wolanski, author of Destined to Live: One Woman's War, Life, Loves Remembered
Published by Harper Collins

11:45 Media with Denis Welch