Nine To Noon for Thursday 30 October 2008
09:05 Election Campaign
John Key, National Party leader
09:30 Vocational Vacation
Brian Kurth, Founder and president of VocationVacations dreamjob vacations
09:45 UK Correspondent Jon Denis
10:05 NASA Astronaut
Wendy Lawrence, former NASA Astronaut in NZ as a guest of YWCA for their "future leaders" programme.
First female graduate of the US Naval Academy to fly in space and she has also visited the Russian Space Station Mir. She was a mission specialist on STS-114 - (Discovery) the first Shuttle flight after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
10:30 Book Review with Mary McCallum
Corvus by Esther Woolfson
Published by Granta
ISBN 9781847080899
10:45 Book Reading. At The Café De La Prix a short story by Diana Menefy
11:05 New Technology with Nathan Torkington
See the links at the bottom of this page.
11:30 Alice King
Alice King, author of High Society, wine taster, journalist, former alcoholic.
11:45 Television Review with Simon Wilson
Nathan's Links
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/about-us/current-initiatives/web-harvest-2008
http://librarytechnz.natlib.govt.nz/2008/10/2008-web-harvest-let-us-know-how-we-can.html
http://moral.wjh.harvard.edu/eric1/test/testN.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/innovators/von-ahn.html
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/review-hone-tuwhare-1975
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/barry-brickell-potter-1970/overview
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/magazine/26lives-t.html
http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2008/10/how-to-get-my-nerd-vote.html