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Nine To Noon for Tuesday 11 November 2008

  • New generation cancer drug funding

    9:08 AM.Chris Atkinson, Medical Director of the Cancer Society talks to Kathryn about the choices Pharmac's presented with. Audio

  • Longitudinal studies

    9:20 AM.A new observational study is about to commence in NZ looking at child health and how we grow up. Audio

  • Dictionary addict?

    9:45 AM.What do you call a man who's read the entire Oxford Complete? Well Ammon Shea actually. Audio

  • US correspondent - Jack Hitt

    9:55 AM.The latest news, views and current affairs from the land of the free and the home of debt. Audio

  • Feature guest - Jeffrey Sachs

    10:08 AM.Economist and director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University and author of Common Wealth - Economics for a Crowded Planet. Audio

  • Book review - The Devil's Own War

    10:40 AM.Edited by John Crawford. Published by Exisle Publishing. Reviewed by Bruce Brown. Audio

  • Business commentator - Rod Oram

    11:05 AM.Rod gazes into his economics and business crystal ball and sees the future options for PGG Wrightson. Audio

  • Boys of Everest

    11:25 AM.A new book by Clint Willis looks at the lives of the new generation of mountaineers inspired by Ed Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Audio

  • Media commentator - Denis Welch

    11:45 AM.Denis and Kathryn talk about things media worthy and appraise the coverage. Audio

09:05 Funding of new generation of cancer drugs

Chris Atkinson, Medical Director of the Cancer Society

09:20 Longitudinal studies

Alan Emond, Professor of Child Health at the University of Bristol and who's worked on several major longitudinal studies in the UK; Dr Susan Morton, Director of Growing Up in New Zealand, a major new longitudinal study (7800 subjects) that's about to get underway at Auckland University; and Dr Richie Poulton, Director of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health & Development Research Unit, University of Otago. This longitudinal study has been going for 38 years, and is internationally renowned.

09:30 One man, 59 million words

Ammon Shea has the dubious distinction of having read the entire 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary from cover to cover.

He is the author of "Reading the Oxford English Dictionary". He has also worked as a furniture removal man, New York gondalier and busker.

9:45 US correspondent Jack Hitt

10:05 Jeffrey Sachs - "the world's best-known economist"

Jeffrey Sachs - Economist, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, and author of Common Wealth - Economics for a Crowded Planet. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Sachs is also President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization aimed at ending extreme global poverty. He became a Harvard professor at 28, born in Detroit, 1954.

In April 2004, and again in April 2005, Professor Sachs was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine. In February 2002 Nature Magazine stated that Sachs "has revitalized public health thinking since he brought his financial mind to it." In 1993 he was cited in The New York Times Magazine as "probably the most important economist in the world" and called in Time Magazine's 1994 issue on 50 promising young leaders "the world's best-known economist."

10:30 Book Review with Bruce Brown

The Devil's Own War edited by John Crawford
Published by Exisle Publishing

10:45 Book Reading: The Hoary Mullein, a short story by Stephen Walker

11:05 Business with Rod Oram, Business and Economic commentator

11:30 Boys of Everest

Clint Willis, climber and author of Boys of Everest. Hillary's conquest of Everest inspired a generation of British climbers - young and from a middle or lower-class background - to push the boundaries of mountaineering in the 60s and 70s. Tragically, most pushed them too far and became climbing's "lost generation". Their story is told in Clint Willis' book The Boys of Everest.

11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch