Nine To Noon for Friday 19 December 2008

09:05 Police spying on the country's major unions

Matt McCarten, General Secretary Unite Union. Unions have been targeted. He calls for an inquiry; Michael Bott, Wellington Human Rights lawyer.

09:35 Small scale green energy generation

Benjamin Sovacool, international expert in the renewable energy movement and was a keynote speaker at a recent conference in Wellington that discussed what we can do to make energy investment more attractive to households and businesses.

As power companies hike prices, what options are there for consumers to produce their own power? We speak to an expert in the renewable energy industry, who says the future of energy lies in solar panels, wind turbines and backyard biomass generators.

09:45 Pacific Correspondent Walter Zweiffel, RNZI journalist

10:05 Professor Regan Potangaroa - Emergency relief operations

Veteran member of Engineers for Disaster Relief, Regan Putangiroa has assisted in emergency relief operations around the globe, including the Boxing Day 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and led one of the first international research teams into China within days of the hugely destructive quake centred on Sichuan in May this year.

10:30 Children's Book Review with John McIntyre

The Tomorrow Code by Brian Falkner
Published by Walker Books
ISBN 978-1-921150-34-0

Cosmic by Frank Coterill Boyce
Published by Macmillan
ISBN 978-1-4050-5464-5

Humpty Rugby and Other Classic Kiwi Rhymes by Peter Millet
Illustrated by Eddie Booth
Published by Puffin Books
ISBN 978-014350281-4

10:45 Reading. Fly Away Home, a short story by Arihia Latham-Coates

11:05 Music Review with Manu Taylor

Alice Russell - Pot of Gold - 2009 POD/Inertia Pty Ltd PODCD0727 -
(released in NZ December 2008)

Marabi - Marabi Africa 2 - 2008 Marabi Productions 46829.2 - (released in NZ January 2009)

Forbidden Joe - Oh What A Queer Sensation - 2008 Self Released FJ01

11:30 Sports commentator Richard Becht

11:45 Week That Was with Radar and Pinky Agnew