Nine To Noon for Monday 16 February 2009

09:05 Project Hayes windfarm DOC backdown

Dave Witherow, longtime Dunedin conservationist and former ODT columnist; Morgan Williams, former parliamentary commissioner for the environment; and Cath Wallace, spokesperson for ECO - the umbrella group for conservation groups in New Zealand.

09:30 Urban design

Dr Janis Birkeland, Professor of Architecture says that the latest trend towards so-called carbon neutral buildings is not all its cracked up to be. Dr Birkeland says that "carbon neutral" buildings may be trendy, but retrofitting existing building is cheaper and more effective.

09:45 Middle East correspondent Anita McNaught

10:05 Timor Leste

President Jose Ramos Horta has spent most of his 59 years either campaigning for his country's freedom. Much of this time was spent in exile overseas, a campaign for which he won a Nobel Peace Prize and once independence was won, serving in his country's government. He survived an assassination attempt that saw him fighting for his life in a Darwin hospital, spending five weeks there and undergoing repeated operations.

10:30 Book Review with Paul Diamond

The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
Published by Fourth Estate
ISBN 978 000 7299 096

10:45 Reading. The Kindness Of Strangers by Shonagh Koea

Episode 6 of 10

A series of moving vignettes in which writer Shonagh Koea recalls her past, looking back on a range of roles including daughter, wife, mother, journalist and novelist, with a few favourite recipes along the way.

11:05 Politics with Matthew Hooton and Laila Harre

11:30 Guest Chef Ray McVinnie and wine commentator John Hawkesby

11:45 Sophist and provocateur Tommy Honey

Tommy looks at the proposed extensions to the National Library and questions whether the infrastructure projects we are embarking on are the right ones.