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Nine To Noon for Monday 18 May 2009

  • Can Christine Rankin hold on to her appointment?

    9:07 AM.United Future Leader Peter Dunne who has vocally opposed Ms Rankins appointment to the Families Commission. Audio

  • Youth sex offenders

    9:35 AM.16-year-old boy sexually abused his foster sister cannot get into a sex offenders treatment programme. Audio

  • Europe correspondent

    9:50 AM.Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney has the latest news from Europe. Audio

  • Eyewitness testimony

    10:07 AM.Jennifer Thompson Canino and Ronald Cotton on their remarkable story and his false imprisonment. Audio

  • Rebecca Priestley

    10:22 AM.Rebecca Priestley is the inaugural winner of the NZ Science Book Prize. Audio

  • Book review - Tales of Freedom

    10:40 AM.Phil Vine reviews Tales of Freedom by Ben Okri. Published by Rider. Audio

  • Politics from the right and the left

    11:07 AM.Matthew Hooton and Laila Harre discuss the latest political happenings. Audio

  • Food and wine

    11:30 AM.Todays guest chef is DineAID charity organiser Mark Gregory and wine commentator John Hawkesby matches the food with the wine. Audio

  • Off the beaten track - Hokianga

    11:50 AM.Outdoorsman and adventurer Kennedy Warne - today he talks about the Hokianga. Audio

09:05 Can Christine Rankin hold on to her appointment to the Families Commission following controversial revelations about her private life?

United Future leader Peter Dunne who has vocally opposed Ms Rankins appointment to the Families Commission.

09:20 Youth sex offenders

Alister James, lawyer whose 16-year-old client sexually abused his foster sister and who cannot get into a sex offenders treatment programme; Dr Ian Lambie, National Assication for Adolescent Sexual Offenders Services, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at Auckland University; Don Mortensen, manager of the Stop Collective - a treatment programme for male sex offenders.

09:30 NZ Science Book Prize

Rebecca Priestley, inaugural winner of the Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize for her book The Awa Book of Science.

09:45 Europe Correspondent Seamus Kearney

10:05 Eyewitness testimony

Jennifer Thomson-Canino mistakenly identified Ronald Cotton as having raped her - he spent 11 years in prison before DNA evidence freed him. Now Jennifer Thompson-Canino and Ronald Cotton have become friends and justice campaigners together. They join us with their incredible story of forgiveness, and their concerns about eyewitness testimony.

10:25 Book Review with Phil Vine

Tales of Freedom by Ben Okri
Published by Rider
ISBN 978 184 604 1587

10:45 Reading: On An Island With Consequences Dire by Kelly-Ana Morey

Episode 1 of 10

The layers of the years are peeled back to a summer on an island years ago when the lives of three teenaged girls, school friends, changed forever in one bloody fit of jealousy and rage. The dire consequences are about to come to a head.

11:05 Politics with Matthew Hooton and Laila Harre

11:30 Guest chef Mark Gregory and wine commentator John Hawkesby

11:45 Off The Beaten Track with Kennedy Warne

Outdoorsman, adventurer, travel journalist and photographer. Today he talks about the Hokianga.

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