Nine To Noon for Thursday 23 July 2009

09:05 Provocation defence - should it be scrapped?

Tracy Evans, niece of Ronald Brown; Elisabeth McDonald, Associate Law professor at Victoria University who has studied both hetrosexual and homosexual provocation defences; and David Herkt, journalist who has covered a lot of trials which use the provocation defence.

09:30 Children don't need to crawl to be able to walk

Findings from a 21-year study with the Au tribe in PNG.

David Tracer, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Health and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado.

09:45 UK correspondent Michael White

10:05 Life inside New Zealand gangs

Three women talk about their lives inside New Zealand gangs.

10:30 Book Review with Michele A'Court

La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith
Published by Abacus

10:45 Reading: The Orphan Gunner by Sara Knox

(Part 4 of 10)

An unconventional romance set in bomber command in Lincolnshire during WWII.

11:05 New Technology with Colin Jackson

11:30 How do we attract brains and creativity back to the agriculture sector?

Jaqueline Rowarth, Head of Agriculture at Massey University.

11:45 Television commentator Simon Wilson