Nine To Noon for Thursday 12 November 2009
09:05 Marineland accused of taking wild seals
Barbara Arnott, Mayor of Napier; and Hans Kriek, campaign director for the group Save Animals From Exploitation.
09:20 "Blood diamonds" and the failure of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme
Susanne Emond, programme manager in charge of the Kimberley Process at the NGO Partnership Africa Canada.
09:45 UK correspondent Matthew Parris
10:05 Commercial-free childhood campaigner
Dr Susan Linn is a co-founder of the US National Coalition Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which has taken on Disney and McDonalds over their marketing to children. Disney recently offered refunds for its "Baby Einstein" DVDs after a campaign by CCFC forced them to drop the word "educational" from their marketing. Dr Linn is an instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an award-winning ventriloquist.
10:30 Book Review with Phil Vine
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
Published by Faber & Faber
10:44 Reading: The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
(Part 4 of 15)
The film version opens in NZ Cinemas today - but this is Jacob Rajan reading from the original Elizabeth Knox story of love, life, wine and angels stretching out from Burgundy at the beginning of the 19th century.
11:05 New Technology with Nicholas Dunlop
Co-founder and Secretary-General of the e-Parliament. It's an online network of most of the world's MPs so they can communicate and freely over cyberspace on big issues like climate change.
11:30 Making the streets of Flaxmere safer
Henare O'Keefe is a Hastings District councillor, and youth worker. He and his wife Pam have raised more than 200 foster children, and are devoted to helping the youth of Hastings.
11:45 Film review with Graeme Tuckett
Niki Caro's adaptation of The Vintner's Luck, This Is It, the Michael Jackson movie, and a documentary about boxer Mike Tyson.