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Nine To Noon for Tuesday 30 March 2010

  • Lake Alice psychiatric home

    9:10 AM.Lake Alice psychiatric home - open for UN to investigate claims of abuse. Comments from John Edwards Wellington lawyer who has represented over 100 former patients and Paul Zentveld former Lake Alice… Read more Audio

  • Social impact bonds

    9:30 AM.Social impact bonds which raise money from private investors and the proceeds are applied to schemes to solve social problems. David Hutchison explains. Audio

  • USA correspondent

    9:50 AM.Jack Hitt is this weeks reporter from Washington. Audio

  • Feature guest - Dr Sandy Simpson

    10:05 AM.Former Clinical director of the Mason Clinic, which treats offenders with psychiatric problems, since 1991. The clinic was created in response to a Government inquiry into the care of mentally ill… Read more Audio

  • Book review - 'The Final Act of Mr Shakespeare'

    11:05 AM.Harry Ricketts reviews 'The Final Act of Mr Shakespeare' by Robert Winder. Audio

  • Business - Rod Oram

    11:10 AM.Business and Economic commentator discusses the implications of the potential purchase by a Chinese company of New Zealand dairy farms. Audio

  • Sex Bombs and Burgers - Peter Nowak

    11:50 AM.Science and technology journalist and blogger Peter Nowak draws the link between war, porn, fast food and technology. Audio

  • Media commentator - Denis Welch

    11:50 AM.Denis Welch discusses the future of online news and TVNZ's move to cut out the middleman and deal directly with advertisers. Audio

09:05 Lake Alice psychiatric home - open for UN to investigate claims of abuse

John Edwards, Wellington lawyer who has represented over 100 former patients; Paul Zentveld, former Lake Alice patient who received compensation and founder of Survivors of Lake Alice.

09:30 Social impact bonds

Bonds which raise money from private investors and the proceeds are applied to schemes to solve social problems.

David Hutchison, chief executive of Social Finance, a British "social-investment bank" which is launching the bond and has ideas for other ones.

09:45 USA correspondent Jack Hitt

10:05 Dr Sandy Simpson - former head of Mason Clinic

Clinical director of the Mason Clinic, which treats offenders with psychiatric problems, since 1991. The clinic was created in response to a Government inquiry into the care of mentally ill offenders.

10:30 Book Review with Harry Ricketts

The Final Act of Mr Shakespeare by Robert Winder
Published by Little, Brown

10:45 Reading: Where Underpants Come From' by Joe Bennett (Episode 2 of 12)

Joe heads off to China in a bid to trace his underpants back to their source.

11:05 Business and Economic commentator Rod Oram

The implications of the potential purchase by a Chinese company of New Zealand dairy farms.

11:30 Peter Nowak - Sex, Bombs and Burgers

Peter Nowak is a science journalist, blogger and author of Sex, Bombs and Burgers.

Sex Bombs and Burgers: how war, porn and fast food created technology as we know it by Peter Nowak
Published by Allen and Unwin RRP $38.99

11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch

The future of on-line news - and TVNZ's move to cut out the middle man and deal directly with advertisers.