Nine To Noon for Thursday 13 May 2010
09:05 Greedy Rugby World Cup providers could harm NZ's reputation
Martin Snedden, Rugby World Cup 2011 chief executive.
09:20 Over the counter genetic testing kits to be sold across the United States.
Hank Greely, the director of Stanford University's Center for Law and the Biosciences.
09:30 Two remote South Island Rural schools have trialled 8 weeks of high speed broadband via satelillite
Andrena Norrish, principal of Winchester Rural School.
09:45 UK correspondent Kate Adie
10:05 Shahid Mahmood - Internationally syndicated political cartoonist
International political cartoonist and commentator.
10:30 Book Review with Paul Diamond
Wild Romance by Chloe Schama
Published by Bloomsbury
10:45 Reading. Lucky Bastard by Peter Wells
Did Eric Keelings actions constitute a further war crime? His two children are confronted with an ugly possibility. (Part 9 of 15)
11:05 New Technology with Nigel Horrocks
Nigel discusses privacy, disappearing telephone books and the Twitter newspaper.
11:20 Dear Alison: A New Zealand Soldier's Story from Stalag 383
Simon Pollard, The Canterbury Museum spider biologist has turned his great uncle's war time diary and turned it into a children's book Dear Alison - A New Zealand Soldier's Story from Stalag 383 - which details Dudley Muff's experiences in a German prisoner of war camp in World War II.
Dear Alison edited by Simon Pollard
ISBN 13: 9780143304609
ISBN 10: 0143304607
Published by Penguin
11:45 TV reviewer Simon Wilson
The new look Fair Go.