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Nine To Noon for Tuesday 6 July 2010

  • Fruit and vegetable prices

    9:08 AM.Are we being ripped off over the price of our fruit and veges? Audio

  • The trade-off between torture and terror

    9:20 AM.Law professor Jeremy Waldron discusses torture and terror. Audio

  • USA correspondent - Luiza Savage

    9:50 AM.Current affairs from the United States. Audio

  • Feature guest - Jason Thomas

    10:10 AM.Jason has just returned from an eight month mission in Afghanistan, where he was responsible for overseeing the implementation of large scale cash-for-work projects in unsecure areas while managing… Read more Audio

  • Book review

    10:40 AM.'Wilfried Thesiger In Africa' by Alexander Matiland. Published by Fourth Estate, reviewed by Don Rood. Audio

  • Business

    11:10 AM.Business and economic commentator discusses three aspects of the dairy sector - Fonterra's shareholder vote, selling land to overseas buyers, and Federated Farmers on the ETS. Audio

  • Lynda Chanwai-Earle

    11:27 AM.She's written about the experiences of Chinese NZers, a book of poems set in the gang underworld, and has taught and toured in prisons. Her latest play, Heat, is set in Antarctica and is powered using… Read more Audio

  • Media commentator - Denis Welch

    11:51 AM.Discusses how the media covered the introduction of the Emissions Trading Scheme, the Brian Edwards - Duncan Garner stoush, and the paywall on The Times website. Audio

09:05 Fruit and vegetable prices

Leon Stallard, Apple grower from Hawkes Bay and president of the Hawkes Bay Fruitgrowers Association; Peter Silcock, Chief executive of Horticulture New Zealand; and Katherine Rich, Chief Executive Officer of the NZ Food and Grocery Council.

09:20 The tradeoffs between torture and terror post September 11

Jeremy Waldron, New York University law professor.

09:45 USA correspondent Luiza Savage

Supreme Court and judicial politics, Barack Obama calls for immigration reform and the US economy - is it headed for a double-dip recession?

10:05 Jason Thomas - International development specialist

Jason Thomas has just returned from an eight month mission in Afghanistan, where he was responsible for overseeing the implementation of large scale cash-for-work projects in unsecure areas while managing four compounds across Wardak, Logar and Ghazni. The former director of Research for the ACT party in New Zealand has also delivered aid to Sri Lanka after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.

10:30 Book Review with Don Rood

Wilfred Thesiger in Africa by Alexander Maitland

Published by Fourth Estate

10:45 Reading

Sensible Sinning by Bernard Brown

Incidents and personalities from Bernard Brown's long career in law (Part 4 of 11).

11:05 Business and economic commentator Rod Oram

Rod Oram discusses three aspects of the dairy sector: Fonterra's shareholder vote; selling land to overseas buyers; and Federated Farmers on the ETS.

11:30 Lynda Chanwai-Earle: Poet, multimedia performance artist and playwright

Lynda Chanwai-Earle has written about the experiences of Chinese New Zealanders, a book of poems set in the gang underworld, and has taught and toured in prisons. Her latest play, Heat, is set in Antarctica and is powered using self-sustaining energy.

11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch

How the media covered the introduction of the Emissions Trading Scheme, the Brian Edwards/Duncan Garner stoush, and the paywall on The Times website.