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Nine To Noon for Thursday 5 August 2010

  • The roll of technology in health care provision

    9:08 AM.E-counselling - what role does new technology play in the provision of counselling services to vulnerable people? Dr Jeannie Wright, Associate Professor in Counselling, Massey University; and Fiona… Read more Audio

  • Biochemical feminisation

    9:31 AM.Biochemical feminisation - what effect are environmental oestrogens having on human fertility? Professor Ian Shaw, professor of toxicology at the University of Canterbury. His specialty is researching… Read more Audio

  • Identical twin sisters about to turn 100

    9:45 AM.Identical twin sisters Alison Hunt and Audrey Duthie talk about their lives as they prepare to turn 100. Audio

  • UK correspondent - Kate Adie

    9:52 AM.The British Prime Minister's latest announcement on council housing, the Post Office denounces counties, more controversy over beef, and the Battersea Dogs Home. Audio

  • Feature Guest - Ruth Beaglehole

    10:06 AM.Founder of the Center for Nonviolent Education and Parenting. Audio

  • Book Review - Tigerlily's Orchids

    10:43 AM.Rae MacGregor reviews 'Tigerlily's Orchids' by Ruth Rendell. Published by Hutchinson. Audio

  • New Technology with Nigel Horrocks

    11:06 AM.Amazon's new Kindle reading device that's coming to New Zealand, how to tell if your facebook name was put online and the story of the rape case in Sydney and deleted iPhone messages. Audio

  • Author Owen Marshall

    11:25 AM.Owen Marshall has has been called a master of the short story; his latest collection Living as a Moon is a finalist in the fiction section of the NZ Post Book Awards and explores the concept of… Read more Audio

  • TV review with Simon Wilson

    11:52 AM.Simon has been watching the new New Zealand drama This is Not My Life, and the new series of Nurse Jackie. Audio

09:05 e-counselling - what role does new technology play in the provision of counselling services to vulnerable people?

Dr Jeannie Wright, Associate Professor in Counselling, Massey University; and Fiona Robertson, Lifeline Clinical Manager

09:20 Biochemical feminisation - what effect are environmental oestrogens having on human fertility?

Professor Ian Shaw, professor of toxicology at the University of Canterbury. His specialty is researching how chemicals interact with the body. Food safety is one of his areas of study, such as the effect that the chemicals in plastics used to manufacture some bottles can have on our personal ecosystems.
Author of Is It Safe To Eat?

09:30 Identical twin sisters about to turn 100

Alison Hunt and Audrey Duthie, identical twin sisters who are turning 100 on Saturday 8 August.

09:45 UK correspondent Kate Adie

10:05 Ruth Beaglehole

Expat New Zealander who's dedicated her life to fostering non-violent parenting among a poor community in California.

She immersed herself in the womens movement, the anti Vietnam war protests, and put down roots in the poor multi-ethnic community of Echo Park.

For the last 40 years she's worked in that community, founding a preschool, working with teenage mothers, and finally in the late 90s founding the Centre for Non Violent Education and Parenting.

10:30 Book Review with Rae MacGregor

Tigerlily's Orchids by Ruth Rendell
Published by Hutchinson

10:45 Reading

Malcolm and Juliet by Bernard Beckett

16-year-old Malcolm is determined to win first prize at the National Secondary School's Science Fair. He's decided to film a documentary on sex. (Part 4 of 15)

11:05 New Technology with Nigel Horrocks

Amazon's new Kindle reading device that's coming to New Zealand
How to tell if your facebook name was put online
The story of the rape case in Sydney and deleted iPhone messages

11:30 Author Owen Marshall

Owen Marshall has has been called a master of the short story; his latest collection Living as a Moon is a finalist in the fiction section of the NZ Post Book Awards and explores the concept of identity and what it means.

He has written or edited twenty-three books to date. Awards for his fiction include the New Zealand Literary Fund Scholarship in Letters, fellowships at Otago and Canterbury universities and the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship in Menton, France. In 2000 he received the ONZM for services to literature and his novel Harlequin Rex won the Montana New Zealand Book Awards Deutz Medal for Fiction.

11:45 TV review with Simon Wilson

Simon has been watching the new New Zealand drama This is Not My Life, and the new series of Nurse Jackie