Nine To Noon for Monday 26 December 2011

10:10 AM.David Seidler is the screenplay writer of the BAFTA winning film The King's Speech. He has also been nominated for an Oscar. Audio

10:06 AM.Michael Edson, the Director of Web and New Media Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum and research complex, consisting of 19 museums and galleries, the National… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Annie Proulx is NZ between 16-21 March during NZ Book Month. Her new book, BIRD CLOUD is the first piece of non fiction Annie has written for some years. She is also the author of The Shipping News… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.The author of the book "I Shall Not Hate". Audio

10:09 AM.Prolific British author whose various series for children and teenagers have been international hits. He discusses his upper class upbringing - being raised by nannies, and being sent to boarding… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Tony Mott is a British-born rock n' roll photographer who's snapped pretty well all of them - ACDC, Rolling Stones, Queen, amongst much else. He's spent an awful lot of time backstage, up close and… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Dick Smith is more than just the founder an electronics retail empire, he is also the founder of Australian Geographic magazine, an adventurer, philanthropist, and now the author of a new book on… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.A curator of textiles and fashion at the Victoria & Albert museum, specialising in 19th century fashion. She has curated an exhibition called Unveiled: 200 years of wedding dress from the Victoria and… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Margaret Pope, who was Prime Minister David Lange's speechwriter and later his wife, gives her account of the turbulent 1980s and the political figure at their centre. Her new book is called 'At the… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Blind NZ cycling champion: This Waikanae athlete lost her sight at 21 at the hands of her ex-husband. She took up blind cycling in 2005 and went on to win a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Sir Ranulph Fiennes was the first man to reach both poles by surface travel and the first to cross the Antarctic Continent unsupported. Fiennes has led over 30 expeditions including the first polar… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Canadian ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker who spent more than three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer and went to Haiti to study folk preparations implicated in the… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Dr Patterson is the President, Director of Research and co-founder of the Gorilla Foundation. Koko the gorilla can communicate with her human carers using sign language. Penny has worked with Koko for… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Greg Gilpin has just retired after 46 years in the police force. Through his work, he has witnessed many key New Zealand events. He was one of the officers who led the body recovery operation on Mount… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Jennifer Souness, a former top international model who became a 'high class madam', setting up two exclusive escort agencies. Audio

10:06 AM.Irish comedian whose annual ticket sales in his homeland are only beaten by U2. Audio

10:10 AM.Australian folk-rock legend Paul Kelly has recorded seventeen studio albums as well as several film soundtracks and live albums, in a career spanning more than thirty years. He was inducted into the… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Michael Kirby is Australia's longest serving high court judge and author of A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends, which describes his private life as a gay man - one who for decades… Read more Audio

10:09 AM.John Marsden is an author for young readers. His books include 'Tomorrow When The War Began', which was turned into a major motion picture, and he has recently established his own alternative school… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company previews 2012 Season that was launched today. Audio

10:06 AM.An artist who works in mostly in paint, but also does sculpture, pottery design, lithograph, woodcut and glass, Fatu Feu'u has been mentor to many Pacific artists, and is one of those exhibiting at… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.It is his final week in the role of Otago University Vice Chancellor. He is Professor of Preventive and Social Medicine at the university, and his primary research interest is cancer epidemiology. He… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Eddie Low has just reached the milestone of 50 years in the music business, performing in some of country music's most hallowed venues, and alongside some of its biggest stars. Audio

10:07 AM.Sean Simpson is the co-founder, and head of the science team at Lanzatech - a privately owned, NZ-based company which has developed and patented a microbe that eats polluting gases and excretes… Read more Audio

10:09 AM.Wil Anderson has won several awards for his comedy including the People's Choice award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival - for the second year in a row. His award winning show The Gruen… Read more Audio

10:11 AM.Author Michael Connolly is a former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times. After three years on the crime beat in LA he began writing his first novel. He is the author of the acclaimed Harry Bosch… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Franki plays the accordian, she makes and performs her own puppets, and is a keen bowler. Most recently she's delved into the world of writing romantic fiction - with a difference. Her latest book is… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Nathan Myhrvold is a multi-millionaire computer genius and professional jack-of-all-trades. He was Stephen Hawking's researcher, and Bill Gates's right-hand man at Microsoft. After leaving Microsoft… Read more Audio