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Nine To Noon for Monday 29 April 2013

  • Congestion charges for Auckland

    9:08 AM.New congestion charges - inner city road user taxes and regional fuel surcharges - are being proposed as ways of dealing with Auckland's sometimes crippling traffic issues. Can they help mitigate the… Read more Audio

  • Heating up the Coolest Little Capital's economy

    9:27 AM.Infometrics economist Benji Patterson talks about Wellington's cooling economic fortunes as outlined in his recently commissioned 'State of the Region' report for Greater Wellington. Also joining the… Read more Audio

  • Europe Correspondent - Seamus Kearney

    9:53 AM.Seamus Kearney talks from Lyon about: political changes in Italy; political forgiveness in Iceland, and; fervour in France on both sides of the new marriage equality legislation. Audio

  • Feature Guest - Joe Dunn

    10:10 AM.Doctor Joe Dunn is a Sydney psychiatrist who founded 'Psychs on Bikes' - a group of mental health professionals who undertake huge motorcyle trips around regional Australia to raise awareness of the… Read more Audio

  • Book Review - Last Train to Zona Verde

    10:40 AM.Gyles Beckford gets on board Paul Theroux's Last Train to Zona Verde. Audio

  • Politics with Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams

    11:05 AM.The Labour/Greens bid to take the volatility out of the electricity market; the Mighty River Power share float; Tim Groser misses WTO job, and; the mayoralty race for Auckland and Wellington. Audio

  • Prefab food with Jeff Kennedy and Bridget Dunn

    11:30 AM.The stalwart Wellingtonions and dynamic hospitality duo Jeff Kennedy and Bridget Dunn have recently returned to the industry, opening their new home to Wellington's epicurious - Prefab. Bridget and… Read more Audio

  • Off the Beaten Track with Kennedy Warne

    11:50 AM.Fjords and fins in New Zealand's Fjordland. Audio

09:05 Congestion charge suggested for Auckland - how has it worked in London?

Stephen Glaister, Emeritus Professor of Transport at Imperial College in London, former Transport for London board member and the director of the transport research charity, the RAC Foundation, a research think tank associated with Royal Auto Club; and Paul Callow, Delotties partner who lead a 2007 study for the Ministry of Transport on whether congestion charges would work for Auckland.

09:25 Lifting Wellington's lagging economic performance

Benji Patterson, infometrics economist; Raewyn Bleakley, Employers' Chamber of Commerce Central CEO; and Rod Drury, Wellingtonian who founded Xero.

09:45 Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney

10:05 Feature Guest  - Dr Joe Dunn

Dr Joe Dunn is a Sydney psychiatrist who founded "Psychs on Bikes" – a group of  mental health professionals who undertake huge motorcyle trips around regional Australia to raise awareness of the serious mental health issues that impact rural communities. 

10:35 Book Review with Gyles Beckford

Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux
Published by Hamish Hamilton

10:45 Reading: The Conductor by Sarah Quigley

Read by Peter Bland

The story of the writing and historic performance of Shostakovich's 7th Symphony during the siege of Leningrad.

11:05 Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams

The Labour/Greens electricity price policy, Mighty River Power share float, Tim Groser misses WTO job, and the Auckland and Wellington mayoralty races.

11:30 Guest chefs Jeff Kennedy and Bridget Dunn

Jeff Kennedy founded Caffe L'affare more than 20 years ago and with his partner Bridget Dunn has now opened Prefab cafe in central Wellington.

Recipes:
Clam Chowder
Penne Arrabiata

11:45 Off The Beaten Track with Kennedy Warne

Off the beaten track in South Westland and Fiordland.

Gallery: Fiords & Fins

View of tussocklands and tarns from the summit of Mt Burns near the Borland Road Fiordland
View of tussocklands and tarns from the summit of Mt Burns, near the Borland Road, Fiordland. Photograph by Kennedy Warne.