Nine To Noon for Friday 26 July 2013 Nine To Noon

Safety of Wellington buildings in the spotlight

9:09 AM.Wellington City Council says a lift shaft has developed a lean since Sunday's earthquake and is urging people living in Lukes Lane to evacuate. Wellington mayor Celia Wade-Brown, and Stephanie… Read more Audio
Rethinking the case for legalising doping in sport

9:30 AM.Professor Julian Savulescu, the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford and director of its Institute for Science and Ethics, believes it's time to consider legalising performance… Read more Audio
The Oxford professor who helped unmask author JK Rowlin

9:41 AM.Oxford professor Peter Millican helped confirm that Harry Potter author JK Rowling was posing as Robert Galbraith, author of 'The Cuckoo's Calling'. He is an expert in computer linguistics who… Read more Audio
Asia correspondent Jamil Anderlini

9:50 AM.The new mandate given to the prime minster in Japan, and corruption in the health sector in China. Audio
Michael Apted - Filmmaker of '56 Up'

10:06 AM.British director Michael Apted is the maker of '56 Up', the eighth episode in the world's longest-running documentary series. Every seven years Apted visits the same people he first interviewed about… Read more Audio
Children's book with John McIntyre

10:38 AM.'Blue Moon Bird' by Sabrina Malcolm, published by Scholastic; and 'The Frog Who Lost His Underpants' by Juliette McIver, illustrated by Cat Chapman, published by Walker Books. Audio
New Music with Jeremy Taylor

11:06 AM.Tricky, Bo Diddley, Willie Bobo and Roy Hamilton. Audio
Sport with Richard Boock

11:29 AM.The latest on rugby union, rugby league,and international cricket. Audio
Week That Was

11:51 AM.With Radar and Gemma Gracewood. Audio

09:05 Safety of Wellington buildings in the spotlight amid Luke's Lane evacuation

The Wellington City Council says a lift shaft has developed a lean since Sunday's earthquake and it is urging people living in Lukes Lane to evacuate. Celia Wade-Brown, Wellington Mayor; and Stephanie McIntyre, director of the Downtown Community Ministry – which is based in Luke's Lane.

09:20 Rethinking the case for legalising doping in sport

Professor Julian Savulescu – the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford and the director of its Institute for Science and Ethics – believes it's time to consider legalising performance enhancers because the zero-tolerance ban on doping has failed.

09:35 The Oxford professor who helped unmask author JK Rowling

Oxford professor Peter Millican helped confirm that Harry Potter author JK Rowling was posing as Robert Galbraith, author of The Cuckoo's Calling. He is an expert in computer linguistics who developed software that analyses and compares text.

09:45 Asia correspondent Jamil Anderlini

10:05 Feature guest: Michael Apted - Filmmaker of the 'Up' series - most recently '56 Up'

British director Michael Apted is the maker of 56 Up, the eighth episode in the world's longest-running documentary series. Every seven years Apted visits the same people he first interviewed about their dreams and aspirations when they were seven years old. The first episode, 7 Up, made in 1964, with its premise taken from the Jesuit motto "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man". The series has since topped lists of the best documentaries of all time. 56 Up screens at the New Zealand International Film Festival

10:35 Children’s Book Review with John McIntyre

Blue Moon Bird by Sabrina Malcolm
Published by Scholastic
ISBN 978-1-7753-112-1

The Frog Who Lost His Underpants by Juliette McIver
Illustrated by Cat Chapman
Published by Walker Books
ISBN 978-1-921-977-3

10:45 The Reading: 'The Forrests' by Emily Perkins

Read by Fiona Samuel

(Part 5 of 12)

11:05 New music with Jeremy Taylor

Artist: Tricky
Song: Nothing's Changed, Track 6
Comp: Thaws
Album: False Idols
Label: False Idols

Artist: Tricky
Song: Does It, Track 12
Comp: Thaws, Sharon Shy, Henry Frost
Album: False Idols
Label: False Idols

Artist: Bo Diddley
Song: Soul Food
Comp: Ellas McDaniel
Album: Soul Food, Food & Music, Fat & Yummy
Label: Trikont

Artist: Willie Bobo
Song: Fried Neck Bones & Some Homefries
Comp: Willie Bobo
Album: Soul Food, Food & Music, Fat & Yummy
Label: Trikont

Artist: Roy Hamilton
Song: The Dark End Of The Street, Track 7
Comp: Dan Penn/ Chips Moman
Album: A Road Leading Home - Songs by Dan Penn
Label: Ace

11:30 Sports commentator Richard Boock

11:45 The Week That Was with Radar and Gemma Gracewood

Music played in this show

10:35am

M Ward: 'Clean Slate'
from his 2012 album A Wasteland Companion

11:45am

Barry Saunders: 'Going Fishing'
from his 2008 album Zodiac

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