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Nine To Noon for Thursday 8 August 2013

  • The government's quake safety deadline

    9:08 AM.With Andrew Cleland - Chief Executive of the Institution of Professional Engineers NZ. Dr Maan Alkaisi - Co-chair Christchurch Earthquake Families Group. Maurice Williamson - Minister for Building and… Read more Audio

  • Russia and Edward Snowden

    9:35 AM.With Mark Ames - Senior editor for NSFW Corp. Audio

  • UK correspondent - Kate Adie

    9:53 AM.More concern over Internet trolls. Audio

  • Feature Guest - Susan Lindquist

    10:06 AM.Professor of Biology at MIT famed for her imaginative research into how proteins function. Her work has shown how changes in protein folding can have profound and unexpected influences in fields as… Read more Audio

  • Book Review - Gleam

    10:40 AM.Written by Sarah Broom, reviewed by Harry Ricketts and published by Auckland University Press. Audio

  • New Technology with Sarah Putt

    11:07 AM.Government proposes law change in order to set telco pricing; New Zealand's telco spend; Amazon founder's purchase of The Washington Post. Audio

  • Barbara Arrowsmith Young

    11:25 AM.With Barbara Arrowsmith Young - the founder of a Canadian program for people with learning difficulties, based on neuroscience and the growing understanding that the brain actually can change and… Read more Audio

  • TV with Lara Strongman

    11:53 AM.Disaster TV... Two documentary shows on at the moment, which take disaster as their subject. Audio

09:05 Government’s quake safety deadline

Andrew Cleland, chief executive of the Institution of Professional Engineers NZ; Dr Maan Alkaisi, co-chair of Christchurch Earthquake Families Group; and Maurice Williamson, minister for building and construction.

09:30 Russia and Edward Snowden

Mark Ames, senior editor at NSFWCORP

09:45 UK correspondent Kate Adie

More concern over Internet trolls.

10:05 US molecular biologist Susan Lindquist

Susan Lindquist is a Professor of Biology at MIT famed for her imaginative research into how proteins function. Susan Lindquist's work has shown how changes in protein folding can have profound and unexpected influences in fields as wide-ranging as human disease, evolution and nanotechnology.

10:35 Book Review with Harry Ricketts

Gleam by Sarah Broom
Published by Auckland University Press, RRP$24.99

10:45 The Reading: Gap into Somewhere by Sue Emms

A mother finally makes a stand against her husband who is always up-ending his family. Read by Katherine McRae.

11:05 New Technology with Sarah Putt

Govterment proposes law change in order to set telco pricing; New Zealand's telco spend; and Amazon founder's purchase of The Washington Post.

11:30 Barbara Arrowsmith Young and Olivia and Brenda Tocher

Barbara Arrowsmith Young is the founder of a Canadian programme for people with learning difficulties, based on neuroscience and the growing understanding that the brain actually can change and strengthen. The program has been running in Canada for more than 30 years, after Barbara Arrowsmith Young overcame her own significant learning difficulties by identifying, isolating and taxing her specific areas of cognitive weakness. A south Auckland primary is about to become the first school in New Zealand to offer the programme.

Olivia Tocher is an Auckland teenager who, after years struggling with dyslexia and ADD, has moved to Vancouver to attend an Arrowsmith school. She and her mother Brenda talk to Kathryn about the impact the program has had on her learning.

The New Zealand Advocacy Group for the Arrowsmith Program

An Evening with Barbara Arrowsmith-Young

11:45 TV review with Lara Strongman

Disaster TV - two documentary shows on at the moment with disaster as their subject.

Music played in this show

10:36am

The Velvet Underground: 'Who Loves The Sun'
from their 1970 album Loaded

11:20am

Vampire Weekend: 'Diane Young'
from their 2013 album Modern Vampires of the City