Nine To Noon for Tuesday 4 February 2014
09:05 Could Genesis Energy be sold for a big discount?
Equities Analyst Phillip Anderson from Devon Funds Management.
09:20 Legal action against banks over interest rate swaps
Golden Bay farmer Michelle Riley and farmers' advocate Janette Walker, whose work prompted the Commerce Commission's investigation of interest rates swaps.
09:45 US correspondent Luiza Savage
10:05 Kate McGrath, director of the MacDiarmid Institute
The MacDiarmid Institute increases its work with school students to encourage more to choose science as a career.
10:35 Book review with Quentin Johnson
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Published by Granta
10:45 The Night Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
A satirical take on contemporary New Zealand society and politics. About love and relationships, power and the past, it’s loaded too with spin; political, social, and literary. Read by Michael Hurst. (Part 12 of 12)
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
11:30 Sleep patterns
Professor Dorothy Bruck is a Professor of Psychology from Victoria University in Melbourne. She has particular expertise and interests in sleep/wake behaviour and she is the founding Director of Australia's Sleep Health Foundation. She has studied sleep patterns across different cultures.
11:45 Media commentator Gavin Ellis
Music played in this show
Artist: Aaradhna
Song: Keep My Cool
Comp: Patel, Wadams, Short
Album: Treble & Reverb
Label: Dawn Raid
Artist: Bonnie Raitt
Song: Give it up or let me go
Comp: Raitt
Album: Give it up
Label: Warner
Artist: Kate Rusby
Song: The Village Green Preservation Society
Comp: Davies
Album: Awkward Annie
Label: Pure
Artist: Angus Stone
Song: Be What You Are
Comp: Stone
Album: Broken Brights
Label: Sony