Nine To Noon for Tuesday 25 February 2014 Nine To Noon

David Cunliffe - Labour party leader

9:14 AM.In the second of Nine to Noon's election year, scene-setter interviews, Labour leader David Cunliffe fronts up to explain why the largest opposition party is struggling to gain traction in the polls… Read more Audio
Brian Cox - English physicist and educator

9:42 AM.Professor Brian Cox OBE is an English physicist and former musician, a Royal Society University Research Fellow and PPARC Advanced Fellow at the University of Manchester. Audio
US Correspondent - Jack Hitt

9:52 AM.How the TV series 'House Of Cards' reflects the reality of US politics. Audio
Feature: Margaret MacMillan - Historian and author

10:06 AM.Margaret MacMillan is a professor of international history at St Antony's College, Oxford. She discusses her new book 'The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War'. It… Read more Audio
Book Review - The Days of Anna Madrigal

10:40 AM.Written by Armistead Maupin, reviewed by David Hill and published by Doubleday. Audio
Business with Rod Oram

11:10 AM.Telecom's name change and plans for the future. Audio
Yaron Liftschitz - Artistic director

11:28 AM.Australian Contemporary Circus artistic director, Yaron Lifschitz, who's bringing his troupe's new show "Beyond" to the New Zealand Festival. Audio
Media commentator Gavin Ellis

11:45 AM.The death of Charlotte Dawson in the media. The coverage of the the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Audio

09:05 David Cunliff, Labour party leader

Labour leader looks ahead to this year's election campaign.

09:30 Stargazing

Professor Brian Cox, OBE is an English physicist and former musician, a Royal Society University Research Fellow, PPARC Advanced Fellow at the University of Manchester.

09:45 US correspondent Jack Hitt

10:05 Feature: Margaret MacMillan - Historian and author

Margaret MacMillan is a professor of international history at St Antony's College, Oxford. She discusses her new book The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War. It has been described by former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as "one of the finest books I have ever read on the causes of World War I". She is visiting New Zealand next month for Writers Week at the New Zealand Festival of the Arts.

10:35 Book review with David Hill

The Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin. Published by Doubleday.

10:45 The Reading: The Lost Pilot by Jeffrey Holman

A journey of discovery and reconciliation, when Jeffrey Holman seeks out the families of six kamikaze who died attacking his father’s ship in 1945. (Part 7 of 10)

11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram

11:30 Australian Contemporary Circus

Australian Contemporary Circus artistic director Yaron Lifschitz who's bringing his troupe's new show "Beyond" to the New Zealand Festival.

11:45 Media commentator Gavin Ellis

Music played in this show

Artist: Stevie Wonder
Song: Living for the City
Composer: Wonder
Album:Innervisions
Label: Motown

Artist: Louis Prima
Song: Fever
Composer: Cooly/Davenport
Album: Mambo in the Mainstream
Label: Fantastic

Artist: Southside of Bombay
Song: What's the Time Mr Wolf
Composer: H Abraham

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