Nine To Noon for Friday 28 March 2014

09:05 A new report from the Royal Society which calculates that pests are costing the New Zealand economy billions of dollars each year

Stephen Goldson and Andrea Byrom, Royal Society fellows and authors of Challenges for Pest management in New Zealand report.

09:30 Christian Long - Innovative classroom design

Christian Long is the Co-Founder, of the Wonder Wonder studio and Prototype Design Studio, and he previously co-lead the The Third Teacher and design studio of CannonDesign. Christian is an educator, school planner, and passionate advocate for innovative learning communities. He is an advocate for the value of student collaboration in innovative school design.

He will be at the Wellington Festival of Education, which is a free community event for adults and children: 10am-4pm Saturday 29 March at TSB, Shed 6 and Frank Kitts Park. Christian will speak at the event at 2pm in Shed 6.

09:45 Pacific with Mike Field, Fairfax writer and Pacific correspondent

10:05 Feature: Claudia Goldin - Gender pay gap

Claudia Goldin is a Harvard University economics professor. She is an economic historian and a labor economist and director of the NBER's Development of the American Economy program.  Her research has covered a wide array of topics, such as slavery, emancipation, the post-bellum south, women in the economy, the economic impact of war, immigration, New Deal policies, inequality, technological change, and education. Most of her research interprets the present through the lens of the past and explores the origins of current issues of concern. In the past several years her work has concerned the rise of mass education in the United States and its impact on economic growth and wage inequality. More recently she has focused her attention on college women's achievement of career and family. She is the author and editor of several books, among them Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women.

10:30 Unity Books’ Review with Tilly Lloyd

Words will break Cement: the Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen. Published by Granta

10:45 The Reading: Best Feet Forward by David Hill

A series of stories about five, ‘over sixties’ who meet every Sunday morning to walk together. As they walk, they talk, canvasing their thoughts and worries, achievements and failings. (Part 5 of 5)

11:05 New music with Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy plays new music by The War on Drugs, Future Islands, and Sky Ferreira.

11:30 Sports commentator Brendan Telfer

Discusses Chris Cairns, dangerous tackles and a DNA  mouthswab which can now apparently determine whether an athlete possesses a genetic weakness to certain types of injuries.

11:45 The week that was

Radar and Pinky Agnew

Music played in this show

Artist: The War On Drugs
Song: Eyes To The Wind, Track 6
Comp: Adam Granduciel
Album: Lost In The Dream
Label: Secretly Canadian

Artist: The War On Drugs
Song: Red Eyes, Track 2
Comp: Adam Granduciel
Album: Lost In The Dream
Label: Secretly Canadian

Artist: Future Islands
Song: Seasons (Waiting On You), Track 1
Comp: Future Islands
Album: Singles
Label: 4AD

Artist: Future Islands
Song: A Dream Of You And Me, Track 10
Comp: Future Islands
Album: Singles
Label: 4AD

Artist: Sky Ferreira
Song: You're Not The One, Track 7
Comp: Ferreira/ Rechtshaid/ Raisin/ Nigro
Album: Night Time, My Time
Label: Capitol