Summer Noelle for Wednesday 12 January 2011

9:09 AM.Three quarters of Queensland is now a disaster zone and Australia's Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, says it will take many months for communities to recover. Audio

9:19 AM.What is it about celebrities that makes them so fascinating to us collectively? Someone who studies the phenomenon of celebrity closely is Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, author of a new book, 'Starstuck… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Breastfeeding women are on the warpath after Facebook banned a support group with 11,000 followers. The Leaky Boob page was set up to support breastfeeding women with the aim of sharing information… Read more Audio

9:54 AM.Facebook is not the only place breastfeeding's a no-no. Author of the"Keeping Mum"Blog Dita De Boni is with us, because just a few months ago a group of breastfeeding mothers staged a protest at a… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.The former Labour MP David Chaytor behind bars tonight beginning an 18-month jail sentence after admitting claiming false parliamentary expenses. Audio

10:25 AM.Patricia Nolan-Brown started inventing soon after her first daughter was born. Her brainchild was the original rear-facing carseat mirror that now sells worldwide. Two more children sparked more ideas… Read more Audio

10:34 AM.The Torchlight List - Around the World in 200 Books. South America: San Louis Ray, by Thornton Wilder Bridge; Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, by Mario Vargas-Llosa; Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life… Read more Audio

10:42 AM.Noelle talks with award-winning New Zealand author, columnist, journalist and editor, Steve Braunias. Audio

11:06 AM.Many of you will have seen the photo on the front page of this morning's New Zealand Herald which shows two women clinging to a pole as the raging torrent of flood water surges around them. Audio

11:15 AM.Part 13 of a documentary on the history of radio broadcasting in New Zealand. Audio

11:27 AM.Duncan Greive is choosing this weeks songs. Audio

11:33 AM.Musician and RNZ producer Nick Atkinson is in the studio to talk about some of the local music thats making him prick up his ears. Audio

11:45 AM.TV watchers may know Wallace Chapman as the dapper host of Backbenchers, the politics in the pub show on TVNZ 7, but we're interviewing Wallace in his other incarnation this morning, as street style… Read more Audio