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Summer Noelle for Thursday 13 January 2011

  • Haiti - one year on

    9:09 AM.Ray Suarez is a journalist who has regularly visited Haiti since the earthquake hit a year ago. Audio

  • Communications officer for Unicef

    9:30 AM.New Zealander Tania McBride is a communications officer for Unicef, dividing her time between New York and Haiti. Audio

  • US correspondent - Julia Baird

    9:50 AM.We're going to america now, where politicians and all american people are still reeling this week from the attempted assasination of Congress woman Gabrielle Gifford, US correspondent Julia Baird… Read more Audio

  • Brisbane's CBD to a ghost town

    10:08 AM.Joining us with the latest from Brisbane is ABC reporter Donna Field. Audio

  • Kiwi Inventor

    10:15 AM.Today's inventor is behind many high profile designs , including the giant rugby ball in Paris and London promoting the world cup to exhibitions at Te Papa. He has worked on set design for films… Read more Audio

  • Your place - D'Urville Island

    10:35 AM.When Krista Fullerton and Forrest Chambers signed up for the role as DOC volunteers on D'Urville Island in the Marlborough Sounds in April, they packed their ute and trailer with 30 pumpkins, 10 boxes… Read more Audio

  • Pop Culture moments - Telethons

    10:44 AM.Mitchell Hawkes is author of '100 New Zealand Pop Culture Stories: From Billy T to Nuclear Free'. Audio

  • Jim Flynn- England

    10:52 AM.The Torchlight List - Around the World in 200 Books. England: Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities & David Copperfield; Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall; Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim; George Orwell -… Read more Audio

  • Resounding Radio (Part 14)

    11:07 AM.Part 14 of a documentary on the history of radio broadcasting in New Zealand. Audio

  • Songs of summer

    11:20 AM.Duncan Greive is choosing this weeks songs. Audio

  • Film Correspondent - Dominic Corry

    11:28 AM.Dominic Corry talks about unheralded, underrated or forgotten films worthy of attention. Audio

  • Gardening Correspondent: tomatoes

    11:43 AM.Noelle talks with Andrew Steens about tomatoes. Audio

  • Pop Culture moments - underarm bowling

    11:51 AM.Mitchell Hawkes is author of '100 New Zealand Pop Culture Stories: From Billy T to Nuclear Free'. Audio

Monday to Friday, 9am - Midday

9:10 Ray Suarez

A year on since the Haiti earthquake that claimed about 200,000 lives and left another 2 million homeless; PBS journalist and host of America Abroad

9:25 Tania McBride

New Zealander Tania McBride is a communications officer for Unicef, dividing her time between New York and Haiti

9:40 Julia Baird

US Correspondent on the mass shooting in Tuscon Arizona, which has seriously injured Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords

Read story on voanews.com

10:10 Queensland Flood update

Donna Field, ABC correspondent on the extent of devastation caused by the flood in the city of Brisbane .

10:15 Barry Read

Kiwi Inventors who should be Famous: utilising his background in Architectural, Film and Television design, Barry makes 3-D visuals, including the Giant Rugby Ball used to promote the Rugby World Cup in London and Paris. Now he's developing Cool Trainz…

http://www.3-d.co.nz/futurerailnz.html

10:35 Your Place

Krista Fullerton, her husband Forrest Chambers and their four children have taken on the job as DoC volunteers who live on and maintain d'Urville Island, located at the top of the South Island

Story on stuff.co.nz

10:45 Great Moments in NZ Pop History by Mitchell Hawkes: #7 - Telethon

A celebrity driven varity extravaganza that appeared on New Zealand televisions from 1975 and raised millions for charity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTPS72V1EJo

10:50 Jim Flynn

Intelligence expert, professor of politics and author of 'The Torchlight List: Around the World in 200 Books'. Jim believes that reading great literature could be better than a university education.

Today's recommendations: Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities & David Copperfield; Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall; Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim; George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier; Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach

11:20 Duncan Grieve

Musical selections for the summer season... The Clean

11:30 Dominic Corry

Dom's pick of films that are unheralded, underrated or forgotten, yet worthy of attention: The Big Fan, The Last Days of Disco, Talk Radio, Cronocrimenes & Black Dynamite

11:45 Andrew Steens

Tips for the summer garden - tomatoes

http://www.paradiseatthepoint.blogspot.com/

11:50 Great Moments in NZ Pop History by Mitchell Hawkes

Sport - the underarm bowling incident (1981 Australia versus NZ in cricket), All Blacks and the haka, also The Dog Show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K65_spUU05s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txu5S7dcJjQ

Songs

Tama Waipara - Take a Walk feat. Emily King (NZ)
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Green Shirt
Hallelujah Picassos - Lovers + (NZ)
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
The Clean - Getting Older (NZ)
Ladi6 - Bang Bang (NZ)