Monday, December 08, 2014

Nine to Noon - Scheduled interviews and reviews for this week - Radio New Zealand National

Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan
Nine to Noon episode archive

Scheduled interviews and reviews

Monday 8 December


9-10am
  • Teaching kids about coercion and consent - we hear from the writer of the Education Ministry's new sex education guidelines.
  • Farmers say questions remain about ANZ Banks' interest rate swap settlement.
  • Champion of water safety Mark de Lacy.
  • Russia and Ukraine correspondent, Lucian Kim.
10-11am
  • Soundscape artist and creator of a bicycle orchestra, Johnny Random.
  • Book review: Gregory O'Brien reviews "Grahame Sydney Paintings 1974 - 2014", by Grahame Sydney.
  • Reading: "Touchstones", written by James McNeish, and read by Ian Johnstone (Part 1 of  7).      
11-12pm
  • Politics from the right and the left with Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams.
  • Chef Lauraine Jacobs cooks easy summer bach food.
  • Urbanist Tommy Honey.

Tuesday 9 December


9-10am
  • News and current events.
  • Doctors donating a day's pay to support those affected by Ebola.
  • US correspondent Luiza Savage.
10-11am
  • Otto Penzler, of New York's famous Mysterious Bookshop, who's regarded as the world's foremost authority on crime, mystery and suspense fiction. 
  • Book review: Elisabeth Easter reviews "Waiting for Doggo", by Mark Mills.
  • Reading: "Touchstones", written by James McNeish, and read by Ian Johnstone (Part 2 of  7).   
11-12pm
  • Business commentator Rod Oram.
  • Linda Tirado on the view from inside poverty, as chronicled in her book "Hand to Mouth", and why it leads to poor decision-making.
  • Media commentator Gavin Ellis.
Otto Penzler
After opening New York's Mysterious Bookshop in 1973, Otto Penzler went on to found the publishing company Mysterious Books, which gave many now famous crime writers their first publishing deal.
He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of crime and suspense writing. His latest anthology is Death Sentences: stories of deathly books, murderous booksellers and lethal literature from the world's best crime writers.

Wednesday 10 December


9-10am
  • News and current events.
  • Australia correspondent Peter Munro.
10-11am
  • Journalist Jenny Nordberg on her book, "The underground girls of Kabul: the hidden lives of Afghan girls disguised as boys".
  • Book review: Ralph McAllister reviews "The Strange Library", by Haruki Murakami.
  • Reading: "Touchstones", written by James McNeish, and read by Ian Johnstone (Part 3 of  7).   
11-12pm
  • Marty Duda plays the music of his artist of the week.
  • Legal commentator Robert Lithgow.
  • Science with Siouxsie Wiles.

Thursday 11 December


9-10am
  • News and current events.
  • Winner of the Arts Pasifika Awards.       
  • UK correspondent Jon Dennis.

10-11am
  • Historian Grant Morris discusses one of New Zealand legal history's most infamous figures - James Prendergast, who in 1877 described the Treaty of Waitangi as "a simple nullity".
  • Book review: Crystal Beavis reviews "Moriarty", by Anthony Horowitz.
  • Reading: "Touchstones", written by James McNeish, and read by Ian Johnstone (Part 4 of  7).   
11-12pm
  • New technology commentator Erika Pearson.
  • Parenting: helping shy kids.
  • TV reviews from Lara Strongman.

Friday 12 December


9-10am
  • News and current events.
  • Are online neighbourhood watch-style websites safe? 
  • Pacific correspondent Mike Field.

10-11am
  • Dr. Sam Prince, who's launched a restaurant chain that funds a meal in the third world for every meal sold.
  • John McIntyre reviews new children's books.
  • Reading: "Touchstones", written by James McNeish, and read by Ian Johnstone (Part 5 of  7).   
11-12pm
  • New music with Grant Smithies.
  • Sports commentator Brendan Telfer.
  • Comedians Te Radar and Pinky Agnew take a funny look at the week that was.
Touchstones, A Memoir by James McNeish

The Reading: Touchstones by James McNeish

An account by James McNeish of the people in his life who shaped his perspective: “a gallery of people – rebels, outsiders, romantics, enlightened misfits and illiterates – who have touched me in life.”
The New Zealand McNeish portrays is fiercely prejudiced and stuck in the past. It’s a place he tried his hardest to escape. When he leaves his job and travels to Europe, he finds himself in the last days of a golden age for writers and artists.
Told by Ian Johnstone

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