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NZ Radio Awards 2009
10 February, 2010
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09:05 Leaving National Party
Katherine Rich, Dunedin based list MP and education spokeswoman.
09:20 Beijing Olympics gagging contract
Melissa Moon is a mountain running world champion and Olympic runner; Dick Quax, former World Champion Olympic Runner; Keith Locke, Green MP; and Ashley Abbott, Communications Manager NZ Olympic Committee
09:50 Rights of Americans to hang washing on the line
Alex Lee, Executive Director of Project Laundry List in the US
10:05 UK Correspondent Kate Adie
10:15 A Kitchen Garden
Australian chef Stephanie Alexander is from the Kitchen Garden Foundation. She will be here for Savour New Zealand in early May to talk about better food approaches for children. Kitchen Garden Foundation was set up to develop life-long healthier and happier eating habits in a new generation of Australians by engaging them in growing, harvesting, preparing and sharing delicious and healthy food at primary school.
10:35 Book Review with Phil Smith
A Good Handful: Great New Zealand Poems About Sex
Edited by Stu Bagby
Published by Auckland University Press
ISBN 978 186 940 4031
10:45 Reading: The Sound of Butterflies by Rachael King (Part 5 of 11)
11:05 Maori Issues with Derek Fox, Editor, Mana Magazine
11:30 Health with David Galler, Principal medical adviser to the Ministry of Health/intensive care specialist
11:45 New Technology with Colin Jackson
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18 February
Bruce Beresford - acclaimed Australian film director whose latest film Mao's Last Dancer comes out this month. The 69-year-old director has a string of successful films to his name, from the Australian movies Puberty Blues and Breaker Morant, the Oscar-winning Driving Miss Daisy and Double Jeapordy.
His latest work, Mao's Last Dancer, is based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin, a Chinese dancer who defected to America in 1981.
23 February
Kathryn speaks to John Irving – the American author of critically acclaimed, best-selling novels including the World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Cider House Rules for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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