12 February 2012 - 7:58 am NZ time
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Nationals sports policy. (20′12″)
David George Gordon author of the Eat-a-Bug Cookbook. (15′04″)
News and current affairs from the USA. (12′39″)
Calls himself the accidental diet doctor. (22′00″)
The Flower Hunter: The Remarkable Life of Ellis Rowan by Christine and Michael Morton-Evans. Published by Simon and Schuster. (8′38″)
Business news and current affairs. (12′02″)
Creation vs Evolution in Schools . (23′46″)
Media (13′04″)
9:05 National's sports policy
John Key, National Party leader; and Robyn Toomath, Wellington Hospital endocrinologist and spokesperson for the group Stop the Obesity Epidemic
9:30 Eat a Bug
David George Gordon, author of the Eat-a-Bug Cookbook; Eat bugs and more adventurous food, don't always rely on chicken and beef.
9:45 US correspondent Richard Adams, Washington editor of The Guardian
10:05 South beach heart diet
Arthur Agaston calls himself the accidental diet doctor. A cardiologist who has gone against traditional advice from the American Heart Foundation and created his own heart health diet which he claims is preventing heart attacks in his patients.
10:30 Book Review: The Flower Hunter: The Remarkable Life of Ellis Rowan
By Christine and Michael Morton-Evans
Reviewed by Don Rood
Published by Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978 073 181 2851
10:45 Book reading: The Walk Home
A short story by H. E. Lowe
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
11:30 Creation versus evolution in schools
Tim Sisarich, President, Focus on the Family; and Dr Alison Campbell; science/education lecturer
11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch
From nine to noon every weekday, Kathryn Ryan talks to the people driving the news - in New Zealand and around the world. Delve beneath the headlines to find out the real story, listen to Nine to Noon's expert commentators and reviewers and catch up with the latest lifestyle trends on this award-winning programme.
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American businessman and blind adventurer Mike May was totally blinded at age three from an explosion of calcium carbide. At the age of 46 he regained partial sight after cornea transplants and pioneering stem cell procedure. He runs the Sendero Group which employes many blind people and assists those with disabilities by using technology.

Mike speedskiing totally blind. Image copyright Mike May.
The man who returned the Daleks to Dr Who, screenwriter Robert Shearman talks to Kathryn about why he wanted to bring back the time travelling Doctor's most persistent enemy and make the Daleks far more menacing than ever before. Robert Shearman is a writer, playwright, and director - and will be in New Zealand next month for Writers and Readers week at the New Zealand Festival of Arts.
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