Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

Nine to Noon for Thursday 18 September 2008

9:05 Killer Milk Powder

Frank Brenmuhl, Vice President of Federated Farmers and former Chairman of Dairy Farmers of NZ. Sandra Daly, Deputy CEO of NZ Food Safety Authority.

9:20 NZ and Climate Change

Eric Dorfman, author of Melting Point: NZ and the Climate Change Crisis. He examines the global warming crisis in a specifically NZ context - natural environment, coastlines, agriculture, industries, public health and infrastructure...potential social and psychological implications.
Eric Dorfman was born and raised in California, and moved to Australia to do a PhD on water birds. He's worked as a wildlife ecologist in the US, Australia, South Africa and the Pacific. He's also the author of Sanctuary and Inside New Zealand's National Parks

09:30 Getting Youth Active

Jeanette Fich Jespersen, Danish researcher whose company has looked into what young people actually want in terms of recreation facilities.
Jeanette Fich Jespersen is in Christchurch where she's speaking at the Recreation Association National Conference.

09:45 UK correspondent

10:05 14 year search for Kidnapped Child

Margaret Wilcox spent 14 years searching for her kidnapped child: she tells us of her incredible journey and what happened when she finally found her daughter.

10:30 Book Review with Louise O'Brien

Game Control by Lionel Shriver
Published by HarperCollins
ISBN 978 07322 88020

10:45 Reading: Mr Allbones' Ferrets by Fiona Farrell

(Episode 9 of 10)

11:05 New Technology with Colin Jackson

Today's topic: Technology Birthdays - Google, Gnu and the Silicon Chip

11:30 Cheapskates

Cath Armstrong, an Australian woman the founder of www.cheapskates.com.au
- a website on how to make your dollar stretch further.

11:45 Television Review with Simon Wilson