Nine To Noon for Friday 28 November 2008

09:05 Air New Zealand plane crashes off coast of Perpignan, France

Francois Barrere, reporter at Midi Libre newspaper in Montpellier, France

09:10 Terror attacks in Mumbai

Phil O'Sullivan, Asia Corrspondent who is caught up in the terror attacks in Mumbai.

09:30 Australian republican referendum

Senator Bob Brown - the last referendum on Australia becoming a republic was held in 1999. It divided a nation and ended in a bad defeat for the republican movement. Now, Australian Greens leader, Bob Brown has introduced a bill that would lead to another referendum, in 2010.

09:45 Perfume

Christopher Brosius, American perfumerer creates unique scents at his New York perfume gallery, "CB I Hate Perfume", that mimic real life smells, as well as perfumes designed for the individual.

10:05 New media art

Alex Monteith, a new media artist and academic whose work incorporates sound, performance, photography, film, video, kinetic and network components. Her large-scale works involve collaboration with specialists from outside the art-world including sheep-dog triallists and New Zealand racing motorcyclists. She has also been a professional surfer representing the country of her birth, Ireland.

10:30 Book Review with David Hill

Dreamboat Dad by Alan Duff
Published by Vintage
ISBN 978 186 9790 240

10:45 Book Reading: The Blue by Mary McCallum

Episode 10 of 15

11:05 Music Review with Manu Taylor

Kayhan Kalhor & Brooklyn Rider - Silent City - 2008 World Village/Harmonia Mundi 468078

Charmaine Ford/Nick Tipping/Richard Wise - After The Last Dance - 2008 Ford Motion Records/Ode Records FMR9005

Tim Finn - The Conversation - 2006 Tim Finn/Capitol Music/EMI 50999 265303 2 1

11:30 Sports commentator Richard Becht

Australian (non) sporting antics

11:45 Week That Was with Radar and Jaquie Brown