11 February 2012 - 5:08 pm NZ time
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Air New Zealand plane crashes off coast of Perpignan, France. (8′18″)
Asia Corrspondent - caught up in the terror attacks in Mumbai. (19′12″)
Australian republican referendum. (12′18″)
All about Perfume. (11′43″)
Alex Monteith is a new media artist and academic. (26′27″)
This week: Kayhan Kalhor and Brooklyn Rider, Tim Finn and Charmaine Ford. (12′36″)
Today Richard talks about 'bad losers'. (14′04″)
By Alan Duff, published by Vintage and reviewed by David Hill. (4′35″)
With your hosts, Radar and Jaquie Brown. (10′49″)
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
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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