Nine To Noon for Monday 8 December 2008
09:05 How filthy are our beaches
Mike McQuillan, Utility and Environmental Manager - Auckland City Council; Todd Krieble, Ministry for the Environment, General Manager of Reporting and Communication.
09:20 Adoption policy change
Debbie Sturmfels, Manager with Child Youth and Family; Anna, who has been waiting for a local adoption for 14 months; and Sue Kingham, Chairperson, Adoption Options Trust.
09:30 Writers' voices
Richard Forman, Sound archivist at British Library.
The British Library has just released what's being described as a "literary goldmine" of extremely rare recordings of Britsh and American writers from the first half of the 20th Century.
09:45 Africa correspondent Peter Greste
10:05 NZ art
Ronnie van Hout, leading contemporary New Zealand artist.
Ivan Anthony exhibition - Ronnie van Hout
10:45 Book Review with Ralph McAllister
Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heeney
Published by Gollancz
ISBN 978 0 575082977
10:40 Book Reading: Tuna a short story by Piata Allen
11:05 Politics with Matthew Hooton and Laila Harre
11:30 Guest Chef Anne Thorpe and wine with John Hawkesby
11:45 Sophist and provocateur Tommy Honey