12 February 2012 - 5:06 am NZ time
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Economist Brian Easton and Business New Zealand economist John Pask. (16′10″)
Tim Burns -Executive Director of Volunteering NZ, Maureen Pitman and Te Arikirangi Mamaku. (16′34″)
Bellbird song - new research has discovered how the females are very aggressive to neighboring females. (8′32″)
The delivery of United Kingdom's budget with Economic woes and rising unemployment. (7′42″)
Kiwi artist talks about his life since returning home. (29′50″)
Edited by Siobhan Harvey, reviewed by David Hill and Published by Godwit. (4′54″)
The energy costs of computers and the Internet. (14′04″)
Avoiding the spoiling of children. (20′08″)
Reviews Dancing With the Stars and Skins. (10′24″)
09:05 Economic deterioration
Brian Easton, economist and commentator; John Pask, Business New Zealand economist
09:20 Volunteering
Tim Burns, executive director of Volunteering NZ; Te Arikirangi Mamaku, a 27-year-old volunteer; and Maureen Pitman, president of the Federation of Family Budgeting Services.
09:30 Bellbird song
New research has discovered how the females are very aggressive to neighbouring females.
Associate Professor Dianne Brunton is the director of the Ecology and Conservation Group at Massey University.
09:45 UK correspondent Jon Dennis
10:05 Billy Apple
New Zealand conceptual artist who counts Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns as contemporaries ... Billy Apple was at the forefront of the development of pop art movement, and whose work from an intensive period in New York in the late sixties and early seventies is the subject of an exhibition in Wellington right now. He talks to Kathryn about life since returning home.
10:30 Book Review with David Hill
Our Own Kind: 100 New Zealand Poems About Animals edited by Siobhan Harvey
Published by Godwit
ISBN 9781869621605
10:45 Reading: Polecats Nothing by Allyson Caseley
A young boy identifies with an old soldier and marches with him to the ANZAC memorial in their small town.
11:05 New Technology with Colin Jackson
Today's topic - the energy costs of computers and the internet, plus Bohemian Rhapsody as you've never heard it before.
11:30 Parenting with Nigel Latta
Psychologist Nigel Latta who'll be telling us how NOT to raise a spoiled brat.
11:45 Televison review with Linda Burgess
Linda has been glued to Dancing with the Stars - she gives her assessment and whether she believes Tamati Coffey deserved to win.
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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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