Nine To Noon for Tuesday 23 June 2009

09:05 More than a thousand people queuing up for the dole each week

Peter Conway, secretary of the Council of Trade Unions.

09:20 Ethnic disparities in public healthcare

New study on ethnic disparities in public healthcare, showing disparity between Maori and non-Maori health.

Dr Juliet Rumball-Smith, Department of Public Health and General Practice University of Otago, Christchurch; and Dr Paparangi Reid, Deputy Dean, Maori at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland.

09:30 Testing IQ of gifted children

Professor Joan Freeman, child psychologist who tests the IQ of gifted children - including youngest members of mensa.

09:45 US correspondent Jack Hitt

10:05 Conquering the Seven Summits with MS

Lori Schneider, 52-year-old woman with MS (diagnosed in 1999) who has completed the "Seven Summits" - six of them after her diagnosis, and Everest on May 24.

10:30 Book Review with Dan Slevin

Sag Harbour by Colson Whitehead
Published by Harvill/Secker
ISBN 9781846552540

10:45 Reading: Heartland by Neil Cross (Part 2 of 10, RNZ)

A memoir about life with a step father in a backstreet Edinburgh slum.

11:05 Business and Economics commentator Rod Oram discusses Auckland's economy

11:30 Food allergies

Kate Marsh has type 1 diabetes and coelliac disease, but has turned that into expertise by becoming a dietician - she tells us how to manage special diets.

11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch

Denis has been watching the coverage of the attack on the French rugby player, plus the debate over the smacking referendum.