Nine To Noon for Monday 6 July 2009

09:05 Resilience of children

Professor Gordon Harold, Alexander McMillan Chair in Childhood Studies Professor of Psychology Centre for Research on Children and Families - Otago University.

09:30 New media effect on book publishing

Ursula MacKenzie, CEO of Little, Brown Book Group - has overseen the publication of some of the juiciest memoirs in the UK in recent history - including Cherie Blair, and Edwina Currie, the MP who had an affair with John Major - as well as the Twilight series, which is the biggest thing it seems, since Harry Potter. She talks about how publishers are gearing up to cope with new media onslaught on books.

09:45 Iran correspondent Farideh Farhi

From the University of Hawaii's department of Political Science, affiliate graduate facility

10:05 Stroke recovery

David Herkt, poet and journalist who was struck by a debilitating stroke in November last year - he speaks candidly about his recovery.

10:30 Book review with Carole Beu

As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong
Published by Penguin NZ

10:45 Reading. The 10PM Question by Kate De Goldi

(Part 1 of 10, RNZ)

Only his Ma takes 12-year old Frankie Parsons's worrying questions seriously. But she is the cause of the most worrying question of all - the one Frankie can't ask.

11:05 Politics with Matthew Hooton and Laila Harre

11:30 Guest Chef Neil Brazier owner/chef The Landing, Kerikeri and chef at Salt Brasserie, Pahia and wine commentator John Hawkesby

Red Thai Fish Curry and Sweet Coconut Rice Pudding.

11:45 Off the Beaten Track with Kennedy Warne

Outdoorsman, adventurer, travel journalist and photographer.

See images in the Kennedy Warne gallery.