11 February 2012 - 10:36 pm NZ time
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A discussion with Steve Biddulph, best-selling author of parenting books and one of the keynote speakers at a Melbourne Conference The Sexualisation of Childhood; and Julie Gale, organiser of conference on the sexualisation of children in the media. Founder of the lobby group Kids Free 2B Kids (19′51″)
Lisa Perotti holds a Master of Wine qualification and writes for wine guide erobertparker.com (17′32″)
News and current affairs from the USA. (8′32″)
Government's science adviser, first Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand. (36′32″)
A History of the 'Unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital by Linda Bryder. Published by Auckland University Press. (10′37″)
Business and Economic commentator Rod Oram discusses the move by some banks to scrap honour and dishonour fees, plus the credit rating downgrade of two local finance companies. (9′42″)
Robert M Kaplan, author and forensic psychiatrist who has delved into the minds of doctors who murder their patients . He is an expert on 'clinicide', the phenomenon of doctors who kill. His Book Medical Murder profiles many different doctors who have killed, including Dr Harold Shipman and Dr Radovan Karadzic. (20′57″)
Media commentator Denis Welch looks at the latest media issues. (11′07″)
09:05 Sexualisation of children
Steve Biddulph, best-selling author of parenting books and one of the keynote speakers at a Melbourne Conference The Sexualisation of Childhood; and Julie Gale, organiser of conference on the sexualisation of children in the media. Founder of the lobby group Kids Free 2B Kids.
09:35 New Zealand wine in Asia
New markets in Asia for New Zealand winemakers.
Lisa Perotti, holds a Master of Wine qualification and writes for wine guide eRobertParker.com: The Independent Consumer's Guide to Fine Wine.
09:45 US correspondent Jack Hitt
10:05 Sir Peter Gluckman
Founding director of the world-renowned Liggins Institute and one of New Zealand's best known scientists, Professor Gluckman is the Government's science adviser, first Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
10:30 Book Review with Rae McGregor
A History of the 'Unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital by Linda Bryder
Published by Auckland University Press
10:45 Reading: Landings by Jenny Pattrick
(Part 2 of 15)
A vivid tale of the early 20th-century Whanganui River community.
11:05 Business and Economic commentator Rod Oram discusses
11:30 Medical Murder: Disturbing Cases of Doctors Who Kill
Robert M Kaplan, author and forensic psychiatrist who has delved into the minds of doctors who murder their patients . He is an expert on 'clinicide', the phenomenon of doctors who kill. His Book Medical Murder profiles many different doctors who have killed, including Dr Harold Shipman and Dr Radovan Karadzic.
11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch looks at the latest media issues
How newspapers report their own circulation figures, and the coverage of property market stories.
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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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