12 February 2012 - 5:59 am NZ time
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Comments from Waitakere City Mayor, Bob Harvey and acting director of Waitakere City services Tony Miguel. (16′50″)
Dr Kim McGregor, director of Auckland-based Rape Prevention Education and ACC's senior medical advisor Peter Jansen comment on the issue. (20′06″)
Luiza Savage reports on the latest in Washington. (10′44″)
Former UK tabloid journalist who has dished the dirt on Fleet Street tactics on"getting the story"in his recently published book"Dog Eat Dog: Confessions of a tabloid journalist". (29′57″)
Graham Beattie reviews 'The Complaints' by Ian Rankin. Published by Orion. (4′15″)
Business and economic commentator Rod Oram discusses the IRD and banks. (15′03″)
Could marine turbine energy be the solution to greater energy needs? (24′56″)
Denis Welch takes a look at what's headlining on our newspapers. (9′45″)
09:05 Discovery of 2-year-old Aisling Symes' body
Waitakere City Mayor, Bob Harvey and acting director of Waitakere City services Tony Miguel.
09:25 ACC sex abuse counselling
Peter Jansen, ACC's senior medical advisor; and Dr Kim McGregor, Director of Auckland-based Rape Prevention Education, who wrote the first set of ACC therapy guidelines for therapists working with survivors of child sexual abuse.
09:45 US correspondent Luiza Savage
10:05 Wensley Clarkson - British tabloid journalist
Former UK tabloid journo who has dished the dirt on Fleet Street tactics on "getting the story" in his recently published book Dog Eat Dog: Confessions of a tabloid journalist.
10:30 Book Review with Graham Beattie
The Complaints by Ian Rankin
Published by Orion
10:45 Reading: Footprints In The Sand written and read by Sarah Boddy
The story of Beth who is seriously heart broken and Pete a paparazzi photographer who has no heart at all. (Part 2 of 5, RNZ)
11:05 Business and economic commentator Rod Oram
Bank taxes and the IRD case against the banks; and a very clever new bond from Canterbury University.
11:30 Tidal Power
Could tidal energy provide some sort of magic bullet to New Zealand's future energy needs, or does the idea throw up just as serious environmental concerns?
Chris Bathurst, Head of Neptune Power which has resource consent to place a large turbine on the sea floor of the Cook Strait; Anthony Hopkins, Director of Crest Energy which has applied for RMA consent to construct a marine turbine power generation project in the Kaipara Harbour in Northland, for a period of 35 years; and Kevin Hackwell, Forest and Bird Advocacy Manager.
11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch discusses the latest media issues
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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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