Station of the Year
NZ Radio Awards 2009
13 March, 2010
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09:05 Ombudsman's office investigating bullying in schools
David Rutherford, spokesperson for group of Hutt Valley parents who instigated investigation into bullying.
09:20 Food aid in Ethiopia
Nick Martlew, Oxfam's Humanitarian Policy Adviser for Ethiopia
09:30 DNA sampling on the rise
New police powers to compel people to give a DNA sample will see ESR have to deal with around 5,000 additional profiles a year.
Dr Jill Vintiner, Forensic Programme Manager at ESR.
09:45 US correspondent Luiza Savage
10:05 Harry M Miller - Aussie superagent
Harry M Miller has represented Lindy Chamberlain, Judy Moran, the Melbourne gangland killings wife, who is now up on murder charges, Barry Humphries, Alan Jones, and Big Brother contestants.
Confessions of a Not So Secret Agent by Harry M Miller, with Peter Holder
Published by Hachette
10:30 Book Review with Don Rood
Driven to Distraction by Jeremy Clarkson
Published by Michael Joseph
10:45 Reading: His Beautiful Wife, a short story by Julia Brannian
The beautiful wife of a successful businessman decides it's time for her to stop playing this role and live her own life.
11:05 Business and economic commentator Rod Oram
11:30 Alan Dale - Australian actor
Alan Dale played Jim Robinson on Neighbours for eight years. When his character was killed off, the acting work dried up in Australia as he was so typecast. In his late 50s he tried his luck in Hollywood, and succeeded - landing major roles in several popular TV shows, including Ugly Betty, the OC, 24, NCIS and Lost.
11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch
From nine to noon every weekday, the Nine to Noon team investigate everything from hard news to lifestyle issues. Nine to Noon was the winner of the best daily or weekly series of an hour or more duration in the 2007 New Zealand Radio Awards.
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23 March
Andrea Levy began writing when she was in her mid-thirties and draws on her experience of growing up black in what she says was still a very white England. Although born in London, her parents migrated to England from Jamaica. She says she has a complex perspective on the land of her birth. Her latest book The Long Song is set in early 19th century Jamaica during the last years of slavery and the period immediately after emancipation.
7 April
Daniel Pink graduated from Yale Law School but says to his lasting joy, he has never practiced law. He also spent two year as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore. But now he's a free agent and author of bestselling books, including Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us; A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future; and The Adventures of Johnny Bunko :The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need. Daniel Pink's articles on business and technology appear in many publications, including the New York Times and the Harvard Business Review.

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