Station of the Year
NZ Radio Awards 2009
10 February, 2010
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09:05 Real estate industry reforms
Deb Leask, Queensland-based New Zealander who got ripped off by an agent and started agitating for change in the real estate industry.
09:15 Real estate industry reforms
Kristy McDonald, chairperson of the newly established Real Estate Agents' Authority; and Peter McDonald, President of the Real Estate Institute.
09:30 Launching NZ businesses in the United States
Bridget Liddell, Managing principal of Fahrenheit Ventures in New York. She's in New Zealand for the first forum of NZ Global Women and is an expert on commercialising concepts and building brands in the United States.
09:40 Ry Cooder - One of the world's greatest slide guitarists
Ry Cooder, composer, producer and one of the world's greatest slide guitarists, is heading back to New Zealand 30 years after his last visit.
09:50 Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney
10:05 Organised crime in Eastern Europe
Misha Glenny, undercover journalist specialising in Southeastern Europe. His latest book, McMafia: Crime without frontiers, explores the globalisation of organised crime.
10:30 Book Review with Louise O'Brien
Somebody Loves Us All by Damien Wilkins
Published by Victoria University Press
10:43 Reading: The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
(Pt 6 of 15)
The original award-winning story of love, life, wine and angels stretching out from Burgundy at the beginning of the 19th century.
11:05 Politics with Andrew Campbell and Matthew Hooten
11:30 Guest Chef Paul Mercurio with wine writer Jo Burzynska
Former Dancing with the Stars judge and star of Strictly Ballroom, Paul Mercurio is now host of travel/food show, Mecurio's Menu, which is screening on Food TV. Paul is currently filming the third series.
Mecurio's Menu by Paul Mercurio
Allen and Unwin
Todays recipes: Hapuku in Foil Cooked on Coals, and Flaming Oranges
11:45 Off The Beaten Track with Kennedy Warne, outdoorsman and adventurer
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18 February
Bruce Beresford - acclaimed Australian film director whose latest film Mao's Last Dancer comes out this month. The 69-year-old director has a string of successful films to his name, from the Australian movies Puberty Blues and Breaker Morant, the Oscar-winning Driving Miss Daisy and Double Jeapordy.
His latest work, Mao's Last Dancer, is based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin, a Chinese dancer who defected to America in 1981.
23 February
Kathryn speaks to John Irving – the American author of critically acclaimed, best-selling novels including the World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Cider House Rules for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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