13 February 2012 - 12:08 am NZ time
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How safe are your KiwiSaver funds? The government is to implement tougher regulations for providers. (21′58″)
Philippa Weaver is the founder of greensky.co.nz, a kiwi website aimed at people outside of the normal employment loop. (11′34″)
Latest news from the USA. (10′26″)
Don Neely MBE is a prominent New Zealand cricket historian and former New Zealand selector, administrator, and player. He is a former President of New Zealand Cricket and has written or co-written over 30 books on New Zealand cricket. (32′53″)
'Trespass' by Rose Tremain. Published by Chatto and Windus. Reviewed by Emma Hart. (3′10″)
With Rod Oram. (14′40″)
Hamish McRae is the associate editor and principal economic commentator for British newspaper The Independent. He is a visiting professor at Lancaster University and council member of the Royal Economic Society. He has just released a book, 'What Works: Success in Stressful Times', which relates business and social success stories from around the world. (22′27″)
With Denis Welch. (9′37″)
09:05 Tougher KiwiSaver regulations looming
Rob Cameron, chair of Capital Markets Taskforce; and Paul Mersi, financial services specialist at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
09:30 Recruitment website with a difference
Philippa Weaver, founder and CEO of www.greensky.co.nz - a Kiwi website aimed at people outside the normal employment loop. Mothers and retired people who have a wide variety of skills and are looking for flexibility.
09:45 USA correspondent Luiza Savage
10:05 Don Neely - NZ cricket historian and administrator
Don Neely MBE, is a prominent New Zealand cricket historian, and former New Zealand selector and administrator and player. He is a former president of New Zealand Cricket and has written or co-written over 30 books on New Zealand cricket.
His latest book marks the milestone of 50 cricket tests at the Basin Reserve.
The First 50 Tests marks the half-century of tests at the Basin Reserve - the 50th test was in December vs Pakistan 2009. Only 10 other grounds in the world have reached this milestone - Lord's, The Oval, Old Trafford, Headingley and Trent Bridge, England; the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Sydney Cricket Ground, Adelaide Oval and Brisbane's Gabba and Queen's Park Oval in Trinidad.
10:30 Book Review with Emma Hart
Trespass by Rose Tremain
Published by Chatto & Windus
10:45 Reading: Duet by David Hill
A teenage blues guitarist finds himself playing a duet with the gorgeous flautist in the youth orchestra. (Part 7 of 10)
11:05 Business and economic commentator Rod Oram
11:30 Success in stressful times
Hamish McRae is the Associate Editor and principal economic commentator for British newspaper The Independent. He is a visiting professor at Lancaster University and council member of the Royal Economic Society.
Author of What Works: Success in Stressful Times - The Secrets of the World's Best Organisations and Communities (2010) and The World in 2020: Power, Culture and Prosperity.
11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch discusses the blurring of editorial and advertising lines in our newspapers
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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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