12 February 2012 - 10:54 am NZ time
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Some of the countries brightest students are being targeted by overseas universities. (17′52″)
We talk to Lance Wiggs, Co-founder of Pacific Fibre project and technology consultant. (18′57″)
Mike Field joins us. (7′13″)
Academy Award winning actress on her push for more gender equality in children's film and television. (28′17″)
Todays books are - Rangitoto-Te Toku tu Moana / The Rock Standing in The Ocean by Maria Gill - Published by Puffin, Old Huhu by Kyle Mewburn, illusrated by Rachel Driscoll - Published by Scholastic and Sting by Raymond Huber - Published by Walker Books. (6′33″)
Today Sean is featuring Irish bands. (11′13″)
With commentator Richard Boock. (10′06″)
With Radar and Gemma Gracewood. (9′37″)
09:05 University brain drain
Students and lecturers are being targeted and lured away to overseas institutes. Professor Stuart McCutcheon, Vice Chancellor Auckland University; and Professor David Skegg, Vice Chancellor Otago University.
09:30 High-capacity international internet cable
Lance Wiggs, Co-founder of Pacific Fibre project and technology consultant.
09:45 Pacific correspondent Mike Field
10:05 Geena Davis - Academy Award winning actress on her push for more gender equality in children's film and television
Geena Davis - actress, film producer, writer, Olympic archer and activist.
Geena Davis won an Oscar for her role in The Accidental Tourist in 1988, and was also nominated for an Oscar for her role as Thelma in Thelma and Louise three years later. In 2004 She founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which has commissioned ongoing studies to look at gender stereotyping in media, and the lack of female characters in children's television and films. She recently addressed the United Nations on the issue of gender equality.
10:30 Children's Book Review with John McIntyre
Rangitoto-Te Toku tu Moana / The Rock Standing in The Ocean by Maria Gill
Published by Puffin
ISBN 978-014-350334-7
Old Huhu by Kyle Mewburn, illusrated by Rachel Driscoll
Published by Scholastic ISBN 978-1-86943-921-7
Sting by Raymond Huber
Published by Walker Books
ISBN 1-921150-89-0
10:45 Reading: Duet by David Hill
A teenage blues guitarist finds that he has got his youth orchestra duet partner pregnant. (Part 10 of 10)
11:05 New Music with Sean McKenna
Artist: The Chieftains featuring Ry Cooder
Album: San Patricio
Song:
La Iguana
March to Battle (Across the Rio Grande)
Video: San Patricio - Behind the Scenes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6KnV7J1NBk
Artist: Grada (www.myspace.com/gradamusic)
Album: Natural Angle
Song: Louis Collins
Video: http://www.youtube.com/user/gradamusic
Artist: Jimmy Penguin & MC Muipeid
Song: Na Bac
Free music: http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/jimmythehideouspenguin
Artist: Fionn Regan
Album: The Shadow of an Empire
Song: Catacombs
Video: Catacombs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWALclRLiEY
11:30 Sports commentator Richard Boock
11:45 Week That Was with Radar and Gemma Gracewood
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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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