Nine To Noon for Friday 4 June 2010
09:05 First hand account of being on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla
Ambassador Edward Peck, former US diplomat who was on one of the boats in the Gaza-bound aid flotilla that was seized by Israel. He was the Deputy Director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism in the Reagan administration and Chief of Mission in Iraq and Mauritania.
09:20 The rise of "Globish"
Robert McCrum, author of Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language and Associate Editor of the Observer newspaper
09:45 Pacific correspondent Mike Field
Why the Pacific might not be sinking after all, NZ trying to cash in on the guam gold rush and Samoa declares a holiday for the Sevens victory.
10:05 Royal Navy commander turned anti-nuclear campaigner
Robert Green, retired Commander Robert Green served in Royal Navy for 20 years and is the only ex-British navy commander to have come out against nuclear weapons. He is the co-director of the Disarmament & Security Centre, based in Christchurch, and the author of Security Without Nuclear Deterrence, published by Astron Media and the Disarmament and Security Centre
10:30 Children's Book Review with John McIntyre
Violet Vincent Reporting by Anna Kenna
Published by Scholastic
ISBN 978-1-86943-933-0
Hollie Chips by Anna Gowan
Published by Scholastic
ISBN 978-1-86943-931-6
This Way Up by Lindsay Wood
Published by Harper Collins
ISBN 978-1-86950-819-7
10:45 Reading: The Life And Death Of Laura Friday (And Of Pavarotti, Her Parrot) a black comedy by David Murphy
(Part 5 of 12, RNZ)
11:05 New Music with Sean McKenna
Artist: The Tallest Man on Earth
Album: The Wild Hunt
Song: King of Spain
Video: The Wild Hunt
Artist: First Aid Kit
Album: The Big Black and the Blue
Song: I Met Up With The King
Video: Cover of Fleet Foxes 'Tiger Mountain Peasant Song' performed in the woods
Artist: The Arcade Fire
Album: The Suburbs (to be released August 2010)
Song: The Suburbs
11:30 Sports commentator Joseph Romanos
The French Open and how seriously friendly World Cup soccer warm-up games should be taken.
11:45 Week That Was with Radar and Pinky Agnew