Nine To Noon for Tuesday 12 April 2011
09:05 Protest against Petrobras off the East Cape
Hekia Parata, Acting Minister of Energy and Resources.
09:20 The battle in the King Country between residents and business owners and the electricity lines company over what locals are calling exorbitant lines charges
Tony Hart, former owner of The Crossing Cafe at the Tongariro Holiday park - he is also the fill-in manager at the park; David Holland, chairperson of the lobby group, the TLC Customer Group, set up to challenge The Lines Company over its charging regime; and John Anderson, chief executive of The Lines Company.
09:45 United States correspondent Jack Hitt
The White House-brokered budget deal and the death of filmmaker Sidney Lumet.
10:05 David Spiegelhalter - Public Understanding of Risk
David Spiegelhalter, Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Scientist in the UK Medical Research Council's Biostatistics Unit. He played a leading role in the public inquiry into the murders by the doctor, Harold Shipman, the UK's most prolific convicted serial killer and has also been a consultant to World Anti-Doping Agency, as well as drug companies Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline.
10:30 Book Review with Quentin Johnson
Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War by Giles Milton
Published by Giles Milton
ISBN: 0340837888
10:45 Reading: Under the Huang Jiao Tree by Jane Carswell (Part 5 of 12)
A New Zealander's mid-life experience teaching English in Chongqing China.
11:05 Business correspondent Rod Oram discusses Chinese tourists
11:25 Why is the Royal Commission into Building Collapses in the Christchurch Earthquake not apportioning blame
Grant Cameron, Christchurch lawyer who represented the victims of the Cave Creek Tragedy.
11:40 Family Tracing service
Bronwyn McFarlane, head of the Salvation Army's Family Tracing Service, which has been reuniting families for 120 years.
11:45 Media correspondent Denis Welch on the loss of NZPA, TVNZ 7 and Avalon