Nine To Noon for Wednesday 31 August 2011
09:05 Earthquake damaged school in property repairs funding shock
Murray Edlin, principal of Banks Ave School in Christchurch; and John Bangma, Canterbury Primary Principals Association president and also the principal of Mairehau Primary School.
09:30 A major survey of the battle fields at Gallipoli is helping shape our understanding of what went on there almost 96 years ago
War historian Dr Ian McGibbon from the Ministry of Culture and Heritage.
09:45 Australia correspondent Ray Moynihan
10:05 Tom McLellan - former addiction treatment advisor to the Obama administration
Dr McLellan is the former deputy director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under the Obama administration. He's currently Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, and director of Penn Center for Substance Abuse Solutions.
10:35 Book Review with Emma Hart
The Absolutist by John Boyne
DoubleDay UK
10:45 Reading: Tremble: Stage Fright a short story by Shirley Eng
Marilyn is just about to make a much dreaded presentation when the quake strikes. From then on she has only one thing on her mind getting out of the building and across town to find her daughters.
11:05 Music review with Marty Duda
Counting Crows - they haven't released any new music since 2008, but they are releasing their first live DVD. August And Everything After: Live At Town Hall.
1. Round Here (5:20) - Counting Crows taken from 1994 TV appearance on SNL (Dreamworks)
2. Hanginaround (4:07) - Counting Crows taken from 1999 album, "This Desert Life" (DGC)
3. Butterfly In Reverse (2:48) - Counting Crows taken from 2002 album "Hard Candy" (Geffen)
4. Mr. Jones (4:35) - Counting Crows taken from 2011 DVD "August And Everything After: Live At Town Hall" (Eagle Rock)
They also had a hit with Accidently In Love from the 2004 film Shrek 2, featured that on Marty's website www.13thfloor.co.nz
11:30 Legal commentator Catriona MacLennan discusses provocation
11:45 Arts commentator Courtney Johnston discusses art theft