Sunday Morning for Sunday 23 May 2010
Sunday for 23 May 2010
8:12 Insight: Swine Flu - Panic or Pandemic?
Insight looks at whether the World Health Organisation over-reacted when it declared swine flu a pandemic, and asks if its actions were the result of a questionable relationship between the WHO and the pharmaceutical industry.
Written and presented by the BBC's Imogen Foulkes.
8:40 Ian Hassall - "Is this good for the children?"
Dr Ian Hassall has just won the UN Children's Fund Aldo Farina Award for his sustained contribution to child rights advocacy. He wants our economy and our society to be restructured to ensure that the conditions under which our children grow up are the best possible. He says that at every level of decision-making we should ask, "Is this good for the children?" in the same way that we now ask, "Is this good for the economy?"
9:06 Mediawatch
Mediawatch this week looks at how the battle for hearts and minds over smoking is playing out in the news - and how some bloggers have pitted themselves against "Big Tobacco" and its PR machine. The programme also looks at extraordinary efforts to confront the boss of a failed finance company, and how politics trumped history in the recent coverage of two Treaty claims.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:45 Thomas Preston - Biological Warfare and Terrorism
2010 Fulbright US Senior Scholar Dr Thomas Preston from Washington State University who is currently based at Victoria University of Wellington as a lecturer in foreign policy. Dr Preston is concerned about the growing threat of bio-terrorism. He looks at how biological weapons could potentially be used, and discusses strategies for reducing our vulnerabilities to such attacks and limiting the damage they can inflict.
10:06 Gordon McLauchlan, Sir Wilson Whineray and Tessa Duder - Getting Old and Feeling Good
Gordon McLauchlan has brought together a group of well-known New Zealanders and got them to write about growing old. The result is a thoughtful, often-funny and optimistic new book, 'Loving All of It'. Chris Whitta talks to Gordon and two of the contributors about how they view the world, the past, the future, contributing to their country and what they hope will be their legacy.
'Loving All of It', edited by Gordon McLauchlan, is published by Random House.
Gordon McLauchlan, Tessa Duder, Sir Wilson Whineray
10:40 Notes from the South with Dougal Stevenson
Dougal "mad as a snake" Stevenson is feeling the strain of having his house on the market.
10:45 Hidden Treasures
Each week Trevor Reekie presents Hidden Treasures, uncovering musical gems that are often buried under tons of other stuff from here, there and over that a-way!! This week digs Trevor up Balkan grooves, Brazilian free styles, and a classic one-hit-wonder from the 60's that was a monster hit for Mick and the boys from the Stones.
Produced by Trevor Reekie
11.05 Ideas: China - The World's Biggest Polluter
Pollution is now the leading cause of death in China. The pH level of rain in southern China is the same as that of vinegar and there are cities where the smog is so dense people go without seeing the sun for months on end. Ideas explores the issue of pollution in China with Greenpeace China's head of climate and energy, Ailun Yang; Joshua Muldavin, a professor of geography at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York who has been studying the impact of China's economic reforms on rural Chinese since the early 1980s; and Dr Katherine Morton, a fellow of the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University in Canberra and the author of 'International Aid and China's Environment: Taming the Yellow Dragon'.
Produced by Jeremy Rose
11.55 Feedback
What you, the listeners, say on the ideas and issues that have appeared in the programme.