Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

First up today Paul Martin's the author of "Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: The Science of Pleasure". He's been looking at why we like chocolate so much! According to some psychologists human beings are hard-wired to be hedonists - basically we want to seek out pleasure however we can find it. But rather than those traditional props for the pleasure-seeker- good old sex, drugs, and rock n' roll- some people's enjoyment comes by the chunk.

At 12:35pm with more and more advertising moving online we're going old school and grabbing some glue and a brush and going bill-sticking with a bloke in Christchurch. So it flora for the concrete jungle or just corporate tagging?

Then at 12:45pm foraging for free food in Scotland's on the rise. The government's promoting it and they've just introduced a foraging code of practice. Maybe not to surprising when you consider the industry's estimated to be worth up to 55 million dollars! And those celebrity chefs and TV survival experts could also have something to do with it too.

Before the news, "the death of the book" is the kind of phrase that's guaranteed to grab people's attention. With millions of people now owning devices like Amazon's Kindle or the Sony e-reader demand for digital books is definitely on the up. The people selling e-book technologies claim we're nearing the "Ipod moment" for e-books and digital publishing. Angela Saini of the BBC looks at the way the world's book retailers and libraries are facing up to the challenges of meeting this new digital demand.

After the news at about 1:10pm the nut from Gaul that grows near a wall (well maybe). It's walnut season so our nut lady Alison Sandle drops in with a bag of walnuts. They originally came from Persia but these days you'd be forgiven for thinking they grow on top of Afghans!

At about 1:30pm it's technology time, and Peter Griffin's picking over Telecom's new XT mobile phone network. It's all launching this Friday...there's shiny new handsets, simpler calling plans, faster speeds and offers encouraging users to switch to the new network. But what's it all going to mean for consumers- cheaper calls and better service? And how worried should Vodafone be?

And before we go Lego's so popular that every single person in the world could each own 62 of the brightly coloured building blocks. That's a lot of bricks! But Lego was heading down the tubes just a few years ago- losing hundreds of millions of dollars and opening up theme parks everywhere. I'm speaking to a guy who's been finding out how Lego turned its business around and what the Lego of the future's going to look like.

TRACKS PLAYED

Track: Virginia Plain
Artist: Roxy Music
Album: More than this: The Best of Bryan Ferry and Roxy
Music
Label: Virgin
Catalogue #: 8409512
Broadcast at: 12:30

Track: The Message
Artist: Dreadsquad Blend
Album: Play that Blend Vol 2
Label: Self release on: http://www.myspace.co/playthatblend
Catalogue #:
Broadcast at: 13:10

Track: Transmission
Artist: Hot Chip
Album: War Child Heroes
Label: Parlophone
Catalogue #: 407 238
Broadcast at: 13:40