On Nine to Noon Today

9:05 Insuring Unborn Children

Naomi Ballantyne, Managing Director of ING Life NZ; and Karen Guilliland, from the New Zealand College of Midwives

9:20 Torture at Guantanamo Bay

Philippe Sands, author of Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law. The book argues that senior Bush administration figures pushed through previously outlawed interrogation measures at Guantanamo, some labelled torture.

9:45 US correspondent Jack Hitt

10:05 Detective Inspector retires

Detective Inspector Steve Rutherford, retiring after 36 years in NZ Police

10:40 Book Review: Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi

Reviewed by Laura Kroetsch
(Published by Faber ISBN 978 057 123 8743)

10:45 Book Reading: Dances With Marmots by George G. Spearing

Read by Jason Whyte
Episode 2 of 10

11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram

11:30 Mad Bad Sad

Lisa Appignanesi, author of Mad Bad Sad, which looks at the treatment of mentally ill women from 1800 to the present

11:45 Media commentator Phil Wallington