Nine To Noon for Friday 9 May 2008

On Nine to Noon

9:05 Red Cross flight to Myanmar

Jeremy Francis, Regional Logistics Co-ordinator for the Red Cross in Kuala Lumpur. Aid finally trickles in to Myanmar.

9:20 Employment figures and impact on women

Diane Forman, Auckland business woman, Chair of the Emerald Group, owner of Emerald Foods, part owner of Mercy-Ascot Hospital and Director of the recruitment company, Emergent; and Carol Beaumont, Secretary, Council of Trade Unions

9:30 New Zealand urban architecture - are we getting it right?

Cathy Simon, American Architect who specialises in urban public spaces - and thinks New Zealand has a way to go to get it right. Cathy is founding principal of SMWM, one of the largest women-owned design firms in the United States, founded with a vision of reinvigorating public architecture

9:45 Pacific correspondent Mike Field

10:05 Anne Enright

Mann Booker prize winning novelist who shot to fame with The Gathering

10:30 Children's Book Review with John McIntyre

The Magpies by Denis Glover/Dick Frizzell
(Published by Godwit ISBN 978-1-86962-042-4)

Baxter Basics by James K Baxter
(Published by Steele Roberts ISBN 978-1-877448-18-8)

Hairy MacLary From Donaldson's Dairy 25th Anniversary Edition by Lynley Dodd
(Published by Mallinson Rendel ISBN 978-1-877423-14-7)

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

Read by Jason Whyte
Episode 10 of 10

11:05 Music Review with Manu Taylor

Amy Macdonald - This is The Life
(Melodramatic Records/Mercury Records)

Sera Cahoone - Only As The Day Is Long
(SubPop Records SPCD759)

Van Morrison - Keep It Simple
(Exile/Polydor UK 1763078)

11:30 Sports commentator Richard Becht

11:45 The Week That Was with Radar and Gemma Gracewood