Nine to Noon for Friday 19 September 2008

9:05 Market Turmoil

Justin Urquhart Stewart, Analyst Managing Director at Seven Investment Management; and Gareth Morgan, Economist and founder of Infometrics.

9:25 Pet Behaviour

Ben and Lynette Hart. Benjamin Hart - Distinguished Professor Emeritus and current Director of the Companion Animal Behaviour Programme at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis and Lynette Hart - his wife, also an animal behaviour specialist and founding director of the Centre for Animals in Society at Davis.

9:30 Good Night Bush

Gan Golan and Erich Origen, authors of the parody book Goodnight Bush, based on the popular childrens book Goodnight Moon.

9:45 Pacific Correspondent Michael Field

10:05 Feature Interview: Michael Parmenter

Michael Parmenter, for decades been one of the leading lights of the New Zealand dance scene, as both a dancer and choreographer. In 1998 he was made a NZ Order of Merit for his services to the arts.

10:30 Book Review with Catriona Ferguson

Fine Just The Way It Is by Annie Proulx
Published by 4th Estate
ISBN 9780007269730

10:45 Book Reading: Mr Allbones' Ferrets by Fiona Farrell

(Episode 10 of 10)

11:05 Music Review with Manu Taylor

Soha - D'Ici Et D'Ailleurs
2007 Virgin Music/EMI Music France
5099950318100

The Rosie Taylor Project - This City Draws Maps
2008 Bad Sneakers Recordings
BADSNEAK13CD

The Verve - Forth
2008 Virgin Records/EMI Records
5099923604421

11:30 Sports Commentator Richard Becht

11:45 Week That Was with Radar & Irene Pink