Nine To Noon for Wednesday 12 November 2008

09:05 School bullying inquiry

Roslyn Noonan, Human Rights Commissioner and David Rutherford, spokesman for parents of bullying victims at Hutt Valley High School.

09:20 Cloning

Scientists at the Riken Centre in Japan have cloned a dead mouse which had been frozen for up to 16 years - prompting speculation it could open the way for long-extinct animals to be brought back to life.
Douglas Sipp, Manager of scientific communications at the RIKEN Center.

09:30 Homeless soccer world cup

Everitt, homeless soccer player; and Norm Hewitt, former All Black, and supporter and mentor to the homeless soccer team.

The film Kicking It about the 2006 homeless soccer world cup will screen as a fundraiser at the Academy Cinema in Auckland on Tuesday 18th November at 6pm. Tickets via Lifewise or call (09) 302 5390.

09:45 Australia correspondent Ray Moynihan

10:05The Priests

Father Eugene O'Hagan is part of a trio blessed with musical talent. The Priests, comprises three practising Roman Catholic priests from Ireland, who are mixing musical superstardom with their vocational calling. They've recently secured an international record deal worth about $NZ 3 million, but their contract allows them exemption from promotional activity if their services are required at home to tend to the spiritual needs of their parishioners or if they feel it conflicts with their religious beliefs.
Their album includes religious and spiritually-inspired classics such as Ave Maria and Panis Angelicus.

Pictured right: Father Eugene O'Hagan, Father Martin O'Hagan and Father David Delargy.

10:30 Book Review with Graham Beattie

On Top of Everything by Sarah-Kate Lynch
Published by Black Swan
ISBN 978 1 869 419974

10:45 Book Reading: Blood And Water, a short story by Siobhan Harvey

11:05 Music Review with Marty Duda

Artist Of The Week is Grace Jones

Grace Jones has just released her first album in almost 20 years, Hurricane. Marty Duda will review Jones' career, from her days as a New York City disco diva to the sharp-edged 80s icon who recorded albums such as Warm Leatherette, Nightclubbing and Slave To The Rhythm while appearing in films like Conan The Destroyer and James Bond's A View To A Kill.

1. I Need A Man (3:22) - Grace Jones taken from 1977 album Portfolio (Island)

2. Private Life (5:10) - Grace Jones taken from 1980 album Warm
Leatherette (Island)

3. Slave To The Rhythm (4:28) - Grace Jones taken from 1985 album
Slave To The Rhythm (Island)

4. Williams' Blood (5:57) - Grace Jones taken from 2008 album
Hurricane (Wall Of Sound)

11:30 Legal commentator Catriona McLennan

11:45 Film Review with Graeme Tuckett