Nine To Noon for Thursday 16 April 2009

09:05 Fiji

Sir Paul Reeves, former NZ Governor General and the Commonwealth Secretary General's Special Envoy to Fiji

09:15 Situation in Fiji

Jim Sherlock, owner/operator of the Lagoon Resort on Viti Levu; and Ben Plumber, Manager Wananavu Beach Resort

09:30 Replacing oil with green energy

The end of our reliance on oil and the beginnng of a global response to replacing our addiction to fossil fuels with green energy.

David Strahan, British journalist.

More details about David can be found at www.davidstrahan.com/index.html.

Including a map that shows which countries are still producing oil and which have run out: www.davidstrahan.com/map.html.

09:40 Vertical farming

Professor Dickson Despommier, environmental health orofessor, Columbia University.

09:50 UK correspondent Matthew Parris

10:05 Escape from Cooperites sect

Phil and Israel Cooper, father and son who escaped from the Cooperites sect and left their mother behind.

10:30 Book Review with Graham Beattie

The Italian Wedding by Nicky Pellegrino
Published by Orion
ISBN 9780752888682

10:45 Reading: Home by Charlotte Grimshaw read by Barnie Duncan

(Part 1 of 2)

A dissolute son returns home to Auckland.

11:05 New Technology with Colin Jackson

11:30 Script and scribble

Author Kitty Burns Florey laments the loss of handwriting skills.

11:45 Television review with Simon Wilson

A look at TV art and book shows