Nine To Noon for Friday 9 October 2009
09:05 Ban on over-counter sale of pseudoephedrine-based tablets
Dr Rhiannon Braund, Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand Otago Branch President and University of Otago Clinical Pharmacy lecturer.
09:20 Occupational safety on farms
While on-the-job injury statistics are falling in many occupations, a new Otago University study has revealed alarmingly high injury and fatality rates in the farming sector. The two year, $400,000 study is the most comprehsive examination of occupational health in agriculture ever undertaken in New Zealand. The study was carried out by Otago University's Injury Prevention Research Unit.
Dr Kirsten Lovelock, project manager, Occupational Health in Agriculture University of Otago; and David Rose, Southland farmer and Federated Farmers' spokesperson on employment, health and education.
09:30 $21 Food Challenge
Jackie Gower, Te Kauwhata money saving mum - $21 challenge .. how to feed your family for a week, when times are tough. (NOTE - Jackie is not advocating you do the challenge every week of the year). Co-author of book $21 Food Challenge.
09:45 Asia correspondent Phil O'Sullivan
10:05 Nelson poet Jessica le Bas
Jessica le Bas has written about her family's often scary journey through the world of mental health care for her daughter in her book of poetry Walking to Africa, which is being launched this evening to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week.
10:30 Children's Book Review with John McIntyre, from The Children's Bookshop, Kilbirnie, Wellington
Ben and Mark of the High Country by Christine Fernyhough and John Bougan
Published by Random House
ISBN 978-1-86979-068-4
E3 Call Home by Janet Hunt
Published by Random House
ISBN 978-1-86979--276-3
Little Kitchen by Sabrina Parrini
Published by Hardie Grant Books
ISBN 978-1-74066-743-2
10:45 Reading: Juggling with Mandarins by V M Jones
(Part 10 of 10, RNZ)
Pip feels he is being called on to fulfill sporting ambitions his father can no longer achieve. He is also struggling with his changing feelings for the girl next door. As well as learning to juggle mandarins, he learns how to juggle new feelings and relationships, and to succeed in indoor rock climbing.
11:05 New Music with Sean McKenna
Rose by Artisan Guns
From the album Bird & Bone EP
Video: Artisan Guns 'Autumn'
John 4:16 by The Mountain Goats
From the album The Life Of The World To Come
Video: John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats on The Colbert Report
100mph (in 2nd gear) by Gemma Ray
From the album Lights Out Zoltar!
Video: I'd Rather Go Blind
11:30 Sport with Joseph Romanos
The New Zealand soccer team's World Cup qualifier match against Bahrain.
11:45 Week That Was with Radar and Gemma Gracewood