Nine To Noon for Wednesday 21 October 2009
09:05 Banks starting to raise fixed mortgage rates
Bernard Hickey, managing editor of interest rates monitoring website interest.co.nz.
09:20 Gays in the Military/Armed Forces
Joseph Rocha, former US Navy sailor who says he was driven out and tormented for being gay, despite the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
I Didn't Tell, It Didn't Matter.
09:30 Four day working week schemes in Utah and in America
Rex Facer, assistant professor of Public Finance and Management and the Warren Jones Fellow in the Romney Institute of Public Management at Brigham Young University.
09:45 Australia correspondent Ray Moynihan
10:05 Nick Nobilo - Veteran NZ winemaker
Former head of NZ's second largest wine company, Nobilo Wines, which was established by his father in 1943. He has now set up a tiny boutique vineyard, Vinoptima, that makes only Gewurztraminer.
10:30 Book Review with Harry Ricketts
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
Published by Hutchinson
10:45 Reading: The Dream Life of Elephants by Vaughan Slinn, Sara Allen and Leo Gene Peters
(Part 3 of 4)
A mysterious and quirky look at the routine of urban loneliness through the eyes of Julian and Yvonne, two strangers who nearly meet.
11:05 Music review with Marty Duda
Today's feature artist: Richard Hawley
1. You Don't Miss Your Water (Til Your River Runs Dry) - Richard Hawley taken from 2003 album Lowedges (XL)
2. Coles Corner - Richard Hawley taken from 2005 album Coles Corner (Mute)
3. Serious - Richard Hawley taken from 2007 album Lady's Bridge (Mute)
4. Ashes On The Fire - Richard Hawley taken from 2009 album Truelove's Letter (Mute)
11:20 L egal expert Nicholas Russell
Nicholas Russell is a Principal at Chen Palmer specialising in public law litigation. He discusses big companies taking super-injunctions on media outlets, and their impact on journalistic freedom.
11:45 Film review with Dan Slevin
Dan discusses The Damned United, a film about the bizarre 44 days in 1974 when Brian Clough tried to manage the Leeds United football team. And he tells us whether the comedy Couples Retreat is his pick for worst movie of the year.