Nine To Noon for Wednesday 3 March 2010

09:05 Proposal to track abusive mothers

John Angus, Children's Commissioner and member of forum working in the child abuse area; Dr Patrick Kelly, Consultant paediatrician Starship Hospital and spokesperson for the The Experts Forum on Child Abuse; and Paula Bennett, Minister for Social Development and Employment.

09:35 Toyota's safety crisis

Michael Cusumano, Professor of Management at MIT, consultant for Ford and Fiat and author of several books on the car industry including The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota.

09:45 Australian correspondent Paul Barclay

10:05 Black Holes

Dan Bauer is the head of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) who with his team have detected a substance which is possibly dark matter.

10:30 Book Review with Mary McCallum

Lovers in the Age of Indifference by Xialu Guo
Published by Chatto & Windus

10:45 Reading. Duet by David Hill

A teenage blues guitarist finds himself playing a duet with the gorgeous flautist in the youth orchestra. (Part 3 of 14)

11:05 Music review with Marty Duda

Feature Artist: Boz Scaggs

1. I'll Be Long Gone (4:15) - Boz Scaggs taken from 1969 album "Boz Scaggs" (Atlantic)

2. Lido Shuffle (3:41) - Boz Scaggs taken from 1976 album "Silk Degrees" (Columbia)

3. Come On Home (3:14) - Boz Scaggs taken from 1997 album "Come On Home" (Virgin)

4. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me (4:04) - Boz Scaggs taken from 2008 album "Speak Low" (Decca)

11:30 Legal commentator Catriona MacLennan discusses a Law Commission review of the Official Information Act and whether it currently prevents the free flow of information, rather than encourage it

11:45 Film review with Graeme Tuckett

Mao's Last Dancer, From Paris With Love, and the New Zealand Documentary Festival.