Nine To Noon for Tuesday 13 April 2010
09:05 Disability report
Workbridge, together with CCS Disability Action, have just released a report that looks at disabled people in education and employment. It finds they are not receiving enough funding, and that many employers undervalue the contribution disabled people make to the country's workforce.
Grant Cleland, Chief Executive of Workbridge; and Viv Maidaborn, CEO of CCS Disability Action.
09:20 Pain medications
Dr Penelope Briscoe, Dean of the Faculty of Pain Medicine at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.
09:45 USA correspondent Luiza Savage
10:05 Rod Drury
Rod Drury, entrepreneur, Xero founder and Pacific fibre cable backer.
10:30 Book Review with Ralph McAllister
Blue Eyed Boy by Joanna Harris
Published by Doubleday UK
10:45 Reading: Where Underpants Come From by Joe Bennett (Episode10 of 12)
Joe Bennett finds himself in a cotton warehouse as he follows his made-in-China underpants back to their source.
11:05 Business and Economic commentator Rod Oram
The state of the economy; ETS; and Fonterra share trading.
11:30 Christine Fernyhough - Auckland businesswoman turned high country farmer and writer
Christine Fernyhough runs Castle Hill station, near Porters Pass in Canterbury with her husband John Bougen. An ardent advocate of learning and reading she was the co-founder of the Books in Homes programme and later the Gifted Kids programme.
In 2007 Christine published the award-winning The Road to Castle Hill about her switch from life in Auckland to that of a high-country farmer.
Her latest book is Ben & Mark: Boys of the High Country, published by Random House, Non Fiction Finalist in the NZ Post Children's Book Awards 2010.
11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch
The martyrdom of Pete Bethune, or The New Zealand Media's One-Sided Coverage of the Whaling Issue; the latest Roy Morgan figures for readership of newspapers and magazines; and what Wendy said about Tiger.