Nine To Noon for Wednesday 5 May 2010
09:05 Poaching of schoolboy rugby players
Steve Cole, Principal of St Kentigern College; and Manoj Daji, College Sport Chief Executive.
09:20 British election - what are the pollsters picking?
Joe Twyman, Director of Political Research at research company YouGov
09:30 Microlending
Emmanuelle Javoy, managing director of microfinance rating agency Planet Rating.
09:45 Australia correspondent Ray Moynihan discusses tax battles, policy backflips and teachers vowing to boycott national tests
10:05 Yiyun Li - Chinese writer
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing before moving to the United States in 1996 to study immunology, before becoming a writer. Her first book, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, is a collection of short stories about modern China. Her second book, a novel The Vagrants, looks at the effect of a public execution on a Chinese town, drawing on her memories of seeing condemned prisoners at denounciation meetings when she was a school girl.
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
HarperCollins
ISBN13: 9780007196654 NZ
10:30 Book Review with Anne Buchanan
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
Published by Text Publishing
10:45 Reading. Lucky Bastard by Peter Wells
Did Eric Keelings actions constitute a further war crime? His two children are confronted with an ugly possibility. (Part 3 of 15)
11:05 Music review with Marty Duda
Feature artist: Gil Scott-Heron
1. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2:50) - Gil Scott-Heron taken from 1970 album "Small Talk At 125th & Lenox" (RCA)
2. The Bottle (5:14) - Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson taken from 1973 album "Winter In America" (Strata-East)
3. Johannesburg (4:52) - Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson taken from 1976 album "From South Africa To South Carolina" (Arista)
4. I'm New Here (3:33) - Gil Scott-Heron taken from 2010 album "I'm New Here" (XL)
11:30 Legal commentator Robert Lithgow discusses criminal law
11:45 Film reviewer Graeme Tuckett
Iron Man 2 and The Hedgehog.