Nine To Noon for Tuesday 14 December 2010
09:05 Pike River Coal receivership
Chris Yeats, owner of Chris Yeats builders, which lost three employees in the Pike River coal mine disaster. Contactors are meeting in Greymouth this morning after Pike River Coal went into receivership yesterday.
09:20 Proposal to grant law-abiding overstayers a semi-amnesty
Richard Small, Wellington lawyer who represents many overstayers. Parliament's foreign affairs and trade select committee has completed an inquiry into New Zealand's relationship with the Pacific Islands and one of its recommendations is that immigration officers take a more sympathetic approach to overstayers.
09:35 Literary translation - can poems and fiction be lost in translation?
Paulo Britto, award-winning literary translator, poet and Professor of English at the Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. He has translated about 90 books from English to Portuguese, ranging from fiction by Henry James and William Faulkner to the poetry of Allen Ginsberg and Ted Hughes.
09:45 US correspondent Luiza Savage
10:05 Big Year Interview - Nikki Guy
Nikki Guy, sister of Manawatu farmer, Scott Guy, who was murdered in July. Despite a huge police operation, his killer remains at large. Nikki was elected to the Palmerston North City Council this year and says she wants to try to make her region a safer place and for something positive to come out of her brother's death.
10:30 Book Review with Ian Chapman
Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964 by Chris Bourke
Published by Auckland University Press
10:45 Reading: Shaping Up by Elspeth Sandys (Part 2 of 5)
The light-hearted story of Jean, the owner manager of a women's gym and the vibrant group of women who are its members
11:05 Business and economic commentator Rod Oram
The UN climate conference in Cancun.
11:30 Heritage Seeds
Kay Baxter has devoted much of her life to collecting and saving heritage food plants and seeds - to grow food from a bygone era. Fifteen years ago, she and husband Bob founded the Koanga Institute, in Hawkes Bay, which is dedicated to protecting New Zealand's heirloom plants.
11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch
The most over-used words of the year.