Nine To Noon for Friday 28 January 2011
09:05 Issues facing NZ in 2011
Prime Minister John Key addresses the principal issues facing the country in the year ahead.
09:30 Local Heroes - refugees
Yvonne Ennion is a Waikato woman who helps refugees to fit in to NZ life. She works as a cleaner and devotes many hours to charitable work.
09:45 Pacific correspondent Mike Field
10:05 Robin Scholes - NZ Film Producer
Robin Scholes has produced many seminal NZ films including Once Were Warriors. Her latest projects include the first feature directed by Brendan Donovan, The Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell, and an adaptation of Lloyd Jones novel Mister Pip, to be directed by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe's Andrew Adamson.
10:30 Book Review - Best Children's Books of 2010 with John McIntyre
Mirror by Jeannie Baker
Published by Walker Books
ISBN 978-1-4063-0914-0
Scat by Carl Hiassen
Published by Orion
ISBN 9781-4440-0059-7
House by Aleksandra Machwiak
Illustrated by Daniel Mzielinski
Published by Gecko
ISBN 978-1-877467-66-0
10:45 Reading:Into the Wider World, by Brian Turner
Brian Turner, the quintessential Central Otago man - celebrated poet, social commentator, wilderness wanderer and fly fisher - reads selections from his book. (Part 5 of 10)
Listen to extended episodes of Into the Wider World.
11:05 New Music with Chris Bourke
11:30 Sports correspondent Joseph Romanos
The Australian Open tennis - does the downfall of both Nadal and Federer signal the end of an era?
11:45 The Week That Was with Radar and Pinky Agnew