Nine To Noon for Tuesday 19 April 2011
09:05 The impact of the cost of living on the health and wellbeing of many New Zealanders
Chris Farelly, head of the Northland-based primary health organisation, Manaia Health.
09:20 Cuts to school health services - what will be the impact?
Susan Impey, principal of Alfriston College, one of the schools whose school nurse funding will be cut by the Counties Manukau DHB; and Phillipa Bennetts, president of the Auckland School Nurses Group.
09:30 Monitoring monarch butterflies
Jacqui Knight, secretary of the Monarch Butterfly New Zealand Trust
Left: tagged monarch GAN 805, photograph by Anna Barnett. Right: tagged monarch GAG 208, photograph by Lindy Purves.
9:45 US correspondent Luiza Savage
Whether Donald Trump is serious about making a run for the US presidency and if Speaker John Boehner has emerged stronger or weaker from the budget deal with President Barack Obama.
10:05 Dame Margaret Sparrow
Abortion lobbyist, and women's health advocate, retiring head of the Abortion Law Reform Association of NZ.
10:30 Book Review with Tina Shaw
Inside Stories: A History of the New Zealand Housewife by Frances Walsh
Published by Godwit
10:45 Reading: Under the Huang Jiao Tree by Jane Carswell (Part 10 of 12)
A New Zealander's mid-life experience teaching English in Chongqing China.
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
Chinese company Agria winning control of PGG Wrightson, a US investment vehicle's bid for control for Tourism Holdings and Telecom's sale of the remainder of Yahoo!Xtra.
11:30 Poets of the Great War
Harry Ricketts, author of Strange Meetings: Poets of the Great War.
Harry Ricketts is a poet, academic, editor and reviewer. He is the author of a biography of Rudyard Kipling, and several books of essays, poetry, and literary criticism… and one of fiction. He is the co-editor of the quarterly review, New Zealand Books, and Associate Professor in the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University in Wellington.
11:45 Media commentator Denis Welch
The New Zealand Radio Awards and Sean Plunket's transition to Newstalk ZB.