Nine To Noon for Thursday 14 July 2011
09:05 One of NZ's largest employers, the Auckland District Health Board, proposes refusing to hire smokers
The DHB's board, which operates Auckland City Hospital, Starship and Greenlane, has instructed management to develop a plan to ban smokers from the staff.
Taima Campbell, executive director of nursing at the Auckland DHB; and Kerri Nuku, NZ Nurses Organisation representative.
09:20 Plans for a blanket ban on smoking in Auckland's CBD
George Wood, chairman of the Auckland Council Community Safety Forum.
09:30 What Australia's carbon pricing plan means for NZ
Frank Alcock, US political scientist and former Energy Department analyst who was in NZ this year as a Fulbright fellow.
09:45 UK correspondent Jon Dennis
Why Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has withdrawn its US$12 billion bid for full control of BSkyB amid the phone hacking scandal.
10:05 Nigel Brennan - Kidnap Victim
Nigel and his colleague Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout were kidnapped in Somalia by a criminal gang in 2008. In his book, The Price of Life, he details for the first time their 15 month captivity, including their conversion to Islam, their ill-fated escape attempt and what really happened to Amanda. Nigel now uses his experiences to advise companies and NGOs whose employees are sent to hostile environments.
10:35 Book Review with Phil Smith
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
Published by Little, Brown
10:45 Reading
The third of five new Hartley Manners Stories.
11:05 New Technology with Donald Clark
Donald Clark discusses open source hardware; old stories via new technology; and South Korea's plans to ditch physical text books by 2015.
Open source hardware links: CERN Open Hardware license; Arduino; Watertank sensor; iRobot; Lego mindstorms projects
Old stories via new technology links: SpongeBob SquarePants on Twitter; Storytelling and Social Networks on Read Write Web; Dripread;
South Korea's plans to ditch books links: Schools Face Transition to Digital Textbooks; Virtual reality could be the future teacher.
11:30 Psychological responses to the Canterbury earthquakes
Caroline Bell, consultant psychiatrist and the Clinical Head of the Anxiety Disorders Unit at the Canterbury District Health Board talks about the psychological fallout from the Christchurch quakes.
11:45 TV review with Simon Wilson
Sports commentaries, TV3's documentary on drugs and the medical drama Monroe.