09:05 New Copyright Act

From next week some NZ internet users are likely to receive their first copyright infringement notices under the new '3 Strikes' provisions in the the new copyright act.

Allan Freeth, CEO of Telstra Clear, Vikram Kumar of InternetNZ and Paula Browning from the Copyright Council discuss the effect the new changes will have.

Allan Freeth's opion piece What's Wrong With Copyright.

InternetNZ's 3strikes website.

09:30     More new entrants getting kicked out of school

Fiona Ayers, child and educational psychologist, Losua Esera, Petone Central school principal, and Ian Leckie,  President of the primary teachers' union, the New Zealand Educational Institute.

09:45 Europe Correspondent - Carsten von Nahmen

Why the Euro, and Europe as a whole, is under threat; anti-immigration sentiment after the Norway massacre; and democracy appears to be a lost cause in the Ukraine and Belarus.

10:05 Feature Guest - Robert Benjamin

Robert Benjamin visited NZ recently and gave the keynote address at the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of NZ conference.

He is a US scholar from the Strauss Institute for Conflict Resolution, a visiting professor at the Pepperdine University School of Law, and a past president of the Academy of Family Mediators.

10:35 Book Review with Kate Blackhurst

The German Boy by Patricia Wastvedt
Published by Penguin

10:45 Book Reading: The Angel's Cut by Elizabeth Knox

A 15 part series narrated by Jacob Rajan

The angel Xas returns in this sequel to the international bestseller, The Vintner’s Luck. Into a world of movie lots and speakeasies (L.A. 1929) comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, still nursing his broken heart, and determined only to go on living in the air.

Listen again to this reading.

11:05 Political commentators Matthew Hooton and John Pagani

They debate the results of two new political polls, welfare policy and is National opting out of politics in the lead-up to the election?

11:30 Guest Chef - Judith Tabron

Owner of one of Auckland's best-known restaurants, Soul Bar & Bistro.

Her book is Soul cookbook, published by Random House, with photography by Aaron McLean.

Recipes:

11:45 Urbanist Tommy Honey

Links:

14 Biggest Ideas of The Year, The Atlantic
The Elusive Big Idea, NY Times