Nine To Noon for Tuesday 27 September 2011

Wangari Maathai

The Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai (pictured right), has died at the age of 71.

She was the founder of the Green Belt Movement, an environmentalist, a civil society and women's rights activist, and a parliamentarian. She wrote two books about her life and her organisation: Unbowed: A Memoir and The Green Belt Movement

Kathryn Ryan talked to Wangari Maathai in October 2008. Listen again to that interview.

Today on Nine to Noon

09:05 Concern about the demolition process of heritage buildings in Christchurch

Anna Crighton, chairperson of the Canterbury Earthquake Heritage Buildings Fund Trust, which raises money, matched by the government, to save quake-damaged heritage buildings.

09:45 US correspondent Luiza Savage

10:05 The Orator (O Le Tulafale)

Catherine Fitzgerald is the producer of the first ever Samoan language film, The Orator (O Le Tulafale). She has her own production company, Blueskin Films, and has been involved in the production of a number of international award winning films (including Two Cars One Night; In My Father's Den). She's also had a long involvement with the NZ Film Festival Trust, and works with up and coming playwrights. The Orator opens in cinemas on October 6th.

10:25 Book Review with Phil Smith

The Apothecary by Maile Meloy
Published by Text YA

10:45 Book Reading: Shingle Beach by Carl Nixon (Part 2 of 5)

A portrait of a family at their bach, told from five different points of view. The location connects them but the perspectives are very different.

Audio will be available here after broadcast

11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram

11:30 British conservationist and natural history author Julian Fitter

Birds of New Zealand - by Julian Fitter and (the late) Don Merton.
Published by Harper Collins

11:45 Media commentator Gavin Ellis