09:05 Ministry of Education CEO fronts up on Novopay payroll system debacle

Education Secretary Lesley Longstone talks about the Ministry's troubled Novopay payroll system, which has seen many teachers not get paid.

09:25 Award-winning group that has successfully helped "unemployable" youth into jobs

Te Whangai Trust, based on the Firth of Thames, runs a native plant nursery where youth are trained in life and workskills and supported in finding employment, and it has just won the  2012 Sustainable Business Network's Social Innovation Award.

09:30 Contemporary ethnography

Anoop Nayak is chair in Social and Cultural Geography at Newcastle University, UK and he is in New Zealand to speak at University of Waikato at the second International Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines (CEAD) hui.

10:05 Glidepath founder Sir Ken Stevens

The New Zealand entrepreneur is the founder, chairman and owner of airport baggage handling systems company Glidepath. The Auckland-headquartered firm has completed more than 550 projects in over 60 countries. Sir Ken is also the chair of Export NZ.

10:35 Book review with Ralph McAllister

Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin
Published by Orion

10:45 The Reading: The Trouble with Fire by Fiona Kidman

A series of short stories by Fiona Kidman.

11:05 Music review with Jeremy Taylor

Scott Walker, Craig Terris, and Sharkness.

Artist: Scott Walker
Title: Epizootics!
Composer: Scott Walker
Album: Bish Bosch
Label: 4AD

Artist: Craig Terris
Title: If We All Come Clean
Composer: Craig Terris
Album: Bleat Your Heart Out
Label: Rhythmethod

Artist: Craig Terris
Title: Hills Of Song
Composer: Craig Terris
Album: Bleat Your Heart Out
Label: Rhythmethod

Artist: Sharkness
Title: Peter Pandemic
Composer: Robin Hinkley
Album: Coat Of Arms
Label: Rhythmethod

11:30 Sports commentator Richard Boock

The travails of the NZ cricket team; Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke, who has just scored his fourth test double century of the year; Shane Cameron v Danny Green; and would David Beckham move to Australia?

11:45 The Week That Was with Radar and Gemma Gracewood