Nine To Noon for Friday 21 December 2012
09:05 Gun control taskforce to meet today for first time
Mike Hammond, Gun Owners of America Legislative Counsel; and Andrew Leigh, Australian Labour MP and former ANU professor of economics who researched the impact of gun control and firearms buy back in Australia.
09:25 Unprecedented queues for charity outside the Auckland City Mission
Diane Robertson, Auckland City Missioner.
09:30 Before I Die - the public bucket list wall in Auckland's CBD
Juan Molina is an Auckland architect and one of the local instigators of the Before I Die project in Auckland.
09:45 Pacific correspondent Mike Field
10:05 Big Year interview: Acclaimed Kiwi musician, Kimbra
Hamilton-born and raised Kimbra Johnson has had an incredible 2012 - the song 'Somebody That I Used to Know', on which she collaborated with Australian artist Gotye, reached number 1 in the US, and has just become the biggest selling single of 2012 in the UK with 1.28 million copies sold there; the accompanying video has had more than 352 million views on YouTube. Kimbra's own album, Vows, had its US release, debuting at number 14 on the Billboard Top 100 album chart. Earlier this month she was named the best female artist at Australia's premier music awards, the ARIAs, for the second year in a row.
10:35 Book Review with Dan Slevin
Antifragile by Nassim Nicolas Taleb
Published by Allen Lane
10:45 Reading: Mary's Job by Pip Adam
Mary has to spend the Saturday night before Christmas at the office fixing a computer publishing glitch.
11:05 New Music with Jeremy Taylor
Aaradhna; the Moonrise Kingdom soundtrack; and Nick Drake
Artist: Aaradhna
Title: Wake Up
Composer: Aaradhna Patel/ Peter Wadams/ Evan Short
Album: Treble And Reverb
Label: Universal
Artist: Francoise Hardy
Title: Le Temps De l'Amour
Composer: Morisse/Salvet/Dutronc
Album: Moonrise Kingdom OST
Label: Abcko
Artist: Hank Williams
Title: Ramblin' Man
Composer: Hank Williams|
Album: Moonrise Kingdom OST
Label: Abcko
Artist: Nick Drake
Title: - track 4, 2'58"
Composer: Nick Drake
Album: Pink Moon
Label: Island
11:35 Sports commentator Richard Boock
Cricket, and funding for sports - is it fair?
11:45 The Week That Was with James Elliott and Irene Pink
Music played in this show
Playlist
09:30am
Elvis Presley: 'White Christmas'
from 1957
09:48am
Ella Fitzgerald: 'O Holy Night'
from 1967
10:06am
Kimbra: 'Cameo Lover'
from the 2011 album "Vows"
10:25am
Gotye (feat. Kimbra): 'Somebody That I Used To Know'
from the 2011 album "Making Mirrors"
10:35am
Kimbra: 'Settle Down'
from the 2011 album "Vows"
11:45am
Glen Campbell: 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas'
from 1968