09:05 Labour MP Lianne Dalziel to challenge Bob Parker for Christchurch mayoralty

Christchurch East MP Lianne Dalziel has ended months of speculation by announcing her candidacy for Christchurch mayor. She says she will stand as an independent and does not have a running mate.

09:30 The Hoarding Handbook

Christiana Bratiotis, Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.

09:45 Australia correspondent Karen Middleton

10:05 Dr Sam Parnia - expert on the scientific study of death

Sam Parnia, intensive care physican and director of resuscitation research at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York, and author of The Lazarus Effect: The Science That is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death.

10:35 Book Review with Graham Beattie

The Secret Life of James Cook: A Novel by Graeme Lay
Published by HarperCollins NZ

0:45 Reading: Wulfsyarn by Phillip Mann

The epic tale of the fate of the The Nightingale, the largest and most sophisticated spaceship ever devised by human or alien intelligence.

11:05 Marty Duda's Artist of the Week - Camera Obscura

Scottish band Camera Obscura, has just released their 5th album, Desire Lines. The band is from Glasgow,  led by vocalist/songwriter Tracyanne Campbell. Their new album, i comes after several years of inactivity and was recorded in the US, with producer Tucker Martine, who has also worked with The Decemberists and Beth Orton.

Tracks:
1. Eighties Fan (4:20) - Camera Obscrua taken from 2001 album "Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi" (Merge)
2. Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken (3:51) - Camera Obscura taken from 2006 album "Let's Get Out Of This Country" (Merge)
3. Honey In The Sun (5:46) - Camera Obscura taken from 2009 album "My Maudlin Career" (4AD)
4. Break It To You Gently (3:48) -Camera Obscura taken from 2013 album "Desire Lines" (4AD)

11:30 Media law commentator Ursula Cheer

Bloggers and harassment.

11:45 Science commentator Simon Pollard

How our sense of morality confuses our perception of what a 'mind' is.

Music played in this show

09:08am
Daniel Martin Moore: 'Up Above My Head'

09:30am
Solomon Burke: 'Everybody Needs Somebody To Love'
from 1964

11:50am
Sera Cahoone: 'Nervous Wreck'
from her 2012 album "Deer Creek Canyon"