Nine To Noon for Friday 13 November 2015
09:05 Are patients seeking hip/knee replacement surgery, waiting longer?
Figures from District Health Boards, released by the Labour Party, show that 13 out of 20 of them are making it tougher for people to get hip and knee surgery. Between a baseline of 2012 and 2015, five DHB's - Auckland, Hawke's Bay, Lakes, Tairawhiti and Waikato raised the CPAC threshold by 20 points or more. Canterbury Charity Hospital Trust Philip Bagshaw says more and more people are being kept off surgery waiting lists to make the figures look better.
09:20 Future of the Tolaga Bay environmental project, Uawanui
Four years ago the Tolaga Bay community asked the Allan Wilson Centre for evolutionary biology to help it clean up the areas waterways and create a healthier, more collaborative community. Together they set up the Uawanui Sustainability Project - which aims to restore the local environment back to what it was when Captain Cook first arrived in 1769.
However the Allan Wilson Centre is to close after losing its government funding, so has fast-tracked efforts to secure alternative funding for Uawanui and its team of scientists have just bid farewell to the community.
Hamish Spencer is the director of the Allan Wilson Centre
Victor Walker is the chair of Uawanui
09:30 Are you a 'Super-Recogniser?'
People with extraordinary face recognition ability or 'super-recognisers' form a rare group of people who can identify at least 80 per cent of faces they've seen. London's Metropolitan Police uses them to track down criminals from blurry photographs and CCTV footage.
PC Gary Collins is the Met's top super-recognizer and has identified more than eight hundred suspects from photographs.
Dr. Josh P Davis is a Senior Lecturer at the Psychology and Counselling Department at the University of Greenwich.
If you think you have an uncanny knack with faces why not take the test ?
Designed by Greenwich University, it takes around five minutes and involves looking at different faces for eight seconds each before identifying a face in a line-up of eight. If you score above 10, you may be part of the one to two per cent of the population who are believed to be 'super recognisers'.
09:45 Pacific correspondent Michael Field
Fiji soldiers in action during the 2006 coup. Photo: Michael Field Photo: supplied
Mike Field examines Fiji’s justice system, which is in crisis after the military took over the police and gave shelter to policemen accused of sexual offences, and the second Kontiki expedition which has just left Peru. It is bound for Rapa Nui – and this time they are out to track the great garbage patch in the Pacific. He also has the low down on the Mexican castaway Salvador Alvarenga, who spent 14 months lost at sea before washing up in the Marshall Islands.
RNZ coverage of the Fiji police issue:
ABC interview with the outgoing police commissioner
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-10/fiji-police-commissioner-ben-groenewald-resigns/6928358
Mike's take on the Fiji police
http://michaeljfield.tumblr.com/post/132824858988/bainimarama-defends-criminals
10:05 The life and works of poet laureate Ted Hughes
Jonathan Bate Photo: supplied
Sir Jonathan Bate was knighted this year for his services to literary scholarship. The Professor of English Literature at Oxford University has many strings to his bow, including biographer, critic, author and broadcaster. He's also an acclaimed Shakespeare scholar. His latest work - Ted Hughes, The unauthorised life, is a result of five years delving into the archive of the late poet laureate. It is the first full length biography of Ted Hughes, and a fascinating insight into the life and work of 20th century poet, his relationship with Sylvia Plath, and celebrating his huge body of work.
10:35 Book review: Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson
10:45 The Reading An Awfully Big Adventure by Jane Tolerton
New Zealand World War One veterans tell their stories
11:05 Music with Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor goes full noise on the 12th volume of Bob Dylan's 'Bootleg Series', from his golden period, 1965-66
Artist: Bob Dylan
Song: I'll Keep It With Mine, Track 5, disc 1
Comp: Bob Dylan
Album: 1965-1966 - The Cutting Edge
Label: Columbia/ Sony
Broadcast Time: 4'12"
Song: On The Road Again (Take 7, Remake), Track 19, disc 1
Comp: Bob Dylan
Album: 1965-1966 - The Cutting Edge
Label: Columbia/ Sony
Broadcast Time: 2'49"
Song: Mr Tambourine Man (Take 3 with band, incomplete), Track 4, disc 2
Comp: Bob Dylan
Album: 1965-1966 - The Cutting Edge
Label: Columbia/ Sony
Broadcast Time: 3'24"
Song: Like A Rolling Stone (Take 5 Rehearsal)
Comp: Bob Dylan
Album: 1965-1966 - The Cutting Edge
Label: Columbia/ Sony
Broadcast Time: 2'18"
Song: Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
Comp: Bob Dylan
Album: 1965-1966 - The Cutting Edge
Label: Columbia/ Sony
Broadcast Time: 3'49"
Song: She's Your Lover Now
Comp: Bob Dylan
Album: 1965-1966 - The Cutting Edge
Label: Columbia/ Sony
Broadcast Time: 3'02"
Song: Just Like A Woman
Comp: Bob Dylan
Album: 1965-1966 - The Cutting Edge
Label: Columbia/ Sony
Broadcast Time: 4'32"
11:30 Sports commentator, Brendan Telfer
Brendan Telfer reports on the Russian drug cheating allegations made by WADA, the second cricket test between Australia and the Black Caps in Perth and Phoenix's big home game against Adelaide, as its future hangs in the balance.
11:45 The week that was with Te Radar and Irene Pink
Music played in this show
Artist: Jess Harlen
Song: Let You Down
Composer: Harlen
Album: Park Yard Slang
Time: 09:32
Artist: Linda Williams
Song: Elevate Our Minds
Composer: Williams
Label: RCA
Time: 10:35
Artist: Sharon Jones, The Dap Kings
Song: Long time, wrong time
Composer: Gastelum
Album: Give the People What they Want
Label: Daptoneq
Time: 11:47