Nine To Noon for Wednesday 2 August 2017
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Landlords drag feet on insulation – even for sick tenants
9:09 AM.Under the government's Healthy Homes initiative, tenants with high health needs, such as respiratory illness or risk of rheumatic fever, can be referred for an help with insulation, heating, carpeting… Read more Audio
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Alarming new research on falling sperm counts
9:33 AM.Kathryn Ryan talks to epidemiologist, Hagai Levine, about new research on falling sperm counts around the world, and what it could mean for humanity. Dr Levine says the results of nearly 200 studies… Read more Audio
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Australia correspondent Karen Middleton
9:48 AM.Security has been upgraded at Australia's domestic and international airports after an apparently very advanced terrorist plot to hijack an aircraft was in Sydney at the weekend. Audio
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Rachel House: actor, director and writer
10:12 AM.Rachel House has been on stage and screen in New Zealand for the past 25 years. She's been in dozens of theatre productions, and is well known on screen for her roles in Boy, Eagle vs Shark, Whale… Read more Audio
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Book review - Ordinary Time
10:40 AM.Harry Ricketts reviews Anna Livesey's new collection of poems, 'Ordinary Time'. Published by Victoria University Press. Audio
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Game-changing NZ albums by women
11:06 AM.Kirsten Johnstone discusses gender inequity in the music industry and highlights some game changing New Zealand albums by women. Read more Audio
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Meet NZ's poleaxe-wielding warrior
11:28 AM.Dayna Berghan-Whyman is just back from Denmark where she represented NZ in full-contact medieval combat. She talks about the joy of wielding a (blunted) steel axe in 35 kilos of armour. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Legal commentator Garth Gallaway
11:50 AM.Lawyer Garth Gallaway looks at where things are at with the new earthquake prone building legislation, and how the Health and Safety at Work Act fits in. Garth Gallaway is a partner at Chapman Tripp… Read more Audio
09:05 Landlords drag feet on insulation – even for sick tenants
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Under the government's Healthy Homes initiative, tenants with high health needs, such as respiratory illness or risk of rheumatic fever, can be referred for an help with insulation, heating, carpeting and curtains – but The Sustainability Trust says only a fifth of landlords are carrying out the improvements. Kathryn Ryan talks to the trust's chief executive Paul Squire, and Otago University's Professor of Public Health, Phillipa Howden-Chapman. She is director of He Kainga Oranga/ Housing and Health Research Programme and the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities.
09:20 Alarming new research on falling sperm counts
Kathryn Ryan talks to epidemiologist, Hagai Levine, about new research on falling sperm counts around the world, and what it could mean for humanity. Dr Levine says the results of nearly 200 studies have found that sperm counts among 43,000 men from North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, seem to have halved in less than 40 years.
09:45 Australia correspondent Karen Middleton
Security has been upgraded at Australia's domestic and international airports after an apparently very advanced terrorist plot to hijack an aircraft was in Sydney at the weekend.
10:05 Rachel House: actor, director and writer
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Rachel House has been on stage and screen in New Zealand for the past 25 years. She's been in dozens of theatre productions, and is well known on screen for her roles in Boy, Eagle vs Shark, Whale Rider, and White Lies, as well as Hunt for the Wilderpeople. She was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her contribution to performing arts earlier this year.
10:35 Book review
Harry Ricketts reviews Anna Livesey's new collection of poems, Ordinary Time (VUP).
10:45 The Reading
11:05 Game-changing NZ albums by women
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Kirsten Johnstone discusses gender inequity in the music industry and highlights some game changing New Zealand albums by women.
11:20 Meet New Zealand's poleaxe wielding warrior
Wearing armour that weighs 35kg and with weapon that's been described as 'ponderous, cruel and mortal' Dayna Berghan-Whyman knows how to handle herself. She talks to Kathryn Ryan about representing New Zealand at the International Medieval Combat Federation World Championships in Denmark, and her preparations to qualify for another international event at Scone Palace in Scotland.
11:45 Legal commentator Garth Gallaway
Lawyer Garth Gallaway looks at where things are at with the new earthquake prone building legislation, and how the Health and Safety at Work Act fits in. Garth Gallaway is a partner at Chapman Tripp, specialising in insurance law, civil litigation and health & safety work.
Music played in this show
Artist: Maxine Brown
Song: We Can Work it Out
Composer: Lennon/McCartney
Album: Come Together
Label: ACE
Time: 10.10
Kirsten Johnstone's tracks:
Artist: Jenny Morris
Song: Shiver
Artist:Moana and the Moa Hunters
Song: Kahu
Artist: Lorde
Song: Team