Monday to Friday, 9am - Midday

9:10 Natalie Anderson

The End of Faking It, Christmas with the Boss, and Rebel with a Cause... just a few of the titles written by one of New Zealand's most popular romance novellists

9:30 Graham Beattie

Best books of 2010 with renowned book lover & blogger: Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones; Containment by Vanda Symon; Captured by Neil Cross; Cut and Run by Alix Bosco; Freedom by Jonathan Franzen; The Confession by John Grisham; Following The Detectives: Real Locations in Crime Fiction by Maxim Jakubowski; Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe edited by Bernard Comment, Stanley Buchthal; Comfort: Food for Sharing edited by Lauraine Jacobs; Ripe Recipes by Angela Redfern; Mud & Colour Man - The Morris & James Story by Anthony Morris, Nick Charlton & Barbara Reardon; It's in the Post by Richard Wolfe

10:10 Kiwis on Duty

Rocky Hall keeps an eye out for you when you're playing in the waves as a surf lifesaver in Gisborne. Also trained and mentored Cory Hutchings, former world surf lifesaving Ironman champion

10:25 Andrew Hornblow

Kiwi Inventors who should be Famous: monitoring equipment called a 'Data-Catcher' that tracks the movement of Little Blue Penguins of Taranaki...
www.brightsparks.org.nz

10:35 Your Place

Nick King is a wilderness and fishing guide in the village of St Arnaud, next to the Nelson Lakes National Park.
crikeycreek.co.nz

10:50 Jim Flynn

Intelligence expert, professor of politics and author of 'The Torchlight List: Around the World in 200 Books'. Jim believes that reading great literature could be better than a university education and his top five essential reads are - The Slave, by Isaac Bashevis Singer; The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder; The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Spark of Life, by Erich Maria Remarque; End as a Man, by Calder Willingham

11:20 Grant Smithies

Musical selections for the summer season... Desmond Dekker & the Aces

11:25 Murray Williams

RNZ Sport journalist on the Women's International Tennis competition being played in Auckland at the ASB Tennis Centre

11:30 Rachel Antony

Australian correpondent with the Queensland floods disaster, this has overshadowed the state of the cricket...

11:50 Great Moments in NZ Pop History by Mitchell Hawkes

#76 Rob Muldoon

Songs

Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions - People Get Ready
Rogue Wave - Publish My Love
Lawrence Arabia - Eye A (NZ)
The Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
Ryan Adams - Chin Up, Cheer Up
Desmond Dekker & the Aces - Israelites
Rhombus - Together (NZ)
Chris Knox - Not Given Lightly (NZ)
The Smiths - Sheila take a bow