95bFM: The Wednesday Wire with Paul Deady

95bFM: The Wednesday Wire with Paul Deady

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1220 - Clive Matthew-Wilson, editor of the Dog and Lemon Guide.
At 1220 I'm going to be joined in the studio by (above) which bills itself as "the world's toughest car-buyers guide, written with wit and style by complete cynics." I love complete cynics! Clive's reacted strongly to a proposal from the Transport Minister to allow trucks to carry an extra 6 tonnes of freight on our roads, increasing the current maximum from 44 to 50 tonnes. These heavier trucks would operate by permit, and only on specified routes. My Joyce hopes the move will reduce costs for exporters and increase productivity, as well as lead to fewer trucks on the road and all the benefits that brings. An overall increase to GDP of up to $500m per annum too! He calls it a win-win, but he would. Clive, on the other hand, says the strategy reeks of the trucking lobby, and will expand an unsustainable freight system at the expense of a much better one - rail.

1245 - Honduras: Dr Scott Walker, Political Science Dept at Canterbury University

Looking at the news overseas at 1245, when I'll be speaking with (above). He's specialty is Latin American politics, and we'll be talking about the not-very-well-reported situation in Honduras. Their president Manuel Zelaya was removed by military coup on Sunday, just as a referendum on constitutional change was set to go ahead allowing indefinite terms for presidents. Several Latin American countries as well as the US and UN have condemned the coup as illegal and undemocratic. Throngs have taken to the streets with rocks and molotov cocktails in defiance of curfews and, all the while, President Zelaya remains in exile.

1310 - Counterclockwise

Spike Mountjoy from the team at scoop joins us slightly earlier today at 1310. He's got a bug to bear too! Prisons and crime are what's on his mind - specifically the growing prison rate, and the relationship with crime reporting.

1325 - Irfan Yusuf (in 2 parts)

And we're running him earlier due to a very special interview I have for you at 1325, that I'll play in 2 parts. Yesterday I was lucky enough to speak with visiting Australian author (above) about his new book Once Were Radicals: My Years as a Teenage Islamo-fascist. Described thusly by its publisher Allen and Unwin

Irfan Yusuf grew up in John Winston Howard's electorate in the leafy suburbs of Sydney. He should have been thinking about girls and cars, but instead became convinced he should die for a Muslim cause. And in the process he discovered he couldn't learn the Koran from boofy-headed blokes brandishing sticks, and he couldn't quite stomach extra-halal meat killed on an uncle's farm. Once Were Radicalsis a hilarious, irreverent memoir of cultural confusions, community politics and outright mischief making - with a deeper message.

He was a real pleasure to talk to, and listen to, and the book is a cracker. So please tune in...

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