Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:07 AM.Written by Robert Harris, reviewed by Gail Pittaway and published by Hutchinson. Audio

10:17 AM.In 1973, submariners Roger Chapman and Roger Malinson were trapped 480 metres below the Irish Sea in a fatally crippled midget submarine. The workmates remarkably survived the 84 hour ordeal despite… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.The latest on the U.S. debt ceiling deadline. Audio

9:46 AM.With Norman Hammond - Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at Boston University, Associate in Maya Archaeology at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University and a Senior Fellow at Cambridge University. Audio

9:34 AM.With Te Ururoa Flavell - Maori party co-leader. Audio

9:09 AM.Residential construction costs in the spotlight amid drive to build new houses in Auckland and Christchurch. With Tony Sewell - Ngai Tahu Property chief executive and President of the Property Council… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.What is 'peak sprawl' and how does it help determine a city's walkability? Audio

11:30 AM.Author, floral designer, travel writer and keen gardener, Fionna Hill talks microgreens - how to grow them and what to do with them when you have. Audio

11:10 AM.A national lean to the left after the local authority elections? And if so, what does this herald at the national level or for the National Party? Audio

10:40 AM.Sonja de Freiz reviews Australian author Collen McCullough's book Bittersweet which is published by HarperCollins. Audio

10:09 AM.86-year old Marie Hull-Brown talks about a career spanning: the British army; being a policewoman in post WWII London, and; 25-years raising mental health awareness. Audio

9:50 AM.The refuge of Europe and how to handle and process asylum seekers, especially those from the sea, and; good fiscal news from Ireland and a turnaround for the economy, but mass migration still abounds.

9:30 AM.The Mara Elephant Project (MEP) is engaging a new strategy to save the continent's largest behemoth. The Project's manager, Marc Goss, talks about targeting poachers directly through Rapid Response… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Incumbent deputy-mayor Penny Hulse and returned councillor Cameron Brewer discuss the big issues for Auckland and how the council will navigate a satisfactory path to embrace these challenges. Audio

11:47 AM.With Radar and Gemma Gracewood. Audio

11:32 AM.Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar's retirement next month; Sonny Bill Williams going back to rugby; another defeat for Roger Federer; Lydia Ko about to turn pro; and NZ fight back in test cricket v… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.The eighth solo album from smart singer-songwriter Aimee Mann - perhaps most famous for her songs on the Magnolia film soundtrack - has some smart, literate and robustly tuneful songs; a new solo… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books reviews 'Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe' by Simon Winder, a Picador trade paperback. Audio

10:07 AM.A passionate collector of carnivorous plants, Don Gray has 8000 plants in a large greenhouse on the outskirts of Auckland. He's collected the plants for almost forty years - despite saying he's not… Read more Audio

9:49 AM.Justice Minister Judith Collins. Audio

9:38 AM.Samoan gang problems in US prisons; a Tongan is going to the winter Olympics; and which day is the sabbath when your dateline moves? Audio

9:25 AM.Philip Wallach is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Audio

9:08 AM.Californian online genetics company 23andMe has patented a tool to select for specific genes. Dr Colin Gavaghan, director of the NZ Law Foundation Centre for Emerging Technologies, Faculty of Law at… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.'Gravity' and 'Mr Pip'. Audio

11:26 AM.Family therapist and author Diane Levy discusses how to effectively use time out for children of all ages. Audio