Nine To Noon Podcast Options

10:10 AM.The big media story of the year: why Ben Uffindell set up The Civilian and what it has done for him. Audio

9:50 AM.Fairfax writer and Pacific correspondent. Audio

9:40 AM.Hunter Lee Soik is launching a new app called Shadow, initially for iPhone, which allows us to record our dreams and make sense of them. He wants to develop the biggest dream database in the world… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.An independent review of the Auckland Mayor's conduct during his extra-marital affair. Audio

9:20 AM.Rebecca Macfie, journalist and author of Tragedy at Pike River Mine: How and Why 29 Men Died. Audio

9:08 AM.Grey District Mayor Tony Kokshoorn. Audio

11:50 AM.The cultural differences between Undercover Boss UK and USA, and Spies of Warsaw, WWII spy drama starring David Tennant, on Sky's UK TV. Audio

11:45 AM.RNZ reporter Conan Young is outside a court in Christchurch where 12 charges laid against former Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall in relation to the disaster at the mine have been… Read more Audio

11:23 AM.John Cowan is an Auckland based parenting commentator and author. He has 20 years experience working with youth and their families, has co-authored with Ian Grant the New Zealand best seller Parenting… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Privacy issues, Telecom & Chorus two years on from structural separation and Yahoo's transformation led by Marissa Meyer. Audio

10:40 AM.Written by Rose Ranking-Gee, published by Little, Brown and reviewed by Crystal Beavis. Audio

10:10 AM.Writer and director of 'Beyond the Edge' - about Sir Edmund Hillary's ascent of Everest. Audio

9:51 AM.The fracking debate; MPs pay increase; Taking 'selfies' at memorial service; Over coverage of Mandela mourning period; The Nigella Lawson case. Audio

9:38 AM.Despite it being the most popular degree, the Bachelor of Arts is still seen by some as a 'nothing' degree. Audio

9:10 AM.The Ministry of Health has been heavily criticised for its over-sight of residential care for disabled people in a new independent review that was ordered by the Health Minister. Audio

11:48 AM.Round up of the year in the arts. Audio

11:32 AM.Ursula looks back on three major media law cases this year. Audio

11:08 AM.The former singer/guitarist with Canadian hardcore band Alexisonfire, Dallas Green has taken a very different musical turn as City And Colour. Begun as a side project in 2005, City And Colour finds… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Written by Tom Franklin and Beth Fennelly, reviewed by Ralph McAllister, published by Macmillan. Audio

10:10 AM.Microbiologist at the University of Auckland who is researching the uses of bioluminescence in bacteria. Dr Wiles was this year awarded the Prime Ministers Science Media Communication Prize and the… Read more Audio

9:51 AM.Chief Political Correspondent for SBS. Same sex marriage is legal in the ACT but the law is being challenged at a federal level. Audio

9:28 AM.Andy Greenberg is a technology, privacy, and information security reporter for Forbes Magazine and most recently the author of the book "This Machine Kills Secrets", a chronicle of the history and… Read more Audio

9:19 AM.Grant Porteous, Managing Director at the master franchise of G.J. Gardner Homes, NZ's largest home builder. The Reserve Bank has decided that new home builds will be exempt from recently introduced… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Correspondent in South Africa - Debora Patta. Audio

11:46 AM.The media coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela. John Kirwan is the NZ Herald's guest editor. Audio