Nine To Noon Podcast Options

9:45 AM.With Russell Taylor, spokesperson for the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, and Damien Madigan, editor of the Blue Mountains Gazette. Audio

9:30 AM.Ivo Vegter is a South Africa-based author and columnist who says environmental exaggeration is causing undue fear and anxiety which is actively harming some emerging economies. Audio

9:10 AM.Julian Tangaere is the head of the OPCW mission in Syria charged with eliminating that country's chemical weapons programme.The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons - or OPCW - was… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Progress in Myanmar is upset by bombings; China's blocking tactics in UN Syria votes; and the ongoing fallout for Fonterra in China. Audio

11:50 AM.With James Elliot and Pinky Agnew. Audio

11:38 AM.Injuries in the All Blacks; the ITM Cup; and the All Whites clash with Mexico. Audio

11:06 AM.Featuring Chvrches and Mazzy Star, and a reissue from Aztec Camera. Audio

10:43 AM.'Speed Freak' by Fleur Beale, published by Random House and 'Dunger' by Joy Cowley published by Gecko Press. Audio

10:10 AM.Professor Gerry Gilmore of the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge is the principal investigator on Gaia project - a space observatory to be launched by the European Space Agency on 20… Read more Audio

9:38 AM.Young British poet Jodi Ann Bickley found herself with a lot of time on her hands after contracting a serious illness, and as part of her rehabilitation while she learned to walk and write again, she… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Philippa Howden-Chapman, Professor of Public Health at Otago University's Wellington School of Medicine and programme director of He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme, which has… Read more Audio

11:51 AM.'The School' Tuesdays 9:35pm on TVOne and 'This Town' Saturdays 7:30pm on TVOne. Audio

11:25 AM.Nathan Mikaere Wallis is part of the Brain Wave Trust, and X Factor Education, Christchurch. He has been a lecturer at the Christchurch College of Education, lecturing in human development, brain… Read more Audio

11:09 AM.Spectrum auction stunt, Sky TV avoids Commerce Commission prosecution and Snapchat moves from 10 second pictures to 24 hour "stories". Audio

10:39 AM.Written by William Cook, published by Preface, reviewed by Quentin Johnson. Audio

10:05 AM.Russian journalist and author Masha Gessen, says she is been forced to leave Russia because of the government's new "homosexual propoganda laws". Masha Gessen is a mother of three with her same sex… Read more Audio

9:55 AM.Madeleine McCann, Jimmy Savile and no little panda for Scotland. Audio

9:45 AM.James Curran is a statistician from Auckland University, whose skills are regularly called on by forensic agencies here, as well as Australia and the UK. Audio

9:30 AM.The Auckland lawyer for Ioane Teitiota of Kiribati, who has asked the High Court to recognize him and his family as climate change refugees on the grounds that they face serious harm if they return to… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.William Galston is the Ezra Zilkha governance studies chair at the Brookings Institution. He was a policy advisor to President Bill Clinton, serving as deputy assistant for domestic policy, and has… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Eleanor Catton on the phone from London after having been announced as the winner of the Man Booker Prize. Audio

11:43 AM.New exhibitions at the Adam Art Gallery; the effects of the government shut-downs on Washington's museums; and the new research on the makers of ancient cave paintings. Audio

11:29 AM.Jenny Baldwin is a partner in the law firm Anthony Harper, based in Auckland. She specialises in Retirement Village Law. Audio

11:07 AM.Singer-songwriter Amos Lee, has just released a new album Mountains Of Sorrow, Rivers Of Song. Philadelphia-born Lee began his career being referred to as "the male Norah Jones", in part because he… Read more Audio

10:17 AM.Sean Pica on his journey from serving sixteen years for murder in a US federal prison, to heading the organisation that helped him get a degree while he was inside. Audio