Nine To Noon Podcast Options

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

11:09 AM.Lavabit files unsealed; selling phone secrets to advertisers; and silk roads and sheep marketplaces. Audio

10:38 AM.Rae McGregor reveiws 'Just One Evil Act' by Elizabeth George, published by Hodder. Audio

10:06 AM.British comedienne Jennifer Saunders is the writer and star of TV shows 'French & Saunders', 'Absolutely Fabulous' and 'Jam & Jerusalem' - the results of decades-long partnership with other comedy… Read more Audio

9:53 AM.Ed Miliband reacted angrily to a newspaper critique of his Marxist father and a government reshuffle. Audio

9:31 AM.Sandra Grey, the Vice President of the Tertiary Education Union and co-chair of a new organisation of academics, Academic Freedom Aotearoa; and Auckland University Vice-Chancellor and former Victoria… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Gregory Valliere, Chief Political Strategist of Potomac Research Group and Grant Ballard, chief science officer at Point Blue Conservation Science. Audio

11:45 AM.Siouxsie Wiles discusses science publishing and the dangers of open access journals. Audio

11:30 AM.Ryan Malone discusses the Ombudsman's recent decision that the Ministry of Education had to disclose the names of the groups who had lodged an 'Indication of Interest' with the Ministry to set up… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.It's been a long, strange trip for Kenny Rogers who has been making music for over 50 years. His first success came as a member of The First Edition and their psychedelicized 1968 hit 'Just Dropped In… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Ralph McAllister reviews 'Solo' by William Boyd, published by Jonathan Cape. Audio

10:05 AM.Cheviot-based Ellis Emmett is one of the hosts of the Travel Channel's underwater adventure series 'Descending'. He's dived with sharks in South Africa, in a shipwreck off Vanuatu and aquifers off the… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Tony Abbott's government mired in its first scandal and Labor's leadership contest nears its climax. Audio

9:30 AM.Joyce D'Silva is the former director, and now ambassador for Compassion in World Farming, and is visiting New Zealand to speak at the NZ Companion Animal Council Conference. Audio

9:05 AM.Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head at point blank range a year ago as she travelled home on a school bus in Pakistan. The Nobel peace prize nominee shares her story of survival and what drives her… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.New radio ratings are out and the Auckland mayoral race. Audio

11:27 AM.Urban archaeology and recent discoveries in Christchurch. Audio