Nine To Noon Podcast Options

9:08 AM.Does streaming in schools work to motivate and encourage children or is it ineffective and detrimental. Audio

11:47 AM.An artist visits The Matrix, the Turner Prize nominees are announced, and 3D printing in museums. Audio

11:33 AM.The Quintet meeting of Attorneys-General which will take place in Auckland next week will focus on developments and best practice with respect to prosecuting crimes of sexual violence against women… Read more Audio

11:15 AM.Wellington's Phoenix Foundation have been one of New Zealand's most consistently creative musical outfits of the 2000s. Beginning with 2003's 'Horsepower', their albums have received high praise… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Sonja de Freiz reviews 'Don't Just Do Something, Sit There' by Wallace Chapman, published by Penguin. Audio

10:08 AM.Barry Brickell moved to the Coromandel to teach high school in the 1960s. But less than a year later he abandoned teaching to set up a pottery studio and kiln on a property in Driving Creek. Fifty… Read more Audio

9:49 AM.Warming up to a new budget dealing with a deficit; and a proposal to hold a plebiscite on same-sex marriage. Audio

9:28 AM.Why hasn't the Government made good on its promise to put millions of dollars worth of assets seized from criminals into drug treatment or resources to fight organised crime? Audio

9:09 AM.A workplace safety taskforce has criticised the present system and recommended a major overhaul. Kathryn Ryan speaks to Caroline Callow; the mother of a forestry worker killed on the job in 2011. Audio

11:45 AM.Colin Craig and the satirical blog, and how a new website - allaboutauckland.com - is being used by news organisations. Audio

11:27 AM.Fiona Oliver is the published collections curator at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington: Body in the Library: the remarkable and murky past of Wellington's first librarian. Audio

11:07 AM.New Zealand's trade with China. Tim Groser's failure to win the WTO director-general's job and Air NZ as the next company in the SOE sales? Audio

10:35 AM.Written by Julian Barnes, reviewed by Jane Westaway and published by Jonathan Cape. Audio

10:08 AM.Founder of Room to Read, an organisation bringing books to children who don’t have any. Fifteen-thousand libraries have been founded and 12 million books distributed. Audio

9:51 AM.The latest on president Obama's stance on Syria. Audio

9:40 AM.With The Acting Serious Fraud Office head, Simon McArley. Audio

9:28 AM.With Hazel Armstrong - A barrister who specialises in workplace health and safety. She's written a book called Your Life For The Job about the spate of accidents that led to the 2000 Tranz Rail… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.With Ngahiwi Tomoana - Chairman of Ngati Kahungunu and member of the Iwi Leaders Forum. Mike Williams - Former Labour party president. Audio

11:50 AM.Fjords and fins in New Zealand's Fjordland. Audio

11:30 AM.The stalwart Wellingtonions and dynamic hospitality duo Jeff Kennedy and Bridget Dunn have recently returned to the industry, opening their new home to Wellington's epicurious - Prefab. Bridget and… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.The Labour/Greens bid to take the volatility out of the electricity market; the Mighty River Power share float; Tim Groser misses WTO job, and; the mayoralty race for Auckland and Wellington. Audio

10:40 AM.Gyles Beckford gets on board Paul Theroux's Last Train to Zona Verde. Audio

10:10 AM.Doctor Joe Dunn is a Sydney psychiatrist who founded 'Psychs on Bikes' - a group of mental health professionals who undertake huge motorcyle trips around regional Australia to raise awareness of the… Read more Audio

9:53 AM.Seamus Kearney talks from Lyon about: political changes in Italy; political forgiveness in Iceland, and; fervour in France on both sides of the new marriage equality legislation. Audio

9:27 AM.Infometrics economist Benji Patterson talks about Wellington's cooling economic fortunes as outlined in his recently commissioned 'State of the Region' report for Greater Wellington. Also joining the… Read more Audio