Nine To Noon Podcast Options

9:51 AM.The stand-off intensifies in the South China Sea; and this week's summit meetings between the leaders of China, Japan and South Korea highlight the awkward realities still stalking East Asia. Audio

9:34 AM.Retired Court of Appeal judge Sir Ted Thomas is one of more than 60 New Zealand jurists to sign an open letter to the negotiators of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade talks calling for them to drop… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Yani Johansen, Christchurch City Councillor; and Mark Belton, spokesperson, Restore Christchurch Cathedral Campaign. Audio

11:48 AM.Sky TV, Channel 7 and journalists doing their job. Audio

11:32 AM.Reading with pre-schoolers. Audio

11:07 AM.Sky TV investigation; the business of content, how it's provided, who owns it, who gets to control it. Plus, making games takes off. Audio

10:40 AM.Phil Vine reviews 'Konstantin' by Tom Bullough, published by Viking. Audio

10:09 AM.Peter Lineham teaches history at Massey University's Albany campus. He is a scholar whose interests cover a range of subject areas that can loosely be categorised under history and religion. The NZ… Read more Audio

9:53 AM.The debate in England over the Euro crisis and what views are being expressed. Audio

9:33 AM.Robert Shiller became famous for calling both the internet bubble in 2000 and the US housing one that led to the sub-prime mortage meltdown in 2007. Audio

9:07 AM.Seven days after being given notice, 131 Wellington tenants of a Housing New Zealand flat complex have had to move out, or are due to have moved out, by today. Audio

11:48 AM.Exhibitions in three of the main centres. Audio

11:31 AM.Employment issues. Audio

11:08 AM.Garbage formed in the early 1990s in the Midwest US when Butch Vig, hot after producing Nirvana's Nevermind, decided to form his own band. With Butch on drums, the three members searched for an… Read more Audio

10:39 AM.Written by Simon Wawer, published by Little, Brown, and reviewed by John King. Audio

10:08 AM.Professor Alison Gopnik has spent more than 30 years studying babies and young children to answer some of the great philosophical questions around learning, consciousness and morality. Her books… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.During a pre-budget speech the Education Minister announced changes to the education sector, including increased class sizes and the introduction of a teacher appraisal system. Audio

9:35 AM.Dr Matthew Feldman is the director of the Radicalism and New Media group at the University of Northampton in the UK. Audio

9:24 AM.The fast-moving political events in Europe, which could decide the future of EU's efforts to stave off further economic strife and threats to the Eurozone. Audio

9:09 AM.The Government has announced an increase in the amount of funding for the education sector but the trade off is an increase in class sizes and plans for an appraisal system designed to improve teacher… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.The GC, reality tv, and NZ On Air. Audio

11:32 AM.Dr Beatrice Kalisch is a US academic who researches 'missed care' - when a patient does not receive the required level of care. We also talk to Jane Lawless, director of the Safe Staffing Healthy… Read more Audio

11:11 AM.Hi-Tech awards, and Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard on the housing market. Audio

10:44 AM.Written by Andrew Motion, published by Jonathan Cape. Reviewed by Harry Ricketts. Audio

10:09 AM.American Howard Bloom has been called "the next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein and Freud". Before turning his hand to paleopsychology and writing, he ran his… Read more Audio