Nine To Noon Podcast Options

9:09 AM.The Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament, Khalid Pashtoon, wants international troops like New Zealand's SAS to be more involved in the country's security operations, rather than just playing a… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.The annual Garden Bird survey, Macquarie Island pest eradication and International Film Festival selection 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams'. Audio

11:35 AM.Guest Chef Paul Jobin has recipes for Soft Poach Fish with littleneck miso clams and lemon sushi rice, and Liquorice parfait with caramelised pineapple and marshmallow. John Hawkesby provides the… Read more Audio

11:13 AM.Labour hits a new low in TVNZ's latest political poll. Audio

10:40 AM.Written by Johan Theorin, published by DoubleDay UK, reviewed by Gail Pittaway. Audio

10:07 AM.Eddie Low has just reached the milestone of 50 years in the music business, performing in some of country music's most hallowed venues, and alongside some of its biggest stars. Audio

9:47 AM.Millions of people face starvation across the Horn of Africa due to a severe drought. Audio

9:20 AM.Wendy Duff, mother of a 17-year-old with severe autism who is on the waiting list for respite care and president of Autism New Zealand; Alison Molloy, chief executive of Autism New Zealand; and Lester… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The phone hacking scandal has brought down a top police chief and has prompted the arrest of a former head of Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper business. Audio

11:48 AM.With Radar and Pinky Agnew. Audio

11:38 AM.Richard Boock covers the latest in sport, including the Crusader's defeat. Audio

11:10 AM.Music commentator Chris Bourke considers recent tributes to three wildly different periods of New Zealand pop music. Audio

10:38 AM.Doris Mousdale reviews 'Meg and Mog: Three Favourites' by Jan Pienkowski, 'My First Car Was Red' by Peter Schossow, and 'Too Small to Fail' by Morris Gleitzman. Audio

10:11 AM.Philospher Stephen Law discusses how people defend their illogical views and manage to draw others into an intellectual black hole. He is also a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of… Read more Audio

9:53 AM.Rumours that the former Chinese President, Jiang Zemin, had died and radioactive beef in Japan. Audio

9:40 AM.Tom Larsen, senior vice president of product architecture at EQECAT, which uses modelling to advise the insurance industry on catastrophe risk management. Audio

9:27 AM.Dr Ganesh Nana, chief economist at Business and Economic Research Limited, and Paul Mersi, Savings Working Group member and former partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Audio

9:07 AM.Labour leader Phil Goff says the party's new policy will help fix New Zealand's economy. Audio

11:50 AM.Sports commentaries, TV3's documentary on drugs and the medical drama 'Monroe'. Audio

11:29 AM.Caroline Bell, consultant psychiatrist and the clinical head of the Anxiety Disorders Unit at the Canterbury District Health Board talks about the psychological fallout from the Christchurch quakes. Audio

11:12 AM.Donald Clark discusses open source hardware, storytelling via new technologies, and South Korea's plans to ditch physical text books by 2015. Audio

11:07 AM.Phil Smith reviews 'The Devotion of Suspect X' by Keigo Higashino, published by Little, Brown. Audio

10:10 AM.Nigel Brennan and his colleague Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout were kidnapped in Somalia by a criminal gang in 2008. He now uses his experiences to advise companies and NGOs whose employees are… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.Rupert Murdoch's News Corp withdrawal of its bid for full control of BSkyB. Audio

9:35 AM.Frank Alcock, US political scientist and former Energy Department analyst who was in NZ this year as a Fulbright fellow. Audio