Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:50 AM.Tommy Honey discusses The Simple House. Audio

11:30 AM.Martin Bosley has recipes for Plum-cured Salmon, Mandarin-fennel slaw, Green Olive Paste and Green Olive Vinaigrette. Audio

10:40 AM.'Transitions, Four Decades of Toi Whakaari: The New Zealand Drama School' written by Bill Guest, published by Victoria University Press, reviewed by Justin Gregory. Audio

10:07 AM.Deepak Lal is a Professor Emeritus of Political Economy, University College London, and the James S Coleman Professor of International Development Studies at the University of California. He was a… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Discussion of all the current political issues including defence problems and ACC levies. Audio

9:50 AM.Protests over Germany nuclear policies after extension of operating period of nuclear power plants, and the German Green Party surges in polls. Audio

9:20 AM.David Steinberg is a Myanmar analyst and author, who has studied Myanmar since before the generals seized power in a 1962 coup. Audio

9:07 AM.Warwick Quinn, Grant Dunford, and Bernard Hickey a new benchmark energy efficiency rating for homes. Audio

11:47 AM.With Radar and Gemma Gracewood. Audio

11:33 AM.This weekend's All Blacks versus England test, plus what's shaping up to be a big day for New Zealand rowers at Karapiro, in line for six medals. Audio

10:38 AM.The book is 'Mary Ann in Autumn' by Armistead Maupin published by DoubleDay, UK. Audio

10:10 AM.Sean McKenna has been listening to albums by Dudley Benson, Brian Eno, and Neil Diamond. Audio

10:09 AM.Chris Ryan is the pen name of a best-selling British suspense novelist and former SAS operative. During the Gulf War, he was only person out of eight in his command to escape enemy forces in Iraq and… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Actress Robyn Malcolm talks about why she's still fighting for a collective contract for actors. Audio

9:34 AM.Laurence Zwimpfer, organiser of Saturday's eDay, a nationwide community e-waste recycling event for households, schools and small businesses to dispose of old computer equipment in an environmentally… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.To discuss this topic are Dr Robert Scragg, Associate Professor, Epidemiology and amp; Biostatistics at Auckland University's School of Population Health, Judith Galtry, Cancer Society skin cancer… Read more Audio

11:47 AM.Graeme Tuckett reviews Winter's Bone, I'm Still Here and After the Waterfall. Audio

11:22 AM.How to understand the non-verbal communication skills of babies and pre-schoolers. Audio

11:07 AM.Google's testing of cars that drive themselves, a US professor's controversial way to deal to his personal library and the growth of local community websites. Audio

10:37 AM.The book is 'Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft - 200 Years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry' by Deborah Cadbury, published by Fourth Estate. Audio

10:09 AM.Founder of Gibbston Valley Wines. The former Irish journalist planted pinot noir grapes in Central Otago in the late 1970s despite being told of the difficulties he would face. Alan Brady has just… Read more Audio

9:49 AM.Jon Dennis talks about the British response to the Yemen parcel bomb plot. Audio

9:31 AM.The wine industry is calling for ban of the hormone-based weedkiller 24D after another case of spray drift wiped out several hectares of vines across a number of vineyards. The herbicide is a… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The long awaited Maori Affairs select committee report into the tobacco industry outliens radical plans to dramatically cut smoking rates in a bid to make this country totally smoke-free by 2025. It… Read more Audio

11:42 AM.Simon tells us how honey bees from Japan and Cyprus have evolved a defence that is just the bee's knees when it comes to defending their nests against a formidable predator - hornets. Audio