Nine To Noon Podcast Options

9:05 AM.Supermarket staff feel threatened, frustrated, fearful and powerless over shoplifters wheeling out goods by the trolley load. This is the daily experience in some stores around the country. Staff at… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Financial wellbeing commentator David Boyle digs into the latest KiwiSaver report which found more than 703,000 people are not contributing.  Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Despite their presence in whakapapa, and purakau (oral traditions), very little is on record showing early Māori  interactions with dolphins and whales.  Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Music commentator Kirsten Zemke asks the question - why do people write songs about food? It's a surprising phenomenon, and once you start looking you find so many Read more Audio

10:45 AM.John looks at two big events in the Coromandel - the world's biggest fishing event, Mercury Bay Fishing Club's Kubota Billfish Classic and Whangamata's Beach Hop. Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Lisa Finucane reviews To The River by Vikki Wakefield published by Text Publishing Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Afghan migrant Bariz Shah is well known for his work in the community in the aftermath of the 2019 Christchurch terrorist attack, but his life has had some dark times. He speaks about his new memoir… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Australia correspondent Annika Smethurst talks about the $4b remote housing package for the Northern Territory aimed at building hundreds of homes in Indigenous communities. Read more Audio

9:20 AM.Ihorangi Reweti Peters is a young man with a mission to make sure children in state care get the mental health support they need. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Principals at four Dunedin schools have pledged to work more closely together to tackle social media harm and pornography. Richard Hall, rector of Otago Boys' High School and Jackie Barron, Principal… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Historian Dr Jock Phillips' has spent a career uncovering and documenting Aotearoa New Zealand's past including Tongariro.  Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Victoria Young has just returned from Bangkok, where she attended a conference largely focused on scams. Read more Audio

10:48 AM.Ron Elving has the takeaways from President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech, and the highly controversial Republican response. Read more Audio

10:48 AM.The Kaikoura District Council will notify a change to the Kaikoura District Plan tomorrow.  Read more Audio

10:38 AM.Louise Ward of Wardini Books reviews Small Hours by Bobby Palmer published by Hachette. Pub by: Hachette RRP: $37.99 Read more Audio

10:35 AM.A new report warns there is not enough being done to protect healthy soil in urban areas - and it could have consequences during heavy rain events. Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Dr Ineke Meredith on her life as a surgeon specialising in breast cancer and why she set up a skincare company that's just for dogs. Read more Audio

9:26 AM.It's ten years since Tonga moved to tax some unhealthy food and make other healthier food more affordable. Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Secondary school horticulture and agribusiness programmes are seen as an integral tool for attracting more workers to primary industries. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Ten percent of infants have a food allergy by the age of one - and one of the most common is to dairy.  Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Time is up on the Government's 100-day priority plan - Neale and Brigitte talk about what's been achieved. Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Matthew Rosenberg is a Local Democracy Reporter based at the Otago Daily Times, Invercargill. Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Louise O'Brien reviews Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux published by Penguin Random House Read more Audio