Nine To Noon Podcast Options

10:45 AM.RNZ's Jean Edwards is in Christchurch where the race for the Ilam electorate is heating up again. Sarah Pallett's success was one of the biggest upsets in 2020, as the first Labour MP to win the… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Elisabeth Easther reviews The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith published by Hachette. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Glow-in-the-dark fungi, parasitic orchids, slime moulds that hunt the forest floor for prey - it's a lost world hiding in plain sight. According to ecologist Robert Vennell our forests are overflowing… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.The latest polling ahead of the 2024 presidential election has Joe Biden and Donald Trump evenly matched. And, Republican voters are more satisfied with former President Trump than Democrats are with… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.Until his late 50s, Invercargill man Michael Kingpotiki would tell a "wee while lie" when he was given something to read, saying he didn't have his glasses handy. The truth was that the former farm… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.For over a year the $2m Healthcare Academy of New Zealand run by Yoobee Colleges has been sitting empty - even as thousands of more nurses are needed in the health sector. It's down to what operator… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Bill McKay discusses Te Matawai, Kainga Ora's new 276 apartment complex in central Auckland. Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Tina Duncan is a self-taught cook, caterer, cooking school tutor and the author of Plated: A lifetime love affair with food. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.With five days to go til the election, our political panelists discuss the campaign so far. Neale Jones was Chief of Staff to Labour Leader Jacinda Ardern, and prior to that was Chief of Staff to… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Around the motu : Mike Tweed in Whanganui Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Melanie O'Loughlin from Lamplight Books reviews Cheri by Jo Ann Beard published by Serpent's Tail Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Laughter is not usually something associated with the 1981 Springbok Tour but a new film manages to inject some lighter moments into a seminal period in Kiwi history. Uproar is a coming-of-age film… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Kathryn is joined by the BBC's Mideast correspondent Sebastian Usher. Israel is continuing its retaliation for the shock weekend strike by Hamas. He'll have the latest on the conflict, and also look… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.Auckland Council has unanimously voted to buy out about 700 flood-damaged properties, as part of a $2 billion cost-sharing storm package alongside Government. Category 3 homes, deemed uninhabitable… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Why is gang membership growing and how are gangs changing? Most recent figures from the police Gang Harm Insights Centre suggests there are 8900 gang members in New Zealand. This compares with 10,700… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Te Radar and Donna Brookbanks on the lighter stories of the week, including Aotearoa's best - and worst - salt and vinegar chips, according to Consumer NZ rankings, a 104-year-old skydiver, and Nasa's… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.It's been a remarkable start to the Cricket World Cup for the Black Caps. Sam Ackerman explains why cricket's fifty over format could be under threat, as well as the All Blacks ending World Cup pool… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.In the early 90s, a number of bands exploring the daring side of guitar rock and pop started to emerge in the UK influenced by the legacy of post-punk, minimalism, 70s art rock and a growing… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Dean Bedford reviews The Book Collector: Reading and Living with Literature by Tony Eyre published by Mary Egan Publishing Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Tess Brunton is in Queenstown where a potential bomb threat has evacuated the airport earlier this morning. The airport said it activated its emergency security protocols shortly after 8.30am and… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.A climate scientist whose pledge not to travel by plane - leaving him with a long trip back to Germany from where he's been working - has put him at odds with his employer.Dr Gianluca Grimalda is a… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Sir Wayne Smith took some convincing to write a memoir, but recently – over two months at his Waihi Beach bach – the legendary rugby mentor detailed his life to sportswriter Phil Gifford. The… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.RNZ Pacific Editor Koroi Hawkins discusses politics in Vanuatu, the intriguing story of a pair of Chinese scam artists wanted to turn a radiation-soaked Pacific atoll into a future metropolis; France… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.In what's being hailed as a first for the English speaking world - the country's independent bookstores will now have a collective website for sales. BookHub launches tomorrow, and it'll allow readers… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The Privacy Commission says it is not yet convinced that facial recognition technology is a "justified and proportionate response" to combat retail crime. Retail NZ is calling for a coordinated and… Read more Audio