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9:50 AM.UK correspondent Dan Bloom joins Kathryn to look at the landmark decision that's looming on the controversial policy of sending illegal migrants to Rwanda - something the Home Office says could cost… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.This morning Nine to Noon looks at the issue of greening up the country's energy - and the hefty price tag that comes with it. Two weeks ago on the programme Kathryn spoke with Graeme Peters, who'd… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The New York Times is reporting a senior Russian General had prior knowledge of the attempted mutiny against Vladimir Putin by the Wagner group. It reports that US officials briefed on intelligence on… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Science correspondent Dr Siouxsie Wiles joins Kathryn to talk about how researchers have identified a hormone linked with morning sickness which may help with the development of new treatments for… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.A beautiful new book puts New Zealand's forgotten female photographers back in the frame. History has largely forgotten women who first took photographs, not to mention those who made it in front of… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response or ASMR is a perception phenomenon that generates a bioelectric current through auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory or perceptive stimuli. When it passes through… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.David looks at national air quality standards, how to improve them and how Christchurch is shaping up. Also the community safety intiatives have been implemented following the Royal Commission into… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Ralph McAllister reviews My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Goslar, published by Penguin Random House Read more Audio

10:05 AM."You've got to laugh" is an oft used expression. Dr Ros Ben-Moshe says for our wellbeing, we actually do HAVE to laugh more. She is a positivity, resilience and laughter-as-therapy academic at La… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Australia correspondent Annika Smethurst joins Kathryn to talk about how the cost of a working holiday maker visa will jump by $130 on Saturday to $640 - with the potential it could be cut to one… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.A team of researchers at Canterbury University are hoping to explore the value of microgrids in delivering some self reliance for households when it comes to power generation. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.A $128m bailout for cash-strapped universities will still not be enough to prevent major job losses at the Universities of Otago and Victoria. Yesterday the government announced the rescue package for… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Wellington-based artist and author Bob Kerr didn't have to look far for inspiration for his new book. He found it in a suitcase on top of a wardrobe.  Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Joanna Ludbrook from Chicken and Frog Bookshop in Featherston reviews Matariki by Gavin Bishop, published by Penguin. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Camping on snowy mountain ranges in a tent, with ice falling into his sleeping bag during a mammoth ski traverse of the Southern Alps, mountaineer and adventurer Erik Bradshaw thought there had to be… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Ron talks to Kathryn about what the Biden administration is saying about the Wagner Group revolt in Russia and the implications for Vladimir Putin and his ability to hold onto power. Also the… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Private details of voters names and addresses will no longer be available publicly, or be allowed to be sold to third parties, if recommendations by the independent electoral review are adopted. These… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.A landfill in the Wellington suburb of Tawa has been fined for a foul stench described by local residents as "sulphurous" or like "sewage", and which has been tormenting them for years. The Porirua… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Kennedy reflects on a visit to what is regarded as one of the most important cultural sites in Polynesia: the marae complex at Taputapuatea, on the island of Ra'iatea, from where the voyagers who… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Cordon Bleu-trained chef Wendy Morgan pretty much grew up in a Canterbury pie shop. She's packaged up a lifetime's knowledge of pies into her debut cookbook - "Who Made all the Pies: The Ultimate… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Political Commentators Lamia Imam and Liam Hehir join Kathryn to talk about the National Party's weekend conference and its pledge to introduce harsher sentences as part of its law and order policy… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.A rates rise in on the card when the Thames Coromandel District Council meets tomorrow to discuss the annual plan and weekend rain has caused more roading problems on the Coromandel Peninsula. John… Read more Audio