Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:30 AM.What would you do, if you arrived home to find your wife naked - but for an apron - bleaching a stain from the carpet that only she can see? It's the set-up for Fiona Sussman's latest page-turning… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Music commentator Kirsten Zemke joins Kathryn to talk about songs over the decades that have whistling at their heart. How do they make you feel? Kirsten Zemke is an ethnomusicologist at the… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Jenna Todd of Time Out Bookstore reviews Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson, published by Text Publishing. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.We look at how British culture and identity have historically been used by Kiwi and other Commonwealth marketers and advertisers to sell products abroad. Felicity Barnes is a senior lecturer in… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:45 AM.Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about efforts by law enforcement to minimise the damage done by hackers who got the private health data of more than 9 million customers… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.A pilot programme set to run in Auckland is looking at how park and ride services could be adapted to scoot or bike and ride instead. The aim is to take the pressure off park and ride services which… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Poland's government is holding an urgent meeting of its national security and defence committee after reports Russian missiles crossed into its territory, killing two people. It's believed two stray… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The government is planning to ditch the Resource Management Act - promising a faster and more simple way to manage the built and natural environment. Two new bills replacing the RMA should become law… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.If you're interested in keeping healthy happy chickens, Dr Andrea Graves has written an ideal handbook to help you along the way. Using her knowledge from a PhD in animal behaviour and her practical… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Rebecca talks to Kathryn about yet another crypto washout, this time FTX. Can the last crypto exchange turn off the lights?. And all the things Elon Musk has done since he took over Twitter. Rebecca… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.David Hill reviews The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy, published by Macmillan Read more Audio

10:05 AM.A sweet gesture by Shaan Caskey's four-year-old daughter was the catalyst for the New Plymouth man to write a book for kids whose parents need a lot of rest – Daddy Needs to Sleep Today. Shaan has a… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Ron takes an in depth look at the US mid-term election results. Republicans will have a slim majority in House of Representatives, not what they had expected at all. At least 20 seats fewer, maybe… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Families who've spent months and even years in emergency housing in Porirua are among those being assisted by a new job and skills hub in Cannons Creek. Le Fale job and skills hub opened last month… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.A massive and irreplaceable archive of historically significant photographs is up for sale on the open market, after a lengthy ordeal abroad that almost saw them destroyed. Dubbed the Fairfax… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Cruise ships are back in our ports, but concerns have been raised in Christchurch and Dunedin over visitors clogging up public buses and potentially spreading Covid 19. Many cruise liners visiting… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Kennedy joins Kathryn from the Southern Ocean - he's midway through a National Geographic expedition cruise, taking a loop from Ushuaia to Falkland Islands to South Georgia to Antarctic Peninsula and… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:35 AM.With weeks to go before the end of the school year ideas about what to put in your children's lunch box could be running out. Kathrine Lynch is a budget food blogger based in Hamilton. She has some… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Neale and Brigitte join Kathryn to talk about the Prime Minister's criticism of big bank profits as interest rates march upwards, reappointment of Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr and the Commerce… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Nicky Walker reviews Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop by Alba Donati, published by Hachette Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Now, to the innovative automation - born of necessity - to oyster farming, developed by a Marlborough oyster farmer , and now being used internationally. Aaron Pannell (pron Panel) , and his wife… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney has the latest on the deadly explosion in Istanbul. He also talks to Kathryn about Russia's major military defeat as its troops withdrew from Kherson as Ukraine… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Contact Energy has launched a new paid parental leave policy it believes is among one of the most generous in the country.  Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Toots, not tweets. Extinct mammals, not birds. As more users seek to leave an Elon Musk-run Twitter they're turning to Mastodon. But how does it work? Read more Audio