Nine To Noon Podcast Options

10:35 AM.Martene McCaffrey of Unity Books Auckland reviews Joan is Okay by Weike Wang, published by Text Publishing. Audio

10:05 AM.Should conservationists try to save all threatened species, or do there have to be sacrifices? In a new book Tickets For The Ark : From Wasps to Whales - How Do We Choose What to Save? Rebecca Nesbit… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Samoa and Niue are setting dates to open their borders for the first time since March 2020, as studies are assessing the impacts of COVID on the region's health systems. Audio

9:30 AM.Night owl Carol Dix loves driving 1800 kilometres a week delivering The Waikato Times. It's a seven day a week job, and Carol says she can't remember the last time she had more than four days off in a… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Growing numbers of young New Zealanders are heading overseas as the borders open. But will a pandemic OE be slightly different? Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Film and TV correspondent James Croot joins Kathryn to talk about the Yellowstone prequel 1883 (Amazon), a new series starring Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston called The Essex Serpent (Apple+), a new… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Neuroscience educator Deb Rewiri says it has never been so important to get on board with traditional Māori parenting practices. Help is at hand to take whanau back to when a village raised the… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Cyber-security expert Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about the new spear-phishing email doing the rounds from Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Override Panda. He'll also look at how Russian… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Joanna Ludbrook of the Chicken and Frog Bookstore in Featherston reviews The Lighthouse Princess by Susan Wardell, illustrated by Rose Northey, published by Penguin Puffin. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Three years ago Hong Kong was rocked by protests that shook it to its very core. It began with concerns about an extradition treaty with China; was fuelled by the disappearance of five booksellers and… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.UK correspondent Matthew Parris joins Kathryn to talk about rising inflation and a Cabinet Minister's suggestion that struggling families should buy budget brands, which has not gone down well. Labour… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Technology behind breeding low-methane emitting sheep has the potential to be applied to cattle, with huge potential for reducing New Zealand's greenhouse gasses. Scientists at AgResearch have found… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.New Stats NZ's figures show the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.2 percent, in large part this is due to the closed borders and lack of flow of skilled migrants and workers. However, this is… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Science commentator Dr Siouxsie Wiles joins Kathryn with an update on the new BA.4 and BA.5 variants of Omicron which appear to be behind a new wave of Covid cases in South Africa. The longest-ever… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.A few years ago Dunedin woman Ruth Arnison came across an unusual idea for a library - little, brightly painted cupboards full of books free for anyone to take, borrow or donate. She called them… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Music 101 host Charlotte Ryan joins Kathryn to debut a new track by Marlon Williams, play from from Erny Belle and share a new song from Wellington dub band Rhombus. Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Aucklander, Melissa Jackson grandparents were in the fashion industry in the UK. When her father emigrated to New Zealand he started his own business cutting garments for some well known clothing… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:35 AM.Melanie O'Loughlan of Lamplight Books reviews Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, translated from Spanish by Frances Riddle, published by Charco Press. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Sarah Nolet wants farmers to become ag-tech entreprenurs. As co-founder of Australia's first specialist agrifood tech venture capital firm, Tenacious Ventures, she's raised $NZ38 million to work with… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about the Reserve Bank's decision to raise the official cash rate by 0.25 per cent - the first time it's been hiked in the middle of an… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Fewer New Zealanders are surviving cardiac arrests outside the hospital, and St John Ambulance believes wearing PPE may be impairing officers' ability to perform CPR effectively. Survival rates are… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.A new follow-up study into students who'd gone through the Reading Recovery programme in the US has found that initial gains may not last.  Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Everyone knows they need to save for retirement, but Financial Planner, Liz Koh says saving is only part of the story. She says we need to think more broadly than that, because our goal should not be… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Gemma Rasmussen, head of communications and campaigns at Consumer NZ joins Kathryn to talk about new research that shows families are playing an increasing role in financing young people into the… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Rebecca Stevenson talks to Kathryn about whether modern economic focus on growth and gross domestic product (how much we make minus how much we buy) as a measure of a nation's success isn't… Read more Audio