Nine To Noon Podcast Options

9:35 AM.From this morning, anyone who is fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to request a vaccination pass, dubbed "My Vaccine Pass". Once New Zealand enters the new traffic light system, the pass… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.COP26 has wrapped up in Glasgow, reaching an agreement filled with compromise. An agreement to holding global warming to 1.5 degrees was retained, but the means of getting there far from clear. All… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Discovery is creating new tv channels and will have 5, the most of any free-to-air broadcaster. Andrew says more local content will be produced, though the skew is clearly to reality TV. And… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Tamaki Makaurau has a complicated and busy history. But it's a past that has been constantly built over, dug up or destroyed. Historian, author and curator at Auckland Museum Lucy Mackintosh has spent… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.There's been a large number of people leaving KiwiRail, Pattrick talks to Kathryn about what's driving it. Also, with the impending summer of Covid, a look at where rapid antigen testing is at… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Leah McFall reviews Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020 by David Sedaris, published by Hachette Aotearoa NZ Leah says: A second astringent instalment of diaries from America's foremost humorist… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Wellington writer John McCrystal has been interested in shipwrecks since he was a child, when at the age of six he first heard the tale of the General Grant, which struck the Auckland Islands in 1866… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:50 AM.Ron talks to Kathryn about surging inflation and the effect on President Joe Biden and the Democrats, how the conversation around Donald Trump is changing, and the January 6 investigating committee… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.What's in a name? Two Auckland academics have just released a report arguing for a change to naming conventions for native plants.  Read more Audio

9:07 AM.From this week, Australians will be able to use Afterpay to pay for food and beverages at 160 pubs and restaurants around the country. The hospitality group Australian Venue Co has partnered with… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Bill McKay talks to Kathryn about the New Medium Density Residential Standards: Three, three-storey townhouses on many urban and suburban sites Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Helen Melser's The Olive Tree in My Kitchen explores the versatility of the fruit and is a homage to the olive tree. Over the years she's produced many olive products from her grove in the Wairarapa… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Labour is beginning to hurt in the polls as rating of Covid management slump and another day of more than 200 infections yesterday. Also at COP26 New Zealand pledges an completely unquantifiable sum… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Sally Wenley reviews Theroux the Keyhole by Louis Theroux, published by Macmillan. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Ai Weiwei has been described as the most important artist working today, and an `unsilenceable voice of freedom'. His sculptures and installations have been viewed by millions around the world. His… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.There are new lockdowns in Europe as Covid infections climb, the EU considers action over Poland-Belarus border crisis and at COP26, a late change on coal introduced by India. Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Some key areas of the adult decision making capacity law have been standing for decades and the Law Commission says it's time for a refresh. This aspect of law affects tens of thousands of New… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.A former Health and Disability Commissioner,Ron Paterson is concerned that some people isolating at home, because there's no room at MIQ, are falling through the cracks and not being adequately… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.The Black Caps will face Australia for the Twenty20 World Cup title on Monday morning - our sports commentator Sam Ackerman looks at what they'll need to do to win it. Plus the All Blacks step up a… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Covid testing centres are getting set up this morning in the Taranaki town of Stratford after the discovery of six positive cases.One patient is in hospital....all six are linked to the Auckland… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Jeremy marks the 30th anniversary of Primal Scream's seminal 'Screamadelica' Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Harry Ricketts reviews Just Like That: Kevin Ireland New Poems by Kevin Ireland, published by Quentin Wilson Publishing. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Shaun Barnett is an outdoors author, editor and photographer who began tramping as a teenager in the mountains of Hawke's Bay - and has tramped the length and breadth of the country since. He's… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:45 AM.Ed reflects on what has been a big week for China and climate politics and although Xi Jinping was missing from COP26, a surprise agreement with the US has been reached. Also there appears no end in… Read more Audio