Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:50 AM.Kennedy takes us on the scenic route from Blenheim to Picton. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:40 AM.Rosie's Red Hot Cantina's Ollie Edwards gives Kathryn Ryan a burger 101 masterclass, which starts and finishes with the bun, he says. Plus six of our best burger recipes for the weekend. Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Brigitte, Shane and Kathryn look at the latest Reid Research poll which has seen a near 10 percentage point drop in support for Labour and the highest-ever rating for ACT. Also, the expectations over… Read more Audio

10:43 AM.Louise Ward of Wardini Books reviews The Memory Thief by Leonie Agnew, published by Penguin Random House NZ. Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Nicolas Ricketts has been the curator of The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester New York since 1998. He's researched the history of paper artifacts and board games, and served for a time as the… Read more Audio

9:48 AM.In South Africa, Debora has been covering the deadliest violence since apartheid, sparked by the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma. She says it has been fuelled by poverty and instigated by… Read more Audio

9:33 AM.Biofouling is the bane of any boaties' life, but could it be harnessed to extract energy from waves? Researchers at Auckland University and NIWA are studying whether the organisms which quickly grow… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Auckland man David Willetts has traveled overseas for potentially life extending medical care, but is in limbo about when, or, if he'll be able to secure an MIQ place, this is despite having a return… Read more Audio

11:49 AM.Comedians Te Radar and Irene Pink bring a few laughs. Audio

11:32 AM.Looking at Olympic success so far, Sam ponders whether Bay of Plenty is New Zealand's sporting capital. He says seeing triathlete Hayden Wilde win the first medal set him thinking about how the region… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.A 50th Anniversary Edition of The Pretty Things' celebrated "Parachute" album was released late last year, and Grant says it's a cracker. We'll hear a song from that today, alongside the band's… Read more Audio

10:41 AM.Ash Davida Jane from Unity Books Wellington reviews Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World by Emma Marris, published by Bloomsbury USA. Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Educator, Te Ataakura Pewhairangi was brought up in te ao Māori, and her home language was and still is te reo Māori. She has completed a Bachelor of Arts and teaching degree entirely in te reo… Read more Audio

9:48 AM.Fiji's medics are under extreme stress as Covid 19 infections accelerate, and former Health Minister, Neil Sharma says pressure from the pandemic has caused the nation's health system to collapse. And… Read more Audio

9:36 AM.Southland woman, Louise Mackenzie's start-up Fun Diggity Dog came about when Covid struck and her job in the tourism sector went with it. Working from her dining room table in the rural settlement of… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:08 AM.Hospital nurses are eyeing up possible strike action after rejecting the government's latest pay offer, while their counterparts in hospice care pursue pay parity with hospital nurses. Hospice nurses… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Film and TV reviewer Chris Schulz joins Kathryn to look at beach resort comedy The White Lotus (Neon), true crime doco Heist (Netflix) and a new season of 'Kura (TVNZ) - a small web series that proved… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.All kids have angry reactions, and most parents can largely accept these when they can see the cause. But some kids seem to explode for no apparent reason. What's going on? And how can parents and… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Technology commentator Sarah Putt joins Kathryn to discuss a new survey from Netsafe which has found New Zealanders believe the internet is more dangerous than it was five years ago, everyone's… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Elisabeth Easther reviews The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell, published by Penguin Random House. Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Maryam Master is a writer with more than 20 years' experience writing for the stage and screen. She started her career on Australia's biggest soap opera - Home and Away, writing over 80 episodes… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.UK correspondent Hugo Gye joins Kathryn to discuss the unexpected decline in Covid numbers and the UK's belated announcement it would give away four million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine -… Read more Audio

9:46 AM.The Commerce Commission says competition in the grocery sector is poor with Foodstuffs and Countdown essentially a duopoly dominating the market with little room for new entrants or competition. But… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Max Olson is the founder and CEO of SeaChange, a company that wants to build hydro-foil car and passenger ferries that would deliver zero-emission transit. Earlier this year the company successfully… Read more Video, Audio

9:20 AM.The Law Commission is publishing an issues paper about the review of surrogacy law, submissions on which are invited until 23rd September 2021. Proposals for an overhaul of New Zealand's surrogacy law… Read more Audio