Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:35 AM.The extremes of temperature, short summers and high rates of erosion are making for an uncertain environment for the flora and fauna in alpine areas, and also for the people who explore it. Sir Alan… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Two years ago, as Covid was just beginning its deadly spread across the world, another crisis was reaching its peak in Australia. Known as the Black Summer, devastating bushfires ripped through many… Read more Video, Audio

9:50 AM.The not guilty verdict in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two people and injured one other person, all of whom were protesting following a police shooting in Kenosha Wisconsin, has… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Wellington entrepreneur Jeremy Bank was was inspired to create sustainable shoes after his daughter found plastic all over what had been a pristine beach in Hawai'i. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:07 AM.An economic think-tank is warning our economy will suffer unless changes are made to the way maths is taught. Maths scores have been declining for the past twenty years, relative to other OECD… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.This week, Auckland food waste activist Veronica Shale launched the Zero Food Waste Challenge - a week-long campaign that kicks off in NZ businesses and schools on 22 September 2022 (the International… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Stephen, Brigitte and Kathryn discuss the big decisions weighing on Cabinet over the loosening of Covid restrictions, the discontent in the rural sector evident in yesterday's countrywide protests and… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Laura Caygill reviews The Family by Naomi Krupitsky, published by Penguin Random House. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.From the velocipede to the penny farthing, the Raleigh 20, Loline, Chopper and the BMX - millions of bicycles have been manufactured in New Zealand over the past 150 years. Cycling historian, author… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:50 AM.Debora talks to Kathryn about the deteriorating security situation in Ethiopia. In South Africa, a new hub in Cape Town is starting a revolution, developing it's own vaccines for Africa fed up with… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.NIWA meteorologist Dr Richard Turner has charted the average wind speed of our golf courses. Going off data from studies of wind patterns for research done for building codes Dr Turner helped Golf NZ… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.An independent Police Conduct Authority has found major issues with the resourcing of small community police stations. A joint survey between Federated Farmers and police found more than half of… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.The late '60s was a golden period for Latin soul records in New York City, and Grant says some of the best feature on the recently repressed Soul of Spanish Harlem double LP. We'll hear two key tracks… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Ash Davida Jane from Unity Books Wellington reviews 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next by Jeanette Winterson, published by Jonathan Cape. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Paul Kilgour has probably visited more huts than anyone else in New Zealand. He's a wanderer, a long-distance tramper and one of New Zealand's most famous hutbaggers, although he shies away from the… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:45 AM.The Director General Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Kosi Latu's response to COP26, more pledges and promises without real action. Also, a small New Zealand emergency… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.The Big Carrot in Ohakune, the Hundertwasser Toilets in Kawakawa, a Toothbrush Fence in Te Pahu and the Bluff Paua Shell House all make up New Zealand's many weird and wonderful landmarks that dot the… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Critics of a planned data centre for Clyde in Central Otago are raising concerns about just what it'll be used for, saying it'll be of no benefit to the region - or even the country. Contact Energy… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Film and TV reviewer Laumata Lauano joins Kathryn to talk new black and white film Passing (Netflix), which looks at the complicated friendship of two black women in segregated 1920s America, one of… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Kathryn talks with Clinical Psychologist Sarb Johal about the challenge of loneliness for parents, particularly during a pandemic. He says parenting can be tough at the best of times, but when you're… Read more Audio