Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:10 AM.Neale, Ben and Kathryn will discuss the future of the mandates and look at the political management and messaging around the ongoing and growing protest at Parliament. Read more Audio

10:34 AM.Sally Wenley reviews Dark Horse by Gregg Hurwitz, published by Penguin Random House. Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Kathryn speaks with an accomplished horse rider, archer, martial artist, gymnast and sword fighter who can fall from high places and emerge from fire unscathed! If she sounds like a modern day Wonder… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.The drought in Horn of Africa, Debora outlines how it is affecting Somalia and Ethiopia. She also looks at instability in many parts of the continent, including coups in Sudan and Burkina Faso, and… Read more Audio

9:32 AM.A community health clinic in Auckland says during last year's Delta outbreak, it became the default provider of medical and welfare care for self-isolating patients, because the Ministry of Health was… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.New Zealand's key exporters are chartering private ships to ferry produce to foreign markets, amid a Covid-driven cargo crisis. Meat producers and fresh fruit and vege producers are struggling to get… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.NZ Rugby has finally got the Silverlake deal over the line, with confirmation of the sale of a stake of a new commercial entity to the American private-equity business. This comes in the same week NZ… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Jeremy Taylor picks three debut albums of a very different nature - Bernard Butler, Yard Act, and Roberta Flack. Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Gina Rogers reviews Will by Mark Manson and Will Smith published by Penguin Random House. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Rosemary Sullivan is the author of a controversial book on a cold case investigation into what led to young Jewish girl Anne Frank and her family being discovered by the Nazis. The Betrayal of Anne… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.As the Winter Olympics draw to a close, from China, there are new signs that Beijing is deepening its support for Russia as the Ukraine crisis stands on a knife's edge. Grim times loom for Hong Kong… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.New research suggests that chimpanzees might be performing a type of first aid; on themselves, and more notably, on their peers. Chimpanzees in Gabon have been observed catching flying insects… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.The threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to hang over the country with a war of words raging between Washington and Moscow. The US president Joe Biden says there's every indication Russia… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.A powerful committee of government officials is to convene at parliament over the ongoing protest and blockade. ODESC, the Officials Committee for Domestic and External Security Coordination, will… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.The "middle years" of 11 to 15 year-olds can be a bit of a muddle, when children are stepping away from the influence of their parents and into that of their peers - and social media influencers… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Tony joins Kathryn to talk about the latest in cyber security issues - including how a company lost hundreds of thousands of dollars through an intercepted email in which the scammer simply changed… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews The Islands by Emily Brugman, published by Allen & Unwin. Audio

10:05 AM.One of the UK's leading doctors in pain medicine says despite pain being a universal human experience, very little is still understood about the mechanics of it. As a result, much of the medications… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.UK correspondent Hugo Gye joins Kathryn to talk about Prince Andrew's decision to settle the lawsuit brought against him by Virginia Guiffre - is that really the end of the matter? The UK is seeking… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.New Zealand Rugby has announced the US equity firm Silver Lake is to invest $200 million in a new commercial entity that will control all revenue-generating assets of New Zealand Rugby. The agreement… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.The way ice crystals can kill the enjoyment of ice cream demonstrates the crucial role of texture in our experience of food, says scientist Yvonne Kuiper. Although we know texture is at least equally… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.A new report finds dozens of people die each year from preventable drug overdoses, and New Zealand drug laws block the use of new harm reduction measures succeeding overseas. The Drug Foundation's… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.In a month of protests, pandemic panic, grave unrest in the Ukraine and extreme weather events Mark Amery champions some art in Wellington that offers flowers, hugs, sunshine and togetherness… Read more Audio, Gallery