Nine To Noon Podcast Options

10:07 AM.Pioneering British psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Gwen Adshead has spent more than spent 30 years working inside prisons and with offenders at Broadmoor Hospital - this is where some of the UK's… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Ron Elving explains why President Joe Biden's appearance at COP26 will be a test of him on a world stage. Also the US Supreme Court tackles abortion and guns, huge spending bills are on the brink in… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.As more Covid 19 positive patients are allowed to isolate at home, family doctors are planning for how to care for them. Recently we spoke with Bryan Betty from the College of GPs about the shortage… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.The government's plans to push ahead with its three waters reforms have been called the "theft of local assets" , "disappointing", "devastating" and "unacceptable" by some councils, while others are… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Urban issues correspondent Bill McKay join Kathryn to talk about the further RMA reforms announced last week, which aim to improve housing supply by speeding up National Policy Statement on Urban… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Pierogi dumplings are a delicious Polish staple which some Canadians have adopted as their national dish. Kate Grater, who hails from Vancouver makes and sells them in Christchurch, at The Pierogi… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Cabinet meets today to decide whether to move the two regions out of alert level 3, step 1, as retailers plead with the government to ease alert level restrictions in Auckland and Waikato, to allow… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Melanie O'Loughlin from Lamplight Books in Auckland reviews A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba, published by Granta. Audio

10:07 AM.At just eight years old, an aggressive bone cancer threatened Jess Quinn's life. When endless rounds of chemotherapy failed to shrink the tumour, she was put forward for rotationplasty, a pioneering… Read more Audio

9:53 AM.Europe hosts 'last chance' climate talks at G20 & COP26, Paris & London clash over post-Brexit fishing rights, the EU Parliament takes EU Commission to court and the Netherlands breaks record of… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Intensive Care Specialist at Middlemore Hospital, Dr Carl Horsley talks to Kathryn about how one of the country's busiest intensive care units is adapting and changing to prepare for the spread of… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.The critical COP26 climate change summit is underway in Glasgow, bringing countries together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Dana talks to Kathryn about the Black Caps Twenty20 World Cup campaign's rocky start with an opening loss to Pakistan, but of bigger concern was some of the fan reaction commentary around the game… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Jeremy has tracks from a vinyl reissue for Lawrence Arabia's Taite Prize winning Chant Darling, Canadian singer songwriter Allison Russell, and the 50th anniversary of David Crosby's solo debut. Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Catriona Ferguson reviews Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down published by Text Publishing. Read more Audio

10:09 AM.Peter Hamilton's 35 years as a diplomat have him convinced that to grow as a nation, New Zealand must become a republic.  Read more Audio, Gallery

9:50 AM.Amnesty International is closing its Hong Kong offices in the latest blow for democratic freedom and the government is doubling down on its zero Covid strategy. In China Xi Jinping is pushing ahead… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Announcing the winners of the first ever Nine to Noon Short Story Competition! Judges Tina Makareti and Harry Ricketts have selected five stand-outs among almost 1,500 stories entered into the… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.A mysterious outbreak of tics in girls and young women in some western countries has now surfaced in New Zealand. The teenagers are presenting with Tourette's-style ticks, but the malady has no… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Australian author and educator John Marsden joins Nine to Noon again to talk about why he thinks kids need to take more risks. It's a philosophy he's had throughout his career as an educator and… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Hannah August reviews The Magician by Colm Toibin, published by Macmillan. Audio

10:06 AM.Multi-award winning American writer Jonathan Franzen is back with an epic novel about family, religion and culture. Crossroads is set in the 1970s and focuses on the Hildebrandt family - father Russ… Read more Audio