Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:07 AM.Tech commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to look at some of the biggest themes that have emerged this year, including the computer chip shortage that has ground the industry to a halt and forced… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Ralph McAllister reviews The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, published by Penguin Random House Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Jane Henley left a senior job at the World Bank in Washington DC to return home to Aotearoa, where she's turned her energies to our housing crisis and the part off-site construction can play. She was… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Britain is now recording close to 100,000 cases of Covid a day, driven by the rise of the Omicron variant, but the government has decided against imposing any more restrictions before Christmas. Read more Audio

9:30 AM.After seven years watching over the privacy of New Zealanders, John Edwards is off to do the same for those in the UK. He was first appointed to the role of Privacy Commissioner in 2014 and… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Advocates for people with autism say more research funding should be going towards how to support people, as opposed to biological projects that sees autism as a deficit. Researchers at Canterbury… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.A look at some of the major events in public law this year, particularly some very important cases from the courts in the last few months. Dr Dean Knight, is an Associate Professor Faculty of Law and… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.Last month, the podcast topping the charts in the popular business category in the US and Canada was -- unexpectedly -- created by two best friends recording from their Auckland bedrooms. Girls That… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Yadana plays Tami Neilson's cover of the Willie Nelson Christmas song Pretty Paper, a summery track from Sorrento with Andy Lovegrove's honeyed voice and bassist extraordinaire Marika Hodgson. Plus an… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Joanna Ludbrook from Chicken and Frog bookstore in Featherston reviews The Uprising - the Mapmakers of Cruxcia by Eirlys Hunter, published by Gecko Press Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Environmental artists and climbers, Martin Hill and Philippa Jones live and work in Wanaka, but have used the world as their canvas. They conceived of the Fine Line Project, 25 years ago. It consists… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:45 AM.In Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison is convening an emergency meeting with state & territory leaders today to receive updated Covid-19 transmission modelling as the Omicron variant takes off… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.There has been a soaring demand for food parcels across the country. Across Auckland demand peaked at four times the usual demand during lock-down, and has been met with a new drive-through festive… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.In one of the most spectacular sporting achievements of the year, Black Caps spinner Ajaz Patel became only the third bowler in history to pick up all 10 wickets in an innings in international… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.2021's extreme weather events have cost insurers and policy holders a record $304.9m so far this year. From May's flooding in Canterbury to a tornado in Auckland in June, flooding in July and August… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Many people are doing it really tough financially this summer, says financial planner Liz Koh, and it may be some comfort that we now know money and happiness don't always go together. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.The pohutukawa, Aotearoa's Christmas tree, is in full bloom now in many parts of the country, signalling it's time to head to the beach. But just two decades ago the future of the iconic tree was in… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Nikki talks to Kathryn about a few localised protests. There's the Ali Williams and Anna Mowbray Westmere helipad situation, a sand issue at Herne Bay beach, opposition at Pakiri about the… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Dan West from Patrick's Bookshop in Whanganui reviews The Odyssey by Homer. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Winning gold at last year's Olympics marked the end of an emotional learning journey the Black Ferns Sevens began five years earlier, says Ruby Tua. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, where they won a silver… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Another Covid surge in the US with a huge wave of Omicron cases and the retiring director of the National Institutes of Health warns there could be one million cases per day. And the nation is… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.The Ministry for Primary Industries is calling for urgent action on water infrastructure in the face of the growing threat from climate change. The report Water Availability and Security in Aotearoa… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.An overloaded coronial system, creaking under the pressure of cases requiring investigation, is being described as fundamentally flawed and aggravating families' grief. Ministry of Justice figures… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Kennedy shares some thoughts from the road during a celebratory taste of travel freedom. He has journeyed North to places of his heart: Russell/Kororareka and Urquharts Bay, at the head of Whangarei… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Not everyone feels like preparing or even eating a huge Christmas meal. A good platter can bring plenty of cheer, and tide everyone over, especially when unexpected guests arrive, or you have tempting… Read more Audio