Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:35 AM.Comfort food for unsettling times. An Auckland designer donut making couple say business is booming. Daniel and Annie Black are the owners of Grown Up Donuts, and been inundated with orders through… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Neale, Liam and Kathryn discuss the Government's gamble on Covid strategy, was it a politics driven decision?. Also the dilemmas over vaccine passports and slowness on supplementary testing. Does this… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Carol Leonnig is a national investigative reporter at The Washington Post, and a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Her latest book, co-written with Philip Rucker details the extraordinary actions of… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Thomas reflects on Angela Merkel's legacy, and updates on the ongoing coalition negotiations following last month's landmark election which marked the end of Angela Merkel's 16 years as Chancellor. Read more Audio

9:35 AM.New Zealand's Superfund celebrates its 20th anniversary today, as Baby Boomers hit retirement age. Former Minister of Finance, Sir Michael Cullen established the fund on October 11th 2001, in… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Emergency doctors throughout the country have been surveyed about how prepared they feel their respective hospitals ED facilities are equipped to cope. The results make for grim reading with… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Sam looks back on Benji Marshall's remarkable rugby league career and says he is easily the most admired NZ player ever in the eyes of most Australians. He also talks to Kathryn about the demise of… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Two double albums of Jamaican rocksteady have just been released via Trojan Records in the UK, just in time for summer. We'll hear a track from each of those today, alongside gems from Dunedin band… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Briar Lawry from Unity Books Auckland reviews The Shut Ins by Katherine Brabon, published by Allan and Unwin. Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Kath & Kim ran from 2002 to 2007 and was the highest-rated comedy series in Australia at the time - spawning a US remake, a telemovie called Da Kath & Kim Code and even a feature film - Kath &amp… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.The first of two repatriation flights of Cook Islanders stranded in New Zealand because of our lockdown left Christchurch last night. There are strict safety protocols around passengers and the ground… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.What do you do when the much vaunted takeaways, or a picnic in the double bubble under Covid restrictions alert level 3 just don't cut it? Waiheke woman Lisa Talbot has the answer. Get a friend or… Read more Audio

9:23 AM.A high tech project is underway to shed light on thousands of Māori stone artefacts, so they can be preserved for future generations. Funded by the MBIE, it involves archaeologists, bioengineers and… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Business leaders are meeting government ministers are meeting shortly to construct a pilot programme allowing rapid antigen testing in workplaces. 25 large companies from sectors including freight… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Film and TV reviewer James Croot is along to talk about the latest James Bond film, Summer of Soul, Spice Girls: How girl power saved the world and The Alpinist. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Neuroplasticity educator and parenting expert, Nathan Wallis talks to Kathryn about Covid lockdowns and getting children back to a normal routine and dealing with the anxiety of going back to school… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Technology commentator Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about Facebook's bad week. It was out for six hours on Tuesday, then there was the damaging evidence from former Facebook product manager… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Chris Tse reviews AUP New Poets 8 by Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha and Modi Deng, published by Auckland University Press. Read more Audio

10:09 AM.Mark van Leewarden tells Kathryn his fascinating and sometimes unsettling true life story about the realities of a secret life in New Zealand's criminal underworld of the late 1970s, and of going on… Read more Audio

9:33 AM.The discovery of a compound that kick-starts tissue regeneration could have a big impact on healing horses and humans alike. Christchurch chemical biologist Rudi Marquez hopes the new wound gel he and… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.New legislation which would require accessibility barriers to be removed could be on the way, if an accessibility advocacy group has its way. Accessibility legislation is increasingly appearing in… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.This week, Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles tells us about a new study about the safety of the COVID mRNA vaccines and takes listener questions on Covid. Read more Audio