Nine To Noon Podcast Options

9:30 AM.New Zealand being downgraded in a global ranking for our response to trafficking is no surprise to an anti-trafficking coalition, but still an international embarrassment.  Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Pandemic immigration restrictions and labour shortages are about to collide with the busiest time of the year on dairy farms - with concerns some workers are being poached to cover the shortfall… Read more Audio

11:41 AM.It's every parent's dream to see their children succeed in life and sometimes that means helping them along the way. But how much help should children get? Financial planner, Liz Koh says people with… Read more Audio

11:27 AM.Infertility is something that affects one of every four heterosexual couples in New Zealand. Social infertility too affects people who are single, or in same-sex relationships but wanting to have a… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Rebecca asks - Are the walls closing in on former rich lister, Eric Watson. He is potentially facing more legal action amid insider trading allegations. Rebecca Stevenson is BusinessDesk's head of… Read more Audio

10:38 AM.David Hill reviews Brutal: The 100-year fight for world rugby supremacy by Ron Palenski, published by Upstart Press. Read more Audio

10:10 AM.The dirt beneath our feet can be easy to take for granted. But it's incredibly important for the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink. Twelve years ago Australian chef and food… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Ron talks to Kathryn about how Joe Biden's much anticipated voting right speech has been received with Democrats looking to the President to lead amid a wave of bills intended to restrict voting… Read more Audio

9:39 AM.The equation for measuring water purity has been corrected but a freshwater ecologist questions whether this adjustment is sufficient to prevent pollution. The official equation measuring the human… Read more Audio

9:28 AM.An insurance expert says the weekend's flooding at Westport should be a warning to the two-thirds of New Zealanders who live on a flood plain. Melissa Heath is director of Residential Risk Analysis… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.A climate change researcher says local and central government must stop allowing houses to be built in at-risk areas and we should no longer rely on flood protection infrastructure such as stopbanks… Read more Audio

11:52 AM.Kennedy speaks to Kathryn about Patricia Grace and her recently published memoir, "From the Centre." Read more Audio

11:44 AM.Guests at a recent 3-course banquet in Dunedin made sure no food went to waste. Associate Professor Miranda Mirosa, from the University of Otago's Department of Food Science created a unique menu for… Read more Audio

11:26 AM.In politics we talk about rising inflation, whether the government's investor rules have had any impact on reining in the housing market and how Judith Collins' first year as National Party leader has… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.With the weekend's flooding events in Buller and Marlborough being the third in the country this year, questions are being asked what a 1 in 100 year event means. Kathryn speaks with Niwa Principal… Read more Audio

10:44 AM.Kiran Dass reviews Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann, published by Text Publishing. Read more Audio

10:11 AM.Rupa Maitra was born in Dunedin after her Bengali parents migrated to New Zealand in the late 60s from India, via Uganda. She did a music degree at Otago and followed it up with one in medicine -… Read more Audio

9:53 AM.The national scandal and mourning in Canada as the inquiry intensifies with potentially thousands of children from Canadian schools for indigenous communities buried in unmarked graves. The first… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.An early intervention specialist believes the number of students excluded from schools is higher than official statistics. The Ministry of Education says it is working with 171 students who have been… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.The extent of damage from the weekend's flooding is now being assessed at homes, farms and vineyards in the Buller and Marlborough districts which have been swamped by torrential rains and overflowing… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Sam highlights the volatility and vulnerability of sport, particularly with the Tokyo Olympics being questioned daily and a range of contingency plans in place. Also, just this week, all the NRL clubs… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.After a difficult few years of illness and lockdowns, Melbourne quartet Hiatus Kaiyote return with what Grant says is their best album yet. Well hear two tracks from that today, alongside a spanking… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.The Consumer Price Index numbers have just come out from Stats NZ for the June Quarter of 2021. Consumer prices rose 1.3 percent in the June quarter pushing the annual inflation hit to 3.3 percent… Read more Audio

10:38 AM.Toyah Webb from Unity books in Auckland reviews We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida, published by Atlantic Books Read more Audio