Nine To Noon Podcast Options

10:36 AM.Holly Walker reviews All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton, published by HarperCollins. Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Ennaolla Paea is a dancer and choreographer who leads South Auckland-based Lighthouse Famz, a support base for creative artists that produces events and projects for the local dance community.

She… Read more Audio

9:37 AM.Kathryn speaks with co-founder of the online election guide Policy. It is a complete online guide, breaking down party policies and backgrounding candidates.

Ollie Neas, who is also editorial… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Auckland drivers' Harbour Bridge woes might be over, but it's another story for the city's rail commuters. Rail network services are set for months of disruption, with rolling four-week outages on the… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Comedians Te Radar and Elisabeth Easther with a few laughs including the puzzling case of the Labour supporter who ended up featuring on a National Party election pamphlet. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Sam and Kathryn discuss the All Blacks team selected to play Australia in the opening Bledisloe Cup. Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Kraftwerk's entire back-catalogue is reissued on vinyl today, and rabid fan-boy Grant Smithies is beside himself with joy. Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews Betty by Tiffany McDaniel, published by Hachette. Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Ian Theasby and Henry Firth have been dubbed the 'vegan Jamie Olivers'. They have a new book out called Speedy Bosh. Read more Video, Audio

9:50 AM.A ninth Covid-19 death in French Polynesia, hopes of a travel bubble with the Cook Islands ramp up, and Fiji is keen for the 'bula bubble' to proceed. Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Historian Peter Lineham talks to Kathryn about his book 'Agency of Hope' which chronicles the story of the Auckland City Mission from 1920-2020. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:25 AM.Otago University is establishing a sustainability village for students who want to live in a more environmentally conscious way.  Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The Electoral Commission says it expects half a million voters will have cast their ballots by the end of today. Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Film and TV reviewer James Croot looks at Aaron Sorkin's upcoming Netflix movie Trial of the Chicago 7 based on the legal case against a group of anti-Vietnam protesters. Read more Audio

11:25 AM.With just over a month to go to the start of NCEA exams, there'll be more than a few nervous students around the country. Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Tech commentator Paul Matthews joins Kathryn to talk about how technology could be harnessed to identify and fight bushfires in Australia, with a plan between Optus and the Australian National… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Tamsin Martin of Scorpio Books Christchurch reviews Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, published by Penguin. Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Eugene Bareman, coach of Israel Adesanya and mastermind behind one of the world's best ranking MMA gyms in Auckland talks to Kathryn Ryan about the 'kiwi invasion' on Fight Island and his take on… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:50 AM.UK correspondent Matthew Parris joins Kathryn to talk about the "technical glitch" that saw nearly 16,000 go unreported. Read more Audio

9:30 AM.A New Zealand researcher has helped expose how data is being harvested and used by churches in the US to microtarget and radicalise vulnerable people into right-wing politics. Read more Video, Audio

9:08 AM.As the weather warms up, what is the outlook for parts of the country hit by drought last summer? Read more Audio

11:51 AM.Science commentator Malvindar Singh-Bains joins Kathryn to look at how a common diabetes drug could be linked to slower cognitive decline and lower the dementia risk in Type-2 diabetics. She also… Read more Audio

11:36 AM.What's going on in our brains when we experience dark or negative thoughts, and how can we combat them? Lance Burdett spent 22 years in the police, and was the National Advisor for all police… Read more Audio

11:12 AM.The 90s have called and some of its artists are back. Yadana shares the 2020 releases from Austrian chill merchants Kruder and Dorfmeister, Bristol trip hop bad boy Tricky and RnB sweetheart Alicia… Read more Audio