Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:20 AM.Timaru adventurer and educator Sash Nukada is concerned schools are cutting back on outdoor education and young people are missing opportunities to test their resilience. He's a Sustainability and… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Music 101 host Charlotte Ryan joins Kathryn to talk about the Nadia Reid and Holly Fullbrook live session that's been specially recorded for RNZ. Actress, writer, director and musician Ana Scotney has… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Louise Ward of Wardini Books reviews Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi by Toby Morris with Ross Calman, Mark Derby and Piripi Walker. Published by Lift Education. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Multidisciplinary artist, Cora-Allan Wickliffe has spent several years reviving and researching the lost art of hiapo, or Niuean traditional bark cloth painting. The art form had been lying dormant… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:45 AM.Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to look at the winding back of the harsh lockdown in Melbourne as infection rates fall. Some travel between state is to be allowed. Forty ships… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Questions are being raised over the closure of the Laura Fergusson Trust Rehabilitation Centre - the only specialised facility of its kind for disabled people in Auckland. The Trust's board spent… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Donald Trump has asked aides to carry out unlawful acts, offering them a Presidential pardon as a “get out of jail” card, a former staffer says. Read more Audio

11:45 AM.A tale of two editors of the Sunday Times in the UK. The first is the death of Harold Evans last week, and his influence on modern journalism. And in same week Andrew Neil, who did manage to work for… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.What was life really like for Kiwi soldiers serving during World War II, and what secrets might they have harboured? New Zealand author Tom Remiger has drawn on his extensive research from wartime… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Lisa Finucane reviews The Kingdom by Jo Nesbo, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

10:05 AM.Best-selling American author and essayist Eula Biss talks to Kathryn Ryan about her new book Having and Being Had, which looks at the psychological effects of consumerism, and what it means about who… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Ron talks to Kathryn about the reaction to explosive revelations about Donald Trump's income tax payments, his nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.An Antarctic glacier, the size of Great Britain, is melting at an alarming rate, according to new research. Nick-named the Doomsday glacier, Thwaites glacier flows off the west of the Antarctic and is… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Auckland paediatricians are concerned about the increasing amount of children, some as young as 10, presenting with type-2 diabetes. Research looking at 21 years of patient records from Starship's… Read more Audio

11:37 AM.Romesh Dissanayake, head chef at Wellington restaurant Glass, is hosting a (sold out) Sri Lankan-inspired dinner event called 'Seela' as part of this month's Visa Wellington on a Plate festival. He… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:11 AM.Neale and Trish talk to Kathryn about the latest two political polls, the strategies being used by Labour and National's leaders in their TV debates and the scrutiny being applied to National's… Read more Audio

10:41 AM.Elisabeth Easther reviews Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

10:09 AM.Co-housing advocate Robin Allison has envisioned and built an alternative way of living. Individuals and families live in a kind of curated community, enjoying the perks that come with pooling… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:54 AM.Fears of a new war between Armenia and Azerbaijan the Swiss reject a plan to stop free movement of EU citizens and the man accused of attacking two people with a meat cleaver in Paris has told police… Read more Audio

9:42 AM.There are concerns that despite draft legislation looking to overhaul the family justice system there are still too many barriers to childrens' right to participate. Deb Inder is a barrister and… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Education academics say decades of research has shown academic streaming in schools doesn't lift achievement and in fact, serves to drag down those students in lower streams. They say this… Read more Audio