Nine To Noon Podcast Options

10:40 AM.Holly Walker reviews What Sort of Man by Breton Dukes, published by Victoria University Press. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Kathryn meets two people who've been doing everything they can to help young people in the Hawke's Bay get up on their feet. Jody Hamilton set up the social enterprise Lift, which connects rangatahi… Read more Audio

9:54 AM.Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney looks at cautious moves by some EU nations to ease lockdown restrictions, while others say it's too early. Russia's President Vladimir Putin says the government has… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Airlines the world have been rapidly brought to their knees by the Covid 19 pandemic. Last month, air traffic globally fell by 75 per cent in March and the International Air Transport Association… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Contact tracing expert Professor Philip Hill is warning the government must be very careful before it decides to drop the strict Covid-19 alert level down to level 3. Yesterday the Ministry of Health… Read more Audio

11:51 AM.Our comedians Te Radar and Elisabeth Easther with the story of a pensioner who lived to tell the tale after he was thrown from fighter jet after accidentally grabbing ejector seat handle. Audio

11:36 AM.Sam talks to Kathryn about NZ rugby freezing up to 50% of players pay, the NRL competition,and how Kiwi Supercars driver Scott McLaughlin is finding a silver lining in the COVID-19 crisis. Audio

11:23 AM.From deep inside lockdown, fresh sounds emerge from The Strokes, Gorillaz, Ed O’Brien of Radiohead, and Phoebe Bridgers shares a song from her forthcoming sophomore release.From deep inside… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.New Zealanders are leading three international research projects aimed at finding drugs that could effectively treat people infected with Covid-19. Researchers from the Medical Research Institute of… Read more Audio

10:44 AM.Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books reviews A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry, published by Faber. Follow-up to the multi-award-winning Days Without End, this novel is on a par with that. Narrated by… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Jacinta Ruru is New Zealand's first Māori Professor of Law and has taught at the University of Otago since 1999. She's also the co-director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, a centre for research focused… Read more Audio

9:53 AM.An update on South Korea's election, the death toll from Covid-19 in Indonesia where 24 doctors have fatally contracted the virus, and the social media war which has broken out between pro-Beijing… Read more Audio

9:42 AM.Schools around the country are trying to figure out how a partial reopening under alert level three might work. John Morris is the former Principal of Auckland Grammar School, now Executive Principal… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The Prime Minister has set out what life under Level 3 might look like if the cabinet decides on Monday to lower the alert level. Kathryn talks with former Assistant Reserve Bank Governor and… Read more Audio

11:47 AM.Film and TV reviewer Tamar Munch looks at the new local content that's been made while everyone's in isolation, including Rhys Darby's 'The Alone Rangers', Leigh Hart's 'Big Isolation Lockdown'… Read more Audio

11:26 AM.Resiliance researcher and author Dr Lucy Hone joins Kathryn with tips on how to reduce anxiety and stop unhelpful catastrophising. Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Technology commentator Bill Bennett looks at why so many cell towers have been attacked globally and here in New Zealand, as misinformation stirs fear and ignorance over a non-existent link between 5G… Read more Audio

10:41 AM.Laura Caygill reviews Adults by Emma Jane Unsworth, published by HarperCollins. A hilarious read about friendship, motherhood, relationships and social media. Raucous and painfully relatable. Audio

10:15 AM.British novelist Patrick Gale is the author of 19 books, including 'Rough Music', 'A Perfectly Good Man', the Costa-nominated 'A Place Called Winter' and the emmy award winning TV drama, 'Man in an… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.UK correspondent Matt Dathan joins Kathryn to talk about criticism of the way the pandemic has been handled in care homes as roughly one in seven of the UK's 11,300 homes has seen an outbreak of the… Read more Audio

9:49 AM.Lifeline says calls have gone up by a quarter since the lockdown, from the usual number of 10,000 a month, with callers citing anxiety around money, accommodation and relationship pressures. Many… Read more Audio

9:26 AM.How are tertiary institutions serving students and what hardships are their students facing under lock-down? Most universities have moved their courses online since lock-down began on March 24th, with… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Of New Zealand's nine deaths linked to Covid-19, seven have been of residents in aged care facilities. There are now five outbreak clusters linked to aged care facilities. The Chief Ombudsman Peter… Read more Audio

11:29 AM.One way to stave off lockdown cabin fever is getting out into the garden, even if you've never had greenfingers before. Landscape designer and gardener Xanthe White with a raft of ideas on what to do… Read more Audio