Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:45 AM.The ongoing machinations in media ownership in New Zealand. Andrew Holden has been a journalist for more than 30 years including five as Editor of The Press (in Christchurch) and four as… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.University of Auckland Pacific Pro Vice Chancellor Pacific, Professor, Damon Salesa on the challenges of closing the achievement differential between Pacific and non Pacific, non Maori learners. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Business commentator Rebecca Stevenson talks to Kathryn about the global market reaction to the deadly coronavirus. Stocks are sliding due to the uncertainty, including Air New Zealand and other… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Ralph McAllister with his picks for the best books of 2019: Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner (Hachette NZ), Find Me by André Aciman (Faber), The Offing by Benjamin Myers (Bloomsbury). Audio

10:05 AM.Kieran Hurley's work Mouthpiece, won the Hector MacMillan Award for Best new Scottish play and the prestigous Carol Tambor Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year (2019), where it was sold… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.A community initiative is underway on the West Coast which aims to make Greymouth the safest place in the country to have a heart attack. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.The latest in the President Trump impeachment process and a look ahead to the Iowa Caucuses in early February. Senator Bernie Sanders is currently ahead in Iowa. Audio

9:20 AM.Kathryn talks to the outgoing head of New Zealand On Air, Jane Wrightson about her 12 years leading the allocation of around $100 million in funding to content creators across our screens and… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.As the death toll in China from those infected with coronavirus rises to 81, a lock-down spreads to 15 cities and group tours are banned outside of the country, Kathryn talks to New Zealand Chinese… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Lou and Ant Bentley set up the Akaroa Cooking school almost a decade ago, and have branched out into foodie tours too, to Italy and also the Canterbury region. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.US media is reporting the basketball great, Kobe Bryant, has died in a helicopter crash in California. The LA County Sheriff says five people have died in a crash in Calabasas. Bryant played his… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Labour's annual retreat, the Whanau ora dispute and a resolution to the long-running land dispute at Ihumatao draws near. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Labour's annual retreat, the Whanau ora dispute and a resolution to the long-running land dispute at Ihumatao draws near. Audio

10:40 AM.Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb of University Book Shop, Dunedin, with her favourite books from last year: The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape), The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.One of the world's foremost primatologists Frans de Waal's research tells us much about what can animals teach us about ourselves when it comes to economic, social and political power structures. Read more Video, Audio

9:55 AM.Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia face devastating crop losses following the worst locus swarms in 70 years, and Debora tells Kathryn about the moves to end child marriages in Malawi. Audio

9:45 AM.Dr Rod Carr is heading up the newly created independent institution, tasked with holding successive governments to account on climate change mitigation and adaption. Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Historians and genealogists say the work that they do could be severely impacted by proposed changes at the National Library and Archives New Zealand. The National Library is trying to re-home its… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Chinese officials are warning that people with the novel coronavirus can be infectious up to two weeks before they develop any symptoms. Read more Audio

11:32 AM.Sam Ackerman talks cricket, previewing the India versus Black Caps series, Dame Valerie Adams' comeback, is her legacy on the line? Also how young New Zealanders have fared at the Youth Winter… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Jeremy Taylor eases into 2020 by commemorating the passing of the 4AD label's iconic sleeve designer Vaughan Oliver, plus a compilation of tracks arranged by Ivor Raymonde. Audio

10:40 AM.Tilly Lloyd of Unity Books with her top picks of the year: Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree (Picador); This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Rebecca Jamieson is the first ever female athlete to qualify to represent New Zealand in the Modern Pentathlon at the Olympic Games. While most athletes preparing for the Olympics focus on one sport… Read more Audio, Gallery