Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:07 AM.Music commentator Graeme Downes joins us for the last time before he takes a sabbatical with a very personal look at the Verlaines 10th studio album Dunedin Spleen, to be released on May 10. Read more Video, Audio

10:40 AM.Anne Else reviews Past Caring? Women, Work and Emotion, which is edited by: Barbara Brookes, Jane McCabe and Angela Wanhalla, and published by Otago University Press. Audio

10:12 AM.Toku Reo Waiata is a one-night musical extravaganza forming the centrepiece of Aucklands Arts Festival. Whirimako Black & Hinewehi Mohi talk to Kathryn Ryan about the kaupapa of the event and why… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.Australia correspondent Karen Middleton looks at how the fallout from the conviction of Cardinal George Pell for historical child sex abuse continues - his controversial lawyer, Robert "plain vanilla"… Read more Audio

9:38 AM.Victims feel unsafe, unsupported and that their concerns aren't being listened to, according to a new survey released this week. Dr Kim McGregor is the government's chief victims advisor and she… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Epidemiologist, Professor of Preventative medicine, and former WHO adviser Sir David Skegg says New Zealand's public health system is failing. He's published a new book The Health of the People, in… Read more Audio

11:44 AM.Media commentator Gavin Ellis looks at the case against Cardinal George Pell in Australia and how it has once again raised the inability of court suppression orders to deal with the digital age - and… Read more Audio

11:29 AM.Angela Keoghan's illustrations feature in the children's book How To Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear, put out by the National Trust in the UK. Angela's work came to the attention of the… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:06 AM.Business commentator Nikki Mandow has been delving into the Mainzeal judgement and she also a look at the shakey state of some other construction companies. Nikki Mandow is from Newsroom and… Read more Audio

10:39 AM.Kiran Dass from Timeout bookstore reviews My Coney Island Baby by Billy O'Callaghan, which is published by Jonathan Cape. Audio

9:49 AM.From the US, Washington bureau chief of The Guardian, David Smith with the latest on the US House panel inquiry into President Donald Trump, amid accusations of obstruction and abuse of power. Also… Read more Audio

9:43 AM.New Zealand's smallest bird is coming to the capital. Around 60 tīti-pounamu, or rifleman birds are being translocated to Zealandia. Director of the Centre for People and Nature at Zealandia Dr… Read more Audio

9:24 AM.Kaihu Valley School Principal Sonia Simeon was outraged when she realised the 14 pupils at her tiny school were not eligible for free vaccinations of the meningococcal W strain. They fall outside the… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:07 AM.Mark Taylor the New Zealander captured in an Islamic State battlefield, is stuck in Syria without a passport. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she's not willing to risk other people's lives in… Read more Audio

11:51 AM.Bill McKay takes a look at what is happening on the waterfronts and lakefronts of towns throughout the country, including the Whangarei town basin, and the coastal developments of Tauranga, Dunedin… Read more Audio

11:33 AM.An after school care programme is exciting children to make their own meals. sKids - Safe Kids in Daily Supervision - is running a programme giving children aged 5-13 a chance to make nutritious food… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Our political commentators and Kathryn take a close look at the Government's transformation agenda. Is it radical change or incremental governing?. Also, the race for the Auckland mayoralty is… Read more Audio

10:42 AM.Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb has been reading Bangkok Wakes to Rain, by Pitchaya Sudbanthad, which is published by Sceptr. Audio

10:08 AM.Professor Harrison Fraker is a world-renowned architect, at the forefront of a major project in his home state of California to retrofit a whole neighbourhood of existing homes into one energy… Read more Video, Audio

9:50 AM.Europe correspondent, Seamus Kearney says authorities in France are voicing shock over the latest in a string of attacks seen as antisemitic. In the latest incident, a memorial stone was vandalised at… Read more Audio

9:34 AM.Kathryn discusses the latest developments in world-wide weather forecasting, and New Zealand's role in it, with Jon Petch, a senior executive from the UK Met Office. New Zealand is one of five… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:08 AM.The independent hearing into a proposed extension to Auckland's Queens Wharf, to allow huge cruise ships to berth has heard a chorus of objections from multiple community groups. The development arm… Read more Audio, Gallery