Nine To Noon Podcast Options

10:40 AM.Lisa Finucane reviews The Ottoman Secret by Raymond Khoury, which is published by Michael Joseph (UK). Audio

10:08 AM.They're tasked with helping us get better when we're sick, but what about the health and wellbeing of doctors themselves? Author Lucy Mayes was prompted to look at the pressures doctors are under when… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.RNZ Pacific journalist Koro Vaka'uta talks to Lynn about eye care around the Pacific, there is only one opthamologist for a number of countries. Also the mystery death of an American couple in Fiji… Read more Audio

9:38 AM.Two seriously overweight kune kune pigs, Jenny and Craig, are in SPCA foster care after a report of concern about their size. They are both on a strict no carb, herbivorous diet. Craig (pictured… Read more Audio

9:22 AM.Australian researchers are concerned about the length of time teenagers are sedentary and are encouraging schools to help to get students moving. The Deakin's Institute for Physical Activity and… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The former MP who complained to the Serious Fraud Office about dodgy spending by a former Waikato DHB head, says the decision to stop investigating Nigel Murray sends the wrong message.The SFO says… Read more Audio

11:48 AM.TV reviewer Chris Schulz is out to find the fun on the box, the offerings from which have been a bit grim of late. He'll talk to Kathryn about the 3rd season of Stranger Things, the George… Read more Audio

11:22 AM.The past nine months have been a rollercoaster of emotions and change for Ashburton parents, Jo and Deane Taylor. Last year their 13 year old son Tom, was diagnosed with stage 4 hodgkin lymphoma. In… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:06 AM.Technology correspondent Mark Pesce looks at three things that happened over 12 days that pretty much changed everything about cryptocurrencies: Facebook's Libra announcement, The Financial Activities… Read more Audio

10:38 AM.Ralph McAllister reviews The Porpoise by Mark Haddon, which is published by Penguin Random House. Haddon pushes the boundaries of the novel in a disturbing treatment of modern Britain and mythical… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Natural history filmmaker Alastair Fothergill's new project with long-time partner Sir David Attenborough is a sobering new Netflix series and accompanying book. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

9:51 AM.UK correspondent Harriet Line reports on the reaction to Tory party leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson's pledge to dump so-called 'sin taxes' - including lifting the levy on sugary drinks. China's… Read more Audio

9:36 AM.Thirty percent of concussions are suffered by children, but the only international guidelines for recovery currently in existence are for adults. Professor Nicola Starkey from the School of Psychology… Read more Audio

9:24 AM.If you own a reclad leaky building, take some comfort in knowing that new research is showing what were once leaky buildings are now selling for the same prices as homes and apartments that have never… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Local councils dealing with climate change, and struggling with overloaded infrastructure and high visitor numbers need better financial support - according to a new report from the Productivity… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Science correspondent Siouxsie Wiles looks at a fungus that infects cicadas to makes them mate non-stop, how Kiwis fared in a global honest test and how antioxidants may actually encourage the spread… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.New Zealand squadron leader, flying-boat captain and commercial airline pilot, Tom Enright's book Many a Close Run Thing celebrates 45 years of a career which he says has given him "a wonderful life… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Music reviewer Kirsten Johnstone joins Kathryn for some Matariki tunes, including some Whirimako Black and Dunedin rangatahi He Waka Kotuia. Read more Audio

10:40 AM.All the Juicy Pastures: Greville Texidor and New Zealand by Margot Schwass, reviewed by Anne Else. Audio

10:15 AM.Filmmaker Nanfu Wang uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by it. Her documentary One Child Nation won the Sundance Grand… Read more Video, Audio

10:05 AM.Greg Pollock Metlink's General manager of Public Transport talks to Kathryn Ryan about Wellington's commuter chaos with up to 20 thousand Wellington commuters believed to have been affected. Read more Audio

9:35 AM.It could take several weeks to properly repair Taupo's wastewater pipes, following a massive sewage spill into Lake Taupo yesterday. Up to 80 per cent of the resort town's wastewater streamed into the… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.Nearly 18 years after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York a battle is being waged to replenish the fund to support emergency responders and their families. The existing fund US$7.5… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The clean-up is getting underway in Hong Kong after the unprecedented protests earlier this week, but the fall-out will be ongoing. Pro-democracy activists stormed the territory's parliament on… Read more Audio