Nine To Noon Podcast Options

10:07 AM.Kathryn Ryan speaks with Kate Raworth, a self-confessed renegade economist, who offers a radical way to think about economic growth within the framework of social justice and environmental… Read more Audio

9:43 AM.Post Kaikoura's 2016 quake how is the tourism sector recovering? Lincoln University's Joanna Fountain tells Kathryn Ryan that a need to improve food networks in the days and weeks following the quake… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:24 AM.Local mayors are warning unless the Transport Agency starts doing its job properly and progressing vital roading projects, new housing developments in growth areas are at risk. They say many regional… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.MPs in Britain have approved an amended government motion that rejects leaving the European Union without a deal, at any time. That vote coming a day after MP's overwhelmingly rejected - once again -… Read more Audio

11:51 AM.Associate Professor Dr Siouxsie Wiles on how forgetting memories may take more mental effort than continuing to remember them. Also the new study suggesting autonomous driving systems may have more… Read more Audio

11:34 AM.Penguin expert and award winning filmaker and writer Professor Lloyd Spencer Davis on his new book Waddle on the endearing animals he's been studying for four decades. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

11:13 AM.Music 101's Yadana Saw looks at the finalists for the 2019 Taite Music Prize. Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Lisa Finucane reviews The Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber, published by Macmillan. Read more Audio

10:19 AM.Award winning Mexican investigative journalist Anabel Hernandez on her remarkable account of the disappearance and deaths of 43 students in 2014 - and the subsequent coverup. Read more Audio

9:53 AM.How National is tearing itself apart over the leadership of the party, and the right to the job of Deputy Prime Minister, with Barnaby Joyce insisting he had a right to the job. Read more Audio

9:44 AM.Written and performed by Portuguese playwright and actor Tiago Rodrigues, By Heart gets 10 audience volunteers to attempt the intellectual challenge of learning a poem, by heart, on stage. While the… Read more Audio

9:29 AM.18 year old budding physicist Finn Messerli was awarded the Prime Minister's Future Science Prize last night at a ceremony at parliament for his research into the physics of flows of a wide range of… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The tension between tourism, recreation and conservation in our national parks, as underpinned by the spectre of a gondola on one of our most unique natural areas, the Franz Josef Glacier. Kathryn… Read more Audio

11:46 AM.Media commentator Gavin Ellis talks to Kathryn about the decision by commercial radio stations to ban Michael Jackson's music and whether it is a slippery slope. Could they ban an artist because… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Kyle and Marion Mewburn live in Miller's Flat, Central Otago. An award-winning author, Kyle kept a secret for 50 years, before coming out as a trans woman 26 years into their marriage. They've now… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:07 AM.Business commentator Rod Oram and Kathryn discuss the confirmation of Fonterra's new Chief Executive, Miles Hurrell. And the Reserve Bank invokes Tane Mahuta to explain the monetary system. Read more Audio

10:39 AM.Harry Ricketts from quarterly review periodical New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa, reviews The Black and White by Geoff Cochrane. Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Decades of depletion of toheroa beds have left the shellfish struggling to recover. Dr Phil Ross, is a marine ecologist at the University of Waikato, based in Tauranga. His research focuses on why… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:49 AM.US correspondent, Susan Milligan looks at Donald Trump's budget proposal, where he's seeking $8.6 billion in new wall funding. Also it has been quite a week or so, for Democrats, Republicans and… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.As the measles outbreak in Canterbury hits 25, there's a warning that some New Zealanders might not be as immune to the disease as they think are. Health officials are estimating that up to… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Conservationists, recreational advocates and farmers are sounding warnings about the end of tenure review - but for different reasons. Federated Mountain Clubs' President Peter Wilson warns it could… Read more Audio

11:48 AM.Kennedy talks to Kathryn about his recent time in Southland, including a visit to the marvellous E Hayes and Sons department store/motorcycle museum, a stroll through Seaward Bush, a look at the… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:33 AM.Craig Rutland is manager of the Last Light Lodge in Tuatapere, a picturesque stop on the Southern Scenic Route. He runs this cafe and accommodation hub with partner Violaine, also selling plenty of… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Kathryn talks to Stephen Mills and Brigitte Morten about the latest happenings on the political front including the ongoing reaction to the Capital Gains Tax announcement. Stephen Mills is the… Read more Audio

10:37 AM.Holly Walker has been reading How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee. Read more Audio