Nine To Noon Podcast Options

9:23 AM.Business Editor Gyles Beckford discusses the Reserve Bank's decision to loosen lending restrictions for home buyers. Read more Audio

9:11 AM.The challenge of reducing the dairy industry's environmental impact, while at the same time making farms more sustainable. Tracy Brown is the chair the DairyNZ Environmental Leaders Forum and winner… Read more Audio

11:28 AM.Mike Lee is known to many as an Auckland councillor and before that the chair of Auckland Regional Council. But he is also a keen historian, French speaker and enthusiast of the contributions that… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:06 AM.Business commentator Rod Oram takes a look at the Trademe takeover approach from a UK investment fund, and Fletcher Building issues yet another profit warning, and has a very bad AGM. Read more Audio

10:34 AM.Stella Chrysostomou from Volume bookstore reviews The Long Take by Robin Robertson, which is published by Pan Macmillan. Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou started digging into unusual practices at a Silicon valley start-up, Theranos, in 2014. What he uncovered was fraud and deception at a monumental scale. The… Read more Audio

9:48 AM.From the US, Washington bureau chief of The Guardian, David Smith with what's happening to the 500 migrants who attempted to storm the US border and were repelled by tear gas by border officials. Also… Read more Audio

9:31 AM.Babies are sponges for learning new languages, whereas adults find it much harder. Anne Cutler is a Distinguished Professor at Western Sydney University specialising in linguistics. Her research… Read more Audio

9:19 AM.Ombudsman for the Republic of Ireland Peter Tyndall talks with Kathryn about the Magdalene Laundries survivors and his role in their fight for compensation. The Magdalene Laundries were a network of… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.A new global study reveals New Zealand has the world's highest mortality rate for motor neuron disease, with far more sufferers than previously thought. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study shows… Read more Audio

11:49 AM.Bill McKay analyses the long awaited announcement of the Urban Design Authority - it's going to be huge, and will run several projects large scale and incorporate both Housing NZ and Kiwibuild. Also a… Read more Audio

11:32 AM.Dining solo doesn't have to be a chore. New York-based writer and pastry chef Klancy Miller wants to inspire people to enjoy cooking for themselves. She earned a Diplôme de Pâtisserie at Le Cordon… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Discussion focuses on the Government's new planning agency and what impact it might have on housing. Also the tricky politics of China and the challenges that poses for New Zealand. Stephen Mills is… Read more Audio

10:41 AM.Gail Pittaway reviews The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz, which is published by Penguin Random House. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.South African human rights activist and writer Sisonke Msimang's first book Always Another Country is "a memoir of exile and home." The daughter of an ANC freedom fighter, as a child she was always… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Europe correspondent, Seamus Kearney reports on Britain's withdrawal agreement with Europe, with the deal approved unanimously by the bloc's 27 heads of state and government. Also the French president… Read more Audio

9:26 AM.What role can government and business play in getting more electric vehicles on our roads? Norway has been hailed as the undisputed world-leader in EV uptake. The reasons for this aren't just… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.The UN Convention on Biological Diversity is holding its 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties in Egypt to thrash out the main ways to achieve global biodiversity targets, for managing the… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.New music with Jeremy Taylor including a curated selection from Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs on the Ace reissue label. This time, rather than a specific nationality or culture, a… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Roger Young and Potti Wagstaff have been doing business in Wellington's Cuba Street for more than two decades. They're the owners of Fidels cafe, Havana Bar, and a more recent business Havana Brothers… Read more Audio

9:49 AM.Asia correspondent Anna Fifield on Xi Jinping's charm offensive across south-east Asia, his latest stop being the Philippines, and there's drama in Japan with the arrest of Nissan's chairman for… Read more Audio