Nine To Noon Podcast Options

10:42 AM.Gina Rogers reviews Better Than a Bought One by Jo Seagar, which is published by Penguin Random House NZ. Audio

10:07 AM.Seventeen year-old Melbourne school girl Jade Hameister talks to Kathryn Ryan about her record-breaking Polar Quest, which involves skiing to the North Pole, across Greenland, and finally 600 km… Read more Audio

9:47 AM.Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney reports from Le Quesnoy on the emotional centenary commemorations held in the northern French town saved by Kiwi soldiers near the end of World War One, with the… Read more Audio

9:27 AM.Auckland War Memorial Museum chair, Orchid Atimalala on recognising the city's multicultural demographic. She is the first woman to be appointed chair of the Museum and stresses the importance of… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.The Ombudsman says employees who want to blow the whistle on wrong doing in an organisation need far better protection under the law. The government is to change the law covering people who want to… Read more Audio

11:51 AM.Irene Pink and Elisabeth Easther look at the lighter side of the headlines in the week that was, including Amethyst Realm's unusual love life involving ghosts, and the backlash over a British magazine… Read more Audio

11:34 AM.Leading tennis players, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic have pulled out of an exhibition tennis match in Saudi Arabia in the wake of the brutal killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Sports… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Philadelphia musician Kurt Vile is back with his first solo album in three years, and it's a ripper, according to music reviewer Grant Smithies. We hear two tracks from that today, alongside recent… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.An award-winning voice in Pacific literature, Lani Wendt Young is the 2018 Pacific Laureate. Lani speaks to Lynn Freeman about pursuing her love of writing stories in the face of publishers' initial… Read more Audio

9:51 AM.Koro Vaka'uta reports on what's making news in the Pacific, including the New Caledonian Referendum on Independence, Super Typhoon Yutu thumping the Northern Marianas, and still no one has been held… Read more Audio

9:37 AM.A group of Asian screen professionals are fighting to get more Asian stories onto our screens by lobbying funding bodies and nurturing young creatives. The Pan-ASian Screen Collective (PASC) says… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.Up until 150 years ago, each New Zealand region had its own, different time zone. That all changed on 2nd November 1868 when New Zealand brought in a single time for the whole country, the first… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Earlier this week questions around who should qualify for Kiwibuild re-emerged after one of the first 18 families to buy one was accused of being too wealthy. Housing commentators say that's why a… Read more Audio

11:47 AM.TV reviewer Sarah McMullan has been watching some seriously scary television in Halloween week - some hitting the mark and others not! She reviews the Soho show, A Discovery of Witches, the reboot of… Read more Audio

11:28 AM.Currently, 6,000 New Zealand kids are getting homeschooled, not including those enrolled at the correspondence school Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu. Educating a child at home can allow a parent to "light a… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Tech commentator, Bill Bennett has news about IBM acquiring a little known company Red Hat - is it a big deal and will it make IBM relevant again? Also on the agenda is the SKY court case against the… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Louise Ward from Wardini books reviews Inside the Villains by Clotilde Perrin, and Rivers: A visual history from river to sea by Peter Goes. Both are published by Gecko Press.

"Rivers by Peter Goes… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.A school principal should be like a preacher - motivating and inspiring students, teachers and parents at the same time, says Hamish Brewer, a 41-year-old Kiwi who is currently a high school principal… Read more Video, Audio

9:52 AM.UK correspondent Matthew Dathan says Chancellor Philip Hammond's has delivered a £103 billion spending spree in the Budget - is austerity over? But economists looking over the figures think he's… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.World energy leaders are meeting at Te Papa for the Asia Pacific energy sector's biannual Energy Leader's Summit. World Energy Council Secretary-General Christoph Frei talks to Kathryn Ryan about… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.The US midterm elections get underway next week, in the middle of Donald Trump's first term. Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post reporter, and author of The Apprentice - Trump, Russia and the… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.New research from the University of Otago shows a majority support some form of euthanasia or assisted dying in New Zealand - and those attitudes have remained relatively constant for the past 20… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Melanie Rodriga discusses her involvement in 'Meet Me at the Intersection' an anthology of 'own voice' YA writing about life seen through the perspective of marginalised groups. Audio