Nine To Noon Podcast Options

10:06 AM.Military historian and eminent journalist Max Hastings' VIETNAM An Epic Tragedy 1945-1975 explores the war, and the people it affected, from a variety of perspectives. One reviewer has called it "the… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.Political reporter at the Press Association, Harriet Line says all eyes have been on the Labour Party annual Conference which has been dominated by Brexit, but are those divisions being healed? A… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.What happens when you recycle a house instead of demolishing it? Kathryn Ryan talks to Treena Gowthorpe from the Helensville Community Recycling Centre who teamed up with Envision New Zealand to look… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:08 AM.How does MSD use predictive data to target at-risk citizens? Statistics NZ is running a Data Summit conference in Wellington today and tomorrow, and one of the agencies funding it is our biggest… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Arts commentators Courtney Johnson looks at the announcement last week that the Alexander Turnbull Library is acquiring the archives for the renowned Peter McLeavey Gallery. How do we look after an… Read more Audio

11:28 AM.Why do over two thousand small businesses go into liquidation every year and what is the impact of this on the people involved? Former corporate executive-turned-business advisor Bob Weir has… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Graeme Downes takes a timely look at the iconic sound of Burt Bacharach, Hall David and Dionne Warwick. He's been listening to 'Walk On By', 'Anyone Who Had a Heart', 'Do You Know the Way to San Jose'… Read more Audio

10:38 AM.Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews Queen Victoria by Lucy Worsley, which is published by Hachette. Audio

10:06 AM.The opioid crisis is having a devastating effect on small town America, with drug addiction way above the national average. Over prescribing of painkillers by doctors in depressed towns, wooed by big… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.Australia correspondent Bernard Keane on the continuing saga of Michelle Guthrie's sacking as the ABC's managing director. Plus how is Scott Morrison settling into his new job? Has he managed to move… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Just over six thousand children and young people are in the care of the state under the Ministry for Children or Oranga Tamariki. It's the latest name for the government agency with legal powers to… Read more Audio

11:41 AM.The Court of Appeal has turned down the proposed merger between media companies NZME and Stuff, and Media Commentator, Gavin Ellis pays tribute to broadcasting legend Merv Smith who has just passed… Read more Audio

11:23 AM.Melody Downs has more than an armful of Muay Thai fighting and kickboxing titles and medals to her name - both domestic and international. The Hamilton-based, Kawerau-born fighter started in the sport… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Business commentator Rod Oram looks at the key recommendations of the tax working group,and at the new CEO of a2 Milk selling of most of her newly granted shares in the company. Also, inequality… Read more Audio

10:39 AM.Don Rood reviews Awatere: Portrait of a Marlborough Valley by Harry Broad which is published by:Potton & Burton.

"Marlborough’s magnificent Awatere Valley is bypassed by thousands of New Zealanders… Read more Audio

10:20 AM.Stanford D School education innovator, Laura McBain sees collaboration, creativity, persistence and adaptability as the key to equipping students for their future workplaces. Stanford D school is a… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Oranga Tamariki social workers have reached agreement in principle on a pay equity settlement worth $114.6 million over five years. The PSA Union's National Secretary Erin Polaczuk joins Kathryn to… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.US correspondent Susan Milligan with the ongoing Senate judiciary committee hearing into sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Also the effect natural disasters… Read more Audio

9:32 AM.The Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr is on a mission to explain the role of the central bank to New Zealanders.What does it do? why? And why does it matter? Mr Orr became governor in March this year… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Building has the highest number of suicides of any occupation, and the construction sector is moving to address some of the underlying factors. A new study finds a boom or bust cycle, and a culture of… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Wildlife wanderer, Kennedy Warne tells of the recent discovery that the bonnetshark is a plant eater. He also touches on the great kereru count, conservation events in Auckland, including the Pestival… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Lynn talks with Danny and Yaron Eliahu, whose family business has been supplying New Zealanders with fresh pita bread for 30 years. When the family emigrated to New Zealand from Israel in the 1988… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Stephen Mills and Brigitte Morten look back on a rugged week in politics, including the handling of the Meka Whaitiri controversy. Stephen Mills is the executive director of UMR Research and former… Read more Audio

10:39 AM.Charlotte Graham-McLay reviews Early Riser by Jasper Fforde, which is published by Hachette. Read more Audio