Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:06 AM.Business Commentator Rod Oram looks at whether the world has changed 10 years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers which signalled the beginning of the Global Financial Crisis, and also a stern… Read more Audio

10:42 AM.Sally Wenley has been reading The House Across the Street by Lesley Pearse. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.GP and award-winning writer, Gavin Francis explores the incredible transformation humans undergo through the course of a lifetime. His latest book Shapeshifters: On Medicine and Human Change considers… Read more Audio

9:51 AM.US correspondent Susan Milligan with the latest on the whodunnit gripping the Washinginton DC corridors of power as President Trump furiously tries to find out who wrote an unflattering New York Times… Read more Audio

9:37 AM.For the past century, the car has dominated our cities, shaping the streets, roads and urban spaces that surround them. Enter the AV or automated vehicle. But according to design guru, Allison Arieff… Read more Audio

9:14 AM.Advocates for children with disabilities are denouncing Treasury advice as discriminatory, resulting in insufficient funding for desperately needed teacher aides, speech and language therapists… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.NZEI President Lynda Stuart discusses a new pay offer for primary teachers and principals with Kathryn Ryan. It's the 2nd offer from the government in the long-running pay dispute. Last month almost… Read more Audio

11:48 AM.Kennedy Warne has been visiting the Windy Hill Sanctuary on Great Barrier Island, where the focus is on eliminating rats and encouraging the return of lizards, weta, birds and flourishing forest. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:30 AM.The owners of Ika Bowl in Auckland are looking at taking their traditional South Pacific take on the poké trend - a Hawaiian raw fish salad - overseas.  Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Matthew Hooton and Stephen Mills on the Prime Minister's handling of the Clare Curran controversy, including her demotion and subsequent resignation from her portfolios. Also, a look at the refugee… Read more Audio

10:38 AM.Kiran Dass from Timeout bookstore reviews Sex & Rage by Eve Babitz which is published by Canongate. Read more Audio

10:07 AM.For more than twenty years Touch Compass has been challenging people's ideas of what dance is and who can do it. Kathryn Ryan talks to its founder and artistic director, Catherine Chappell and one of… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:50 AM.Katy Watson reports from Brazil, where a far right presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, (pictured) has been seriously injured after being stabbed during a campaign event. Also, the man who leads… Read more Audio

9:37 AM.What happens to urban wildlife in cities that never sleep?, Dr Therésa Jones from the University of Melbourne's Urban Night Lab talks about the fascinating adaptive behaviour of a range of animals… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.A former member of the Parole Board says figures showing only one in five parole hearings result in release, are an indictment on the corrections system. Figures released to Nine to Noon by the… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Sports commentator Brendan Telfer on the scandal which has enveloped the harness racing circuit, and several changes to the team ahead of the All Black's test in Nelson. Read more Audio

11:09 AM.Music reviewer, Grant Smithies takes a look at the short-list for Aotearoa's premier songwriting award, the APRA Silver Scrolls. Leaving aside gems by Marlon Williams and The Beths, we hear three of… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Ralph McAllister reviews The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund White, which is published by Bloomsbury. Read more Audio

10:09 AM.Can you tell the difference between a fake laugh and a real one? A new UCLA study led by Professor Greg Bryant suggests many people can detect disingenous laughter. Read more Audio

9:51 AM.Pacific correspondent Koro Vaka'uta looks at issues raised at the Pacific Island Forum in Nauru, including media freedom, the refugee situation and the non-attendance of some leaders. Also, nine cases… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.A new partnership between bookworms and Hogwarts launches tomorrow, promising to cast a spell on young men to get them to read. The New Zealand Book Council has partnered with UK publishers of Harry… Read more Audio

9:26 AM.Bariatric fellow at North Shore Hospital, surgeon Scott Whiting is advocating for publically funded bariatric surgery for those who cannot afford it, but warns it's no short cut for managing… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.A strong hospitality sector needs staff - but can young people be convinced it's a good career option? The growth in the hospitality sector is solid, although it has slowed in the last year. Things… Read more Audio

11:47 AM.Reviewer, Sarah McMullan has been watching a German film, In the Fade, documentary McQueen and New Zealand film Stray. And for Stephen King fans the ultimate show: Castle Rock set in a fictious town… Read more Audio