Nine To Noon Podcast Options

10:07 AM.New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff talks to Kathryn Ryan about his new biography Robin. From manic comedy routines - seemlessly transforming from one character to another, his break-out role… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Donna Field reports on Australia's by-election results, the Queensland man jailed for 17 years after planning a suicide terror attack on Australian soil, and the resignation of Adelaide's Archbishop… Read more Audio

9:38 AM.What are the barriers, in both attitudes and in practical terms that prevent more women from going into politics? The picture is complicated. On one hand, politics is changing - with our Prime… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The government's Electricity Price Review is underway looking into whether consumers are paying too much for power. British lawmakers have recently adopted an energy price cap which will be set by the… Read more Audio

11:24 AM.You haven't earned your truckie stripes until you've watched a big vehicle run away from you, says former truck driver Randolph Covich, author of Life on the Road: Kiwi Trucking Stories. Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Fonterra’s next chair will need to tackle poor performance and capital spending problems, business commentator Rod Oram says, by changing the co-op’s culture. Read more Audio

10:39 AM.Stella Chrysostomou from Volume book shop reviews A Weekend in New York by Benjamin Markovits, published by Faber. Audio

10:07 AM.Filmmaker Lorna Tucker is proud of her documentary about the "still punk" 77-year-old fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, even though Westwood has called it "mediocre".  Read more Video, Audio

9:52 AM.US correspondent, Susan Milligan tells how more than 700 undocumented immigrant children, who were separated from their parents at the border, have not been reunited, despite the deadline passing. Audio

9:41 AM.A three way collaboration between iwi groups Ngāti Awa Group Holdings, Rotoma No I, and Te Arawa Group Holdings recently secured a deal, buying three Bay of Plenty kiwifruit orchards. Together as the… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Is the TV watershed a relic of a time - or do we still need some kind of nationally agreed control ? The Broadcasting Standards Authority is considering a shake-up of the way it helps parents regulate… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.New research by Motu Economic and Public Policy Research has examined the impact on EQC of weather related flood claims. Wild weather has seen Earthquake Commission pay out nearly 300 million dollars… Read more Audio

11:31 AM.The food we eat affects our gut health – which in turn affects our digestion, says scientist Amber Milan. Do your guts a favour with her (prebiotic and probiotic) kumara and leek soup. Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Simon Bridges' first National Party conference as leader, education at the forefront. Matthew Hooton is the managing director of the PR and lobbying firm, Exceltium. Stephen Mills is the executive… Read more Audio

10:09 AM.From The Beatles to One Direction, millions of young girls and women over the decades have fallen in love with boy bands and some have taken their obsessions to the extreme. Australian film Producer… Read more Video, Audio

9:36 AM.An Australian trial study has shown specially trained dogs can help younger people suffering from dementia as their world becomes increasingly confusing. Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Research has shown that throughout the world, the side effects of medications are significantly under reported. In New Zealand the monitoring system relies on voluntary reports by GPs or patients to… Read more Audio