Nine To Noon Podcast Options

10:37 AM.Harry Ricketts reviews Tinderbox by Megan Dunn, published by Galley Beggar Press. Audio

10:07 AM.After the "best year he's had on the bike" 32-year-old New Zealand cyclist Jack Bauer is eyeing up next year's Tour de France. Read more Audio

9:49 AM.Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is ending the year on a positive note after his candidate, former tennis champ turned MP John Alexander, was victorious in last weekend's by-election sparked by… Read more Audio

9:27 AM.It may go down as one of the most memorable and haunting images of 2017 - the Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in West London, ablaze in the early hours of the morning, fire spreading at… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.A Far North rest home is reeling after being told it faces a 20 per cent hike in its power bill. Switzer Residential Care in Kaitaia has been told it faces paying an extra $20,000 a year when it comes… Read more Audio

11:21 AM.The Million Metres Streams Project has a goal to restore a million metres worth of waterways, by planting native trees along the banks of rivers and lakes across the country. They're almost at the… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Auckland-based poet and scholar, Selina Tusitala Marsh is New Zealand's first female Pasifika Poet Laureate. She currently lectures at Auckland University, specialising in Māori and Pacific… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Whakatane District Council Mayor Tony Bonne talks to Kathryn Ryan about the on-going impact on Edgecumbe and the surrounding district of April's devastating floods. Seven months on, with a new… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The Australian government has dropped its plans to make New Zealanders studying at Australian universities pay higher fees. It had proposed legislation which would have removed access to government… Read more Audio

11:47 AM.Kennedy talks to Kathryn about extinction, including a recording of the extinct huia, the last laughing owl ever collected, and naturalist E. O. Wilson's book on extinction, Half Earth. Audio

11:29 AM.Annabel Langbein’s latest cookbook Essential (her biggest yet) includes recipes for roast turkey, roast chicken and glazed ham. She gives some advice on how to rustle up a last-minute Christmas feast.

11:07 AM.As well as a look at Labour's Mini Budget, Matthew and Stephen review the massive year in politics - who are the winners and who are the losers? Audio

10:36 AM.Louise Ward from Wardini Books reviews IQ by Joe Ide, published by Orion Publishing Co. Audio

10:07 AM.Cecilia Robinson is one of the founders of My Food Bag. The food delivery service launched in 2013 and now delivers more than one million meals a month, to 50,000 customers. This year she was named… Read more Audio

9:49 AM.Thomas Sparrow is Political and Security Correspondent for Deutsche Welle. Today he discusses the first anniversary of the deadly truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market. Audio

9:37 AM.Part of a wider goal of ridding the Galapagos Islands of plastic, a team of scientists is trying to ascertain how much and where waste plastic is on the islands. They are investigating the amount of… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The police want a major change to the way 111 mental health crisis calls are responded to. Next year they hope to trial a multi agency co-response service, where a mental health worker attends all… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.Grant Smithies is left a little giddy by the new album from Auckland trio, The Roulettes. He chats with the band and waxes lyrical about Venus Burns. Read more Video, Audio