Nine To Noon Podcast Options

10:40 AM.Unity Books' Kiran Dass reviews Solar Bones by Mike McCormack. Published by Canongate. Audio

10:07 AM.Rotorua-based Bryce McQuillan is a passionate wildlife photographer. He's been taking extreme close-ups of insects with a macro lens for seven years. His specialty is spiders. He also takes photos of… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:51 AM.China's security raid on Fiji raises questions of justice and sovereignty, controversy about plans to mine for phosphate in French Polynesia and debate over the control of the air space over the South… Read more Audio

9:44 AM.Professor David Lavallee's research shows athletes are more employable than people who don't do sport. Sports psychologist and former head of the School of Sport at Stirling University in Scotland… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.A New Zealand-made mobile app has joined the fight against skin cancer to provide remote consultations with local skin specialists, and to encourage people to get suspicious skin lesions checked… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.ACC a new initiative aims to help reduce the amount of sexual violence suffered by young people.

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11:28 AM.An estimated 90,000 New Zealanders aged 15 to 24 are not in education, training or employment. How can we support those who left school early return to education a bit later? Education specialist Lynn… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Human rights lawyer Anne Tonner has written an award-winning book about her daughter Chloe's battle with anorexia. Anne talks about Chloe's journey back to health and how the illness affected her… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.Bernard reports on the same sex marriage plebiscite, Australia's biggest bank being implicated in several major money laundering schemes and the continuing fallout from the citizenship resignations. Audio

9:42 AM.Central Wellington will soon be home to the world's tallest timber office building. This week, Sir Bob Jones' company Robert Jones Holdings unveiled plans for the construction. Read more Audio

9:23 AM.Federated Farmers say Labour's water tax plan has the potential to cripple regional economies if cattle and crop farmers are made to pay for the water they use. Environmental groups are welcoming the… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Its co-leader has resigned, its poll ratings are down - can the Greens recover, and how? Lynn Freeman talks with leader James Shaw. Audio

11:06 AM.Graeme Downes, founding member of the Verlaines, songwriter, musicologist, senior lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Otago, discusses Randy Newman's twelfth studio album "Dark… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.At six years old, Rosita Worl was taken from her family by welfare authorities. She went on to become an anthropologist and devoted advocate for the rights of Native Alaskans. Read more Audio

9:44 AM.Kate Adie reports on the endless stories about Brexit, the controversial TV coverage about Princess Diana and whether trouble at the National Trust is a mere storm in a teacup? Rather than her regular… Read more Audio

9:32 AM.Paediatric endocrinologist Wayne Cutfield on the weight loss trial involving gut bugs from lean young people to help obese teenagers lose weight. He is leading a team of researchers at the University… Read more Audio

9:18 AM.Former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer is concerned the parliamentary select committee tasked with investigating the former Auditor-General Martin Matthews failed to go through the constitutional… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Immigration New Zealand believes some tertiary institution staff may have been involved in fraud and corruption and is keeping tabs on staff at 16 institutions. The alleged offending includes bribery… Read more Audio