Nine To Noon Podcast Options

9:39 AM.Monsoon rains just a few weeks away could spell disaster for the 700 thousand Rohingya refugees living in makeshift shelters in Bangladesh. The refugees fled across the border from Myanmar last year… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.A consumer advocate for power customers in King Country is warning locals against rushing into a new solar deal, especially those who can least afford it. Supercharged Energy is offering low income… Read more Audio

11:47 AM.Groups of people around the country are aiming to sort out the housing crisis on their own through cooperative housing, but running into bureaucracy. Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of… Read more Audio

11:33 AM.Chrissie Lahood from Wanaka cafe Big Fig shares recipes for two salads inspired by her Middle Eastern heritage – Freaky Beets and Roasted Vegetable Fattoush. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:07 AM.Shane Jones wants public service to move faster; the first KiwiBuild homes promised by the government are now under construction; and Labour left out of Greens' Northcote decision. Matthew Hooton is… Read more Audio

10:41 AM.Niki Ward reviews Isle of Dogs by Wes Anderson, publisher Faber & Faber. Audio

10:09 AM.From writing about contemporary manners to science fiction and historical mystery, Karen Joy Fowler is one of those authors who is hard to pin down by genre. She talks to Kathryn Ryan about… Read more Audio

9:51 AM.Europeans debate significance of Macron & Merkel's visits to see President Trump; big protests in Spain over sentences handed down to men accused of gang rape; and environmental groups welcome EU… Read more Audio

9:38 AM.Toby Dixon and Ryan Gut didn't set out to be farmers. But in the last two years since meeting, these two millennials have created a successful organic farm supplying restaurants and supermarkets in… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:09 AM.Councils across the country, and the world, are scrambling to find alternatives to sending their waste to China. So with increased costs & stockpiles of waste building up, what to do with our… Read more Audio

11:49 AM.Our comedians delight in some of the lighter stories of the week including the apology cake made for an accidentally tasered firefighter. Audio

11:31 AM.The surprisingly good and eminently readable latest book on Tiger Woods called 'Tiger Woods', the Warriors great season in 2018 has been railroaded and new IAAF rules on hyperandrogenism point to… Read more Audio

11:09 AM.The second album from Auckland based singer songwriter Tom Cunliffe, a compilation of Robert Kirby's pastoral folksy arrangements, and the aching glacial pop of Japanese Breakfast have all caught… Read more Audio

10:38 AM.Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books reviews Built by Roma Agrawal, published by Bloomsbury. Audio

10:07 AM.Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, Amy Goldstein, talks to Kathryn Ryan about the fallout from the loss of a GM assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin--Paul Ryan's hometown--by talking to the… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Anna Fifield reports from South Korea which is about to host the high stakes Inter-Korea Summit which will set the stage stage for a further summit between Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump in the coming… Read more Audio

9:38 AM.A former police officer turned private investigator, whose work on the Teina Pora case was instrumental in his conviction being quashed, says the police use of jailhouse snitches is on the rise - and… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The Productivity Commission has spent a year researching how NZ can move towards becoming a low emission economy. It says the current policies are not reducing domestic emissions and urgent change is… Read more Audio

11:48 AM.TV and film writer Paul Casserly has been watching Cunk on Britain - a Charlie Brooker produced satirical history presented by Philomena Cunk (YouTube) and the Aussie thriller Wake in Fright, which is… Read more Audio

11:19 AM.Too many Kiwi teenagers are falling into debt traps, says Kelly Gay from the Commission for Financial Capability. He's part of the team now developing a school-based education programme on money… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Facebook has shut down access to many of its APIs (the means through which third parties access data on its platforms) - but it's now affecting researchers who have been doing work on social media… Read more Audio

10:38 AM.Gina Rogers reviews Women in Sunlight by Frances Mayes, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

10:07 AM.When tumours took hold of Barbara Lispka's brain and she lost her grip on reality, the American neuroscientist had a powerful opportunity to examine mental illness from the inside. Read more Audio

9:51 AM.British Prime Minister Theresa May suffers sixth defeat in a week in House of Lords; speculation over what Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will name the new prince; and the first ever statue of woman… Read more Audio

9:38 AM.New Zealand researchers say they've developed the next big medical imaging innovation, that will revolutionise the way x-rays detect, diagnose and monitor many diseases, including cancer. It's a… Read more Audio