Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:26 AM.How do teenagers navigate the messages bombarding them everyday about what they should look like? Marketing images encouraging them to be thinner, tanned, sophisticated, blemish free and sexy. Angela… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Award-winning Australian author Jesse Blackadder says if her new novel helps raise awareness of the risks of children drowning that will be a bonus. She speaks to Kathryn Ryan about her new novel… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Kate Adie on the escalating diplomatic crisis over the nerve agent attack on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, also the death of Stephen Hawking. Audio

9:25 AM.Auckland Council will be the first local authority in the country to issue Green Bonds to raise funds to pay for infrastructure projects, agreeing this week to establish a Green Bond framework… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.The businessman who spent millions developing Kāpiti airport and attracting Air New Zealand to fly there from Auckland says he's disappointed at the carrier's decision to scrap the service. Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Two years ago few people knew Jordan Peterson's name. Now he's either, depending on your stance, the public intellectual de jour or the acceptable face of alt-right cultural warriors. Read more Audio

10:07 AM.The US whistleblower who leaked top-secret documents The Pentagon Papers in a bid to end the Vietnam War, Daniel Ellsberg talks to Kathryn Ryan about laying bare America's 70 year long nuclear war… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.New research shows roughly 150,000 people are considered to be 'vulnerable transient' - a burgeoning trend that Auckland Action Against Poverty is calling a national emergency. The country's housing… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Fourteen months into the job, Rex Tillerson the American Secretary of State, has been fired. In a tweet this morning, President Trump announced the appointment of CIA head Mike Pompeo into the top… Read more Audio

10:39 AM.Kathryn Carmody reviews Money in the Morgue by Stella Duffy and Ngaio Marsh, published by HarperCollins. Audio

10:11 AM.Alex Pressman is turning an invasive marine pest into a business. His company, Waikaitu, takes an invasive species of seaweed, wakame (undaria pinnatifida) and turns it into fertiliser, food and even… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.US correspondent, Susan Milligan, on the proposed talks between the President and North Korea - is it an historical thaw in relations, or a meeting could never end up happening? Also, the hundreds of… Read more Audio

9:32 AM.The police have re-opened the investigation into the break-ins targetting a Christchurch academic, who has linked them to Chinese spies. Dr Anne-Marie Brady, who has published articles on China's… Read more Audio

9:11 AM.Desperately needed medical, mental health and housing support is finally on the way for vulnerable youth in Canterbury in what will become a one-stop-shop service. Once built, it will bring together… Read more Audio

11:47 AM.Outdoorsman Kennedy Warne has just come back from 10 days on the road guiding a National Geographic tour group through the country, and is en route to the South Island again to report on the Paparoa… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:32 AM.Melissa Hemsley, half of sister duo, Hemsley + Hemsley, is all about delicious, nutritious food made with minimum fuss, and not too much to wash-up at the end! She has recipes for fried eggs, avocado… Read more Audio, Gallery