Nine To Noon Podcast Options

9:10 AM.Otago University researchers are warning that a computer-based risk prediction model to profile and target ACC clients may be compromising the agency 's ability to make fair and humane decisions about… Read more Audio

11:32 AM.New Zealander Aaron Bertelsen is head vegetable gardener and cook at The Great Dixter – a historic house and garden in East Sussex. He talks about the value of good soil and shares a fennel and a kale… Read more Audio

11:12 AM.National and Labour look to strike a deal with NZ First. How will the next government be formed and what shape could it be? Kathryn talks with Victoria University public law specialist Dr Dean Knight.

11:08 AM.Reviewed by Gina Rogers and published by Macmillan. Audio

10:07 AM.Executive Director of the Open Markets Institute, Barry Lynn, talks to Kathryn Ryan about his concerns over Google's growing power as a monopoly. Barry says he lost his job as senior fellow at the… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Ira reports from Berlin where Germany has just gone to the polls. Audio

9:38 AM.Otago Polytech students will be able to de-stress in a custom-built sensory room from next year. Occupational therapy students Natalie Heinz and Janine Hunter first came up with the idea. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:09 AM.National's strength in the suburbs and provinces was overlooked by a media with an inner-city mindset, a political commentator says. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Built around four feisty sisters, pioneering NYC punk-funk band ESG played live in punk dive bars while their records got a thrashing in early dance clubs Paradise Garage and Danceteria. We hear two… Read more Audio

10:37 AM.Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books celebrates 50 years of the independent book shop and discusses the 'Unity Books at 50' anthology and Robert McCrum's "Every Third Thought: On Life, Death and the End-Game"… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.If you want to change a dog's behaviour get yourself a clicker, says animal behaviour consultant Mark Vette. Hercules – the beloved star of Toyota's 'bugger' ads – was one of Vette's dogs. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

9:50 AM.Digital disruption is creating a quiet sovereignty battle over who controls the upper air space over the South Pacific, a beetle is threatening disaster for Papua New Guinea's important coffee… Read more Audio

9:37 AM.The annual spectacle and extravaganza that is WOW kicks off in Wellington tonight. Drawing an audience of over 55 thousand, the international design competition, which began in Nelson 30 years ago… Read more Audio

9:14 AM.Today is the last day to enroll and already than 800,000 have had their say. But still more than 300-thousand people haven't done so - and just under half of them are 18 to 24 year olds. We are joined… Read more Audio

11:27 AM.Employers say many of today's graduates are low on innovation, creativity, and interpersonal skills. What can parents do to encourage children to think for themselves? Explore, debate, play and don't… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.John Adams is a poet and writer, and a former Family Court judge of 20 years. His first book of poetry, Briefcase, won the Jessie MacKay Prize for Best First Poetry book in 2012. His second book of… Read more Audio

9:53 AM.Matthew Parris on the future for the Liberal Democrats; the latest on the Parson's Green Tube terror attack; the extraordinary fuss stirred up by Boris Johnson's new leadership bid, and Ryanair… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.With the introduction of the iPhone X, Apple brought to the forefront facial recognition technology, or what they call FaceID - a way for users to be able to unlock their phone just by looking at it… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern makes her case for Saturday's election in an extended interview with Kathryn Ryan. Read more Video, Audio