Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:45 AM.This year's IgNobels have been announced, we'll take a look at some of the winners. Also, blocking a specific part of the brain's immune system has switched off the impulse of mice to drink alcohol in… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.Kathryn talks to trauma therapist Kaitaia-based Ciaran Torrington, who is herself a survivor of sexual harm. She saw there was a desperate need for a good support network for survivors in Northland… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Graeme Downes, founding member of the Verlaines, songwriter, musicologist, senior lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Otago, looks at some of this year's Silver Scroll finalists.

10:05 AM.We tend to think of trees as stationary and inactive, but they're actually dynamic beings who communicate and have memories, says biology professor David Haskell. Read more Audio

9:30 AM.The United States presidents has vowed to totally destroy North Korea unless it backs down from its nuclear challenge. Meanwhile North Korea has warned that it will only accelerate its nuclear… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.National Party leader Bill English makes his case for Saturday's election in an extended interview with Kathryn Ryan. Read more Video, Audio

11:08 AM.What National and Labour are promising for the economy ahead of Saturday's election. Audio

11:08 AM.The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra has produced a 360-degree virtual reality experience which teleports users up on stage. Each of five vantage points offers a different view as well as a different… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:39 AM.Jane Westaway reviews "A Legacy of Spies" by John le Carre. Published by Penguin Random House NZ, RRP $37.00. Audio

10:09 AM.The culture and history of Pacific voyaging will take centre stage at the 2018 New Zealand Arts Festival next February. The spectacular opening event will feature a mass assembly of waka in Wellington… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:45 AM.Steve Almond with the latest from the US including Hillary Clinton's campaign memoir, "What Happened" and President Donald Trump's reaction to it. Audio

9:25 AM.New World announced a vote on whether customers should pay for single-use plastic bags, and already over 120,000 people have cast their votes. Read more Audio

9:08 AM.As the jet fuel crisis, now in its fifth day, continues to disrupt thousands of air travellers - questions are being asked about the country's resilience in the event of fuel shortages. Energy… Read more Audio

11:48 AM.All our cities have long term plans but we need more visions; the future is going to be a radically different place and will arrive faster than we think. Audio

11:35 AM.Based in Titahi Bay near Wellington, Anna Te Puni runs Bay Drive Food with Freedom, where she makes gluten free paleo mueslis, and mint avocado, Gisborne naval orange and peanut butter bon-bons. Anna… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.The state of play less than a week out from election 2017. Audio

10:38 AM.Jenna Todd reviews "Baby" by Annaleese Jochems. Published by Victoria University Press / Upstart Distribution. Audio

10:07 AM.Dr Andre Raine is an American conservationist who's been honoured as a bird saviour for his work with three critically endangered seabirds in Hawaii: the Newell's shearwater, the Hawaiian petrel, and… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:50 AM.A showdown looms in Catalonia, Spain, as mayors defy threats of jail over a planned independence referendum and is 'the wind back in Europe's sails' ? Audio

9:37 AM.It's widely known that physics, chemistry and engineering are fields largely dominated by men, but a group of the country's top female scientists are hoping to highlight the successes of women in a… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.New research shows volunteering in orphanages does more harm than good, so why are so many young New Zealanders still taking part? Advocacy agency, ReThink Orphanages, says a revolving door of… Read more Audio