Nine To Noon Podcast Options

10:41 AM.Claire Murdoch reviews Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

10:34 AM.RNZ's Business Editor Gyles Beckford as the New Zealand stock exchange opens for the day - down 2% Audio

10:07 AM.Jessica Watson came to world attention in 2010 for her single mindedness, bravery and huge skill navigating the world's oceans, on her own for 210 days, when she was only 16. Read more Audio

9:24 AM.There's increased scrutiny on thoroughbred racing after an industry crisis meeting last month sparked by a spate of weather related race abandonments, the resulting financial pressures and calls for… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Southland vet Mark Bryan says farmers are unable to plan for the future while they wait for results of MPI tests for Mycoplasma bovis - the bacterium causing mastitis, abortion, pneumonia, and… Read more Audio

11:36 AM.Faisal Attaye is a young Aucklander with a passion for manuka honey. He started out as a hobby beekeeper but began sourcing manuka honey directly from producers in remote locations throughout… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:06 AM.A look at Waitangi, the brief storm over the National Party's leadership team and why bi-partanship over poverty didn't get off the ground. Audio

10:37 AM.Phil Vine reviews How to be a Human by Ruby Wax, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

10:11 AM.As the host of one of the most popular woodworking channels on YouTube, Frank Howarth of Frank Makes has made a name for himself by seamlessly balancing wood projects with some innovative videography… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

9:48 AM.A shooting spree against immigrants in Italy raises tension four weeks ahead of elections, the Polish president comes under pressure to veto a controversial holocaust law and Corsican nationalists… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Katherine de Silva is a budding botanist traveling the country in a campervan studying 45 urban restoration plots as part of her Masters Degree. She's half way through the expedition, in which she's… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The Bankers' Association has responded to pressure over protection for customers stung by online fraudsters. The association, which represents banks, was criticised by Consumer New Zealand, for its… Read more Audio

11:48 AM.Our comedians discuss the funnier stories of the week including how hundreds of highly-classifed Australian Cabinet files ended up in a second hand shop. Audio

11:34 AM.Ahead of the Winter Olympics, 28 Russian athletes have their Olympic doping bans overturned, throwing the International Olympic Committee's policy on Russian doping into turmoil and there's heavy… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Having resolutely failed to listen to any new music at all over the New Year period, Jeremy Taylor ponders a (non-existent) soundtrack to Lizzy Goodman's excellent oral history "Meet Me in the… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Tilly Lloyd reviews: False River by Paula Morris, published by Penguin. Road to Ruin: the Global Elite's Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis by James Rickards, published by Penguin. Audio

10:07 AM.As a DoC ranger, and Kaitakawaenga doing conservation work on Maori land in the North Island, Dr Rob Whitbourne has hands-on experience of the local environment. After spending much of his life… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Westland Mayor Bruce Smith with the latest on the aftermath of ex-Cyclone Fehi where two separate groups of travellers are trapped. Also Greymouth Mayor Tony Kokshoorn on the damage to his district. Audio

9:47 AM.Anna Fifield reports from Seoul where Winter Olympics' officials contend with minus 25 degree temperatures and a roof-less stadium ahead of the games starting next week with North Korean athletes… Read more Audio

9:31 AM.Wellington's ZEALANDIA wildlife centre is going beyond its predator proof fence and expanding its conservation aims with a new research centre and ambitious new long term goals. In just 22 years the… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:10 AM.The Kiribati government has asked for the search for survivors of the Kiribati ferry disaster to be abandoned. Upwards of 80 people are missing and feared dead, including 23 children. The Kiribati… Read more Audio

11:39 AM.The Minister for Children Tracey Martin talks about the Royal Commission of Inquiry into historical abuse in state care, to be chaired by former Governor General, Sir Anand Satyanand.

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