Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:12 AM.TVNZ releases its latest Colmar Brunton poll; Thursday's pre-Christmas fiscal update and Budget; and National's leadership and legacy. Audio

10:10 AM.While set in the near future, Jock Serong's polemic on Australia's border protection policies could almost be mistaken as a factual tale. Set in the waters of Indonesia, and in Canberra, On the Java… Read more Audio

9:37 AM.New research finds that senior public servants feel less and less able to give Ministers free and frank advice in an increasingly politicized Beehive. Researchers Dr Chris Eichbaum from Victoria… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.ACC barrister and researcher Warren Forster has been named the NZ Law Foundation International Research fellow for 2017. He will spend the next 18 months developing recommendations to create a… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.A lighter look at the week including Christchurch's cold beer crisis and the British family who've decked out their house with Christmas lights just to annoy their neighbour! Audio

11:06 AM.Jeremy Taylor plays a mixed bag of singer-songwriters, from the Southern soul styles of Curtis Harding, to 80's mining Aussie Alex Cameron, indie doyen Angel Olsen, and the 30th anniversary of Bruce… Read more Audio

10:37 AM.Sarah Forster from the Sapling reviews It's my Egg (and you can't have it) by Heather Hunt and Kennedy Warne, and Toroa's Journey by Maria Gill and Gavin Mouldey. Both books are published by Potton… Read more Audio

10:09 AM.2017 has been a massive year for self-described 'haka soul' musician Rob Ruha. In a track on his new album Survivance, Ruha pushes back against what he says is harmful misinformation about Māori… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.North Korea's denouncement of the joint military exercises between the South Korean and American militaries, and are we any closer to resolution on the Rohingya crisis? Audio

9:40 AM.The very hot summer is causing concern at the royal albatross colony at Tairoa Head on the tip of the Otago Peninsula. The breeding season got off to a promising start, but several weeks of searing… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:29 AM.Māmari Stephens Senior Lecturer, Te Kura Tātai Ture - Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington explores the threats facing marae despite their importance in our society. Her thoughts on the… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The Education Council will unveil changes to the way new teachers are supported and mentored. This follows a report by the Education Review Office, which finds that too many new teachers are not well… Read more Audio

11:29 AM.Twenty-two year old Erin Donohue's new novel is a Kiwi take on teenage mental illness that she hopes will help families understand it better. Because Everything is Right but Everything is Wrong is… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Rick Stein's first experience of truly exotic cuisine was a taco in the Mexican city of Monterrey in 1968. The British chef celebrates the flavours of Mexico in his latest cookbook and TV series The… Read more Audio

9:34 AM.Dr Jonathan Albrett has been awarded Australasian Clinical Educator of the Year for his First Year Doctors Acute Skills Teaching Programme. It's further good news for Taranaki DHB, which ranks as the… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.Dr Sam Dean is the chief scientist for climate change at NIWA, he presented a report to Auckland Council yesterday which he refers to as the "encyclopedia" of climate change for Auckland. In it, he… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.This summer, hot, dry weather has arrived earlier than usual, causing fears of drought in regions right across the country, including ones that aren't normally affected. MetService says the long run… Read more Audio