Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:47 AM.With Te Radar and Pinky Agnew. Audio

11:34 AM.The Black Caps victory over India, the Wallaby's coach Michael Cheika under fire for a supposed rant at a press conference, and the All Blacks get a new jersey. Audio

11:06 AM.Jeremy Taylor admires the new album from Leonard Cohen, David Bowie's stage show cast recording, Connan Mockasin's Soft Hair, and pays his respects to the late Pete Burns of Dead Or Alive". Audio

10:37 AM."Fuzzy Doodle" by Melinda Szymanik and Donovan Bixley, pub by Scholastic "The Marble Maker" by Sacha Cotter illustrated by Josh Morgan pub by Huia Publishers. Te Reo version: "Te Kaihanga Mapere" Na… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.A former detective has just published his debut detective novel which he wrote while recuperating from a crippling auto-immune disease.   Read more Audio

9:48 AM.An Eastern European operation to smuggle people into New Zealand is revealed in Tonga with a court case, Samoa's breadfruit to feed the world, details on how fish contribute to Pacific countries and… Read more Audio

9:28 AM.School counsellors are over-burdened and not able to reach every student they should, the New Zealand Association of Counsellors says. Sarah Maindonald, a spokesperson for NZAC, said it's not uncommon… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.World wildlife has fallen by 58 percent in 40 years according to a new report by the Zoological Society of London and WWF - meanwhile a local report released yesterday by the Ministry for the… Read more Audio

11:28 AM.When it comes to parenting, have we become too obsessed with being clean and worrying about children getting sick from all of the germs they might pick up? Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Kathryn Ryan talks with April Vokey, internationally renowned fly fishing author and guide, and Carl McNeil from Swift, the Wanaka rod building company she's just taken a stake in. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:47 AM.Daily Mail political correspondent Gerri Peev Audio

9:26 AM.Last month Getty Images and the Women's Sports Trust partnered to announce new guidelines aiming to improve how female athletes are portrayed. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:09 AM.A third complaint is to be filed today with the IPCA over the fake checkpoint used by police to find out who'd attended a pro-euthanasia meeting. Kathryn Ryan talks with the President of the Voluntary… Read more Audio

11:27 AM.A guide to the complex question of what is a refugee and an exploration of their shrinking prospects. Kathryn Ryan talks to Professor William Maley from the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.What is it like to live in a world split in two? Nina Willner a former US Army Intelligence Officer, traces her family's incredible history on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Her mother Hanna was just… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:39 AM.Friedemann Freund thinks he's on the trail of the holy grail of seismology - a way to accurately predict earthquakes. His theory is that just before an earthquake the stress put on rocks cause them to… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Housing strategist, Leonie Freeman, who's held senior roles in the property sector in both public and private, talks to Kathryn Ryan about the new independent initiative she believes will solve the… Read more Audio