Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:27 AM.Editor of parenting website Kiwi Families and former teacher turned parenting guru, Rochelle Gribble discusses how to get the most out of parent-teacher interviews and student led conferences. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Robbie Allan discusses the Apple Watch, Kiwi startup Booktrack which recently raised 5 million dollars, and Tesla unveils ludicrous mode. Audio

10:38 AM.Published by William Heinemann, RRP$55.00. Reviewed by John King. Audio

10:34 AM.A statement related to the debate over the Serco operated Mt Eden remand prison, prisoner antics and related injuries. Audio

10:09 AM.The bestselling author of a biography about Michelle Obama, and longtime award-winning reporter for The Washington Post, Liza Mundy argues being sixty-something is in fact a "sweet spot" for some… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Tony Blair comments on UK Labour politics. David Cameron's plan for dealing with ISIS. Hitler and the Brittish royalty. Winston Churchill's tunnels Audio

9:37 AM.Radio New Zealand's Economics Correspondent Patrick O'Meara discusses the latest interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank. Audio

9:07 AM.A new report based on more than 500 written court decisions finds that there are serious barriers to justice for those challenging ACC decisions. The researchers working with the University of Otago's… Read more Audio

11:48 AM.Siouxsie Wiles discusses the science of screaming, How trustworthy you look could determine your prison sentence, Scientists put mozzies in a mini wind tunnel to study how they zero in on their prey… Read more Audio

11:36 AM.ohn Hancock on the UK Child Poverty Act and its progress and implications for NZ policy. Audio

11:10 AM.Irish musician Paul Brady began his career in the late 1960s and early 1970s singing and playing traditional Irish songs with various bands. He eventually went solo in the mid-70s and began writing… Read more Audio

10:38 AM.Harry Ricketts of NZ Books reviews this year's issue of the New Zealand literary journal Sport. This contains (among much else) fiction by Ashleigh Young and David Coventry, poems by Vincent… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Rosemary Sullivan talks about her love of biography and her works Stalin's Daughter: the Extraordinary Times and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva and Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape and a… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Bronwyn Bishop's controversial use of parliamentary entitlements. Emissions trading scheme. Audio

9:36 AM.Lynn Berresford has over 30 years experience of working with children, teenagers and adults with exceptional needs. She is a guest speaker at the Altogether Autism Conference in Auckland today where… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Substandard building work is on the rise - with complaints to the government run Licensed Building Practitioners scheme up 30 per cent this year. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:44 AM.Media commentator Gavin Ellis discusses the funding situation of Radio New Zealand and the resignation of the New Zealand Herald's Economics Editor, Brian Fallow. Gavin Ellis is a media commentator… Read more Audio

11:23 AM.Meryl Gordon is the author of The Phantom of Fifth Avenue. Her novel is is about American heiress Huguette Clark who died in 2011. The 104-year-old left behind a 45-room apartment on New York's Fifth… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Rod Oram discusses the nitrogen trading market which is cleaning up the Lake Taupo catchment. Audio

10:39 AM.Published by HarperCollins, RRP$34.99. Reviewed by Phil Vine. Audio

10:09 AM.Evan Roth is variously described as an artist, an activist, a graffiti engineer, a programmer and a rebel. He's an award-winning American artist living in Paris, who originally studied architecture -… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:52 AM.Donald Trump vs Burnie Sanders in the Republican presidential candidate race. Amy Schumer's movie Trainwreck. The Harper Lee prequel book 'Go Set a Watchman'. Audio

9:26 AM.Trades academies are accusing some school principals of patch protection over the number of students they'll approve to attend vocational training. A funding anomaly has meant that trades students… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.A project to move the original Treaty of Waitangi document is still in the planning stage, four years after it was announced and having already cost more than three million dollars. In 2011 the… Read more Audio

11:48 AM.Kennedy discusses why it may not be long before features on the dwarf planet Pluto are named after New Zealand adventurers. Read more Audio, Gallery