Nine To Noon Podcast Options

9:09 AM.A survey of GPs has found nearly 12 percent of those questioned have helped a terminally ill and suffering patient to die. The magazine New Zealand Doctor and IMS FaxHealth polled doctors on their… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Urbanist Tommy Honey discusses progress with the Flag Consideration Panel. Read more Audio

11:36 AM.Ron Parkin co-founded Genoese Pesto based in Ohau in the Horowhenua. He grows his basil in Fiji, and has grown the business from selling a few pots a week in the 1990s to gaining over 50% of the… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton discuss politics. Read more Audio

10:34 AM.Black Sheep: The Secret Benefits of Being Bad by Dr Richard Stephens, Published by Hodder, RRP$37.99 Audio

10:07 AM.The National Geographic photojournalist, Steve Winter, literally puts himself in harms way to get the perfect image, resulting in him being attacked by rhinos, charged by an 11 foot Siberian grizzly… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.Greece Seeks Third Bailout in Brussels. Audio

9:40 AM.Project Semicolon www.projectsemicolon.com is a non-profit movement dedicated to giving hope to people who are struggling with depression, suicide, addiction and self-harm. People draw or tattoo a… Read more Audio

9:33 AM.After working as a foreign correspondent in Russia for 30 years Helen Womack has been blacklisted by the authorities and forced to stop working as a journalist, so she's decided to leave. We speak to… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.New Zealand has a chronic family violence problem, with the third worst child abuse record after Mexico and the US out of 31 OECD countries. Massey University's Dr Ruth Gammon has worked with victims… Read more Audio

11:47 AM.With comedians Radar and Gemma Gracewood. Audio

11:32 AM.Sports commentator Brendan Telfer talks the big game between the All Blacks and Samoa. There are calls now for a regular All Blacks tour of various pacific islands. Audio

11:07 AM.Jeremy Taylor introduces a ragbag selection of tracks from the soundtrack to a record store and label from Belfast, the authentic country stylings of Eilen Jewell, Richard Thompson's new Jeff… Read more Audio

10:37 AM.'Age of Earthquakes' by Douglas Coupland, Shumon Basa and Hans Obrist. Published by Penguin, RRP $26.00. Reviewed by Briar Lawry. Audio

10:10 AM.British neurologist, Suzanne O'Sullivan talks about her most intriguing cases of psychosomatic illness. The supermarket worker, 'Yvonne' who lost her sight, 'Camilla', the lawyer with the perfect life… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Tom Mitchell from the Financial Times in Beijing reports on China's stock market crash and the drastic action by its government to intervene. Audio

9:35 AM.US educator and researcher Pedro Noguera, whose work has largely focussed on poor children, and why they have poor educational outcomes. He says that under privileged children can be locked into… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.The government has put KiwiRail on notice, giving it two years to identify savings and reduce Crown funding required. What is the future of the rail network and what is its importance to regional New… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Lara Strongman reviews Season 2 of True Detective on SoHo, and Life is Toff on Prime. Audio

11:24 AM.Mark Bowers is a paediatric psychologist who specialises in neurodevelopmental issues including autism spectrum disorder and ADHD. He has written the book 8 Keys to Raising the Quirky Child - targeted… Read more Audio

11:12 AM.Mark Pesce discusses whether the logical endpoint of social media is full-blown telepathy. Audio

10:23 AM.During his 27 years in the force, Queensland Senior Sergeant Corey Allan has developed several grassroots programmes with social issues and at-risk people at the core. Parts of his own childhood were… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.'The Lives of Colonial Objects' Edited by Annabel Cooper, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla. Published by Otago University Press, RRP$50.00. Reviewed by Paul Diamond. Audio

9:47 AM.The first Conservative-only budget for 19 years; the tenth anniversary of the 7/7 London bombings and the growing debates over EVEL (English Votes for English Laws). Audio

9:22 AM.Smart phones and mobile devices are changing media organizations around the world, as consumers access content from wherever they are at any time. Rebecca Howard is the woman charged with developing… Read more Audio