Nine To Noon Podcast Options

9:51 AM.Debora Patta reports on Ebola in Africa, and what has happened to the kidnapped school girls in Nigeria. Audio

9:43 AM.An New Zealand company's mobile phone app to help to deal with youth depression has just won an award in the US. Siobhan Bulfin is the founder of NZ company Social Code. Audio

9:25 AM.Musculoskeletal pain was estimated in 2012 to cost the country more than $5.5 billion a year and sends as many as 15% of New Zealanders to the GP each year. It's also responsible for a major chunk of… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.The Social Workers Registration Board is urging the government to make registation mandatory, where currently it is voluntary. It says that there are 12 thousand people who identified their profession… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.The week that was. Audio

11:30 AM.Sports commentator Brendan Telfer. Audio

11:05 AM.Jeremy reviews Bob Dylan & The Band, The Eastern and Caribou. Audio

10:40 AM.In the past year, the narrator of '10:04' has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Jonathan Eig is an American writer, whose latest book is called "The Birth of the Pill: How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution". Read more Audio

9:50 AM.News from the Asian region with our correspondent Financial Times Beijing Bureau chief, Jamil Anderlini. Audio

9:40 AM.A world-renowned dinosaur expert discusses the 21st century's fresh discoveries about the evolution of Tyrannosaurus rex from a small fuzzy carnivore to the largest and last of the Tyrannosaur… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Secondary teachers have voted overwhelmingly to accept a major tenet of the government's education reforms. 80 per cent of PPTA members have agreed to include two new teaching roles into their… Read more Audio

11:48 AM.Dan reviews "Skylight", "Two days, One night" and "Nightcrawler" Audio

11:28 AM.What do we tell our young children when a parent gets really sick and has to spend time in hospital? How do we explain to them in an understandable and non-scary way who the health professionals are… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.20/20 Trust provides a snapshot of technology uptake in schools, Bitcoin edges into the mainstream in NZ, Pledgeme crowdfunds for crowdfunding, Netflix in NZ. Audio

10:40 AM.Written by Patrick Rothfuss, reviewed by Louise O'Brien and published by Orion Audio

10:10 AM.Anthropologist Dr David Boarder Giles has been investigating our cultural relationship to food consumption and wastage and he says the trash talks. What what we throw out tells us about our cultural… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.More problems with the NHS. Audio

9:41 AM.An Auckland scientist, Professor Philip Baker, has won a major grant to extend his research on predicting impaired brain development in the womb, though testing of the pregnant mother's hair. Audio

9:09 AM.With the former PSA secretary, Brenda Pilott and Maria Berryman, a Wellington Employment Lawyer. Previously, she was a Principal of the Crown Solicitor's Office in Wellington advising Ministries… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Arts commentator Mark Amery discusses the creative employment of New Zealand's photographic heritage, with a focus on the recently published book Young Country by poet Kerry Hines published by AUP… Read more Audio

11:33 AM.What are your rights when someone attacks you on a blog, Facebook or Twitter? Nick Russell from Chen Palmer discusses online attacks. Audio

11:06 AM.Hunters & Collectors are playing at Auckland's Powerstation on Friday night and opening for The Rolling Stones on Saturday. One of the most important bands to emerge out of the Australian post-punk… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Written by Alexander McCall Smith, reviewed by Harry Ricketts and published by HarperCollins. Audio

10:10 AM.Dr Joseph Bulbulia studies why people turn to religion and how their interaction with their chosen belief system affects their behaviour, their health, their ability to recover from adverse events and… Read more Audio