Nine To Noon Podcast Options

11:30 AM.Brendan assesses our performance at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Audio

11:06 AM.Featuring The Bats and their lead singer Robert Scott. Audio

10:41 AM.Reviewed by Tilly Lloyd, published by Granta. Audio

10:07 AM.Sharon Moalem is an award winning geneticist, scientist and New York Times bestselling author. His work focusses on bringing together genetics, biology, and medicine to explain how the human body… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.The gutting of Radio Australia. Loss of the Pacific tuna fishery. The Samoan bread fruit -'the new tree of life'. Audio

9:43 AM.Two researchers at the University of Missouri have shown that plants may in fact be able to detect sound. Heidi Appel and Rex Cocroft recorded the sound of a cabbage butterfly caterpillar chewing a… Read more Audio

9:33 AM.Don Jessen is author of a new book profiling the growing trend of restoring retro caravans to their former glory in NZ. Retro Caravans - Vantastic Kiwi Collections is published by David Bateman Ltd. Read more Audio

9:21 AM.Dr Sue Huang is a virologist with Environmental Science and Research. Audio

9:20 AM.Former ACT leader John Banks has abandoned his fight to keep his record clean and has been convicted in the High Court at Auckland of filing a false electoral return. Audio

9:08 AM.Dr. Margaret Mungherea is the President of the World Medical Association; and Dr Sue Huang is a virologist with Environmental Science and Research. Audio

11:48 AM.NZ films at the NZ Film Festival including Housebound, plus Everything We Loved and Begin Again. Audio

11:25 AM.Like many parents, Nigel Latta felt cynical about the education system. The parenting commentator and clinical psychologist wondered why classrooms these days look more like cafes, and why on earth… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Digital Technology on a par with English and Maths, Domain name hijacking and Apple and Amazon are re-inventing the book. Audio

10:42 AM.Lost and Found by Brooke Davis. Published by Orion, $34.99. Reviewed by Anne Else. Audio

10:05 AM.Ramita Navai is a freelance British-Iranian journalist and writer. She has worked as a reporter for Channel 4's foreign affairs series, Unreported World. She has reported from over 30 different… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Greenlight for Fracking in the U.K. and Ed Miliband addresses his shortcomings. Audio

9:40 AM.Noble Keelan founded Gisborne's Eastern Knights Chess Club with Genestis Potini, the subject of the critically acclaimed New Zealand film The Dark Horse starring Cliff Curtis. The Film opens in… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.Alain Bertaud is a senior research scholar at the NYU Stern Urbanization Project. His main area of research is the impact of markets, transportation, and regulations on urban form. Bertaud previously… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Lynne Freeman talks to New Zealander Mike Hooper the Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Games Federation. Audio

11:49 AM.A poem for Jeff Koons, a new way of auctioning off art, and a problem with huge ships in Venice. Audio

11:30 AM.Ursula looks back on the implications of the decision of the court to terminate the right of TV3 to film the John Banks trial. Audio

11:07 AM.Nicole Atkins is from New Jersey and released her first album, Neptune City, in 2007. She has a big, full voice, similar to Mama Cass Elliott and the production and songs on her first album are… Read more Audio

10:38 AM.Written by James Lee Burke, reviewed by Harry Broad and published by Orion. Audio

10:08 AM.Idan Ben-Barak is the author of 'Why Aren't We Dead Yet? (published by Scribe). He explores the immune system and what keeps it running, how germs are destroyed and why we develop immunities to… Read more Audio

9:51 AM.Fairfax correspondent talks about the ongoing difficulties over the recovery of MH17 debris. Audio