Nine To Noon Podcast Options

10:40 AM.Rae McGregor reviews 'Winter's Tale' by Mark Helprin, published by Picador. Audio

10:08 AM.Jim Dahm is a coastal scientist who helps advise councils on where to draw coastal hazard lines. Audio

9:50 AM.The latest from Sochi, and demonstrations in Kiev. Audio

9:35 AM.David Malet is Associate Director of the Melbourne School of Government and Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Melbourne. He served as a defense and foreign policy aide to… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Lee-Anne Cartier talks about her dogged detective work tracking down her brother's murderer, his wife Helen Milner, after his death was initially dismissed by police as a suicide. Audio

11:47 AM.With Radar and Elisabeth Easther Audio

11:32 AM.The cricket test against India and the winter Olympics in Russia. Audio

11:06 AM.New work from Neil Finn, David Crosby and the band Television Personalities. Audio

10:40 AM.'Princess and the Foal' by Stacy Gregg, published by Harper Collins and 'Murder at Mykonai' by Catherine Mayo, published by Walker Books. Audio

10:09 AM.Loretta Napoleoni is an expert on terrorist financing, and advises several governments and international organisations on counter-terrorism and money laundering. She talks to Kathryn Ryan about her… Read more Audio

9:49 AM.Asian defense spending on military hardware increases greatly. North Korea makes overtures to the South and the USA. Audio

9:37 AM.Paul Gaylord, from Oregon USA, has spoken out about catching bubonic plague in 2012, and how it nearly killed him. Audio

9:23 AM.Income inequality in New Zealand is set to become a central election issue, but is it really getting worse? Audio

9:08 AM.Mark Galeotti is a global affairs professor at New York University and an expert on crime and security in Russia. Audio

11:45 AM.Jet fuel pollution and drone rush hours. Audio

11:30 AM.Professor Mark Henaghan, Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Otago. Audio

11:05 AM.Dolly Parton has a new album out entitled Blue Smoke, and is playing two shows at Auckland's Vector Arena on 7 and 8 February. She is as active as ever. Born the fourth of 12 children in rural… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.For Today I am a Boy was written by Kim Fu, published by Vintage and reviewed by Lisa Finucane. Audio

10:10 AM.Described as the 'Willy Wonka of design and science', Nelly Ben Hayoun is an award-winning director and experience designer working with leading scientists and engineers, to devise subversive events… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Sludge-dumping on the Great Barrier Reef; Cuts at the ABC. Audio

9:30 AM.Promising results for an ADHD early intervention programme underway at Otago University. Dione Healy is Senior lecturer in clincial psychology specialising in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Auckland councillors have backed a proposed law amendment that would allow the council greater powers to fine and prosecute on a wider range of offences, including taggers and windscreen washers… Read more Audio

11:46 AM.Media commentator Gavin Ellis. Audio

11:25 AM.Professor Dorothy Bruck is a Professor of Psychology from Victoria University in Melbourne. She has particular expertise and interests in sleep/wake behaviour and she is the founding Director of… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Business commentator Rod Oram. Audio