Nine To Noon Podcast Options

9:08 AM.Peter Townsend, chief executive Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce. Audio

11:48 AM.The year in cinema and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Audio

11:28 AM.Parenting through the Christmas period. Audio

11:10 AM.Interactive Ads Based on Your Movements, Slingshot Convicted of Slamming and Nextgen Gaming Through Walls. Audio

10:38 AM.New Zealand Book of Beasts: Animals in our Culture, History and Everyday Life, written by Annie Potts, Philip Armstrong, Deidre Brown. Reviewed by Harry Broad and published by Auckland University… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Trauma surgeon Dr David King ran the Boston Marathon in three hours and 13 minutes this year. Not long after he'd finished the race, the first of two pressure cooker bombs exploded, the second bomb… Read more Audio

9:51 AM.The death of the "Great Train Robber" Ronnie Biggs. Audio

9:32 AM.David Hislop is the lawyer who orchestrated the successful quashing of Mark Lundy's murder convictions by the Privy Council. Audio

9:08 AM.With Christine Fletcher - Auckland city councillor, Peter McKinlay - director of Auckland's University of Technology's local Government centre. Audio

11:49 AM.Insects who give gifts. Audio

11:32 AM.Honesty in employee job applications. Audio

11:06 AM.Lee Fields is a soul survivor. Although he's been recording since 1969, it has only been in the past few years that he has begun to gain any recognition. But over the past 40-plus years he has… Read more Audio

10:38 AM.Elisabeth Easther reviews 'Wake' by Elizabeth Knox, published by Victoria University Press. Audio

10:07 AM.James Cameron is a Canadian-born Hollywood film director, film producer, deep-sea explorer, screenwriter, and editor. Some of his movies include the science fiction epic 'Avatar', 'The Terminator'… Read more Audio

9:51 AM.ACT gay marriage laws struck down; no more car manufacturing by Holden in Australia; reclaimed Ashes. Audio

9:31 AM.Labour MP gay marriage champion. In April, New Zealand became the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to legalise gay marriage. Labour MP and gay marriage champion Louisa Wall reflects on her… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.With deputy representative for UNICEF Lebanon Luciano Calestini who is charged with UNICEF's emergency response to the Syrian crisis in Lebanon. This week the UN appealed for a record US$6.5 billion… Read more Audio

11:48 AM.The delay in Bauer's purchase of NZ Magazines, two weekend newspaper apologies and farewell to Fred Tulett from the Southland Times and Murray Deaker from NewstalkZB. Audio

11:30 AM.Photographer and publisher Grant Sheehan whose latest book Lights in the Landscape, New Zealand Lighthouses is a photographic journey from New Zealand's most northern lighthouse at Cape Reinga, to the… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Fonterra, Chorus and the film industry. Audio

10:40 AM.Written by Roberta Rich, published by Ebury Press, reviewed by Louise O'Brien. Audio

10:10 AM.Afghan interpreter Parwiz Ilyas Hakimi whose Big Year has taken him - and his family - from Bamiyan province to the safety of Hamilton. Audio

9:50 AM.Developments within the Republican Party; The debt ceiling issue; Presidential nominees; The trend of knockout games. Audio

9:34 AM.New liquor laws come into place tonight, imposing a four hour curfew on serving alcohol in bars, and restricting sales in supermarkets and liquor stores. Audio

9:26 AM.Green Party energy spokesperson Gareth Hughes, who has previously criticized the released report. Audio