Nine To Noon
5,534 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 13 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFrom nine to noon every weekday, Kathryn Ryan talks to the people driving the news - in New Zealand and around the world. Delve beneath the headlines to find out the real story, listen to Nine to Noon's expert commentators and reviewers and catch up with the latest lifestyle trends on this award-winning programme.
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Uni students invent buoy to detect riptides
October 24, 2019 20:20 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBVictoria University students Chamonix Stuart & Hannah Tilsley have designed a system to help prevent drownings in rip currents. It's a floating buoy which can detect a rip current, and change colour depending on the danger to warn swimmers. They've made it to the top 20 of the 2019 James Dyson Design Award, beating out over 1,000 designs from 27 countries.
Johnson unlikely to get his way on early GE, says academic
October 24, 2019 20:05 - 10 minutes - 9.59 MBThe British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is attempting to call a snap election as he tries to get the country out of the European Union. He's told British MP's he'll give them more time to debate his Brexit deal - but only if they agree to an election on December 12th. Both of Boris Johnson's previous attempts to force an election have been defeated by MPs. The European Union is set to decide this evening New Zealand time, whether to extend next week's deadline for the UK to leave the un...
Jojo Rabbit, El Camino and Wellington Paranormal, season II
October 23, 2019 22:48 - 10 minutes - 9.81 MBFilm and TV reviewer with Chris Schulz looks at Taika Waititi's new Nazi comedy Jojo Rabbit, the Breaking Bad spin-off movie El Camino and the second season of Wellington Paranormal.
Moving house: the impact on children
October 23, 2019 22:27 - 19 minutes - 26.9 MBRecent research from the University of Otago has found moving house is linked with increases in emotional and behavioural difficulties in four-year-olds. Psychologist Sarb Johal talks to Kathryn about the impact of moving home, and how parents can help.
Online voting: yes or no? And Libra no more
October 23, 2019 22:07 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBNew technology with Paul Matthews joins Kathryn to talk about the pros and cons of offering online voting in local body elections - is it worth the risk? He'll also look at why New Zealand's fibre adoption stats are second only to Japan, and Facebook's big crypto-currency venture appears to have been a flop - why have its major partners pulled out?
Book review - On the Plain of Snakes by Paul Theroux
October 23, 2019 21:42 - 3 minutes - 3.35 MBDavid Hill reviews On the Plain of Snakes by Paul Theroux, which is published by Penguin Random House.
The Hamilton boat builder & the America's Cup
October 23, 2019 21:10 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBRob McLean is a boat builder whose Hamilton factory is busy turning out chase boats for the America's Cup in Auckland in 2021. After the Cup is over, 26 boats will be distributed to Coastguard units throughout the country, thanks to a grant from the Lottery Fund. As well as boating, Rob is a passionate hunter and camper, and that's fed into another part of his business, building camper trailers for utes and heli-huts for hunters. Rob talks to Kathryn about building his business, and his ...
Arrest after 39 bodies found in lorry in UK
October 23, 2019 20:51 - 7 minutes - 7.19 MBUK correspondent Harriet Line looks at the grisly discovery of 39 bodies in a lorry in Essex and the arrest of a young man from Northern Ireland. She'll also report on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal's early success, then defeat and how all eyes are now on Brussels for any possible extension.
We need to talk about loneliness: researcher
October 23, 2019 20:43 - 7 minutes - 6.78 MBAuckland University research into loneliness has just been made into an animated short film. The research, by Professor of Health Sciences Dr Merryn Gott, found significant loneliness and social isolation among the elderly affecting both physical and mental health. She says we need a public health campaign focusing on loneliness, in the same vein as recent campaigns on depression. Dr Gott hopes the film, Elder Birdsong, will help encourage social connection.
Farmers get their way on agricultural emissions
October 23, 2019 20:31 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBA sector-led approach to emissions prices has been announced at Parliament. Through a joint action plan, separate from New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme, farmers and growers will calculate their emissions and offsets at the farm gate by 2025. Kathryn talks to DairyNZ chief executive Dr Tim Mackle.
Helter-smelter: What's behind the Tiwai Point review?
October 23, 2019 20:09 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBTiwai Point Aluminium smelter's owners Rio Tinto are undertaking a review of the plant's future which will include investigating closure following losses over the past year and what it says are high costs for transmitting electricity. Close to one thousand people are employed at the Southland operation, with many more associated with businesses that help support it. Kathryn talks to New Zealand Aluminium Smelter's chief executive Stew Hamilton about the review and the impact any pull out...
How old is your brain?
October 22, 2019 22:50 - 9 minutes - 9.09 MBScience correspondent Malvindar Singh-Bains joins Kathryn to discuss whether your brain is aging faster than you. Machine-learning tools can be used in combination with MRI data to predict how well someone's brain is aging. A recent study of 45,000 different brain scans found an interesting relationship between brain age and brain disorders such as dementia and schizophrenia. Malvindar Singh-Bains is a research fellow at the University of Auckland.
Women mean business: Rethinking colonial entrepreneurs
October 22, 2019 22:28 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBThe traditional image of women in colonial New Zealand is all buttons and crinoline, but such images may belie the reality. A new book written by Dr Catherine Bishop has taken a close look at the role colonial women played in business, finding many were actively running their own enterprises while supporting themselves and their families. In Women Mean Business, she discovered that there was no "typical" businesswoman: some were single, married, widowed, Pakeha or Maori. But their effort...
Laurie Anderson to curate New Zealand Festival
October 22, 2019 22:07 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBMusic reviewer Kirsten Johnstone takes a deep dive into the work of Laurie Anderson, who will return as a guest curator to the NZ Festival in March.
Sky City and Fletcher Building CEOs front over fire
October 22, 2019 21:38 - 3 minutes - 3.55 MBThe CEOs of Sky City and Fletcher Building have been speaking to the media about the fire at the convention centre contruction site in Auckland. Nine to Noon senior producer Glenda Wakeham summarises what they have said.
Sweet success. Baby health pioneer, Jane Harding
October 22, 2019 21:07 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBNeonatology Professor Jane Harding has led the world in developing ways to treat babies before and immediately after birth, leading to markedly improved survival rates and long-term well-being. Among her achievements; she developed a simple treatment for low blood sugar in babies, has shown that a routine-therapy was actually causing brain damage in premature babies, and has provided some of the first evidence that the health and treatment of a pregnant woman not only influences her baby...
Australian media launch 'Right to Know' campaign
October 22, 2019 20:52 - 6 minutes - 6.26 MBAustralia correspondent Bernard Keane looks at the rare show of solidarity by Australian media companies who say their journalists are being stopped from holding the powerful to account. The 'Right to Know' campaign was launched in the wake of police raids on the home of a News Corp journalist and ABC headquarters. He'll also look at whistleblower protections in the public sector, amid calls from the lawyer for Witness K for the creation of a new independent parliamentary body to deal wi...
Brexit deal edges closer, timetable delayed
October 22, 2019 20:37 - 14 minutes - 13.8 MBAs the clock ticks down to the deadline for Britain's departure from the EU, it's been another rollercoster of a day at Westminster. In a rare victory, lawmakers voted in favour of Johnson's Brexit deal at an important second reading, but minutes later voted against a motion which set out a three-day tight 3 day schedule to rush the legislation through the House of Commons. Philip Webster is a former political editor of The Times newspaper.
Auckland's Sky City burns. What does it mean for Aucklanders?
October 22, 2019 20:09 - 23 minutes - 22 MBFirefighters are still battling to get the fire under control, with strong winds creating further difficulties while the Central City Library and many businesses in the central city have closed. So just how devastating will this be for Aucklanders and their businesses? Kathryn is joined by Auckland Chamber of Commerce, Chief Executive Michael Barnett, Dean Humphries who is the Hotels National Director at Colliers International, also Sarah Sinclair, the director of Auckland Emergency.
MediaWorks sale - the implications
October 21, 2019 22:49 - 9 minutes - 8.95 MBStanding in for Gavin Ellis this week is Andrew Holden, a journalist for more than 30 years including five as Editor of The Press (in Christchurch) and four as Editor-in-Chief of The Age in Melbourne. Andrew is now the Director of Communications for New Zealand Trade & Enterprise. He and Kathryn discuss the big news in the media this week: the sale of MediaWorks New Zealand TV business.
Could Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles ever overtake battery EVs?
October 21, 2019 22:22 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBElectric Vehicles have seen a dramatic rise in popularity in this country, and would seem to be light years ahead of hydrogen vehicles which are yet to hit the road because of a lack of refueling infrastructure. However, some industry leaders, like Hyundai and Toyota believe hydrogen has a significant role to play in decarbonising the transport fleet. Meanwhile, in September the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment put out a green paper on the vision for hydrogen in this count...
Zero Carbon Bill report: How did business react?
October 21, 2019 22:07 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBBusiness commentator Rod Oram takes a close look at reaction to the Environment Select Committee's report back on the Zero Carbon Bill, which left its most contentious point about a methane target for 2050 unchanged. National is seeking seven changes it wants in the Bill, while some business leaders fear the Government won't have the numbers to pass it.
Book review - R. A. K. Mason: Uncollected Poems
October 21, 2019 21:40 - 4 minutes - 4.28 MBHarry Ricketts from quarterly review periodical New Zealand Review of Books Pukapuka Aotearoa reviews R. A. K. Mason: Uncollected Poems, edited by Roger Hickin. Published by Cold Hub Press.
The Laundromat: Panama Papers real-life thriller
October 21, 2019 21:15 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBTwo-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Bernstein takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers; one of secretive offshore tax havens, corruption, and fraud on a massive scale. Jake was a senior reporter on the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Panama Papers project which won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. (He earned his first Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for coverage of the financial crises.) His exploration of the scandal is now a book and...
Police announce independent bullying review
October 21, 2019 21:07 - 6 minutes - 5.77 MBPolice Commissioner Mike Bush says the just announced review into claims of bullying is a priority - with the terms of reference to be completed this week. The announcement comes after RNZ talked to 92 current or former sworn and non sworn police employees who say bullying is rife within the service.
Trump's G7 host backtrack and Pelosi's trip to Jordan
October 21, 2019 20:52 - 7 minutes - 6.93 MBUS correspondent Susan Milligan joins Kathryn to discuss a rare backpedaling by Donald Trump on plans to host the G7 at his resort in Florida and attempts by acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to finesse his walk-back of comments that yes, Trump did hold up aid to Ukraine to get an investigation of a debunked theory about Ukraine, a DNC server and election violations. She'll also talk about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's surprise delegation to Jordan to discuss the crisis in Syria and the...
Obesity challenging NZ's aged care sector
October 21, 2019 20:35 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBA new VUW School of Nursing report into aged residential care facilities has found them ill equipped to accommodate the increasing number of New Zealanders who need bariatric specific care, due to extreme obesity. It's calling on the Ministry of Health to urgently develop comprehensive standards for bariatric care within acute and community settings, as well as to review national standards, improve equipment and implement safe staffing ratios. Dr Caz Hales says the implications of not ad...
Brakes on Auckland? AT considers lower speed limits
October 21, 2019 20:09 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBThe board of Auckland Transport has a big decision to make today: whether to slow traffic on key roads across the city in a bid to reduce deaths and injuries. In 2017, 64 people died on the regions roads and another 749 were seriously injured - that's a 78 per cent jump since 2014. Under the speed limits bylaw that will be voted on today, 10 per cent of high-risk rural, urban and residential roads across the Auckland region could have their speed limits reduced - including a new 30 kilom...
The legality of shark cage diving. Kennedy Warne
October 20, 2019 22:49 - 9 minutes - 9.02 MBOutdoorsman Kennedy Warne discusses the Supreme Court's recent decision on the legality of shark cage diving at Rakiura/Stewart Island, learns a surprising use for gourds and has advice on how to tell the difference between a weasel and a stoat.
Spring into summer: soil thermometers at the ready!
October 20, 2019 22:30 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBOtaki-based organic gardener, Kath Irvine has been growing all the vegetables to feed her family of 6 for a couple of decades now. She joins Kathryn Ryan for advice to prepare for when the season changes. She suggests sowing beans now and as nature is calibrated to temperature she recommends you garden with a bit less gamble and use a soil thermometer. Kath also has a recipe for refried beans.
Political commentators Morten and Williams
October 20, 2019 22:07 - 26 minutes - 24 MBBrigitte and Mike join Kathryn to discuss the New Zealand First conference over the weekend, how the coalition dynamics are working, the most recent political polls and whether there's further headwinds ahead for Labour delivering on big election policies. Mike Williams is a former Labour Party president and Brigitte Morten is a senior consultant with public and commercial law firm Franks & Ogilvie and a former senior ministerial advisor for the previous National-led government.
Book review - The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez
October 20, 2019 21:38 - 4 minutes - 4.58 MBJenna Todd of Time Out Bookstore reviews The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez, published by Little, Brown Book Group.
Adaptive rock climber Craig deMartino
October 20, 2019 21:09 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBCraig deMartino was a professional rock climber who nearly lost his life in an accident 17 years ago, when he was dropped 30 metres from a rock ledge - breaking almost every bone in his body. 18 months later, he decided to amputate his right leg below the knee in order to be able to return to climbing. Craig has notched up a number of records - including becoming the first amputee ascent of Yosemite's El Capitan in under 24 hours. But his focus now is very much on inspiring others with p...
US troops relocated from northern Syria, protests in Lebanon
October 20, 2019 20:53 - 7 minutes - 6.54 MBMiddle East correspondent, Sebastian Usher joins Kathryn to look at the situation in northern Syria, where US troops are being pulled out and redeployed to Iraq. Is it a sign of the loss of US influence in the region, or a brilliant strategy as Donald Trump has described it? He'll also talk about the protests in Lebanon and a move by the UAE to abolish the hyper-restrictive migrant worker system.
TikTok: how proactive it is re children's safety?
October 20, 2019 20:44 - 8 minutes - 8.21 MBCyber safety experts are warning the world's most popular iPhone app TikTok compromises children's safety and privacy, raising concerns about predatory behaviour, bullying and exposure to age-inappropriate content. TikTok is taking hold here - it's New Zealand's 11th most downloaded app - and has more than 500 million active users world wide. Courts in Indonesia and India have moved to ban it, and a fine has been imposed by a US court for illegally collecting personal information of chil...
Calls for change to laws on gene editing
October 20, 2019 20:09 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBShould our 16-year-old laws governing biotechnology be overhauled to loosen regulations around gene editing and genetic modification? The Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act, which tightly controls the use of GE and GM organisms, has not been substantially updated since the 2001 Royal Commission on Genetic Modification. The Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor Dr Juliet Gerrard says our current law is not fit for purpose. She's backed by the Royal Society, which has just issued ...
The week that was
October 17, 2019 22:49 - 9 minutes - 9.09 MBTe Radar and James Elliott take a wry look at the week, including the Vatican's new "click to pray" E-Rosary.
Book review - The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
October 17, 2019 21:39 - 4 minutes - 4.04 MBMelanie O'Loughlin of Unity Books reviews The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. This book is published by Harvill Secker.
Decades photographing NZ native trees
October 17, 2019 21:10 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBRob Lucas has traveled to some of the country's most remote and inaccessible areas, photographing the country's native flora. More than 3200 of his images feature in New Zealand's Native Trees, written primarily with the botanist John Dawson, who died in March. The nearly 700 page hard-back was first published in 2011 and has just been updated and reissued with hundreds of new images taken by Rob in the intervening years. Rob Lucas trained as a horticulturalist at Wellington's botanic ga...
Security threat on Cook Strait ferry
October 17, 2019 21:06 - 3 minutes - 3.05 MBRNZ reporter Meriana Johnsen reports from the Wellington Interislander ferry terminal where the Kaitaki has been returned to port after a security threat.
Mediaworks to sell NZ TV operation
October 17, 2019 20:44 - 6 minutes - 6.3 MBMediaWorks has announced it intends to sell its TV operation, including TV3. Earlier this week, it announced it was cancelling or heavily scaling back some of Three's biggest shows. MediaWorks chairman Jack Matthews says in a statement this morning that MediaWorks is committed to continuing to grow its business in New Zealand but the free-to-air television market is exteremely difficult. Kathryn talks with Colin Peacock from RNZ's Mediawatch.
Organic entrepreneur Gary Hirshberg
October 17, 2019 20:27 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBGary Hirshberg's business Stonyfield Farm began in the United States in 1983 with seven cows in a field. It's now the world's largest organic dairy company, with more than $600 million in annual sales and owned by the French multi-national Lactalis. Last year, Gary Hirshberg and his wife Margaret bought 69 hectares near Motueka, where they've set up an organic training farm and where they spend part of each year. Gary Hirshberg is in Auckland to run a training and leadership programme fo...
Temporary ceasefire agreed in Northern Syria
October 17, 2019 20:09 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBThe US Vice President says he has a deal with Turkey's President for a temporary ceasefire in Northern Syria. Turkish troops entered Syria last week in an offensive against the Kurdish-led "Syrian Democratic Forces", which Turkey has long maintained is an offshoot of the militant Kurdistan Workers' party. The assault was triggered by the US decision to withdraw its troops from Kurdish-held areas. Mike Pence is in Ankara for talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and made the announcem...
Joker, Zombieland: Double Tap and Halloween shows
October 16, 2019 22:49 - 9 minutes - 9.21 MBFilm and TV reviewer Sarah McMullan looks at Joaquin Phoenix's Joker, Zombieland: Double Tap, starring Woody Harrelson, and some shows to put you in the Halloween mood - including some for the kids.
Helping children get up and go
October 16, 2019 22:27 - 21 minutes - 29.8 MBEducation consultant and parenting coach Joseph Driessen talks about children who lack motivation and drive - what's behind this, and how can parents help them regain direction?
'Edge computing', algos in the govt sector and Netflix results
October 16, 2019 22:07 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBTechnology commentator Peter Griffin looks at how "edge computing" will help speed up some real-time applications, the government looking to get the public involved on a proposed algorithm charter for public agencies and how did Netflix do in its third quarter results?
Book review - Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley
October 16, 2019 21:39 - 7 minutes - 6.66 MBHannah August reviews Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley, which is published by Penguin Books New Zealand. "A beautifully observed study of the shifting tides in long friendships between married couples. Hadley interrogates the range of possible responses to a tragic event in incisive, resonant prose that makes this book very difficult to put down."
The battle to publish Dr Zhivago
October 16, 2019 21:10 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBMany people are familiar with Dr Zhivago - the epic love story set during the Russian Revolution. What they might not know is the story of how the novel, written by Boris Pasternak, finally came to be published in Italy in 1957. The authorities in the Soviet Union didn't want the novel published, fearing it was critical of the Revolution and therefore anti-Soviet. It was smuggled into Milan, published in the West and and then smuggled back into the Soviet Union by the CIA in the hope of ...
Brexit crunch talks appear to yield no deal
October 16, 2019 20:51 - 8 minutes - 8.19 MBUK correspondent Matt Dathan has the latest on the efforts to secure a Brexit deal, as government sources say it looks unlikely.
Kiwisaver savvy? Just being in it doesn't mean you're sorted.
October 16, 2019 20:29 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBThe Commission for Financial Capability is underscoring the need for pensioners to stretch their money through retirement, to avoid blowing their savings early on. That's why in one of its proposed changes to the retirement savings scheme, it suggests drip feeding portions of your Kiwisaver, through the years ahead. The comments come amid a three-year review and public discussion about retirement policy. Also up for debate is whether people who can't afford a home in a major city, should...