Nine To Noon
6,273 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8 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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Book review - From Suffrage to a Seat in the House
June 23, 2020 22:40 - 4 minutes - 4.5 MBJessie Bray Sharpin reviews From Suffrage to a Seat in the House: The path to parliament for New Zealand women by Jenny Coleman. Published by Otago University Press.
Merchant, Miner, Mandarin: extraordinary story of Choie Sew Hoy
June 23, 2020 22:08 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBChoie Sew Hoy was a visionary merchant, Chinese leader and gold dredger in Dunedin and Otago in the late 1800s. Kathryn talks with his great-great grand-daughter Jenny Sew Hoy Agnew and her historian husband Trevor Agnew who've just published a book about Sew Hoy. Merchant, Miner, Mandarin also shines light on race relations in late 19th century as Choie Sew Hoy successfully straddled both the Chinese and European worlds.
Victoria's infection rates prompt review
June 23, 2020 21:55 - 5 minutes - 5.21 MBAustralia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about how a new wave of infections in Victoria has prompted a review of the easing of restrictions. And the positive test of an Australian Football League player puts the playing schedule in disarray. Also, former High Court judge Dyson Heydon has been found to have sexually harassed six of his young female associates after an independent investigation.
UK to ban 'rough sex gone wrong'. Should New Zealand follow?
June 23, 2020 21:34 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBThe so called 'rough sex gone wrong' defence came under intense criticism during the trial of the killer of British backpacker, Grace Millane. Her killer said she died accidentally after asking to be strangled during sex, but his defence was rejected and he was convicted of her murder. Subsequent UK research has revealed a tenfold rise in the past 20 years in the number of times 'rough sex gone wrong' type claims were made in UK courts. Women's rights campaigners say killers in the UK, N...
Immigration New Zealand explains border exemption process
June 23, 2020 21:08 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBThousands of visa holders are prevented from returning to their lives in New Zealand because they were overseas when the borders closed on March 19. Many have repeatedly been denied an exemption to the border closure. Certain changes were made last week that would allow partners and dependents of New Zealand citizens to return. Criteria and processes were also set for the "critical workers" category - that's the one that allowed workers on Avatar and the America's Cup to come in. Jock Gi...
Sculptor Shane Woolridge inspired by stone
June 22, 2020 23:31 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBCentral Otago's schist and stone feature in Arrowtown sculpture artist Shane Woolridge's work. Trained as a stonemason, he is now a full time artist. Some his large sculptures and smaller commissioned pieces are in collections in Australasia and Europe.
Book review - You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir by C.K. Stead
June 22, 2020 22:35 - 8 minutes - 7.97 MBHarry Ricketts reviews You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir, 1956-1986 by C.K. Stead. This book is published by Auckland University Press.
Migrant caravan: the human tragedy and its deadly history
June 22, 2020 22:08 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBBlood On The Wall co-director Nick Quested, talks to Kathryn Ryan about the reality of life in a migrant caravan and the policies of the past, played out over decades, that led to their creation. Blood On The Wall, screens as part of the Documentary Edge International Film Festival 2020, nationwide and online this year from June 12th - July 5th.
It's Here: Former Bauer editor launches new print magazine
June 22, 2020 21:30 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBSince media giant Bauer shut its New Zealand operations suddenly in April, the magazine shelves around the country have been pretty bare. Bauer's Australasian operations have now been bought by Mercury Capital, headed up by Kiwi Clark Perkins. It's unclear what the sale may mean for legacy titles like the Listener, North&South, New Zealand Woman's Weekly and Home. Home's former editor is Simon Farrell-Green, and he's taken matters into his own hands, launching architectural magazine Here...
How water-tight is New Zealand's maritime border?
June 22, 2020 21:08 - 18 minutes - 17 MBThe government moved yesterday to extend a ban on cruise ships at New Zealand ports and lengthen the isolation requirement for cargo ship crew to respond to concerns it wasn't long enough to ensure Covid wasn't present. Kathryn talks to Steve Banks, President of the New Zealand Maritime Pilots' Association and Medical Officer of Health in Bay of Plenty, Dr Phil Shoemack.
Kennedy Warne birds, birdsong and more
June 21, 2020 23:45 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBThe Garden Bird Survey is upon us again. Kennedy talks about the trends from the results of a decade's worth of these surveys, which anyone can contribute to. Among the encouraging recent trends is the reappearance of kereru in people's back yards. Sightings are up by more than 50% over the past five years, and up a heartening 66% in Wellington. And albatrosses have been in the news with the inaugural World Albatross Day celebrated last Friday, but many albatross species need protection ...
Gourmet mushrooms from the Moutere Hills
June 21, 2020 23:35 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBHannes & Theres Krummenacher came to New Zealand in 1998 and settled in the Tasman District on 53 hectares. From small beginnings they now grow seven varieties of fungi.Their company, Neudorf Mushrooms specialises in growing mycorrhizal mushrooms. The Krummenachers were the first commercial growers of the Saffron milk cap in New Zealand and they supply restaurants and farmers markets. They've also developed a range of spin-off products. Here are the Krummenacher's recipes for wild mushro...
Book review - Winter Grave by Helene Tursten
June 21, 2020 22:35 - 4 minutes - 3.99 MBJohn King reviews Hunting Game by Helene Tursten, published by Text.
Tennessee children taught how to reverse opiate overdose
June 21, 2020 22:08 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBThe opioid addiction crisis in the US is so acute that in the state of Tennessee school pupils as young as six are being taught how to reverse an overdose. Opiate abuse is affecting urban and rural communities across all 50 states, ravaging families and impacting on how children are being raised. In the state of Tennessee alone - there were close to 2000 opioid deaths in 2018. Sherry Barnett is a nurse practitioner who is in recovery from her own addiction, and she is now giving drug edu...
EU states open borders, shock after rioting in German city
June 21, 2020 21:55 - 4 minutes - 4.53 MBEurope correspondent Seamus Kearney joins Kathryn to talk about how travel is possible within the EU, as borders reopen. But some careful planning is needed - there are different rules in place for different countries. Divisions remain among member nations over a coronavirus aid package. He also looks at why Stuttgart was hit by a night of rioting and looting in what police chiefs describe as "unprecedented" scenes of street violence.
Covid-19 research finds many people asymptomatic
June 21, 2020 21:40 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBNew research on the MV Greg Mortimer, a covid-19 infected cruise ship returning from a trip to Antarctica, has found 81 percent of positive passengers had no symptoms. Hawkes Bay GP, Jeff Green was one of two expedition doctors on the journey, and passenger Alvin Ing is a professor of respiratory medicine at Macquarie University. The Australasian duo found themselves in a unique position to document the onboard spread and behaviour of the virus in real-time, and their subsequent study of...
Uni lectures stay online, leaving some feeling short changed
June 21, 2020 21:08 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBThe University of Waikato will not resume face-to-face lectures in semester 2, while other universities are planning a dual model of online and face to face learning. That's left some students feeling short-changed. Kathryn Ryan discusses with University of Waikato Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Robyn Longhurst, business student Johanna Katene-Burge, National President of the New Zealand Union of Students' Associations Isabella Lenihan-Ikin and Universities NZ Chief Executive Chris Whe...
Book review - Royals by Emma Forres
June 18, 2020 22:35 - 5 minutes - 4.64 MBSonja de Friez reviews Royals by Emma Forrest, published by Bloomsbury.
Anthony Byrt - The Mirror Steamed Over
June 18, 2020 22:08 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBAward-winning Kiwi writer on contemporary art, Anthony Byrt tells Lynn Freeman about his new book The Mirror Steamed Over, which explores ideas of shifting personal and sexual identity and a key moment in cultural history, when individualism started to shape the contemporary art world. It's a study of three Kiwi maverick outsiders and friends who met at the Royal College of Art, and who contributed to the transformation of Britain's contemporary art scene. The main focus in Anthony's boo...
Claims rubbish from Westland landfill washing up 200 kms away
June 18, 2020 21:42 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBBeach clean-up volunteer Des Watson tells Lynn Freeman he believes rubbish that exploded from the landfill near Fox Glacier last March is washing up 200 kms north at Westport. Des has spent the week filling up eight sackfulls of rubbish - mainly plastic and polystyrene - at Nine Mile Beach at Cape Foulwind near Westport, waste he says is typical of the type volunteers like him were picking up and around Okarito last autumn. Meanwhile Westland District mayor Bruce Smith says he's sceptica...
Filipino journalist Maria Ressa 'This is a moment of reckoning'
June 18, 2020 21:25 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBMaria Ressa says she is 'the cautionary tale' after being found guilty of a spurious cyber libel charge against her and a former researcher at her news website, Rappler, earlier this week. To many people the award-winning journalist, harsh critic of President Rodrigo Duterte, and former Time Person of the Year has become a symbol of the fight for media freedom in her country. Her lawyer, Amal Clooney, has labelled Monday's verdict as 'an affront to the rule of law, a stark warning to the...
Cruise industry pleads for kiwi-only voyages to be allowed
June 18, 2020 21:08 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBThe cruise industry is pleading with the government not to extend the ban on cruise ships and allow the industry to start up again with kiwi-only voyages. In April, the government suspended all cruise ship visits until the end of June. Kevin O'Sullivan, Chief Executive of the New Zealand Cruise Association, says the industry has lost tens of millions in that time, and if cruise visits do not begin til next summer, the losses could be in the order of $280 million. He says there's an appet...
Quiz, Doc Edge 2020, Da 5 Bloods, Perry Mason
June 17, 2020 23:45 - 10 minutes - 9.99 MBFilm and TV reviewer James Croot looks at Quiz, the TV mini-series starring Matthew MacFadyen about the army captain who cheated his way to win 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'. He'll review Spike Lee's new movie Da 5 Bloods, also share some Doc Edge picks for this year, and take a look at the revamped Perry Mason, starring Matthew Rhys.
Helping kids with homework (without doing it for them)
June 17, 2020 23:30 - 16 minutes - 23 MBHow can parents find the delicate balance between helping a child with their homework, and overhelping - or even doing it for them! Kathryn speaks with Monash University education lecturer Melissa Barnes, who has analysed more than 400 research studies on the topic.
Helping kids with homework - without doing it for them
June 17, 2020 23:30 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBHow can parents find the delicate balance between helping a child with their homework, and overhelping - or even doing it for them? Education lecturer Melissa Barnes has analysed more than 400 research studies on the topic.
The robots are coming, cyber attacks on the rise
June 17, 2020 23:09 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBTechnology correspondent Paul Matthews joins Kathryn to talk about how a massive transformation of the vocational education system might not prepare us for the changing future of work. He'll also look at the increase in cyber attacks, both on companies and individuals - and what can be done about it. Google and Facebook have announced their transparency tools for the upcoming New Zealand and US elections. But will they stop fake news? Paul Matthews is chief executive of IT Professionals ...
Book review - Nothing to See by Pip Adam
June 17, 2020 22:40 - 5 minutes - 4.95 MBLouise O'Brien reviews Nothing to See by Pip Adam, published by Victoria University Press.
Do you need animals to produce good meat?
June 17, 2020 22:15 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBCan you really separate animals from meat-making? Eric Schulze from the food technology company Memphis Meats thinks so.
Footballer fights for deprived kids, controversy over race-based inquiry
June 17, 2020 22:08 - 10 minutes - 9.8 MBUK correspondent Matthew Parris looks at Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford's campaign to extend the children's food voucher scheme into the summer holidays, which forced a change in policy Boris Johnson's new appointee to lead a race-based deprivation inquiry, Munira Mirza, is causing some controversy, and Scotland's schools may go back in August without formal social distancing.
Surprise public perceptions of surrogacy: research
June 17, 2020 21:53 - 7 minutes - 6.76 MBNew research into public perceptions of surrogacy and the laws surrounding it have uncovered some surprising changes. Debra Wilson, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Canterbury, has led a three year research project with funding from the Law Foundation, to find out what the public thinks and whether attitudes are changing. Her research is being used to inform law changes in the United Kingdom and may impact on a private members bill in the ballot here. Debra Wilson says she...
Frustration at 'bumbling' quarantine health officials
June 17, 2020 21:40 - 10 minutes - 9.18 MBA visiting Australian woman, Mel Langsford talks to Kathryn about her frustration with bumbling health officials and the risk to her family during their 14 days isolating at an Auckland hotel, after arriving from Queensland. She says there were constant mixed messages and she was astounded when a child's birthday party was attended by passengers from different flights.
Air crew rules - are they tough enough?
June 17, 2020 21:07 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBAs the heat comes on the government over quarantine and managed isolation facilities, questions are being raised over the rules applied to international airline crew and the risk of bringing Covid-19 into the country. Under new health ministry guidelines, Air New Zealand international crew returning home after a trip of between two and seven days abroad are allowed to fly domestically to their homes to self-isolate for 48 hours, before having a virus test and awaiting test results. They ...
Lancet's hydroxychloroquin confusion
June 16, 2020 23:45 - 8 minutes - 7.82 MBScience commentator Siouxsie Wiles joins Kathryn to talk about the elusive narwhal and the unusual sounds they've been recorded making, the confusion surrounding a Lancet paper on hydroxychloroquin - promoted by Donald Trump - that has had to be pulled and the brain cells in mice that trigger a hibernation response. Associate Professor Dr Siouxsie Wiles is the head of Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab at the University of Auckland.
Scott Bainbridge on his new book New Zealand Mysteries
June 16, 2020 23:34 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBIf you like a good mystery, you're in luck. In his new book New Zealand Mysteries, writer Scott Bainbridge turns his attention to some of Aotearoa's well-known legends and some lesser-known, but equally intriguing tales.
Book review - Upturned by Kay McKenzie Cooke
June 16, 2020 22:35 - 4 minutes - 3.99 MBChris Tse reviews Upturned by Kay McKenzie Cooke, published by The Cuba Press.
Stories from the saddle - Jo Haines
June 16, 2020 22:10 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBCycling adventurer Jo Haines is traveling the world, 3 months at a time, on a bike. Each autumn she sets off from Albert Town, to explore another unique corner of the earth. She talks to Kathryn Ryan about her stories from the saddle, including her latest bike trip through Georgia and Armenia. This year she'll be at the 18th New Zealand Mountain Film & Book Festival in Wanaka and Queenstown and broadcast online nationally.
'Branch stacking' claim against Victorian Labor Minister
June 16, 2020 21:45 - 5 minutes - 5.35 MBAustralia correspondent Bernard Keane joins Kathryn to look at the career-ending allegations against Victoria's Labor Minister Adem Somyurek, including that he recruited people into the party to boost his own standing. A video has also surfaced of him abusing his ministerial colleague. Bernard will also talk about Prime Minister Scott Morrison's comment that there was no slavery in Australia.
Major change within court system must happen: Chief Justice
June 16, 2020 21:27 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBThe Chief Justice says major change within the court system must happen, and the Covid 19 pandemic has highlighted the issues. Jury trials were suspended in March because of the virus, and will only resume in August. At last estimate, 60-thousand events were backlogged across the court system. The Chief Justice, Dame Helen Winkelman, says people on remand, awaiting trial or sentencing are most affected. She says the remand population is unacceptable, the court system too complex, and the...
Health shakeup: What's the Government going to do?
June 16, 2020 21:10 - 19 minutes - 18 MBThe Health and Disability Review has recommended the biggest change to the health system in a generation, including cutting the number of DHBs, scrapped elected representative and setting up two new health bureaucracies to work alongside the Ministry of Health. Kathryn asks Health Minister David Clark which recommendations might make it to the Cabinet table.
Observations of King Country district nurse
June 15, 2020 23:30 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBDuring her decade as a district nurse in King Country, Sara McIntyre got to know the people, their history and the rural settlements very well. A lifetime interest in photography led to her capturing the faces and the landscape throughout the region. The pictures of locals, their homes and their environment feature in Sara's book Observations of a Rural Nurse.
Health and Disability review shakes up health sector
June 15, 2020 22:34 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBKathryn talks to Health Correspondent, Rowan Quinn about the wide ranging review of the Health and Disability sector led by Heather Simpson. An interim report, published in September, found the health system's structure was overly complicated and lacked leadership.
High school mums (and their inspirational teacher)
June 15, 2020 22:10 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBKathryn Ryan meets two young mums whose stories are part of a new TV series High School Mums which begins screening on TVNZ tonight. The series follows the students and children at the teen parenting unit He Puaawai, which is attached to Fraser High School in Hamilton. Dru Brown and her son Areka, and Cierrah Puke and her son Jonah are featured, along with their inspirational head teacher Lee Marchioni. Dru Brown and Cierrah Puke are two of the teen mums featured in the new TVNZ series H...
Deluge of potential apprentices seeking free trades training
June 15, 2020 21:33 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBTraining organisations dealing with an influx of people seeking government funded trades apprenticeships are calling for more clarity on the free stimulus initiative.The $320 million Targetted Training and Apprentices Fund supports skill gathering across a range of industries. To discuss whether there is enough detail about what the Training Fund means for individual sector groups, Kathryn talks to Road Transport Forum Chief Nick Leggett who says his organisation is about to launch its o...
Abandoned plans: Building industry at risk of cracking
June 15, 2020 21:10 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBAs the government details 11 job-rich infrastructure projects it hopes will repair the economy, there are warnings of a looming crash in the building industry. A new survey from the Property Council has found 70 per cent of pre-Covid commercial and industrial proposals and 50 per cent of residential builds face being delayed or cancelled due to market uncertainty. Property Council chief executive Leonie Freeman joins Kathryn. Also AUT construction management professor John Tookey, who sa...
Recent Changes Reducing Building Consents for Small Buildings
June 14, 2020 23:50 - 9 minutes - 8.32 MBBill McKay talks to Kathryn about the new types of building work that from August will no longer require a building consent, saving homeowners up to $18 million a year and reducing the number of consents by 9000. Currently buildings under 10 metres square, like garden sheds don't need building consent. This is being increased to 30 m2 for sheds, cabins, sleepouts, verandahs, and 40m2 for carports. Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the Universit...
Harvesting maple syrup from Moutere
June 14, 2020 23:35 - 10 minutes - 9.4 MBWhen you think of where maple syrup comes from, Canada generally springs to mind. But in Upper Moutere in the Tasman District, architectural designer Dave DeGray harvests the liquid gold from his sugar maple grove. He planted 200 trees on his property, near Nelson more than 30 years ago.
Book review - Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land?
June 14, 2020 22:35 - 7 minutes - 7.25 MBDavid Hill reviews Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land? Vol.2 1960-1987 by Peter Simpson, published by Auckland University Press.
Recording war veterans stories for future generations
June 14, 2020 22:08 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBAfter becoming tetraplegic in his teens, oral historian Patrick Bronte was inspired by two war veterans to archive wartime experiences. He's established the Nga Toa Project which so far covers World War Two, Korea, Malaya-Borneo, Vietnam and some more recent operational deployments. It is a free online archive which contains more than 300 interviews with veterans.
Wild venison cull provides jobs and food
June 14, 2020 21:40 - 9 minutes - 8.53 MBFiordland wapiti, which in North America are known as elk are prized by hunters, but conservationists argue that they are a threat to native forests. An agreement between the Fiordland Wapiti Foundation, and DOC provides for 1000 of the most inferior animals to be culled annually. This year, with the pandemic disruption and wild venison prices being low, the Foundation and DOC along with Game Animal Council hatched plan for the meat to be processed and donated to charity. The Fiordland W...
Should ACC make a special case for baby birth injury?
June 14, 2020 21:26 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBTen years ago birth difficulties caused a brain injury in Andrew Dickson's son, Ben, who was eventually diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Since then the family has been embroiled in a long dispute with ACC to obtain treatment injury cover. At issue is exactly what or who, if anyone, or anything was at fault during Ben's birth and expert opinion is divided. That's why he is asking ACC to make baby birth injury a kind of special case - and to err on the side of the claimant when experts can't...