Nine To Noon
6,190 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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Is the Covid curve flattening in the Pacific?
April 23, 2020 21:53 - 7 minutes - 6.67 MBPacific correspondent Koro Vaka'uta talks with Kathryn about Covid 19 across the Pacific. Plus Vanuatu gets a new government, and Fiji loses the chance to sit on a powerful rugby committee after investigations into homophobia.
Business advice for firms struggling with Covid-19 crisis
April 23, 2020 21:34 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBDeloitte partner David Webb heads the firm's national restructuring practice. He talks to Kathryn Ryan about practical ways to survive the downturn caused by Covid-19, including communication, strategic thinking and pulling together a business plan.
Media lifeline? Government promises more help
April 23, 2020 21:07 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MBThe government is promising more help for media organisations struggling with massive revenue losses due to Covid 19. Yesterday Broadcasting and Communications Minister Kris Faafoi announced a $50 million support package including scrapping transmission fees for broadcasters for six months, and cutting New Zealand On Air levies. There is also an $11 million fund set aside for targeted assistance to media companies. Since the Covid crisis began, there have been hundreds of job losses acro...
Hillary, Mrs America, Bad Education
April 22, 2020 23:47 - 10 minutes - 9.59 MBFilm and TV reviewer James Croot looks at Hillary, a fascinating four-part documentary on Hillary Clinton; Mrs America, a dramatisation starring Cate Blanchett about the fight for women's rights in 1970s America and Bad Education, starring Hugh Jackman and Alison Janney, about the biggest educational frauds in US history.
Matt Stanton: creative boredom busters for kids
April 22, 2020 23:27 - 20 minutes - 28.5 MBBest-selling Australian children's author and illustrator Matt Stanton shares tips for busting lock-down boredom blues with Kathryn Ryan. Matt is co-creator of the hit picture books 'There Is a Monster Under My Bed Who Farts' and 'This Is a Ball'. He's also the creative brain behind the 'Funny Kid' junior fiction series, the latest of which is Funny Kid Peeking Duck due to be published very soon. Meantime, Matt is hosting a daily YouTube live from his studio, for kids in isolation,with i...
Contact tracing apps, cheap iPhones and the tech we need
April 22, 2020 23:07 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBTechnology Sarah Putt looks at the pros and cons of tech solutions being proposed for contact tracing in the Covid-19 pandemic. The latest "cheap" iPhone is being shipped by Apple from tomorrow, how does it measure up with the higher-end iPhones? And what is some of the essential technology the global lockdowns have highlighted for us?
Book review - And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?
April 22, 2020 22:36 - 4 minutes - 4.52 MBQuentin Johnson reviews And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Portrait of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler. This book is published by Picador.
Ray Collins: From coal miner to ocean photographer
April 22, 2020 22:07 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBAustralian photographer Ray Collins is known around the world for his stunning images of waves as they complete their journeys to shore, capturing the power and essence of the ocean. He grew up in Wollongong in New South Wales and first worked for years as an underground coalminer. A bad workplace accident left him unable to walk for several months which is when he first picked up a camera and swam out into the surf near his house, initially photographing a friend who was a surfer.
PM's continuing absence, Labour leader's PMQ debut
April 22, 2020 21:50 - 8 minutes - 7.57 MBUK correspondent Matthew Parris talks to Kathryn about the questions being raised about Boris Johnson's continuing absence from politics as he recovers from Covid, how new Labour leader Keir Starmer performed during Question Time to a deserted parliamentary chamber and the Covid vaccine trials by Oxford University that will get underway from tomorrow.
Out of lockdown and into water restrictions
April 22, 2020 21:41 - 9 minutes - 8.59 MBAucklanders are staring down the barrel of water restrictions as a severe drought continues to take its toll on the city's dams, which are sitting under the halfway point for the first time in 25 years. Watercare is asking Aucklanders to keep showers to 4 minutes or under, and to refrain from washing cars or water blasting properties. With more dry weather forecast, Kathryn asks the chief executive of Watercare Raveen Jaduram, are enforced restrictions next?
As pokies fall quiet, millions dry up for community groups
April 22, 2020 21:30 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBWith bars and gaming venues closed, the Problem Gambling Foundation's Paula Snowden says many gamblers are expressing relief they've no access to the pokies. However Martin Cheer from Pub Charity Limited says there are downsides for the charity sector, leaving a wide range of community initiatives struggling as their funding from gaming proceeds has dried up.
Can New Zealand's climate policy survive Covid-19?
April 22, 2020 21:09 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBThe Climate Change Minister has tasked the government's independent advisor on climate change with reviewing whether New Zealand's international target is ambitious enough. New Zealand has committed to an average 30 per cent reduction on 2005 emission levels, between next year and 2030. The Commission for Climate Change will review this pledge to ensure it aligns with the goal agreed by Parliament last year, of limiting global warming to 1.5ËšC above pre-industrial levels. James Shaw say...
Testing the Covid tests, and how lemurs attract the girls
April 21, 2020 23:48 - 10 minutes - 9.27 MBThis week, Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles tells Kathryn about an initiative to independently put the 500-odd Covid-19 tests through their paces, an Icelandic study on Covid-19 in the general population and a new study about pheromones in lemurs. Associate Professor Dr Siouxsie Wiles is the head of Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab at the University of Auckland.
First South Island Tuatara hatchlings in hundreds of years
April 21, 2020 23:29 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBTwo tuatara hatchlings have been sighted at the Orokonui Ecosanctuary near Dunedin. They're the first to be seen since adult tuatara were released at the ecosanctuary eight years ago. It's thought tuatara haven't thrived in this part of the world for eight hundred years. Kathryn Ryan speaks with Professor Alison Cree, Otago University's Department of Zoology, whose team made this exciting discovery.
Book review - Queen Bee by Jane Fallon
April 21, 2020 23:06 - 3 minutes - 3.24 MBLouise O'Brien reviews Queen Bee by Jane Fallon, published by Penguin Random House.
Immunity: our sixth sense, Dr Jenna Macciochi
April 21, 2020 22:21 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MB[image_crop:100526:full] Immunologist Dr. Jenna Macciochi specialises in understanding the bearing nutrition and lifestyle have on our immune system. She describes immunity as our "sixth sense", responsible for connecting our health to our environment and emotions. She talks to Kathryn Ryan about the science of immunity, which she discusses in her new book Immunity - The Science of Staying Well
Covid-curve flattens, no bailout for Virgin Australia
April 21, 2020 22:10 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBAustralia correspondent Bernard Keane joins Kathryn to talk about the latest Covid numbers which suggest the curve is flattening, as the country looks to ease some restrictions on surgery. Scott Morrison's government indicates it won't bail out Virgin Australia, but is mulling tax-breaks for big business, deregulation and industrial relations reform to climb out of the Covid economic downturn. And just what did Malcolm Turnbull's book reveal about the Murdoch family's hold on Australian ...
Making sense of historically low oil prices
April 21, 2020 21:46 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBGlobal demand for oil has collapsed because of the pandemic, because no one's going anywhere, and there's a shortage of space to store the excess supply. Apart from cheaper petrol at the pumps, what could the ramifications be? Bob McNally is the founder and president of The Rapidan Group, a leading energy consulting firm. From 2001 to 2003, he served as the top international and domestic energy adviser on the White House staff. He is also the author of 'Crude Volatility: The History and ...
Witheld millions for General Practice will cause cutbacks
April 21, 2020 21:35 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBDr Kate Baddock, Chair of the Medical Association talks to Kathryn about a government promise of a further $22 million dollars in Covid-19 funding that's been witheld, and the possibility some practices will close and others are facing cutting back medical staff.
Hospitals waiting for the post Covid-19 surge
April 21, 2020 21:23 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBPrivate hospitals that were forced to defer thousands of operations over fears Covid-19 would overwhelm the health system are preparing to start returning to do normal surgeries under alert level 3, but as well as facing a huge backlog there are mounting fears over squeezed budgets. Private Surgical Hospital Association President is Richard Whitney.
Covid and cancer, treatment & diagnosis
April 21, 2020 21:09 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBHow has Covid 19 impacted on cancer patients, and those who may have the disease but cannot be diagnosed? Since lockdown began four weeks ago many patients' cancer treatment regimes have been changed in order to minimise their time in or at hospital. Screening programmes have been halted, meaning those who may have cancer cannot have it detected. Once the country moves to alert level 3 next week, some cancer screening will be able to restart, but colonoscopy procedures to diagnose bowel ...
Media commentator Andrew Holden - ongoing media turbulence
April 20, 2020 23:47 - 10 minutes - 10 MBThe Australian government has announced around $100 million in support for its media and sectors of New Zealand's media industry are hoping the NZ government follows suit. This as Stuff asks its readers to donate to its journalism, and will Google and Facebook have to pay for journalism?
Covid 19: global mobility and immigration
April 20, 2020 23:27 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBCovid 19 is having a massive impact on global mobility as people the world stay home. Statistics New Zealand data suggests that 2019 saw the largest net migration gain in New Zealand ever. But 2020 looks like it will be the polar opposite. What are the implications? Massey University demographer Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley.
What a staged reopening of the economy will look like
April 20, 2020 23:06 - 16 minutes - 15.6 MBBusiness commentator Rod Oram joins Kathryn to talk about which businesses can and can't open under alert level three, what preparation has gone into different industries' reopening and how far the government's substantial funding can stretch for businesses needing to hang on to their employees.
Book review - What Stars are Made Of by Sarah Allen
April 20, 2020 22:40 - 5 minutes - 4.7 MBDavid Hill reviews What Stars are Made Of by Sarah Allen, published by Penguin Random House.
Turning Tiger King into a comic book
April 20, 2020 22:07 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBGraphic novelist, poet and academic Michael Frizell is researching and writing the new comic book version of Netflix's super popular true crime series 'Tiger King'. Set in the world of private zoos, it tells the tale of exploitative zoo keeper Joe Exotic, and his rivalry with big cat rescue activist Carole Baskin. In the US it was watched by some 34.3 million viewers in the first 10 days after it was released on Netflix. Michael Frizell is Missouri State University's director of student ...
Concern about growing migrant crisis in Queenstown
April 20, 2020 21:52 - 7 minutes - 6.86 MBThousands of migrant workers in Queenstown have lost their jobs and are now stranded with no income, high rent bills and no way to return home. The Queenstown District Lakes Council, local chamber of commerce and social support groups are asking the government for help. Chamber of Commerce Chief executive Anna Mickell says a fresh wave of redundancies is about to exacerbate an already bad situation as the large hotels make plans to shut up shop for months. Kathyn also speaks with The Sal...
Businesses hurting but support extension of L4: EMA
April 20, 2020 21:48 - 4 minutes - 4.23 MBKathryn talks with Brett O'Riley, Chief Executive of the Employers and Manufacturers' Association. He says businesses are hurting, but generally support the government's decision to extend Level 4 till next week.
Shopping to resume - but not as we know it
April 20, 2020 21:37 - 10 minutes - 9.92 MBUnder alert level three, online shopping will be open for all - not just essential - businesses. Click and collect will be permitted as long as it's done safely. But bricks and mortar shops will have to remain shut, and that's a concern for Campbell Barbour from the New Zealand Council of Retail Property, which represents some of the biggest shopping centres in the country. He's joined by Greg Harford, the CEO of Retail NZ, who says a quarter of retailers have no online purchasing capabi...
Carnage for some cafes, restaurants and bars
April 20, 2020 21:29 - 8 minutes - 7.57 MBHospitality New Zealand Chief executive Julie White says a move next week to level 3 may not be enough to save thousands of businesses facing closure. Under level 3, cafes, bars and restaurants will remain closed to the public but can offer contactless delivery services.
Covid-19. Getting ready for what comes next
April 20, 2020 21:09 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBThe decision has been made to extend the national lockdown at alert level 4 until midnight next Monday. In the meantime work continues at pace to prepare for what comes next. That means maintaining strict border controls and ramping up testing and tracing. University of Otago's Dr Ayesha Verrall says when these systems work well they are as effective as many vaccines. She's the author of the independent contact tracing audit Cabinet took into account when deciding to delay ending the loc...
How Covid-19 could reshape our urban environment
April 19, 2020 23:48 - 10 minutes - 9.46 MBBill McKay looks at how the lockdown has changed out cities for the better - quiet streets, fewer cars, cleaner air and many more birds. Do we want a return to the "normal" rat race? Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland.
Quick and easy family meals
April 19, 2020 23:36 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MBLow on money and energy but still have to keep the family fed? Hamilton food blogger Kathrine Lynch has drawn up a 14-day meal plan to feed a family for only $3.25 per serving. She shares recipes for Satay Pork Noodles, Bacon Fried Rice, Moroccan Style Meatballs and Beef Goulash.
Book review - What Sort of Man by Breton Dukes
April 19, 2020 22:40 - 4 minutes - 3.99 MBHolly Walker reviews What Sort of Man by Breton Dukes, published by Victoria University Press.
Lifting their game: Jody Hamilton & Tyler Taurima-Brown
April 19, 2020 22:06 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBKathryn meets two people who've been doing everything they can to help young people in the Hawke's Bay get up on their feet. Jody Hamilton set up the social enterprise Lift, which connects rangatahi and helps them into meaningful work. One in five young people in Hawkes Bay are neither in education, employment or training - the highest rate in the country. In the past two-and-a-half years, Lift has worked with almost six hundred young people, who get life skills training through Bounce, ...
EU look to ease lockdowns, Putin - Russia 'under control'
April 19, 2020 21:54 - 5 minutes - 5.42 MBEurope correspondent Seamus Kearney looks at cautious moves by some EU nations to ease lockdown restrictions, while others say it's too early. Russia's President Vladimir Putin says the government has Covid-19 'fully under control' even as the country records its largest daily rise. Seamus will also look at the growing debate about whether governments were quick enough to take the crisis seriously, as EU leaders are due to meet to sign off on a $540 billion euro package of stimulus measu...
Extreme caution advised on lockdown D Day
April 19, 2020 21:08 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBContact tracing expert Professor Philip Hill is warning the government must be very careful before it decides to drop the strict Covid-19 alert level down to level 3. Yesterday the Ministry of Health admitted 'gold standard' contact tracing is around a week away. Already serious concerns around the speed of contact tracing systems in place have led to an urgent independent audit being commissioned. It is yet to be released. Contact tracing expert Philip Hill is the McAuley Professor of I...
NZ researchers trialling Covid-19 drug treatment options
April 16, 2020 23:06 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBNew Zealanders are leading three international research projects aimed at finding drugs that could effectively treat people infected with Covid-19. Researchers from the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand (MRINZ) are involved in three significant clinical trials involving patients with the virus, from people displaying mild symptoms through to those who are critically ill. MRINZ Director, Professor Richard Beasley says the trials will evaluate several treatment options at the same ...
Book review - A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
April 16, 2020 22:44 - 4 minutes - 3.86 MBTilly Lloyd from Unity Books reviews A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry, published by Faber. Follow-up to the multi-award-winning Days Without End, this novel is on a par with that. Narrated by Winona, a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole in 1870s Tennessee, this powerful novel depicts violence and survival in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Jacinta Ruru on bringing Tikanga Māori into legal education
April 16, 2020 22:07 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBJacinta Ruru is New Zealand's first Māori Professor of Law and has taught at the University of Otago since 1999. She's also the co-director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, a centre for research focused on Māori issues and the voices of indigenous academics. She's the first member of her immediate family to go to university and for the last 20 years she's been trying to find new ways to teach law to students around Aotearoa.
Transforming teaching and learning online
April 16, 2020 21:42 - 10 minutes - 9.93 MBSchools around the country are trying to figure out how a partial reopening under alert level three might work. John Morris is the former Principal of Auckland Grammar School, now Executive Principal of New Zealand's first on-line High School, the Crimson Global Academy - set to open next month. He's been working with the Ministry of Education to on how to transform teaching online. He says it is not simple, and that if lessons are not live, completion rates can be as low as 5 percent. H...
Level 4 to Level 3. What is the data telling us?
April 16, 2020 21:08 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBThe Prime Minister has set out what life under Level 3 might look like if the cabinet decides on Monday to lower the alert level. Kathryn talks with former Assistant Reserve Bank Governor and executive director of the economic think-tank, Motu John McDermott, who is leading the data science team at Wigram Capital Advisors. The group's projections have been used by the government during lockdown.
Level 4 to level 3 - What is the data telling us?
April 16, 2020 21:08 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBThe Prime Minister has set out what life under Level 3 might look like if the cabinet decides on Monday to lower the alert level. Kathryn talks with former Assistant Reserve Bank Governor and executive director of the economic think-tank, Motu John McDermott, who is leading the data science team at Wigram Capital Advisors. The group's projections have been used by the government during lockdown.
New local content produced under lockdown
April 15, 2020 23:47 - 10 minutes - 9.34 MBFilm and TV reviewer Tamar Munch looks at the new local content that's been made while everyone's in isolation, including Rhys Darby's 'The Alone Rangers', Leigh Hart's 'Big Isolation Lockdown', 'Nadia's Comfort Kitchen' and Sam Neill's 'Das Leek, Das Bad, Das Bogroll'. She'll also touch on some new shows being made just for the kids.
Lucy Hone: don't let gloom steal your hope
April 15, 2020 23:26 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBResiliance researcher and author Dr Lucy Hone joins Kathryn with tips on how to reduce anxiety and stop unhelpful catastrophising.
Cell tower attacks - as if we don't have enough to deal with
April 15, 2020 23:10 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBTechnology commentator Bill Bennett looks at why so many cell towers have been attacked globally and here in New Zealand, as misinformation stirs fear and ignorance over a non-existent link between 5G technology and Covid-19.
Book review - Adults by Emma Jane Unsworth
April 15, 2020 22:41 - 4 minutes - 4.14 MBLaura Caygill reviews Adults by Emma Jane Unsworth, published by HarperCollins. A hilarious read about friendship, motherhood, relationships and social media. Raucous and painfully relatable.
Patrick Gale: Family secrets, hidden lives
April 15, 2020 22:15 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBBritish novelist Patrick Gale is the author of 19 books, including 'Rough Music', 'A Perfectly Good Man', the Costa-nominated 'A Place Called Winter' and the emmy award winning TV drama, 'Man in an Orange Shirt' - inspired by his father's love for another man. His latest novel, 'Take Nothing With You' is about coming of age and the power of music, and is also somewhat lifted from his life and passion for the modern and baroque cello. Patrick Gale, was due to come to the Auckland Writers ...
Fears Covid-19 death toll higher in UK rest homes
April 15, 2020 22:06 - 9 minutes - 8.65 MBUK correspondent Matt Dathan joins Kathryn to talk about criticism of the way the pandemic has been handled in care homes as roughly one in seven of the UK's 11,300 homes has seen an outbreak of the virus. The government has announced changes to the way care home residents are tested for the virus, and that families will have the "right to say goodbye" to dying relatives. The UK is focused on how to move out of lockdown as pressure grows, and there's alarming forecasts of the impact on t...
Mental health services - rising demand and distancing issues
April 15, 2020 21:49 - 9 minutes - 9.17 MBLifeline says calls have gone up by a quarter since the lockdown, from the usual number of 10,000 a month, with callers citing anxiety around money, accommodation and relationship pressures. Many mental health services are trying to use video conferencing to interact with existing patients, but what happens when a patient doesn't have internet access? Kathryn talks with Consultant Psychiatrist and University of Otago Senior Lecturer, Professor Christopher Gale and Renee Matthews, clinica...