Nine To Noon
6,190 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 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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How are university students coping in lock-down?
April 15, 2020 21:26 - 23 minutes - 22 MBHow are tertiary institutions serving students and what hardships are their students facing under lock-down? Most universities have moved their courses online since lock-down began on March 24th, with the exception of Victoria University Wellington where online learning is due to start at end of this month. Meanwhile an NZUSA survey of students reveals increasing financial hardship and worsening mental health across the country. Victoria University Wellington Vice Chancellor Grant Guildf...
Watchdog to inspect aged care facilities as deaths rise
April 15, 2020 21:08 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBOf New Zealand's nine deaths linked to Covid-19, seven have been of residents in aged care facilities. There are now five outbreak clusters linked to aged care facilities. The Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier is to begin a series of targeted inspections this week to provide an independent assessment of how the sector is reponding to COVID-19.
'Museum beyond walls' becomes a reality
April 14, 2020 23:46 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBArts correspondent Nina Tonga looks at how a sector goal to bring art to the people has unexpectedly been realised, thanks to Covid-19. She joins Kathryn to talk about how different galleries and museums have got involved - from #MuseumChallenge, where people have been recreating works at home, to 'virtual walks' through galleries and opera watched 'alone together'.
Gardening as an antidote to cabin fever
April 14, 2020 23:29 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBOne way to stave off lockdown cabin fever is getting out into the garden, even if you've never had greenfingers before. Landscape designer and gardener Xanthe White with a raft of ideas on what to do in the garden as the weather gets colder.
Music With Charlotte Ryan
April 14, 2020 23:07 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBMusic 101 host Charlotte Ryan joins Kathryn to talk about what local musicians have been doing in lockdown. She'll share an exclusive song from one of the live streaming sessions Neil Finn has been playing from his home in LA, as well as a new song created by 20 Kiwi artists in lockdown called...appropriately, 'Stay'.
Book review - The One That Got Away by Jennifer Palgrave
April 14, 2020 22:41 - 5 minutes - 4.93 MBLisa Finucane reviews The One That Got Away by Jennifer Palgrave (pen-name for Lois Cox & Hilary Lapsley), published by Town Belt Press.
Steve Halligan: no spoke in his wheel
April 14, 2020 22:07 - 30 minutes - 28 MBAdventure cyclist Steve Halligan is hunkering down between ultra distance races and bike-packing expeditions. He not long since completed his 3rd Tour Aotearoa, the 3,000 km cycle race from Cape Reinga to Bluff. With thirteen different start points, it's hard to pick an outright winner at the finish line of this year's Tour Aotearoa, but Steve features in the competition's Hall of Fame, and is something of a legend in cycling circles. In between multiple thousand km races in New Zealand ...
Covid party rumour retracted, plea to save Virgin Australia
April 14, 2020 21:52 - 7 minutes - 6.75 MBAustralia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about how Australia's chief medical officer Dr Brendan Murphy has retracted comments he made to New Zealand's parliamentary committee about a cluster of cases stemming from "an illegal party" as it was unconfirmed. The Labor opposition party and unions want a billion-dollar loan to save the airline Virgin Australia and Rugby League is determined to get its season up and running again by the end of May.
Lockdown lessons from prison : Dr Paul Wood
April 14, 2020 21:38 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBDr Paul Wood spent nearly 11 years in prison for a murder he committed in when he was 19. During his time inside he attained a Bachelors degree, a masters in Psychology and was two years into his PhD which he finished in 2011. These days he is a motivational speaker, coach and mentor. He says at the moment he's talking a lot about what he learned from his time in prison - nearly a year of which was in solitary confinement.
Business community reacts to rescue package
April 14, 2020 21:07 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBDoes the government's latest rescue package provide enough relief, stimulus and certainty for struggling businesses? Under the new measures small and medium-sized enterprises will get 3 billion-dollars worth of tax breaks to help them survive the COVID-19 pandemic and there will also be law changes to ease pressure on firms struggling to pay commercial rents. Kathryn talks with Kirk Hope, Business New Zealand's Chief Executive and Paul Goldsmith, National Party finance spokesperson.
Nature watching with kids
April 13, 2020 23:51 - 7 minutes - 6.45 MBKennedy Warne with some natural history ways to keep kids occupied and engaged with nature. iNaturalist NZ - M�taki Taiao has a myriad of activities children can around their homes to record, learn and then share their natural history discoveries on online. Also Wild Dunedin has created a site called "Your Wild Bubble" with lots of ideas for kids. Even though confined to home, during your bubble walk around the neighbourhood there is much to observe. Plants, pets,fungi (it's the season)...
Alcohol: A dangerous love affair?
April 13, 2020 23:35 - 16 minutes - 15 MBWhile coping with the lockdown might have you reaching for the wine - or something stronger - George Seber would caution against that. He's an Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Auckland University and has crunched the numbers on the harm caused by the $4b New Zealanders spend on alcohol each year. His book, co-authored with his friend Dr Graeme Woodfield, is called 'Alcohol: A Dangerous Love Affair' and looks at how even moderate amounts can still have adverse health effects.
Book review - One of Them by Michael Cashman
April 13, 2020 22:40 - 3 minutes - 3.66 MBRalph McAllister reviews One of Them by Michael Cashman, published by Bloomsbury.
Anne Tyler. Red Head at the Side of the Road
April 13, 2020 22:07 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBPulitzer-prize winning American author Anne Tyler speaks with Kathryn Ryan about her 23rd book Red Head at the Side of the Road. Anne won the Pulitzer prize for Breathing Lessons in 1989, The Accidental Tourist was adapted into an acclaimed movie, and she has sold over ten million books around the world. Her newest novel is everything you would expect from Anne Tyler. Once again, with just a few master strokes of her pen, Tyler paints wonderfully descriptive bittersweet and empathetic po...
US correspondent Ron Elving - Dr Fauci falls foul of President
April 13, 2020 21:49 - 9 minutes - 8.96 MBRon Elving talks to Kathryn about the big issues in the US, including business being eager to reopen and the medical world highly reluctant. And President Trump is fueling speculation over the future of public health advisor, Dr Anthony Fauci who said in a CNN interview more could have been done to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Climate change advisor urges care over economy
April 13, 2020 21:32 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBThe government's independent climate change advisor is urging the government to stimulate the economy post-pandemic in a way that keeps climate change progress happening. The Government is looking to fund large "shovel-ready" infrastructure projects to boost the economy after the lockdown. Dr Rod Carr, chair of the Climate Change Commission and former deputy Reserve Bank Governor, has written to senior ministers warning that the wrong type of investments could compound today's climate cr...
Grant Robertson on Treasury forecasts
April 13, 2020 21:21 - 10 minutes - 9.94 MBThe Treasury has just released seven scenarios looking at how the economy is faring - and could fare - depending on how long the country stays at Level 4 lockdown. At best, the Treasury says unemployment can be kept below 10%, and return to 5% next year with additional government support. At worst - with more time required in Level Four - it says unemployment could reach 17-point-five to 26 percent. The Finance Minister Grant Robertson joins Kathryn to discuss.
Schools set to start term two - online
April 13, 2020 21:09 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBTerm two of the school year is set to start tomorrow, looking vastly different to term one. Teachers will be delivering lessons to students online, while two new educational TV channels will begin broadcasting in English and M�ori as part of a $88m package to support remote learning. Laptops and modems are being delivered this week to the estimated 80,000 families that lack the devices at home to learn online. At the weekend Education Minister Chris Hipkins said a return to school by st...
How to crochet an Easter basket
April 08, 2020 23:47 - 5 minutes - 4.86 MBWith all of us being told to enjoy a 'staycation' this weekend, we're turning our mind to Easter crafts. Think, finger crocheted baskets or Easter inspired amigurumi (soft crochet toys). Kathryn Ryan talks to Sofia Moers-Kennedy who is an accomplished crochet enthusiast, from Upper Hutt. She explains how to crochet an Easter Basket.
Five tips for running a harmonious bubble
April 08, 2020 23:29 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBParenting coach and educator Joseph Driessen shares five tips for running a harmonious household under lockdown. He says the key is getting the family to work as a team, and for parents, that might mean listening more and speaking less.
What's up with Zoom, IRD's computer is off for Easter
April 08, 2020 23:19 - 10 minutes - 9.5 MBTechnology commentator Paul Matthews looks at some of the privacy and security issues that have hit Zoom as its popularity during the Covid-19 crisis soars. Inland Revenue is most of the way through a big transformation project, and this year they'll be switching off their central tax computer system over Easter.
1000 student volunteers ready to shop for the elderly
April 08, 2020 23:07 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB1000 students have signed up to the volunteer army, working with supermarket chains to shop and deliver groceries to elderly and vulnerable around the country. Not only that - they've developed a payment system to make it possible where stores don't offer online shopping. The Student Volunteer Army is also working with childcare agencies to recruit students to provide childcare for essential workers. Kathryn talks with founder Sam Johnson.The SVA phone number is 0800 005 902.
Book review - Halibut on the Moon by David Vann
April 08, 2020 22:38 - 4 minutes - 4.09 MBKiran Dass of Time Out Bookstore reviews Halibut on the Moon by David Vann, published by Text. Shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction.
Bones' crime writer and forensic anthropologist Dr Kathy Reichs
April 08, 2020 22:07 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBMystery crime-writer and forensic anthropologist Dr Kathy Reichs speaks with Kathryn Ryan about her double-life as a scientist and best-selling author. Kathy's first novel Déjà Dead was a New York Times bestseller and the first of her eighteen Temperance Brennan books. Fans of hit Fox TV series Bones will know Kathy's work. Dr Reichs has traveled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, has helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala and was involved in the recovery of remains a...
Boris Johnson 'sitting up' in bed as UK covid deaths hit 7000
April 08, 2020 21:52 - 6 minutes - 6.36 MBUK correspondent Hugo Gye joins Kathryn with the latest on PM Boris Johnson's condition and the steepest one-day rise in the number of fatalities. As the outbreak continues to rage, there are growing calls for Brexit trade talks to be postponed and the transition period to be extended. New Labour leader Keir Starmer has fired most of his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn's left-wing allies and replaced them with moderates.
The race to find a vaccine. Johnson & Johnson
April 08, 2020 21:36 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBThe race to find a vaccine against Covid-19 is on with several major pharmaceutical companies announcing they plan to begin testing. Johnson & Johnson, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, has partnered with the United States Department of Human Health, and intends to start human trials in September. Johnson & Johnson is working off a vaccine platform the company used for experimental vaccines for Ebola and Zika. Vice President of Medical Affairs for Asia Pacific at Johnson & John...
Contact tracing technology. What are the privacy pitfalls?
April 08, 2020 21:20 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBComprehensive contact tracing is being touted as the single most important thing New Zealand could do to stay out of another lockdown. Around the world, many countries are looking at how technology can help. In Singapore, more than one million people downloaded an app that identifies people who have been within two metres of coronavirus patients for at least 30 minutes. But what privacy issues can such technology raise? Kathryn talks to Privacy Commissioner John Edwards.
Some service stations face closure as trade plummets
April 08, 2020 21:09 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBThe level 4 alert lockdown and the Government's directive for staycations over Easter are compounding a worrying business outlook for many independent service stations, and also biting into the profitability of larger operators. The Motor Trade Association, which represents more than three and a half thousand automotive businesses says trade is all but at a standstill. The MTA's Chief Executive Craig Pomare, and independent petrol retailer, Terry Walsh who owns the Mobil at Omarama, and ...
New studies emerge into Covid-19
April 07, 2020 23:49 - 9 minutes - 8.95 MBThis week, Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles tells us about some of the latest research related to Covid-19. The studies include how far a sneeze travels, research into how the virus sheds itself around the body and one that turns the virus into a musical score! Associate Professor Dr Siouxsie Wiles is the head of Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab at the University of Auckland.
New TV show giving Kōhanga Reo some DIY-love
April 07, 2020 23:31 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBIt's been 38 years since the first kohanga reo centre opened in Wainuiomata - and there's now over 8,500 tamariki in centres across New Zealand. But the competition from mainstream centres, and a change to bring them under the Ministry of Education, has seen the number of centres drop from a high of 800 in the mid-1990s to 450, with many of them in need of an upgrade to buildings. Maori TV has a new programme, T�ku Whare K�hanga Reo, which aims to help bring communities together to do ...
Book review - Grandmothers edited by Helen Elliott
April 07, 2020 22:39 - 3 minutes - 3.62 MBLinda Burgess reviews Grandmothers: Essays by 21st-Century Grandmothers edited by Helen Elliott, published by Text. An Australian collection of essays written by.....grandmothers. Excellent for dipping in and out of, with a wide range of writers - from the wonderful Helen Garner to Cheryl Kernot, ex-politician and Australia's first woman cricket umpire.
Nathan Filer: schizophrenia
April 07, 2020 22:15 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBSaying what schizophrenia doesn't mean is a lot easier than saying what it does mean, says former psychiatric nurse and writer Nathan Filer. He's written a fascinating study of the condition he calls 'so-called schizophrenia' – The Heartland (also published as This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health).
What to do with the Ruby Princess, and George Pell walks free
April 07, 2020 22:07 - 8 minutes - 7.46 MBAustralia correspondent Annika Smethurst joins Kathryn to talk about the stricken cruise ship that's now the subject of a police investigation for allowing 3000 passengers to roam around Sydney while Covid-19 was onboard. 1040 crew - many sick - now remain. Australia has 5844 cases of Covid-19, many linked to the Ruby Princess. She'll also talk about the controversial decision by Australia's highest court to free Cardinal George Pell and reverse his conviction for molesting choirboys.
BNZ extends its Community Finance programme
April 07, 2020 21:52 - 7 minutes - 6.74 MBBNZ has extended the Community Finance programme it runs with Good Shepherd NZ, allowing $5m of no-interest loans to be accessed by families impacted by Covid-19. The bank says the loans of up to $1500 will help prevent people from using loan sharks or other predatory lenders. Over the past week Nine to Noon has talked to the heads of the biggest banks in New Zealand, and Angie Mentis, chief executive of BNZ joins Kathryn this morning.
Australia begins testing potential COVID-19 vaccines
April 07, 2020 21:39 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBCSIRO, Australia's national science agency, has begun the first stage of testing vaccine candidates for COVID-19, in what it's calling a 'critical research milestone'. Australian Animal Health Laboratory, director Professor Trevor Drew, is leading the efforts.
Lockdown load: How's our internet holding up?
April 07, 2020 21:30 - 9 minutes - 8.59 MBIn this Covid-19 crisis, the internet has emerged as a vital tool for continuing life with some semblance of normality. There's virtual work meetings, online school and university lessons, and - when the lockdown gets too much - endless options for streaming entertainment. Could we have done this 15 years ago? Probably not. So how much demand is being placed on the network? On Monday night the evening peak was at 2.57 terabytes per second, and yesterday's midday traffic was about 1.7Tbps...
Chief Science advisor: How and when we exit alert level four
April 07, 2020 21:09 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBAt the half way point of the four week level four Covid-19 lockdown Chief Science advisor Professor Juliet Gerrard, talks to Kathryn Ryan about the importance of contact tracing
Stansborough: a warming woolly tale
April 06, 2020 23:35 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBCheryl Eldridge takes Kathryn Ryan on a tour of Stansborough Wool where they're using old fashion looms to make long lasting textiles made from wool that goes back to Viking days.
Boris Johnson in ICU
April 06, 2020 23:07 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now in intensive care after his coronavirus symptoms worsened.He'd been admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in London yesterday with "persistent symptoms�. A spokesperson said he was moved to intensive care on the advice of his medical team.Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has been deputised to take over "where necessary". Kathryn talks with UK correspondent Matt Dathan.
Book review - Sharks in the Time of Saviours
April 06, 2020 22:40 - 3 minutes - 3.64 MBPhil Vine reviews Sharks in the Time of Saviours by Kawai Strong Washburn, published by Penguin Random House.
Sally Rippin: Billy B Brown turns 10
April 06, 2020 22:17 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBBeloved children's book character Billie B Brown is turning ten. And her award-winning Australian creator Sally Rippin is celebrating with three new books, illustrated by Aki Fukuoka, to add to the twenty already on kids' bookshelves. The Billie B Brown series has now sold over five million world-wide, translated into 14 languages. Sally tells Kathryn Ryan how she was due to come to Auckland for the Writers Festival, but because of lock-down, is pouring her talents into an on-line school...
ASB chief: 'Honest conversations' needed
April 06, 2020 21:52 - 7 minutes - 6.44 MBASB has told its customers genuine and honest conversations will be needed to help get them through the Covid-crisis, and that increasing levels of debt might not be the best option, long-term. It expects to lend close to $1 billion through the $6.2b Business Finance Guarantee Scheme. Over the past week Nine to Noon has been asking the heads of each of the big banks what they're doing to help their customers through the Covid-turmoil. This morning, Kathryn talks to the chief executive of...
Thousands of jobs at risk in the franchise sector
April 06, 2020 21:35 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBBusiness has dried up for the 35 thousand different franchise units nationwide. This includes retail shops, home services operators, tradies and fast food outlets.The sector employs more than 120 thousand people, and 74,000 are permanent full time workers. Kathryn talks about the situation with Callum Floyd, chair of the Franchise Association, Brad Jacobs, who owns and operates The Coffee Club in New Zealand and franchisee Joe Southon, who owns and operates two Carpet Court stores and th...
Covid-19 tracing plea: 'Don't let lockdown be in vain'
April 06, 2020 21:19 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBDr Ayesha Verrall, Infectious Diseases Doctor and Epidemiologist at the University of Otago, Wellington says rapid, mass tracing is the single most important thing New Zealand can do to get out of lockdown and more importantly to stay out of it. She wants tracing to be scaled up, sped up, to become fully integrated, and augmented with smartphone apps. That means the ability to identify and trace the contacts of at least 1,000 cases a day. If not she warns the lockdown could be in vain.
Data scientist says today could be turning point
April 06, 2020 21:09 - 10 minutes - 9.7 MBA team of data scientists tracking the Covid 19 virus and advising the government, says today's new case update could be the turning point.Former Assistant Reserve Bank Governor and executive director of the economic think-tank, Motu, John McDermott, is leading the data science team at Wigram Capital Advisors.The group's projections of what would have happened if the country had not gone into lockdown were cited by the Prime Minister on Sunday. Dr McDermott says if today's new cases are ...
WFH: Lockdown can teach us about fairer work practices
April 05, 2020 23:50 - 8 minutes - 7.82 MBBill McKay joins Kathryn to talk about the "new normal" of working from home and how it could be made fairer for those with families. Could the current lockdown get businesses and managers to reassess modes of work?
Food: Getting kids in the kitchen during lockdown
April 05, 2020 23:38 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBBex Woolfall with some family meals kids can whip up at home, when they need a break from online learning!. How about some homemade baked beans or a carbonara with a vege twist. Bex is the marketing manager of after school programme, sKids, or Safe Kids in Daily Supervision
Book review - The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting
April 05, 2020 22:41 - 3 minutes - 3.66 MBTamsin Martin of Scorpio Books, Christchurch, reviews The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting. This book is published by Hachette.
The farmers turning to growing hemp seed
April 05, 2020 22:09 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBA growing number of farmers are turning over part of their land to cultivate hemp - the non-medicinal cannabis plant - since a law change in 2018 made it legal for hemp seed food products to be sold here. Hemp seeds yield a nutritious and valuable food oil and the plant grows easily in many soil conditions with low input required. One of the major players in the sector is HempFarm NZ, which now has a group of 90 growers around the country on nearly 15 hundred hectares. As well as produci...
Westpac CEO on Covid uncertainty
April 05, 2020 21:38 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBBanks have been asked by the government to help implement a number of measures to ease the burden on New Zealanders, including a six month deferral on mortgage repayments and offering $500,000 loans for up to three years to businesses with turnover between $250,000 and $80m dollars. David McLean talks to Kathryn Ryan about what Westpac is doing to help their personal and business customers through the Covid-turmoil.