Nine To Noon
6,372 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 16 hours 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 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.
Post covid economic recovery
April 05, 2020 21:27 - 10 minutes - 9.95 MBWhat's likely to happen to the economy when the lockdown is lifted and the Covid-19 pandemic has started to subside? Economist Brad Olsen joins Kathryn Ryan to talk about the different scenarios and how the Covid-19 crisis is different to previous economic disruption.
Businesses under strain on day 12 of level 4
April 05, 2020 21:08 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBCabinet will today consider what the trigger for exiting level four might be and has been seeking advice from business advisory groups. Businesses large and small around the country are wondering how long they can continue and what the economic landscape might look like when restrictions are lifted. Kathryn Ryan talks to Darrell Trigg a builder in Northland and President of Master Builders, also Warner Cowin from Height Project Management.
The week that was - Welsh goats refuse to be locked down
April 02, 2020 22:53 - 5 minutes - 5.04 MBComedians Pinky Agnew and James Elliott look for humour over the past week, including the meandering goats which have taken over the Welsh town of Llandudno, during Covid-19 lockdown.
Tips for the DIY haircut
April 02, 2020 22:43 - 10 minutes - 9.51 MBWondering how to look after your own hair in lockdown? Proceed with caution, say the professionals.
Book review - Sado by Mikaela Nyman
April 02, 2020 21:43 - 2 minutes - 2.61 MBMelanie O'Loughlin of Unity Books reviews Sado by Mikaela Nyman, published by Victoria University Press. Cathryn, a New Zealand NGO worker in Port Vila, sets about picking up the pieces of her life after Cyclone Pam has ripped through Vanuatu. With a mystery at its heart, Sado guides us through the lives of villagers and expats, as cultures and communities clash in a time of crisis. A deeply thoughtful book that leaves the reader rethinking how help is given and received.
Parlour games for the bubble!
April 02, 2020 21:31 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MBIs your family in the clutches of Covid-19 cabin fever? We have some suggestions for simple indoor fun from Myfanwy Jones and Spiri Tsintziras' award-winning book Parlour Games for Modern Families.
Supermarket issues: pricing, queues, online deliveries
April 02, 2020 21:07 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBSupermarkets across the country are working hard towards keeping shelves stocked as people focus on keeping their pantries fuller than usual.
Hauraki Gulf residents fume at lockdown-flouting boaties
April 02, 2020 20:42 - 7 minutes - 7.1 MBHauraki Gulf island dwellers say lockdown-flouting boaties are putting them at risk. There are a large number of people self isolating on their boats and then coming onshore on gulf islands including Great Barrier, Pakatoa and Rotoroa. Maritime New Zealand has urged skippers of recreational vessels to stay home as the nation unites to beat the spread of Covid-19. Kathryn talks with Aotea / Great Barrier Local Board Chair and a member of the Aotea emergency response team, Izzy Fordham and...
MSF: fighting a virus without borders
April 02, 2020 20:31 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MB[image:178852:full] no metadata Dr Clair Mills is Médecins Sans Frontières' Medical Director, formerly Medical Officer of Health for Northland DHB. She joins Kathryn Ryan from head quarters in Paris, from where she is overseeing efforts to combat Covid-19 in some of the World's most challenging areas for disease prevention and medical treatment.
Re-building during lock-down
April 02, 2020 20:09 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBThe building and construction industry is warning of collapse unless it's given special dispensation to continue. Infrastructure New Zealand says building companies are in a critical condition and that lock-down could see one building worker in every three lose their job in the next half-year. It's calling on the Government to consider a concurrent sector-specific coronavirus alert level system to allow essential building work to continue. This comes as extra funding has been earmarked t...
Cinemas closed_ No problem. The new way to watch what's new
April 01, 2020 22:51 - 7 minutes - 6.51 MBFilm and TV correspondent Sarah McMullan joins Kathryn to talk about how you don't have to miss out on the latest movies. She has tips for how you can watch what's new, how much it'll cost and the range.
Toddler Whispering. Sharlene Poole
April 01, 2020 22:26 - 22 minutes - 31 MBParenting coach, author, and mum-of-two Sharlene Poole has tips for parenting toddlers during the lockdown. Her new book, Toddler Whispering, covers everything from sleeping, eating, and toilet training, to screen time and adjusting to a new baby brother or sister.
Tech during Covid brings out the bad, the ugly...and the good
April 01, 2020 22:07 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBTechnology Mark Pesce looks at the highly strained boundary between public health and privacy - citing the visual tracking of the mobile phones of people who attended a Spring Break party in Florida, the bosses buying spyware to keep tabs on their home-bound employees. He'll also look at the global movement underway to crowdsource and repair medical equipment in short supply.
Book review - Hello Strange by Pamela Morrow
April 01, 2020 21:44 - 2 minutes - 2.73 MBLouise Ward of Wardini Books reviews Hello Strange by Pamela Morrow, published by Penguin Books New Zealand. A fast-paced, future-fiction action romance, from an Aotearoa New Zealand author with a gift for imagining the 'yet to be'.
Bauer media to close, magazines to go
April 01, 2020 21:35 - 8 minutes - 7.87 MBThe German company, Bauer which publishes many magazine titles, including the Listener and the New Zealand Woman's Weekly, Metro, and North and South - has shut down its operations here citing the severe economic impact of Covid-19. Yesterday Mediaworks, which owns TV3, several commerical radio stations and Newshub, asked staff to volunteer to take a 15 percent pay cut across the board. Earlier in the week NZME took Radio Sport off-air. Kathryn discusses the dramatically altered landscap...
Auckland Uni professor takes home 'Oscar' of the space sector
April 01, 2020 21:18 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBThe first head of the Auckland Space Centre has won an award for demonstrating new technologies that could catch and reduce space debris. Guglielmo Aglietti joins Kathryn to talk about that research, and the work of the centre based at Auckland University.
UK Covid deaths up to 2352, Wimbledon cancelled
April 01, 2020 21:08 - 10 minutes - 9.31 MBUK correspondent Harriet Line joins Kathryn to look at the UK's increase in Covid cases - up 4,324 since yesterday. Wimbledon is cancelled for the first time since World War II.
Trucking industry says supply chain at risk
April 01, 2020 20:49 - 10 minutes - 9.97 MBRestrictions on moving freight means containers cannot be unloaded, clogging up storage areas and trucks moving essential goods around the country are returning full fresh air, the Road Transport Forum, says.