Nine To Noon
6,372 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 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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Episodes
Business commentator Rod Oram
September 30, 2019 22:07 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBRod talks to Kathryn about Fonterra's new strategy, the end of Jetstar's regional services, banks trialling provincial hubs and the Taxpayers' Union's appeal for donations.
Book review - The Girls by Chloe Higgins
September 30, 2019 21:41 - 3 minutes - 3.24 MBTamsin Martin of Scorpio Books reviews The Girls by Chloe Higgins. Published by Picador.
Understanding maths, to infinity and beyond
September 30, 2019 21:07 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBDr Clemency Montelle is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Canterbury who specialises in deciphering and understanding ancient mathematical texts. In 2010 she embarked on a project to build an understanding of how astronomical and mathematical thinking evolved in India. By studying the way maths exists in archaeological and manuscript sources Montelle tries to understand the way societies thought, and by extension how they viewed themselves. She is the joint director of the ...
USA correspondent David Smith
September 30, 2019 20:53 - 6 minutes - 6.15 MBWashington bureau chief of The Guardian David Smith talks to Kathryn about impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump, and a crackdown on vaping products in some US states.
Reducing the haze around medical cannabis
September 30, 2019 20:37 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBA new scheme currently proposed by the Ministry of Health is set to impose regulations for the cultivation, sale and prescription of medicinal cannabis products by the middle of December. Dr Shaun Holt is a medical doctor with a background in pharmacy and clinical trials who's co-authored a book, Medical Cannabis: A brief guide for New Zealanders that he hopes will help clarify the status, issues, uses, and studies into medical cannabis. He talks to Kathryn about why he feels some clarit...
Call to regulate rental property managers
September 30, 2019 20:09 - 28 minutes - 26 MBThe Real Estate Institute is calling on the Government to regulate the property management industry, more than a decade after it was deregulated. REINZ is citing unethical behaviour, including discrimination, inadequate inspections, privacy breaches by property managers as among the problems within the industry. The Property Managers Institute however, says the focus needs to be widened to include the property market managed by private landlords or the people they appoint. To discuss thi...
Bill McKay -The Festival of Architecture
September 29, 2019 22:48 - 10 minutes - 9.73 MBA look at how activists are changing the way architecture and urban design are done. Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland.
Food of the Venetian Republic
September 29, 2019 22:35 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBKathryn talks with chef and restaurateur Nino Zoccali about the cuisine of the Venetian Republic, Adriatic Croatia and the Greek Islands and shares recipes for Venetian Prosecco and Snapper risotto and Croation braised lamb shoulder.
Political commentators Hooton & Jones
September 29, 2019 22:07 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBA review of the Prime Minister's trips to New York and Japan, also a crack on MP's using Parliament footage for attack ads.
Book review - Wild Honey by Paula Green
September 29, 2019 21:40 - 8 minutes - 7.96 MBTina Makereti reviews Wild Honey: Reading New Zealand Women's Poetry by Paula Green. Published by Massey University Press.
Alanna Mitchell: Warm, breathless and sour
September 29, 2019 21:06 - 30 minutes - 28 MBCanadian climate change journalist of over 30 years Alanna Mitchell is not a scientist or a trained actor. But her one-woman show has been one of the most talked-about performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year. This adaptation of her sixth book about climate change, the award-winning Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis offers what she's learned about the health of the world's oceans traveling five continents in two and a half years, joining thirteen expeditions with thirte...
Europe correspondent, Seamus Kearney
September 29, 2019 20:49 - 10 minutes - 9.34 MBUkrainian officials are privately voicing concern that their country will suffer in the fallout from the Trump impeachment inquiry, thousands of people have turned out to pay their respects to the late French President Jacques Chirac who died last week at the age of 86, and the ousted Austrian Chancellor is set for an election comeback.
Help for whanau when a baby dies
September 29, 2019 20:32 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBThe Department of Internal Affairs and other government agencies have established a new website for parents and whanau who have suffered the death of a child or baby. The website, called Wheturangitia, is a gateway for bereaved families to information including navigating the coronial process, clarifying the rules and entitlements around paid parental leave and funeral grants. The content caters specifically to stillbirth, miscarriage, neonatal death, fetal abnormality and SUDI, or sudde...
Vacant shops, falling sales challenge retail sector
September 29, 2019 20:08 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBChanging shopping habits and flat turnover in the retail sector is resulting in an increasing number of vacant shops. The most recent statistics from Retail NZ show turnover was sluggish in the second quarter of this year, with more than half of its members failing to hit their sales targets. It has been a been consistent downward trend over last 18 months, in the Whangarei CBD alone there are more than 50 empty shops. To look at why the retail sector is struggling to keep up with the ch...
The week that was
September 26, 2019 23:49 - 10 minutes - 9.45 MBComedians James Elliott and Irene Pink with a wry look at local body elections, and the Auckland election papers sent out with incorrect candidate photos.
Sports commentator Brendan Telfer
September 26, 2019 23:31 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBA look at how the Rugby World Cup is going.
Music with Grant Smithies
September 26, 2019 23:06 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBA couple of mighty fine reissues catch Grant Smithies' ear this week. We'll hear key tracks from Straitjacket Fits' second album, 1991's Melt, and a snarling punk pearler from Te Atatu's Dum Dum Boys, whose 1981 album Let There Be Noise has just been rereleased via LA label, In The Red. To close, a spacy slab of Afro-disco from Amsterdam quintet The Mauskovic Dance Band.
Book review - On Fire by Naomi Klein
September 26, 2019 22:39 - 5 minutes - 5.34 MBAnne Else reviews On Fire by Naomi Klein, which is published by Penguin Random House.
Violet Astor: drawing on good health
September 26, 2019 22:07 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBBritish endangered species artist Violet Astor discovered she had a real talent for drawing, which helped her recover from a chronic illness. Violet contracted Lyme Disease from an insect bite in Bali, leaving her fatigued, in pain and unable to cope with human contact for over two years. Taking refuge in an attic, Violet found out she could draw. Using only charcoal she has produced large and detailed drawings of endangered animals and tribes people in Oman, Kalimantan, Papua New Guinea...
Pacific correspondent Johnny Blades
September 26, 2019 21:52 - 6 minutes - 6.39 MBThe Solomon Islands and Kiribati switching diplomatic ties from Taiwan to China, will other Pacific nations follow suit?
Battling gender inequality in the entertainment industry
September 26, 2019 21:29 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MBMaria Giese is a filmmaker and director whose activism instigated the largest industry wide federal investigation into discrimination against women directors in Hollywood history. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation began in 2015 and it's reported to have led to settlement talks with all six major studios. Maria Giese features prominently in documentary, This Changes Everything about how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation - its executive produ...
Allegations of cover-up of US President's Ukraine call
September 26, 2019 21:08 - 16 minutes - 15.6 MBThe US House Intelligence Committee has released a declassified version of the complaint by an unidentified intelligence official - who says the president asked the Ukrainian leader to initiate a corruption investigation of a potential presidential rival, Joe Biden. A formal impeachment inquiry has been launched by the US House of Congress. Kathryn talks to a former White House ethics lawyer, Richard Painter. He is now a Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota.