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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Australia: Rate hike, election latest, Neighbours' last hurrah
May 03, 2022 21:45 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBAustralia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about the Reserve Bank's decision to raise the official cash rate by 0.25 per cent - the first time it's been hiked in the middle of an election campaign since 2007. She'll look at the city-based seats held by moderate conservatives that are under threat from climate-concerned independents - raising concerns about a hung parliament on May 21. And Australia's most famous soap opera Neighbours is ending - but not without a speci...
Cardiac survival rates down as PPE impairs CPR performance
May 03, 2022 21:30 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBFewer New Zealanders are surviving cardiac arrests outside the hospital, and St John Ambulance believes wearing PPE may be impairing officers' ability to perform CPR effectively. Survival rates are down for the second year in a row. They've dropped from 13 percent in the year to July 2019, pre-pandemic, to 11 percent in the 12 months to July last year. Survival rates are counted as people still alive 30 days after a cardiac arrest. In the year to July 2021, almost 2000 cardiac arrests we...
Large US study finds Reading Recovery benefits don't last
May 03, 2022 21:05 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBA new follow-up study into students who'd gone through the Reading Recovery programme in the US has found that initial gains may not last.
How to build wealth for retirement
May 02, 2022 23:45 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MBEveryone knows they need to save for retirement, but Financial Planner, Liz Koh says saving is only part of the story. She says we need to think more broadly than that, because our goal should not be saving but building wealth. Liz talks to Kathryn about the difference. Liz Koh is a financial planner and specialising in retirement planning. This discussion is of a general nature, and does not constitute financial advice.
How to Build Wealth for Retirement
May 02, 2022 23:45 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MBEveryone knows they need to save for retirement, but Financial Planner, Liz Koh says saving is only part of the story. She says we need to think more broadly than that, because our goal should not be saving but building wealth. Liz talks to Kathryn about the difference. Liz Koh is a financial planner and specialising in retirement planning. This discussion is of a general nature, and does not constitute financial advice.
The bank of mum and dad gets bigger + how to get more bang for your winter buck
May 02, 2022 23:30 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBGemma Rasmussen, head of communications and campaigns at Consumer NZ joins Kathryn to talk about new research that shows families are playing an increasing role in financing young people into the housing market. And winter is coming - what's the best way to heat your home, check you're with the right power provider and get more out of your streaming service?
Business commentator Rebecca Stevenson - Is it time to chuck the growth economy in the bin?
May 02, 2022 23:05 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBRebecca Stevenson talks to Kathryn about whether modern economic focus on growth and gross domestic product (how much we make minus how much we buy) as a measure of a nation's success isn't sustainable - and whether it might be destroying our environment, and also not fairly compensating people for living lives dominated by work.
Book review: French Braid by Anne Tyler
May 02, 2022 22:35 - 6 minutes - 6.02 MBCatriona Ferguson reviews French Braid by Anne Tyler, published by Penguin Random House NZ
Pirate Queens, Rebecca Simon: the women who ruled the waves
May 02, 2022 22:05 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBDr Rebecca Simon's research and writing charts the rise and fall of pirates, from ancient times to a "golden era" spanning the 16th and 17th centuries, which, together with Treasure Island spawned a romantic Captain Jack Sparrow-eque image. Rebecca' s new book Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read is a history of female piracy in the Caribbean and the Atlantic. Anne Bonny and Mary Read were infamous pirates who swore and fought with pistols and cutlasses at a time when few...
Fonterra's capital restructure: what does it mean for farmers?
May 02, 2022 21:30 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBThe government has backed Fonterra's capital restructure, after initially raising concerns about the proposal and whether they were in the best interests of the industry. Changes will be made to the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act to allow Fonterra to change its shareholding rules and limit the size of the related investment fund. Fonterra wants to make it easier to join the co-operative, while maintaining farmer ownership amid falling milk supply. Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor s...
Armstrong Downes Commercial: more construction companies could collapse
May 02, 2022 21:05 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBThe Chief Executive of one of the country's biggest commercial construction companies warns more building companies could collapse. Wellington-based construction company Armstrong Downes Commercial was put into liquidation yesterday, having suffered large losses, from fixed price contracts, on two of its biggest projects. The decision follows an unsuccessful attempt at restructuring the company's contracts.Armstrong Downes Commercial has eight projects under way in the capital. Grant Tho...
A scramble up the Remarkables with Kennedy Warne
May 01, 2022 23:45 - 9 minutes - 8.97 MBKennedy explores some of the rock bivouacs that climbers use for overnight shelter in the valley of the south branch of the Wye Creek, just south of Queenstown.
Feijoas all year round
May 01, 2022 23:30 - 10 minutes - 9.67 MBThe feijoa season usually passes in a blaze of glory. Glorious months with an abundance of the fruit...and then the season ends. So how can you enjoy feijoas all year round? Heather Smith is the founder of Heather's Feijoas, which boasts a range of feijoa products, from freeze-dried wedges, to powders, purees and jellies. Kathryn speaks to Heather about the feijoa industry, the products she's created, and shares a recipe and some tips for making delicious desserts, breakfasts or snacks.
Political commentators Jones & Thomas
May 01, 2022 23:05 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBThe Government is trying to advance some longstanding and challenging big picture policies. Neale, Ben and Kathryn discuss the Government's climate plan and areas at risk of sea level rise, the future of 3 Waters and Co-governance. Neale Jones was Chief of Staff to Labour Leader Jacinda Ardern, and prior to that was Chief of Staff to Andrew Little. He is the director of Capital Government Relations. Ben Thomas is a PR consultant and a former National Government press secretary.
Book review: Left on Tenth by Delia Ephron
May 01, 2022 22:35 - 5 minutes - 4.85 MBLaura Caygill reviews Left on Tenth by Delia Ephron, published by Penguin Random House NZ
Dave Letele : fighting obesity by example
May 01, 2022 22:05 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBOver the last eight years, Dave Letele has helped thousands of people lose weight and get fit through his Brown Buttabean health programme. The progamme spun out of Dave's own journey in which he lost over 100 kilograms and turned his life around. Now, in addition to running free fitness programmes, his organisation runs education, youth and employment programmes, as well as a food-share scheme. Dave Letele was recently named Kiwi Bank New Zealand Local Hero of the Year Award.
The extra mile: What community healthcare workers went through in lockdown
May 01, 2022 21:30 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBNew research into what community healthcare workers experienced in the early days of the pandemic has been released this morning - finding many answered 'a call of duty' to care for their patients, sometimes at the expense of being with their own families. They went the 'extra mile' to care for their patients, often without access to proper PPE and with little in the way of tangible thanks. Dr Eleanor Holroyd, Professor of Nursing at AUT is the lead author of the study - which had 3644 r...
Legal aid system in grave danger if no new money in budget : senior barrister & ex crown prosecutor
May 01, 2022 21:05 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBA senior barrister and former crown prosecutor says unless this month's budget contains new funding for the legal aid system, it is is danger of collapse. Hourly rates for legal aid work haven't changed since 2008 and are around half what a Crown Prosecutor or independent counsel receives. As a result there has been an exodus of lawyers willing and able to offer legal aid. The Law Society commissioned an independent report by Colmar Brunton last year, which surveyed nearly 3000 lawyers o...
Review launched into bullying, harassment at Fire and Emergency
April 28, 2022 22:40 - 5 minutes - 5.36 MBThe State Services Commission has announced an independent review of workplace culture and complaint handling at Fire and Emergency. The review was requested by the Chair of FENZ, Rebecca Keoghan. It's three years since former judge Coral Shaw delivered a devastating report into the culture at FENZ, finding bullying and harassment were rife at all levels and across all regions within FENZ. Since then a stream of current and former firefighters - both volunteer and professional - have exp...
Book review: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
April 28, 2022 22:35 - 4 minutes - 4.24 MBKiran Dass reviews Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield, published by Picador
Spy novelist Charlotte Philby on her double-agent grandfather
April 28, 2022 22:05 - 25 minutes - 23 MBCharlotte Philby's latest novel tells the story of her grandfather, Kim Philby, the notorious double-agent in the Cambridge spy ring. Edith and Kim is her fourth novel, and tells the linked stories of her grandfather and Edith Tudor-Hart, the Vienna-born photographer and Communist agent who recommended Kim Philby for recruitment by the KGB. Charlotte Philby's father was a child when her grandfather defected. He tracked him down in Moscow years later, and as a five year old, Charlotte wen...
Greywacke: cracking the mystery of earthquake faults
April 28, 2022 21:30 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBSome ground-breaking research into a rock is unlocking the secrets of earthquake faults. From Aoraki Mt Cook to Waiheke Island, and even further North, greywacke is our nation's most common type of rock. But it's the rock no-one particularly loves. Greywacke is a variety of sandstone. It's hard, dark, and has nothing shiny, pretty or particularly valuable about it. But lecturer in geology at Victoria University of Wellington Dr Carolyn Boulton is very interested in it. Dr Boulton tells K...
Auckland ferries: electric future
April 28, 2022 21:05 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBKathryn speaks with Fullers360 CE Mike Horne, who is overseeing a project to amp-up decarbonised commuter crossings across the Waitemata Harbour. A hydrogen hybrid ferry and two Crown-funded electric ferries are planned for Auckland Harbour crossings. Auckland ferry operator Fullers360 plans to launch a privately funded hybrid ferry on the water next year, a year ahead of the fully electric models.The Government says it expects the 200-person all-electric ferries for Auckland Transport's...
Film & TV: We Own This City, The Explorer Club, Shining Girls
April 27, 2022 23:45 - 6 minutes - 6.21 MBFilm and TV correspondent Tamar Munch joins Kathryn to look at a new series from the creators of The Wire called We Own This City (Neon, Sky Go), which exposes the corruption and moral collapse that befalls Baltimore. She'll also look at local series The Explorer Club (TVNZ OnDemand) which introduces kids to iconic New Zealand explorers through hands-on adventures of their own and finally Shining Girls (Apple+), which stars Elisabeth Moss as an assault victim trying to understand her own...
Parenting skills for blended families
April 27, 2022 23:25 - 22 minutes - 30.8 MBKathryn talks with parenting coach and education consultant Joseph Driessen about parenting skills for blended families.
Tech: What happens to Twitter now Elon Musk is in charge?
April 27, 2022 23:05 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBThe world's richest man has bought the world's biggest megaphone. What's he going to do with it? Tech expert Mark Pesce tells Kathryn Ryan what we know so far.
Book review: Grand by Noelle McCarthy
April 27, 2022 22:35 - 6 minutes - 5.61 MBHolly Walker reviews Grand by Noelle McCarthy, published Penguin Random House NZ
Wool Aid: the world's first merino bandage
April 27, 2022 22:05 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBPicking up discarded sticking plasters on the Routeburn Track was a lightbulb moment for Lucas Smith. He was working as a mountain guide, and blisters were a common problem for the tourists he was escorting through the rugged Fiordland landscape. Uncomfortable with the number of plastic plasters being used and thrown away, he turned his gaze to the wool he used pluck off fences to pad his own scrapes and blisters. Six years of research, patenting and development led Lucas to establish Wo...
UK: Cost of living, sexism in Parliament, McCann suspect lacks
April 27, 2022 21:45 - 10 minutes - 9.19 MBUK correspondent Hugo Gye joins Kathryn to talk about the pressure piling on the government to tackle inflation and the ideas proposed so far - none of which seem likely to make a difference. There's been a massive row over a newspaper report that senior Labour politician, Angela Rayner, has tried to distract Boris Johnson by crossing and uncrossing her legs in Parliament - which she angrily denies. Now female Tory MPs have said they've seen male colleagues watching porn in the Chamber. ...
Retirement age renters priced out of NZ's biggest cities
April 27, 2022 21:30 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBFinancial literacy advocate Dr Pushpa Wood says renters who are aiming to survive on super can no longer afford skyrocketing city rentals. Recent research commissioned by New Zealand Seniors in partnership with CoreData showed that more people are working longer as the advent of Covid has delayed their retirement plans. The Retirement Report 2022 also found that only half of the over 50 year olds surveyed felt they were on track to retire at their preferred age. the Government has just a...
Warning: six week wait for passport
April 27, 2022 21:05 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBAs Covid-19 border restrictions relax here and abroad, Kiwis are ready for international travel. But passports are taking almost three times as long as usual to process. Over half a million passports have expired in the past couple of years. The DIA says there's a high demand for passports with processing time shifting from 10 to 22 working days, equivalent to 32 calendar days, plus time for passports to arrive in the post. For peace of mind six weeks for processing in recommended. Depar...
Media law with Ursula Cheer
April 26, 2022 23:45 - 10 minutes - 9.42 MBShould suspects who are subject to police or other investigations be able to keep that information out of the media using the law of privacy? Ursula Cheer is a professor of Law at the University of Canterbury.
Kiwi handbag enterprise helps semi-nomadic Borneo tribe
April 26, 2022 23:20 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBJacky McLaren spent ten years working as a teacher in Brunei, but it's her experiences outside the classroom that are a having a lasting impact.
Book review - Raiment: A Memoir by Jan Kemp
April 26, 2022 22:35 - 5 minutes - 4.9 MBDavid Hill reviews Raiment: A Memoir by Jan Kemp, published by Massey University Press.
Living well after a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis
April 26, 2022 22:05 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBProfessor George Jelinek was 45 and at the peak of a distinguished medical career, when he was diagnosed with MS - the disease which had destroyed his mother's life. At the time, he was a Professor of Emergency Medicine and had been Editor-in-Chief of a major medical journal. So he set about learning everything he could about MS to prevent his life deteriorating in the same way his mother's had. Professor Jelinek's Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis Programme was detailed in his first book pu...
Australia: Covid hits Labor's campaign launch, Dutton's war
April 26, 2022 21:45 - 7 minutes - 6.82 MBAustralia correspondent Chris Niesche joins Kathryn with updates from the election campaign, which got off to a rough start for Labor when its leader Anthony Albanese came down with Covid. He'll also look at the comments from Defence Minister Peter Dutton about the need for Australia to "prepare for war", as the country reevaluates its security threats following a pact between Solomon Islands and China.
Gorsebusting: volunteers ghosting an invasive weed in Okarito
April 26, 2022 21:30 - 9 minutes - 8.79 MBA West Coast volunteer project to rid a lagoon of an invasive weed, is bringing people and businesses together across New Zealand. Okarito Lagoon is swamped by gorse. It's threatening biodiversity; choking native wetland plants, bird habitat and inhibiting whitebait breeding grounds. But once a year scores of sleeves are being rolled up to pull the gorse out. Over a hundred volunteers descended on Okarito recently, a settlement of some forty people, and plans are in place for Gorsebustin...
Auckland maritime tech company to build electric ferries
April 26, 2022 21:15 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MBThe electric future for Auckland's ferries has ramped up a notch. Two publicly-funded electric ferries are planned for Auckland Harbour crossings, plus Auckland ferry operator Fullers plans to launch a privately funded hybrid ferry on the water next year.The Government says it expects the 200-person ferries for Auckland Transport's inner and mid-harbour services to be launched in 2024. They'll be built by Auckland martime technology company EV Maritime. Kathryn speaks with founder and CE...
Bromley residents plead for solution to putrid stink
April 26, 2022 21:05 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBFrustrated residents of the Christchurch suburb of Bromley say they're dismayed by the prospect of another six years living with the stench of a local composting plant. Christchurch City Councillors will consider a report recommending moving the city's organics processing plant at a meeting tomorrow. Stuff is reporting that could take up to six years. Residents of Bromley have been pleading with the council for years to do something about the smell from the plant, which turns green waste...
Media: Musk moves on Twitter, TVNZ-RNZ board announced
April 25, 2022 23:45 - 9 minutes - 8.37 MBAndrew Holden is a journalist for more than 30 years including five as Editor of The Press (in Christchurch) and four as Editor-in-Chief of The Age in Melbourne.
Business: New plan on climate change adaption, King Salmon's capital raise
April 25, 2022 23:30 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBBusiness correspondent Pattrick Smellie joins Kathryn to talk about a public consultation document due for release soon by the government into how the country will adapt to climate change. It's likely to broach the tricky subject of what to do about coastal property, which may in future become uninsurable. And warming coastal waters may have an impact King Salmon's capital raise, along with resource consent to farm in the open ocean. Pattrick Smellie is the editor and co-founder of Busin...
Politics: Inflation fixes, Luxon's leadership, Ardern's Asia trip
April 25, 2022 23:05 - 21 minutes - 20 MBBen Thomas is a PR consultant and a former National Government press secretary. Shane Te Pou is a former candidate, campaign manager and executive member of the Labour Party, and a former union official. He is no longer a member of any political party. He is a Director and HR Manager for IT Company Mega.
Book review: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
April 25, 2022 22:35 - 5 minutes - 5.13 MBLouise O'Brien reviews Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel, published by Picador, Macmillan
An insight into sounds from the deep
April 25, 2022 22:05 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBAuckland Marine scientist Craig Radford is keeping his ear to the ocean and recording what he hears. Professor Radford is one of nine international scientists capturing underwater noises to contribute to the Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds. The sounds assist in identifying how marine life communicates with each other - and in this part of the world it will also help to get a picture of the biodiversity challenges marine life in New Zealand faces
US: Diplomats back to Kyiv, revitalisation of the labour movement
April 25, 2022 21:45 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBUS correspondent Kelsey Snell joins Kathryn to talk about the return of diplomats to Kyiv, with President Biden expected to announce a new ambassador to Ukraine. It comes as the Secretaries of Defence and State are in Ukraine to meet with President Zelensky. She'll also talk about the moves by workers at Amazon and Starbucks to unionise - part of a revitalisation of the union movement by young, Black and Latino employees. It's not without push back from the big corporations, with Starbuc...
Where digital tools for stroke prevention fail to make the grade
April 25, 2022 21:30 - 10 minutes - 9.75 MBAs more people turn to apps on their phone to help monitor their health, a new study out of AUT raises concerns about ones being used for stroke prevention. In a first-of-its kind review of the digital technologies currently available for stroke prevention - of which there 2369 - just 20 met basic criteria, were scientifically sound and had evidence-based content. The review, published in the scientific journal Stroke, was led by Valery Feigin, Professor of Epidemiology and Neurology at ...
Fair Pay Agreements: How will they work?
April 25, 2022 21:05 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBHow well prepared are employers for the the biggest change to workplace law in decades expected later this year? The Fair Pay Agreements bill brings together employers and unions within a sector to bargain for minimum terms and conditions for all employees in that industry or occupation. Workers will be represented by unions, and employers by an employer association, these will need to be established. The proposed law has support from workers groups welcoming the provision of minimum fai...
Book review: Slow Down, You're Here by Brannavan Gnanalingam
April 21, 2022 22:35 - 6 minutes - 6.1 MBAdrian Hardingham from Unity Books reviews Slow Down, You're Here by Brannavan Gnanalingam, published by Lawrence & Gibson
Shavez Cheema - Borneo: a naturalist's haven
April 21, 2022 22:05 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBShavez Cheema is the founder of rainforest conservation group 1Stop Borneo Wildlife, where he supervises scientific and sustainable tourism projects. Shavez started his conservation journey in 2011, with an academic background in anthropology and tourism. His main passion is saving wildlife. He loves frogs, has helped save elephants in plantations, trained former poachers to be nature guides, persuaded fisherman to turn dolphin guide and lead pangolin rescue missions so holiday makers ca...
The seagulls that have a favourite fish and chip shop
April 21, 2022 21:30 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBSeagulls in New Zealand are often referred to as the scavengers of the sky, ready to swoop on any food scraps and takeaways beachgoers throw their way. Some recent research shows Northern Hemisphere gulls are no different, but some are quite specific about their fried food. The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), used GPS tags to track the lives of Herring Gulls breeding in Scotland and northern England during the winter months. . Research Ecologist and study author, Dr Nina O'Hanlon sa...