Nine To Noon
6,273 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 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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Techniques to deal with grief in its many forms
January 31, 2022 22:30 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBIt's easy to burn out amidst the collective stress of a pandemic, says Rebekah Ballagh. The Nelson-based counsellor and writer posts daily mental health tips on her hugely popular Instagram account journey to wellness and has just published an illustrated book about grief - Words of Comfort.
Book review: Three of the best of 2021: Some Answers Without Questions by Lavinia Greenlaw, Intimacies by Katie Kitamura and My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
January 31, 2022 21:35 - 7 minutes - 7.05 MBKiran Dass reviews three favourite novels from 2021: Some Answers Without Questions by Lavinia Greenlaw, published by Faber; Intimacies by Katie Kitamura published by Jonathan Cape and My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley published by Granta.
Book review: Three of the best of 2021
January 31, 2022 21:35 - 7 minutes - 7.05 MBKiran Dass reviews three favourite novels from 2021: Some Answers Without Questions by Lavinia Greenlaw, published by Faber; Intimacies by Katie Kitamura published by Jonathan Cape and My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley published by Granta.
Lifting the spirits - Belle: an aerial circus delight
January 31, 2022 21:05 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBA performance of air, featuring aerialists, live music and dance artists, Belle is featuring in the upcoming Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts. The performance is above and all around you. Belle takes its name from the French word for dragonfly llibellule which is a symbol of transformation in some cultures. One of the key creatives working with an all-female cast, dancer, choreographer and previous World of Wearable Art director Malia Johnston speaks with Kathryn.
OECD report highlights risk of government COVID debt
January 31, 2022 20:30 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBThe OECD says rising debt due to government Covid stimulus and the soaring housing market are risks for the economy. The Paris based intergovernmental economic organisation has issued its three yearly report card on New Zealand's economy. It finds that economic recovery has been rapid and strong and the economy is showing signs of overheating.The report says the government needs to commit to explicit long-term debt-to-GDP targets, and change some policies such as pension elibility. Kathr...
Ukraine Russia crisis: where to from here?
January 31, 2022 20:05 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBThe Russia - Ukraine crisis deepens by the day. 100,000 Russian troops, tanks and artillery have massed on Ukraine's borders in recent weeks, prompting fears of an invasion - despite repeated Russian denials of any plan to attack. Meanwhile the UK's government has come into lockstep with US and other allies to freeze assets and ban travel in the event of a Russian incursion into Ukraine. Russia alleges that U.S. leaders have broken promises they made in the early 1990s to not expand NATO...
Urban issues - light rail for the city of sails
January 30, 2022 22:45 - 8 minutes - 7.84 MBAuckland Light Rail from the City Centre to the the airport has been announced, Bill examines the route and whether it is a good option or not. Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland.
How to store fruit and veg and reduce food waste
January 30, 2022 22:30 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MBRegistered nutritionist Claire Turnbull has tips for keeping your fruit and vegetables fresh for longer; what to keep in the fridge, how to store them, and what to do when you do find vegetables looking limp. It'll prolong the shelf life of your produce, especially during the hot summer months, and save you money. It's estimated the average New Zealand household throws away 86kg of edible food each year, worth $644.
Political commentators Mills & Thomas
January 30, 2022 22:05 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBStephen, Kathryn and Ben discuss what the latest 1News Kantar Public poll is showing, the frustrations over Rapid Antigen Testing and the inflation rate. Stephen Mills is an executive director at Talbot Mills research limited which is the polling firm used by Labour. He is a former political adviser to two Labour governments. Ben Thomas is a PR consultant and a former National Government press secretary.
Book review: Three of the best from 2021: No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout and The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
January 30, 2022 21:35 - 7 minutes - 6.82 MBHannah August reviews her favourite books from last year: No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood published by Penguin Random House, Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout published by Penguin and The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay.
Employers urged to get ready for Holidays Act changes
January 30, 2022 20:30 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBSignificant changes will be made to the holidays act this year - affecting both employers and employees. Despite having been amended more than 20 times, the 2003 Act has been a nightmare over the years for many workplaces and staff as payroll systems struggled to understand and apply it - especially for employees with variable pay. This year's proposed changes include new ways of calculating holiday pay and other leave entitlements and also the ability for employees to take annual holida...
Principals predict Omicron will close some schools
January 30, 2022 20:05 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBIt's back to class for hundreds of thousand of students today and principals worry Omicron will force some schools to close, meanwhile paediatricians want children to remain in class as long as possible. Strict safety measures have been mandated, including vaccinations, masks and the maintenance of a COVID-19 vaccination register. Dr Teuila Percival is a senior lecturer in paediatric health at the University of Auckland and a consultant paediatrician. She is part of a group of 10 paediat...
Sports commentator Sam Ackerman - Hamish Bond retires
January 27, 2022 22:30 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBAmong NZ's sporting elite, the only man to win 3 consecutive gold medals for NZ has called it quits and Sam says rower Hamish Bond has to be considered for a knighthood pretty soon. Also sporting disruptions caused by Omicron and the business end of the Australian Open.
Book review: Best of Unity Books 2021: Tilly Lloyd
January 27, 2022 21:35 - 6 minutes - 5.63 MBTilly Lloyd of Unity Books tells us about her favourites from last year - "three marvels of non-fiction".
An epic run traversing America multiple times
January 27, 2022 21:06 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBBritish ultra-athlete Rob Pope left his job to recreate Forrest Gump's fictional run, traversing America five times.The English veterinarian is the first person to complete the epic run covering 15,600 miles, or 25,000 kilometres. It took him 18 months and raised money for the World Wildlife Fund and Peace Direct. He's no stranger to endurance events and holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon, dressed as a film character. Rob Pope now has a podcast - "How to be Superhum...
Why biodiversity in cities matters
January 27, 2022 20:40 - 14 minutes - 13 MBAs housing intensification increases in many New Zealand towns and cities, University of Auckland ecologist Dr Margaret Stanley says retaining mature trees is key to having liveable cities, and artificial turf is not an environmentally sound subsitute for green space.
Auckland light rail option announced
January 27, 2022 20:30 - 4 minutes - 4.06 MBThe government has chosen a light rail option linking downtown Auckland to the Airport. The plan will see a partially above and below ground rail link from the Wynyard Quarter to the airport, with 18 stops along the way. RNZ Auckland reporter Katie Todd has details.
How will our diagnostic labs cope with omicron surge?
January 27, 2022 20:06 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBFirst this morning as omicron takes hold with tens of thousands of cases projected per day - how will our diagnostic laboratoies cope? New analysis from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation suggests Omicron infections in Aotearoa New Zealand could peak at about 80-thousand a day by mid-February, in an outbreak lasting about 3 months. So how are our labs prepared for such a surge in demand for testing? Dr Juliet Elvy, Consultant Clinical Microbiologist with Asia Pacific Health ...
Film review with Laumata Lauano
January 26, 2022 22:45 - 9 minutes - 8.81 MBLaumata has been watching Encanto on Disney+, Euphoria express on Neon, Afterlife season 3 on Netflix and Liana on Youtube.
Parenting: preparing your child for their Covid vaccine
January 26, 2022 22:25 - 15 minutes - 21.4 MBChildren aged 5-11 are now eligible for the Covid vaccine, and the first week and a half of the immunisation programme has seen strong demand. But not all children will be jumping at the chance - so what if your child is scared of needles or feeling anxious about vaccine? Kathryn gets some tips from Dr Jin Russell, a community and developmental paediatrician at Starship Hospital, about how to best support your child.
New technology with Paul Matthews
January 26, 2022 22:10 - 10 minutes - 9.89 MBPaul talks to Kathryn about supercomputers, the Metaverse and the future of the Internet. And help is on the way for the workforce shortfall in the tech sector. Late last year the Government announced a border exception to bring 600 new tech workers in, Will it help and is it enough?
Inflation rises to highest annual rate since mid-1990
January 26, 2022 22:06 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBThe annual inflation rate has jumped to 5.9 percent, the highest annual rate since mid-1990. Consumer prices rose 1.4 percent in the three months ended December. RNZ Business Editor Gyles Beckford is in the studio with Kathryn to discuss the results.
Book review: Three of the best from 2021: Harry Broad
January 26, 2022 21:32 - 7 minutes - 7.13 MBHarry Broad reviews three of his favourite books from last year: Wai Pasifika by David Young published by OUP, Too Much Money by Max Rashbrooke published by BWB and Performer a Memoir by Paul Maunder published by Te Puawai.
The Waikanae family, Dutch resistance and saving a Jewish child
January 26, 2022 20:32 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBGloria Hakken of Waikanae tells Kathryn the remarkable story of her parents-in-law who were members of the Dutch resistance and who hid a Jewish toddler, Elli, in their house in Amsterdam for two years from 1941. After the war, they moved to New Zealand with their three sons but never knew what happened to Elli. A few years ago Gloria, went on a mission to find the lost girl, who had moved to Brazil, and managed to reunite her with the Hakken family in New Zealand. Gloria and her family ...
The cost of the pandemic: the financial winners and losers
January 26, 2022 20:10 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBAnalysis by a financial journalist has found the Government's Covid-19 policies have made the wealthy hundreds of billions of dollars richer, while the poor sunk $400 million further into debt to the Government itself. Bernard Hickey says the explosion in inequality has been driven by government and Reserve Bank interventions, including quantitative easing - effectively the printing of money - which has been blamed in part for fuelling the surge in house prices over the past two years. B...
Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles takes Omicron questions
January 25, 2022 22:45 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBWith the advent of Omicron in the community, Science commentator Dr Siouxsie Wiles answers listeners questions about this highly transmissable Covid strain.
Finding the weird and wonderful in nature's wildlife weapons
January 25, 2022 22:30 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MBThe natural world has always held a fascination for people, and James Ryan is no different - but he HAS taken it one step further than his peers. The 12-year-old Cantabrian has written a book about it, focused on the tools animals carry with them that allow them to defend themselves and hunt their prey. It's called Nature's Wildlife Weapons, and looks at the tusks, antlers, horns and claws of various creatures - some living, some extinct - and how they're used. James has been a regular a...
Book review: Three of the best from 2021
January 25, 2022 21:35 - 8 minutes - 8.12 MBPaul Diamond reviews three of his favourite books from last year: The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey by Julia Laite published by Allen and Unwin; The Forgotten Coast by Richard Shaw published by Massey University Press and James Courage Diaries edited by Chris Brickell published by Otago University Press
The Secrets of the Night: Annette Lees
January 25, 2022 21:10 - 26 minutes - 24 MBNight time for Waitakere-based author Annette Lees, is magical and beguiling. It transforms the senses and the landscape. But most of us miss out on it most the time. It's when the nocturnal world comes alive with night birds, singing insects, dancing moths, native fish, all under a canopy of stars. And, says Annette, who's been an outdoor enthusiast since childhood, it's the perfect time to go tramping. She has, she says "a lifetime of night walking memories". After Dark - Walking into ...
Hundreds of thousands in savings needed to retire: guidelines
January 25, 2022 20:32 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBWarnings we can't afford to retire unless Kiwis save up to $800,000 to top up the pension are coming from a research centre interested in improving the financial wellbeing of New Zealanders. The latest Retirement Expenditure Guidelines from the New Zealand Financial Education and Research Centre say must expect to finance retirement over and above that which NZ Super affords retirees. The guidelines, produced annually, and based on Stats NZ data, calculate what retirees currently spend t...
Will the Children's Commissioner be scrapped?
January 25, 2022 20:10 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBThe Children's Commissioner and one of her predecessors are speaking out against plans to scrap the Commissioner role and overhaul the monitoring of Oranga Tamariki. The bill would replace the Children's Commissioner role with a new Children and Young Person's Commission, which would be run by a board of three to six members. It also plans to set up a new monitor of Oranga Tamariki, bringing it within the purview of the Education Review Office. Kathryn speaks with Judge Frances Eivers, t...
How well are women managing finance?
January 24, 2022 22:45 - 10 minutes - 9.32 MBFinancial Planner Liz Koh with new research revealing the skills - and challenges - for women handling finance.
Living the dream, baches and seaside settlements
January 24, 2022 22:30 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBAn exploration of lifestyles around New Zealand's coastlines and waterways through Derek Morrison's book, Living the Dream. Derek was NZ Geographic's 2018 Photographer of the Year. His book has stunning images from around the motu and it shows and tells the stories of people who live by the water, with many and varied lifestyles and ways to make a living. From the Seaweed pickers in the far North to the home of a surfing family in St Clair, Dunedin. One of the properties featured is writ...
Book review: Three of the best from 2021: Castle Shade by Laurie R. King; Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
January 24, 2022 21:35 - 7 minutes - 6.63 MBLisa Finucane reviews three of her favourite books from last year: Castle Shade by Laurie R. King published by Allen and Unwin; Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro published by Penguin Random House and The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray published by Penguin
How wood shaped human history and evolution
January 24, 2022 21:05 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBRoland Ennos says humanity owes a huge debt to the most humble of materials; wood. His book The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History takes us on a sweeping ten-million-year tour, charting how wood has been critical to our evolution; shaping our bodies and our minds. Starting from great apes who built their nests among the trees, to early humans who depended on wood for fire, shelter, tools and weapons; on to the structural design of wheels and woodwinds, and to th...
Driving the global campaign for electric vehicles
January 24, 2022 20:30 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBMonica Araya is at the forefront of a global campaign to get rid of fossil fuel vehicles in favour of emissions free transport, and says the next five years are utterly critical. She is a member of the United Nations Climate Champions team, and a distinguished fellow with the Drive Electric campaign - a coalition of over 70 organisations lobbying for the cause. It was instrumental in persuading the European Commission to propose that after 2035, there will be no more sales of petrol and ...
Landlords' collection of personal information under spotlight
January 24, 2022 20:05 - 27 minutes - 25 MBThe Office for the Privacy Commission is cracking down on property managers and landlords who risk breaching the Privacy Act in how they handle tenants' personal information. Renters groups call the industry a "wild west" with little regulation or oversight for how property managers and landlords conduct their business. They describe the invasive process of applying for flats; asked to provide information about their race, gender, sexual orientation, or political affiliations, or require...
Summer dining with Stephanie Alexander
January 23, 2022 22:30 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBStephanie Alexander is one of Australia's most prominent food educators. Her 50 year career includes being the owner-chef of several restaurants, the author of books and countless of articles about food matters. She has been awarded the Order of Australia - and has done groundbreaking work in creating the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation. Home is Stephanie Alexander's 19th cookbook and it contains more than 200 recipes as well as ten essays. She will share some recipes suita...
Summer dining with Australia's Stephanie Alexander
January 23, 2022 22:30 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBStephanie Alexander is one of Australia's most prominent food educators. Her 50 year career includes being the owner-chef of several restaurants, the author of books and countless of articles about food matters. She has been awarded the Order of Australia - and has done groundbreaking work in creating the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation. Home is Stephanie Alexander's 19th cookbook and it contains more than 200 recipes as well as ten essays. She will share some recipes suita...
Political commentators Jones & Thomas the advent of Omicron
January 23, 2022 22:05 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBNeale, Ben and Kathryn discuss the Government's planning and Covid communications now that Omicron is in the community. Also food price inflation and the bank credit crunch situation.
Book review: Three of the best from 2021: The Front Line by Glyn Harper, The Piano Girls by Elizabeth Smither and The End of Everything by Katie Mack
January 23, 2022 21:30 - 6 minutes - 6 MBDavid Hill reviews three of his favourite books from last year: The Front Line by Glyn Harper published by Massey Press, The Piano Girls by Elizabeth Smither published by Quentin Wilson Publishing and The End of Everything, by Katie Mack, published by Penguin Random House.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges:
January 23, 2022 21:05 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBThe US prison system amounts to a modern-day form of slavery based on lies about the underclass it is exploiting, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist says.
Chris Hedges: Shining a light on the US industrial-prison complex
January 23, 2022 21:05 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBThe US prison system amounts to a modern-day form of slavery based on lies about the underclass it is exploiting, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist says.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges: what prisoners taught me
January 23, 2022 21:05 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBChris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and former war correspondent in the Middle East and the Balkans for fifteen years for The New York Times. He's the author of 14 books and is the host of an Emmy-nominated weekly radio show on RT America. For more than a decade he has taught courses in drama and literature to inmates at East Jersey State Prison. His latest book Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison documents his relationship with those incarcerated s...
Europe Correspondent Seamus Kearney - Russia-Ukraine tension
January 23, 2022 20:45 - 8 minutes - 7.83 MBEurope remains on edge about the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, after a round of talks between US and Russian officials failed to find a breakthrough to reduce tensions. Meanwhile, the head of the German navy has resigned after a backlash over comments he made about the Ukraine crisis. And Europe moves towards easing of Covid restrictions, with Ireland the latest country to do so.
The benefits of going barefoot
January 23, 2022 20:30 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBHow can kicking off your shoes and going barefoot improve your health? Advocate for the barefoot lifestyle, founder of The Barefoot Movement and qualified podiatrist Paul Thompson says it's possible to reduce pain and discomfort by strengthening the body to support itself without shoes. Paul tells Kathryn he thinks orthotics are over-prescribed and that going barefoot more often activates muscles and nerves made redundant by shoes - making him feel younger.
The "big sick": keeping workers working
January 23, 2022 20:05 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBHospital doctors could continue working even after testing positive for Covid-19 in the worst case scenarios of an Omicron outbreak here. Emergency departments are preparing for chronic worker shortages when staff contract Omicron and are forced to isolate, similar to what has been experienced in Europe and Australia. Kathryn speaks with Dr John Bonning from the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, who says while large hospitals will have a better chance at absorbing the mass sta...
The "big sick": keeping workers well
January 23, 2022 20:05 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBHospital doctors could continue working even after testing positive for Covid-19 in the worst case scenarios of an Omicron outbreak here. Emergency departments are preparing for chronic worker shortages when staff contract Omicron and are forced to isolate, similar to what has been experienced in Europe and Australia. Kathryn speaks with Dr John Bonning from the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, who says while large hospitals will have a better chance at absorbing the mass sta...
Haere Ra 2021 - Part 2
December 23, 2021 22:45 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBNota Bene sing 'The Blessed Son of God' and 'Ding Dong Merrily on High' - Te Radar, Irene Pink, Kennedy Warne, Beau and Sam Ackerman bid farewell to 2021.
The Korean art of "hitting mung"
December 23, 2021 22:40 - 5 minutes - 4.7 MBIt's something that will appeal to most of us as we wind down after a long year - taking the time to just zone out. Koreans have made it an art form. In Korea, it's called "hitting mung", which refers to reaching a state of blankness. There's "forest mung" - spacing out while looking at trees, "fire mung" - watching logs burn, and "water mung" - meditating by bodies of water. It's become increasingly popular as Koreans seek refuge from busy lives and the stresses of the pandemic. Mung ca...