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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Jenn Louis: Chicken soup for the world
September 20, 2021 22:05 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBThere are some dishes that are ubiquitous around the globe. Every culture taking its own spin. Portland chef and activist Jenn Louis has spent several years exploring our relationship with chicken soup. She has collected dozens of recipes from all around the globe and put them in a beautiful tome titled The Chicken Soup Manifesto. Jenn still lives in Portland but has moved slightly from running a restaurant, or restaurants in her case, to making sure that people in Portland's homeless po...
Chronic pain: retraining the brain's response
September 20, 2021 21:20 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBA New Zealand health-tech company is trialling technology that could help sufferers of chronic pain 'retrain' how their brain responds to nerve signals from the body. Exsurgo has developed a headset that uses electroencephalography (EEG) neurofeedback to monitor a patient's brain activity, feeding that data back to the patient in a way that reinforces positive changes to the pain signals. It offers an alternative treatment to traditional drug-based therapies for chronic pain, which can c...
An insider's story of China's communist party elite
September 20, 2021 21:05 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBHong Kong-raised businessman, Desmond Shum's book Red Roulette is a no holds barred account of the life he lived as a wealthy businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist in China in the 1990's and early 2000's. He writes about the how the Chinese business system and the Communist Party works and the connection with wealthy individuals, corruption, and vengeance. His story is all the more intriguing following the mystery disappearance four years ago of his ex-wife, billionaire, Whitney D...
Urban issues - why developers prefer green field sprawl
September 19, 2021 23:45 - 10 minutes - 9.33 MBBill McKay talks to Kathryn about the myth of lack of land. He says sprawl is a problem in big cities and small towns, whether it is new suburbs or big box commercial developments on the outskirts. Developers and some politicians regularly call on Councils to "free up" more land for development. The reason for this is that all Councils have city or district plans that zone land and the use / activity that can take place on it eg rural or commercial or housing.
Home grown and pressed oat milk
September 19, 2021 23:30 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBOat milk has become extremely popular in Aotearoa. At the start of this year cafe owners reported that they were running out of oat milk due to its popularity at barista counters across the country. The supply line is stretched, and it's not helped by the fact that a lot of oat milk has to be brought in from overseas. It's a problem that Morgan Maw and her company Boring Oat Milk are trying to solve.
How to be the best grandparent
September 15, 2021 23:30 - 19 minutes - 26.8 MBBeing a grandparent is a wonderful role. All care and no responsibility, as the saying goes. But these days many grandparents are involved in helping raise their grandchildren, to support working parents. Dr Tessa Grigg is the co-author of a new book for grandparents - a guide to helping bring up well rounded, emotionally balanced grandchildren - even if you only look after them a few hours a week. It's called Grandparenting Grandchildren: new knowledge and know-how for grandparenting th...
Book review: The Survival of Māori as a People
September 15, 2021 22:40 - 5 minutes - 5.24 MBPaul Diamond reviews The Survival of Māori as a People by Whatarangi Winiata, published by Huia Publishers.
John Boyne: writing satire in a highly strung world
September 15, 2021 22:06 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBAfter being the victim of relentless trolling by people who objected to his last book, Irish writer John Boyne has turned the tables on them in his new satirical novel, The Echo Chamber. He experienced a huge online backlash following the publication of My Brother's Name Is Jessica, which tells the story of a boy struggling to come to terms with his brother coming out as transgender. He deactivated his Twitter account as a result of what he claims were abusive comments.
Pocket Maps open up conservation land for Kiwi walkers
September 15, 2021 21:43 - 8 minutes - 8.04 MBA new mapping app has been launched by Ara HÄ«koi Aotearoa the New Zealand Walking Access Commission which hopes to open up new tracks for Kiwi hikers. Pocket Maps is a mobile app which puts charts and information about publicly accessible land in your hand.
Research: over-breeding causing heart problems in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels
September 15, 2021 21:35 - 9 minutes - 8.31 MBNew research finds over-breeding is causing some puppies' health to fail. The study from Sweden suggests some dogs carry a large amount of potentially harmful genes. Of those studied the Cavalier King Charles spaniel is most at risk.
Beyond lockdowns: how will the health system cope?
September 15, 2021 21:08 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBWhat needs to be done to shore-up our hospitals if, and when, we open up our borders and stop having lockdowns? The government has indicated a change of direction in how we respond to Covid-19 - moving from lockdowns to relying on the health system.
Arts around the country in level 2 (and online for Tamaki Makaurau)
September 14, 2021 23:45 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBArts commentator Nina Tonga joins Lynn to talk about how galleries around the country have reopened their doors at level two - and got creative online. She'll look at Dane Mitchell's installation Post Hoc, which he reimagined as a new daily radio show, which listeners can tune into here at 5pm NZ time. Tai Moana Tai Tangata is a solo exhibition by Brett Graham which opened at City Gallery in early August, and If you're stuck in Auckland you can take the virtual tour of his exhibition at ...
Young Pasifika actor on the rise
September 14, 2021 23:20 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBDimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi plays the main role of Will Ilolahia in the The Panthers' TV show. Set in 1974, the six-part series tells the story of the activists, the Polynesian Panthers during the infamous Dawn Raid era. The Panthers is on TVNZ on demand and it has just screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, where 20 year old Dimitrius was selected as a 'TIFF Rising Star'.
Book review: The Book of Difficult Fruit by Kate Lebo
September 14, 2021 22:35 - 6 minutes - 5.62 MBMelanie O'Loughlin of Lamplight Books reviews The Book of Difficult Fruit by Kate Lebo, published by Picador.
Brainscapes: the maps in our brain
September 14, 2021 22:05 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBIf the brain's 86 billion neurons were all randomly connected, the brain would have to be more than 20 kilometres wide to fit all those connections. Luckily, they're instead organised through brainscapes, or brain maps. Rebecca Schwarzlose is a cognitive neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and has just published Brainscapes: An Atlas of Your Life on Earth. She explains how the brain is full of maps; of the body, our senses, how we move, and crucial sources of i...
Free NCEA tutoring programme growing
September 14, 2021 21:40 - 7 minutes - 6.89 MBThe University of Canterbury's outreach programme UCMeXL aims to help Pacific students achieve higher results in all NCEA levels. It's been going for 10 years and Riki Welsh from the University's Pacific Development Team says the extra tuition study sessions are increasingly popular and are open to all high school students.
Foot in the door: Training AI to identify crime scene footprints
September 14, 2021 21:30 - 9 minutes - 9.04 MBAs anyone who's a fan of crime shows like CSI knows, a bloodied footprint at the crime scene can be key to cracking the case. But behind the forensic science is a person, and people can make mistakes.
Online scams up 79% - and just the "tip of the iceberg"
September 14, 2021 21:05 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBThe Financial Markets Authority is warning of a steep rise in New Zealanders falling for investment scams with the number of complaints up 79 per cent in the first half of the year, compared to the same period in 2020.
Financial Planner Liz Koh - When income suddenly drops
September 13, 2021 23:45 - 9 minutes - 8.99 MBLiz talks to Lynn about ways people can avoid going into massive debt as a result of a sudden loss of income, and she has suggestions on how to quickly reduce outgoings, or find ways to increase income. Liz Koh is a financial planner and specialising in retirement planning. This discussion is of a general nature, and does not constitute financial advice.
Dr Himali McInnes - stories from the medical frontline
September 13, 2021 23:30 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBHimali McInnes was a GP for a decade in South Auckland, based in Mangere and now works at Three Kings. Over the years she's has seen first hand how the human spirit shines through, despite hardship, illness and trauma. Dr McInnes has spoken to other medics about the patients whose situations have stuck with them.They're captured in her book The Unexpected Patient - true Kiwi stories of life, death and unforgettable clinical case.
Rebecca Stevenson - Theranos founder on trial
September 13, 2021 23:05 - 18 minutes - 17.4 MBElizabeth Holmes seemingly had the world at her feet. In 2003, the 19-year-old college dropout founded Theranos, a medical technology company that promised to revolutionize health care with a device that could test for a range of conditions using just a few drops of blood from a finger prick. Holmes racked up big-name investors, forged a partnership with Walgreens and raked in the money, with Theranos reached a valuation of $9 billion. But it was too good to be true. She is now trial fac...
Book review: The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
September 13, 2021 22:35 - 5 minutes - 5 MBRalph McAllister reviews The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris, published by Headline Publishing Group.
Kate Macdougall: London's No1 Dog Walking Agency
September 13, 2021 22:08 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBKate Macdougall's memoir London's No. 1 Dog Walking Agency is an entertaining perspective on a left-field profession and a coming of age story. Armed with a degree in Art History, and eschewing a back office job at Sotheby's auction house, it tells of Kate's efforts to strike out on her own, starting up in business as a dog walker for busy Londoners whose pets otherwise faced long and boring days home alone. While receiving strict instructions about diet, mud and treasured balls, Kate go...
USA correspondent Ron Elving - the US remembers 9/11
September 13, 2021 21:50 - 8 minutes - 7.81 MBRon says the US is feeling emotionally spent after the marking of the 9/11 20th anniversary. Also there's major resistance in some quarters to vaccination mandates. And Ron talks to Lynn about pitched battles in courts over state-passed anti-Abortion laws and voting restrictions. Finally, a big pro-Trump rally is brewing for next weekend in Washington DC. Ron Elving is Senior Editor and Correspondent on the Washington Desk for NPR News.
China's oldest currency discovered
September 13, 2021 21:40 - 7 minutes - 7.21 MBAnthropologist Bill Maurer explains the significant of the recent discovery of the oldest known Chinese metal currency unearthed at the site of a foundary in the ancient city of Guanzhuang which was established about 800 BC. Hao Zhao, an archaeologist at Zhengzhou University lead the research which has been published in the journal Antiquity.
Extracting green hydrogen from driftwood
September 13, 2021 21:20 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBResearchers at the University of Canterbury say they are at a breakthrough point in a project to substitute fossil fuels with green hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide. They've been examining how wood waste can be broken down to create new products.
Vaccine passports: how will they work?
September 13, 2021 21:08 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBAs Cabinet starts to consider a vision for a post-lockdown future, and Australia prepares to trial vaccine passports with selected countries, questions are being asked about impacts on liberty and privacy for vaccine passport use within a country.
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne - The cuckoos' return
September 12, 2021 23:45 - 8 minutes - 7.87 MBSpring sees the return to Aotearoa of not one but two species of native cuckoo, whose migrations are among the longest of any songbird. Kennedy will focus specifically on the long-tailed cuckoo, which is the larger of our two cuckoos, and the one that flies the farthest. Kennedy will refer to a recent webinar in which Brian Gill, retired curator of birds and land vertebrates at Auckland Museum, gave a talk entitled Large insects and baby birds: diet of the long-tailed cuckoo in NZ. Click...
Grow your own mushrooms
September 12, 2021 23:30 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBOrganic mushroom farmer Taylor McConnell runs a business supplying gourmet mushrooms to restaurants, markets, and shops in the Canterbury region.
Political commentators Jones and Hehir
September 12, 2021 23:05 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBNeale and Liam join Lynn to talk about the latest Delta outbreak; how has it changed the government's reopening plans, should vaccine supplies be prioritised for Auckland, how could vaccine passports work - and how much is riding on Cabinet's alert level decision today? They'll also look at Judith Collin's comments about microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles and where political parties stand on the anti-terror legislation and whether it should progress under urgency. Neale Jones was Chief of Sta...
Book review: Our Own Backyard by Anne Kayes
September 12, 2021 22:35 - 5 minutes - 5.01 MBLouise Ward of Wardini Books in Havelock North reviews Our Own Backyard by Anne Kayes, published by Bateman.
Hamish Ramsden: living with tetraplegia
September 12, 2021 22:05 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBHamish Ramsden was a 31 year old Hawkes Bay farmer, his wife six months pregnant, when his life changed forever. While tagging a new calf's ear, it's protective mother charged Hamish hitting him mid chest and knocking him backwards, dislocating his neck. On that day in 1994, the keen runner, tennis and rugby player and active farmer became a tetraplegic : no feeling from the nipple line down. Hamish Ramsden went on to develop a sheep stud with one of his brothers, which grew into the lar...
Using A.I to detect risks of disease outbreaks
September 12, 2021 21:30 - 10 minutes - 10 MBResearchers are proposing a system to use Artificial Intelligence to detect the early warning signs of outbreaks of disease or financial disasters. The team at AgResearch says A.I. could be used to trawl through vast amounts of data globally to identify unusual patterns in commerce and trading, or actions by governments or large companies, which could point to looming risks. That means A.I. could be used to identify diseases like M.bovis or the kiwifruit disease Psa in the early stages, ...
Bilal Sarwary: 'Our hopes were shattered'
September 12, 2021 21:15 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBAfghan journalist Bilal Sarwary, who was based in Kabul reporting on Afghanistan for 20 years, is now safely in Canada with his family, having left his country with a very heavy heart.
Decision day: will Auckland move down alert levels?
September 12, 2021 21:05 - 8 minutes - 7.9 MBCabinet Ministers will meet today to decide if any part of the country is ready to change Alert Levels. Tamaki Makaurau remains at Level 4 until at least midnight Tuesday, and the rest of the country is at Level 2. Yesterday there were 20 new community cases of Covid-19, bringing the total number in the outbreak to 922, but 34 of those cases still have no known link to the original outbreak, raising fears there may be unknown chains of transmission. In Auckland, seven suburbs will be the...
Sports commentator Sam Ackerman - Should athletes be able to skip MIQ?
September 09, 2021 23:30 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBSam looks at the debate and complexity around whether athletes deserve special treatment regarding quarantine stays after trip to compete abroad. And it's been announced that all teams for the next America's Cup must have both a youth team and a women's team that race in the warm up regattas - with inclusion and pathway to the America's Cup cited as the leading reasons.
Book review: Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
September 09, 2021 22:35 - 4 minutes - 4.54 MBBriar Lawry from Unity Books Auckland reviews Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston, published by Orion
Driving civilisation : Tom Standage - A Brief History of Motion
September 09, 2021 22:05 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBDeputy editor of The Economist Tom Standage's new book is A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next. It is in fact, five and a half thousand years of the history of land-based human transport, from the invention of the wheel all the way through to the driverless car, analysing the very significant social impacts along the way. And just to make it even more fun, Tom has included some transport trivia here, including: why red means stop (and green mean go), ...
Springbok tour research: how does history interpret?
September 09, 2021 21:30 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBSunday marks the fortieth anniversary of the notorious 'flour-bomb' incident at Eden Park, when violence erupted outside the ground where the third and deciding rugby test between the All Blacks and the Springboks was being played on 12th September 1981. Lynn speaks with Dr Sebastian Potgieter, a Teaching Fellow at the University of Otago's School of Physical Education Sports and Exercise Sciences. Sebastian is a South African who moved to Dunedin to research a PhD on the Springboks tour...
Is it safe for Auckland's early childhood centres to open at level 3?
September 09, 2021 21:15 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBShould early childhood centres be allowed to open in Auckland when the region reaches alert level 3? Early childhood education centres are currently required to open at level 3, if there is demand from parents who are essential workers and need to return to work. Official guidelines allow for this, but a public health expert specialising in early childhood education says daycare centres are the second highest risk environment for transmission of Delta, after MIQ facilities. Dr Mike Bedfo...
Transpower shortcomings responsible for last month's power outages: Electricity Authority
September 09, 2021 21:05 - 7 minutes - 7.08 MBShortcomings in Transpower's tools and processes were responsible for last month's power outages, according to the first phase of a review by the Electricity Authority. 34,000 households lost power on one of the coldest nights of the year on August 9th when demand hit a record high and supply could not match it. The Electricity Authority's initial review finds Transpower did not give enough information to power distributors in order for them to increase supply in time. Chief Executive of...
Viewing: American Rust, Only Murders in the Building,
September 08, 2021 23:45 - 9 minutes - 8.74 MBFilm and TV reviewer Tamar Munch joins Lynn to discuss American Rust (Neon, SoHo); a family drama set in a Rust Belt town starring Jeff Daniels, Only Murders in the Building (Disney+); a comedy about three strangers' obsession with a true crime podcast starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez; and the annual release of Someday Stories (website/Facebook, RNZ, Stuff).
Anxious kids - what can parents do?
September 08, 2021 23:25 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBKathryn talks with Clinical Psychologist Sarb Johal about why rates of anxiety in children have gone up so much recently. He'll share tips and tricks for parents supporting anxious young ones.
Vocus DDoS attack, Lockfile - a new threat to your data
September 08, 2021 23:05 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MBTechnology commentator Tony Grasso joins Lynn to talk about yesterday's DDoS attacks on a number of banks, NZ Post and Metservice and last week's attack on Vocus, the country's third largest internet provider - how well protected is our critical infrastructure? He'll also look at Lockfile, a new ransomware that's particularly effective in avoiding detection and share his own recent experience of being hacked.
Book review: Things I Learned at Art School by Megan Dunn
September 08, 2021 22:45 - 6 minutes - 6.04 MBAirini Beautrais reviews Things I Learned at Art School by Megan Dunn, published by Penguin.
The global tech business run out of Courtenay Place
September 08, 2021 22:05 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBTarik Mallett is the founder and chief executive of Mobi2Go, a food ordering system helping restaurants around the world go digital. The business is going gangbusters during the Covid pandemic as click and collect and contactless ordering has become the norm. Founded in 2010, Tarik experienced a few lean years while he was building the platform, but he now services some of the biggest brands across New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Canada and Asia. In the last year the business has gone f...
Boris Johnson wins critical vote on hike to national insurance
September 08, 2021 21:45 - 8 minutes - 8.19 MBUK correspondent Matt Dathan joins Lynn to look at a win for Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the House of Commons, after he sprang a surprise vote on raising national insurance contributions to fund £12bn for the NHS and social care - and avoided a Tory rebellion.
Conservation medicine: the team protecting our native birds
September 08, 2021 21:30 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBA disease expert is warning malaria could be wipe out hoiho/yellow eyed penguins from the Otago mainland in ten years. Disease propelled by virus, fungi and parasites can lead to extinction. However as a threat to birds, disease doesn't exist in a bubble. Habitat loss and predators are part of the bigger picture: necessitating what's called "conservation medicine". Vets, human-disease experts and volunteers around the country are joining forces to help keep our native birds healthy. Lynn...
DoC report cites bad behaviour by kiwis in the backcountry
September 08, 2021 21:20 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBA report from the Department of Conservation finds Kiwis are visiting conservation areas in droves, but behaving badly in our own back yard. The 2020/21 Visitor Insights report finds visitors are leaving litter, not using toilets, damaging tracks with four wheel drives, and allowing dogs to disturb native birds. The feedback has come from rangers around the country, who have "noticed a sense of entitlement". Lynn speaks with President of the Federated Mountain Clubs Jan Finlayson and Tas...
Nurses’ organisation horrified over hundreds of daily visitors
September 08, 2021 21:05 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBHundreds of visitors are being allowed to visit Auckland DHB hospitals every day, despite the region being at the highest covid alert level due to the delta outbreak. The Nurses Union says it's absurd that the DHB has the softest visitor policy of any DHB in the country, despite the heightened risk in Auckland. The NZNO has been raising concerns about the inconsistent visitor policies, as well as poor visitor behaviour, including people refusing to wear masks and turning up in groups. Wo...