Nine To Noon
6,273 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 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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Stan Walker on abuse, addiction, love and forgiveness
October 06, 2020 21:07 - 32 minutes - 30 MBSinger-songwriter Stan Walker opens up for the first time about the horrific abuse and neglect he suffered as a child and young person, in the hope of helping other victims. His music career was launched when in 2009, at 19 years old, he won Australian Idol. Since then, he's released five albums and won numerous music awards. The truth about his childhood in Tauranga and Australia has never been told - until now. His memoir Impossible will be in shops next week and he's touring with Mike...
Australia's Budget delivers $50b tax-cut windfall
October 06, 2020 20:50 - 8 minutes - 7.95 MBAustralia correspondent Annika Smethurst joins Kathryn to talk about the release of the country's much-delayed federal Budget last night by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. As debt is set to hit a record $1 trillion, the government has brought forward plans for $50b in tax cuts and introduced wage subsidies for the under-35s.
Recreational fishers support banning scallop dredging
October 06, 2020 20:30 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBIt's scallop season and thousands of recreational fishers want dredging stopped. At a recent AGM of the New Zealand Sport Fishing Council and Legasea, delegates voted to promote low impact scallop harvesting methods, such as hand gathering and diving. Dredging which is used by both commercial and recreational fishers can cause damage to the seabed, and result in over fishing. Kathryn discusses the situation with the President of the Sport Fishing Council Bob Gutsell and Bruce Macleod fro...
Wage subsidy research looks at who took advantage
October 06, 2020 20:08 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBWage subsidy research into the top NZX listed companies is revealing which businesses were in the spirit of the law, and which ones weren't. University of Auckland accounting professor Jilnaught Wong says his investigation shows 10 of the top 50 companies on the NZX claimed the wage subsidy and morally some companies should not have. Since late March just over 750,000 businesses have claimed $14 billion worth of wage subsidies, of which about $440 million has been paid back in refunds by...
Fonterra sells Chinese farms, My Food Bag considers options
October 05, 2020 22:06 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBBusiness commentator Rod Oram joins Kathryn to talk about Fonterra selling up its Chinese farms for $600m - why did it invest so heavily in farms in China? The pioneer of home delivery food kits, My Food Bag, is growing briskly - leading it to consider whether to sell up or list on the stock exchange. And what's happening with New Zealand Treasury bond yields?
Book review - The Discomfort of Evening
October 05, 2020 21:39 - 4 minutes - 4.3 MBKiran Dass of Time Out Bookstore reviews The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, published by Faber.
Kay Douglas on how men can break their cycle of violence
October 05, 2020 21:07 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBAuckland-based counsellor Kay Douglas has been helping men to deal with violent or abusive behaviour for nearly 30 years. She's written a number of books, including Invisible Wounds: A self-help guide for women in destructive relationships which has just been updated and republished, along with an accompanying workbook. She's also just released a book aimed at men called Men Making Changes, which builds on her years of counselling experience and was based on the personal stories of 30 me...
More electricity consumers looking to switch
October 05, 2020 20:56 - 3 minutes - 3.36 MBAre electricity consumers waking up to the idea of shopping around for a better deal? Data from the Electricity Authority show 69,000 account holders switched energy companies from March through August this year and some of the smaller players are the big winners. Kathryn talks with Chief Executive of Consumer NZ, Jon Duffy.
App ensures correct use of donated medical equipment
October 05, 2020 20:42 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBAn Auckland Bioengineering Institute PhD's student has helped to create an app to ensure medical equipment donated to hospitals in developing countries doesn't end up on the scrapheap. While on an Engineering World Health internship at Entebbe Hospital in Uganda, Kiara Miller's role was to fix broken medical equipment, but it soon became apparent the problem was much wider than a repair-job. She was concerned to see donated machines used incorrectly, and at times dangerously, or equipmen...
Lines companies want flashing lights & right-of-way
October 05, 2020 20:29 - 8 minutes - 7.91 MBAuckland lines company Vector says heavy congestion from the city's Harbour Bridge closures show it's time to bring in rules to force drivers to give way to utility vehicles responding to emergencies where public saftey is at risk. At the moment when live power lines are brought down, fire or ambulance crews often have to wait until the power is disconnected before giving assistance. And when gas mains are hit it's the same problem. Already a private member's bill is in the ballot to cha...
President Donald Trump to leave hospital
October 05, 2020 20:09 - 16 minutes - 15 MBPresident Trump is expected to leave hospital in a few hours time. In a tweet a short time ago, he urged people not to be afraid of the virus, nor to let it dominate their lives. His physician, Dr. Sean Conley, has also confirmed that while President Trump 'may not be out of the woods' he can go home. Meanwhile, the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, has become the latest member of Trump's inner circle to test positive for coronavirus. Susan Davis a congressional corresponden...
Covid, community and co-housing
October 04, 2020 22:48 - 10 minutes - 9.41 MBBill McKay talks about the problem of isolation and various options to deal with it in the built environment. Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland.
Celebrating 180 years of Wellington's Thistle Inn
October 04, 2020 22:31 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBEstablished in 1840, not only is the capital's Thistle Inn New Zealand's oldest pub still operating from its original site, but also it was the country's second ever pub to be issued with a liquor license, which has never ceased! Kathryn Ryan talks to The Thistle's general manager Richard Walshe about how they are celebrating their 180 year milestone for Wellington on a Plate, shares stories about famous customers and shares a recipe for Paua Fritters.
Book review - The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
October 04, 2020 21:38 - 4 minutes - 3.83 MBStella Chrysostomou of VOLUME Books reviews The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay, published by Scribe. It’s the flu, but nothing like you have seen before. The Zooflu has hit Australia and everyone is getting pinkeye and talking to the animals. Enter our heroine — if you could possibly call her that — Jean, and her animal companion, a dingo called Sue. This is a crazy, yet deeply philosophical, novel about our relationship with animals, what we see and fail to see, and our rol...
How learning music can help all learning
October 04, 2020 21:06 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBDr Anita Collins is an award-winning Australian educator, researcher and writer in the field of brain development and music learning. Since 2016 she has travelled the world interviewing over 100 neuroscientists and psychologists about music learning and brain development, known as neuromusical research. She says the brains of musically trained people look, operate and learn quite differently to non-musically trained people, and learning an instrument can help children of all ages dramati...
German reunification at 30, embracing fresh air during Covid
October 04, 2020 20:51 - 7 minutes - 6.82 MBGermany correspondent Thomas Sparrow joins Kathryn to talk about the historic moment 30 years ago marked on Saturday when East and West Germany reunified. He'll also talk about Germany's three-point formula for fighting coronavirus being expanded to include ventilation and use of the tracing app.
Encouraging youth minorities to use their voices
October 04, 2020 20:39 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBCommunity service is at the core of Melissa Lama's work and student life. After becoming a teenage mother, Melissa Lama has just completed a BA in politics and has begun an MBA. She fits in her University of Otago studies with her day job as community advocate in Dunedin. The 27 year old Tongan Muslim is also active in the students' association and she is part of the Muslim Community Reference Group which advised the Royal Commission of Inquiry into last year's Christchurch Mosque's atta...
An update on President Trump's hospitalisation with Covid-19
October 04, 2020 20:33 - 6 minutes - 6.3 MBUS correspondent Susan Davis talks to Kathryn about the series of contradictory messages from the White House causing confusion about Donald Trump's condition. Also a look at political contingency plans if his health deteriorates. Susan Davis is a congressional correspondent for NPR and a co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast. Based in Washington DC.
Book review - Why Visit America by Matthew Baker
October 01, 2020 21:34 - 6 minutes - 5.61 MBTilly Lloyd from Unity Books reviews Why Visit America by Matthew Baker, published by Bloomsbury. A collection of stories that portray a future world within touching distance of our own. This is an America riven by the dilemmas confronting us - from ageing to consumerism, from drugs to internet culture, from prisons to babies - turned on their head. The back cover reliably describes Baker as one of the most darkly innovative and defiantly strange voices of the moment.
Hāngī Pants, Jake Mokomoko and Claire Varley
October 01, 2020 21:06 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBFirst-time filmmakers, husband and wife team Jake Mokomoko and Claire Varley tell Kathryn about their short film Hāngī Pants, which is premiering in Gisborne today, one of the 75 films in the International Show Me Shorts Film Festival opening across the country. Hāngī Pants is based on a true story from a marae in Gisborne, which Claire's mother told her. in Hāngī Pants, Uncle Tawera's tangi provides the setting for a succession of wives and mistresses to show up, and show-down. Hāngī Pa...
Election 2020: Grant Robertson
October 01, 2020 20:07 - 37 minutes - 34 MBLabour's finance spokesperson Grant Robertson talks with Kathryn Ryan about his plan for economic recovery, should his party form the government after the election.
Enola Holmes, Sextortion, People You May Know
September 30, 2020 22:53 - 5 minutes - 4.83 MBFilm and TV reviewer Tamar Munch joins Kathryn to talk about new Netflix movie Enola Holmes, which follows the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes and is based on a book series. She'll also look at local comedian Tom Sainsbury's Sextortion series and People You May Know - a feature documentary focused on the leadup to the 2020 US Presidential election.
Preventing allergies developing in babies
September 30, 2020 22:24 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBWhat's behind a rise in childhood allergies, and can anything be done to prevent it? Sydney-based gastroenterologist Dr Vincent Ho, has written a new book called The Healthy Baby Gut Guide which looks at what parents can do to help babies develop strong immune responses in their first 1000 days.
Technology on election agenda, App store showdown
September 30, 2020 22:07 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBTechnology commentator Sarah Putt looks at the small number of political parties with dedicated technology policies - what's in them? The issue of the 30 per cent cut taken by Apple and Google for apps offered in their app stores is soon to be before the courts, with Fortnite maker Epic taking Apple to court claiming its an "inflated digital tax". And where is the Tiktok stoush in the US at now?
Book review - The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves
September 30, 2020 21:41 - 4 minutes - 3.79 MBGail Pittaway reviews The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves, published by Macmillan.
This Pākehā Life, Alison Jones
September 30, 2020 21:10 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBAward-winning author Alison Jones speaks with Kathryn Ryan about her new book This Pākehā Life - an Unsettled Memoir. It's an insight into New Zealand's social history and Māori-Pākehā relationships, and what she describes as "the ambivalence we Pākehā often experience in our relationships with Māori." An invitation for Pākehā to look at ideas about identity and belonging, it's also Alison's own story, the daughter of working-class British migrants growing up in Dannevirke. Today Alison ...
UK: PM seeks to calm fears, island plan for asylum seekers
September 30, 2020 20:48 - 10 minutes - 9.41 MBUK correspondent Matt Dathan joins Kathryn to talk about Boris Johnson's first press conference in 3 weeks aimed at calming fears over a rise in Covid cases. The UK is looking at setting up asylum seeker processing centres on offshore islands - including one 4000 miles away. Smaller football clubs are in financial trouble thanks to Covid - but how should they be rescued? And a second man connected to the fatal shooting of Kiwi police officer Matiu Ratana has been released on bail.
Election 2020: Paul Goldsmith
September 30, 2020 20:08 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBNational finance spokesperson Paul Goldsmith talks with Kathryn Ryan about his party's economic plan should it win on October 17th.
Appreciating New Zealand's landscape through art
September 29, 2020 22:45 - 9 minutes - 8.67 MBAuckland Art Gallery guest curator Juliana Engberg joins Kathryn to talk about her travels around the country, and how that's helped her appreciate New Zealand's painted landscapes. Juliana Engberg was Programme Director of the European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017, curator of the Australian presentation at the Biennale di Venezia 2019 and is currently working on programming for the Auckland Art Gallery and TMAG, Tasmania.
Are kids missing out on the outdoors?
September 29, 2020 22:20 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBTimaru adventurer and educator Sash Nukada is concerned schools are cutting back on outdoor education and young people are missing opportunities to test their resilience. He's a Sustainability and Outdoor Education Programme Leader at Ara Institute of Canterbury's Timaru campus. Last year he won the Tall Totara Award at the New Zealand Outdoor Instructors Association (NZOIA) Excellence Awards. Sash Nukada joins Kathryn to talk about what he's seeing in the young people he works with.
Book review - Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi
September 29, 2020 21:35 - 4 minutes - 4.01 MBLouise Ward of Wardini Books reviews Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi by Toby Morris with Ross Calman, Mark Derby and Piripi Walker. Published by Lift Education.
Reviving the lost art of Niuean hiapo
September 29, 2020 21:05 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBMultidisciplinary artist, Cora-Allan Wickliffe has spent several years reviving and researching the lost art of hiapo, or Niuean traditional bark cloth painting. The art form had been lying dormant for the last two generations until her grandparents, encouraged her to revive it. She is currently putting a book together with her grandmother featuring hiapo patterns. Cora-Allan Wickliffe is also a founding member of BC Collective a group which is dedicated to supporting Indigenous practiti...
Lockdown eases, waterfront dispute, Pell flies to Rome
September 29, 2020 20:45 - 9 minutes - 8.57 MBAustralia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to look at the winding back of the harsh lockdown in Melbourne as infection rates fall. Some travel between state is to be allowed. Forty ships are being held up at the border over a dispute between the Maritime Union and Patricks Stevedores in an echo of a similar dispute 20 years ago. Cardinal George Pell appears to have secured an exemption to leave Australia to head to the Vatican, five months after being freed from jail on child ...
QC enters fight over rehab centre closure
September 29, 2020 20:30 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBQuestions are being raised over the closure of the Laura Fergusson Trust Rehabilitation Centre - the only specialised facility of its kind for disabled people in Auckland. The Trust's board spent $670-thousand dollars of public money and donations on consultants, while it posted a million-dollar loss in 2019. Auckland company director Victoria Carter, whose niece spent three months at the Centre after a horse-riding accident, is querying that spending and has instructed a QC to seek info...
Ex-trump staffer on first US debate and tax revelations
September 29, 2020 20:05 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBDonald Trump has asked aides to carry out unlawful acts, offering them a Presidential pardon as a “get out of jail” card, a former staffer says.
Soldiers: War diaries provide novel inspiration
September 28, 2020 22:30 - 15 minutes - 14 MBWhat was life really like for Kiwi soldiers serving during World War II, and what secrets might they have harboured? New Zealand author Tom Remiger has drawn on his extensive research from wartime diaries to pen his award-winning novel 'Soldiers'. The soldiers of the title belong to a company in the New Zealand division, sent to serve around the Mediterranean shortly after the death of one of their own during basic training back in England. The death is investigated and determined to be ...
Book review - The Kingdom by Jo Nesbo
September 28, 2020 21:35 - 3 minutes - 3.46 MBLisa Finucane reviews The Kingdom by Jo Nesbo, published by Penguin Random House.
Consumerism. Having and Being Had, Eula Biss
September 28, 2020 21:05 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBBest-selling American author and essayist Eula Biss talks to Kathryn Ryan about her new book Having and Being Had, which looks at the psychological effects of consumerism, and what it means about who we are and how we see ourselves. Within this framework Eula scrutinises our tendency to monetise everything, the baggage that comes with buying a home, set against her own experience of buying, furnishing and decorating her own home. Eula looks at the lies we tell ourselves and others, and s...
Consumerism: Having and Being Had, Eula Biss
September 28, 2020 21:05 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBBest-selling American author and essayist Eula Biss talks to Kathryn Ryan about her new book Having and Being Had, which looks at the psychological effects of consumerism, and what it means about who we are and how we see ourselves. Within this framework Eula scrutinises our tendency to monetise everything, the baggage that comes with buying a home, set against her own experience of buying, furnishing and decorating her own home. Eula looks at the lies we tell ourselves and others, and s...
Doomsday Glacier and sea level rise
September 28, 2020 20:20 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBAn Antarctic glacier, the size of Great Britain, is melting at an alarming rate, according to new research. Nick-named the Doomsday glacier, Thwaites glacier flows off the west of the Antarctic and is dumping billions of tonnes of ice into the ocean, pushing up global sea-levels. The melt has increased from 10 billion tonnes of ice a year in the 1990s, to 80 billion tonnes a year today. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has been mapping warm seawater cavities which are eroding the glaci...
Why are some primary-school children getting type-2 diabetes?
September 28, 2020 20:05 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBAuckland paediatricians are concerned about the increasing amount of children, some as young as 10, presenting with type-2 diabetes. Research looking at 21 years of patient records from Starship's Paediatric Diabetes has shown the rates of young Pasifika and Maori affected are 18 times higher than Pakeha. Type 2 diabetes is more likely to develop in adults, and is linked to lifestyle factors. To discuss why is it on the rise in children and what can be done about it - Starship paediatric...
Sri Lankan food inspired by 'Seela'
September 27, 2020 22:37 - 9 minutes - 8.63 MBRomesh Dissanayake, head chef at Wellington restaurant Glass, is hosting a (sold out) Sri Lankan-inspired dinner event called 'Seela' as part of this month's Visa Wellington on a Plate festival. He tells Kathryn Ryan the event is inspired by and named after his Sri-Lankan grandmother who first introduced him to the cuisine.
Book review - Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
September 27, 2020 21:41 - 3 minutes - 3.31 MBElisabeth Easther reviews Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain, published by Penguin Random House.
Co-housing, an intentional neighbourhood
September 27, 2020 21:09 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBCo-housing advocate Robin Allison has envisioned and built an alternative way of living. Individuals and families live in a kind of curated community, enjoying the perks that come with pooling resources, including regularly cooking for each other at the Earthsong Eco-neighbourhood in Ranui, West Auckland. Robin got this 32-dwelling village-within-a-village project off the ground 1995, and hundreds of people have bought into it since. Robin tells Kathryn Ryan how she trained as an archite...
Calls for guidelines for child participation in justice system
September 27, 2020 20:42 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBThere are concerns that despite draft legislation looking to overhaul the family justice system there are still too many barriers to childrens' right to participate. Deb Inder is a barrister and mediator who's just completed a PhD focusing on children's rights in the justice system. She's designed a 'seven essential steps' model to increase child participation.
Researchers say time's up for academic streaming in schools
September 27, 2020 20:08 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBEducation academics say decades of research has shown academic streaming in schools doesn't lift achievement and in fact, serves to drag down those students in lower streams. They say this disproportionately affects Maori and Pasifika students and the Education Minister and Ministry should direct schools to move to mixed ability classes for all.The most recent PISA international education study figures show that 90 per cent of New Zealand schools have streaming in at least one subject. T...
Book review - Homeland Calling
September 24, 2020 22:39 - 4 minutes - 4.54 MBLeilani Tamu reviews Homeland Calling: Words from a New Generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices edited by Ellen van Neerven. This collection is published by Desert Pea Media.
A history of kai in the capital with Liz Melish
September 24, 2020 22:07 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBA whakatauki, or proverb, is providing inspiration for Te Atiawa's Liz Mellish who's kicking off a series of food history talks for Wellington on a Plate in the capital next month, by prominent Wellingtonians. "Nau te rourou, naku te rourou, ka ora te manuhiri" or "with your food basket and mine, the people will thrive." Liz Mellish has an accomplished business career spanning over 40 years which began with a milk run, then a business smoking fish with her husband. She is now, among many...
China's quiet digital currency revolution
September 24, 2020 21:30 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBChina is continuing to make significant strides in creating the world's first digital currency controlled by a central bank. Trials of a digital yuan are now underway in four Chinese cities, with a design expected to be finalized by the end of 2020. Unlike paper cash, a digital currency would allow the People's Bank of China to see how money is being used in real time. So could this spell the end of physical cash and what would it mean if China had unprecedented granular access to the li...
Christchurch Airbnb owners cry foul over proposed regulation
September 24, 2020 21:07 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBHoliday home and AirBnb owners in Christchurch say moves by the Council to regulate their sector are anti-tourism and unfair. Christchurch City Council is moving forward with plans requiring short-term rental accommodation providers to apply for a one-off consent at a cost of at least $1000. The proposed changes to the District Plan have come about after pressure from the motel and hotel sector, concerns over the impact of short-term rentals on the housing supply and the changes to neigh...