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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The truth about headaches
September 02, 2020 22:06 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBDurham University neuroscientist Professor Amanda Ellison talks to Kathryn about her new book on headaches. From migranes and tension headaches to sinus pain and "ice cream" headaches, Splitting explains the science, and what headaches reveal about the brain and overall health.
UK mulls how to pay for Covid, schools open, BBC makes U-turn
September 02, 2020 21:56 - 9 minutes - 8.33 MBUK correspondent Matt Dathan joins Kathryn to talk about relations with Russia hitting a new low, as Germany says it has proof Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok - just as former spy Sergei Skripal was in Salisbury in 2018. There's speculation taxes may be raised to pay the £380 billion cost of Covid, schools are opening for the first time in 6 months and the BBC will play the the Proms' biggest hits after all.
Two NZers on board missing livestock carrier
September 02, 2020 21:45 - 4 minutes - 3.74 MBTwo New Zealanders are believed to be on board a live cattle export ship which has gone missing in the East China Sea. The vessel - the Gulf Livestock 1 - was reportedly transporting 5800 cows from Napier to a port in Tangshan, China. Japan's press agency is reporting that the cargo ship carrying dozens of crew members, including two from New Zealand, has issued a distress signal in the middle of a typhoon. RNZ rural reporter Maja Burry with the latest.
Air NZ's Chief Finance Officer resigns
September 02, 2020 21:35 - 3 minutes - 3.37 MBAir New Zealand chief commercial and customer officer Cam Wallace has resigned. The airline says his role will not immediately be replaced, and the company's chief executive, Greg Foran, will take over his responsibilities. Kathryn Ryan speaks with aviation correspondent Irene King.
Quarries not ready for 'shovel-ready'
September 02, 2020 21:30 - 8 minutes - 8.15 MBThe quarrying sector is warning of the potential for cost blow outs on shovel-ready projects, as demand for aggregates and sand soars and because of poor planning. All the major parties have pledged huge increases in infrastructure spend as a key policy to address Covid-19's economic impact, but the national quarry organisation says not enough is being done to identify and plan available rock resource. It's citing the massive over spend on Transmission Gully as an example of what can hap...
Covid poverty for hundreds of Auckland's Pasifika
September 02, 2020 21:10 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBCovid-induced hardship in Auckland's Pasifika community is causing children to drop out of school and tertiary education to support their families. Outreach workers say there's been an alarming growth in poverty following retrenchment through the first and second lockdown. Tevita Funaki from the Fono, which is the country's largest Pacific health service, says there's an unprecedented demand for services, and Debbie Sorensen, chief executive of Pasifika Futures and Pasifika Medical Assoc...
Challenges for the arts sector in the Covid era
September 01, 2020 23:48 - 9 minutes - 8.87 MBKathryn is joined by Auckland Art Gallery director Kirsten Lacy to talk about how the arts sector can survive and thrive in a Covid world. The Gallery has had to adapt, with the postponement of international exhibitions, and has opened its doors again this week after the city's lockdown was lifted. It's been running a new digital series called "Cultured Conversations", in which Kirsten speaks to leaders in culture, arts, philanthropy and politics about how institutions can adapt and inno...
Going upriver, and what it tells us, about us
September 01, 2020 23:20 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBColin Heinz has walked, tramped and climbed every one of the rivers which flow from the Main Divide out to the sea. In Upriver - From the Sea to the Southern Alps Colin Heinz creates a unique and detailed account not just of the landscape but of eight-hundred years of the South Island's history, captured during expeditions he started making as a school boy, five decades ago. Colin tells Kathryn Ryan it has been his life's work.
Book review - Summer by Ali Smith
September 01, 2020 22:35 - 4 minutes - 4.41 MBPhil Vine reviews Summer by Ali Smith, published by Penguin Random House.
Relationships, why messy is good
September 01, 2020 22:05 - 31 minutes - 29 MBWe shouldn't fear a bit of messiness in our interactions with people we care about, says psychologist Dr Ed Tronick. He recently co-authored the book The Power of Discord: Why the Ups and Downs of Relationships Are the Secret to Building Intimacy, Resilience, and Trust with paediatrician Dr Claudia Gold.
Border barney, Abbott goes to London, Facebook fight
September 01, 2020 21:47 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBAustralia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about attempts by Prime Minister Scott Morrison to negotiate a lifting of border restrictions and replace them with "hotspot" designations. Meanwhile Morrison's predecessor is off to take up a trade job in the UK, where he was born. Tony Abbott has also criticised Australia's border closure which he says is keeping citizens "under house arrest". Karen will also talk about Facebook's threats to stop Australian users from sharin...
Cannabis referendum: Juliet Gerrard explains
September 01, 2020 21:32 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBAs the general election draws near so to does the referendum on legalising recreational cannabis. The Cannabis Legislation and Control Bill would allow people aged 20 or over to buy up to 14 grams of cannabis per day, but only from businesses with a licence to sell it. It would make it legal to grow a certain amount of cannabis on private property. In a bid to make those voting in September as informed as possible - the Prime Minister's chief science advisor Juliet Gerrard has released i...
Time to increase the national internet bandwidth?
September 01, 2020 21:05 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBA global cyber security expert who worked in New Zealand for 20 years says it's time to increase the national internet bandwidth to make it harder for cyber attackers. Dr Hossein Sarrafzadeh led the establishment of New Zealand's first cyber security centre and also developed one of the world's first real-time facial expression and gesture recognition systems. He warns all institutions from government, financial and telcos, to higher education and small firms can't afford to neglect the ...
Media commentator Cathy Strong
August 31, 2020 23:45 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBCathy Strong talks to Kathryn about the story behind Facebook posts not to share, Newsroom is setting up a new system to allow subscribers to make comments on news stories, and the Government funded local government journalists scheme has completed its first year. Dr Strong is an academic from Massey University, lecturing in journalism and public relations.
Scotty and Stacey Morrison - practicing te reo
August 31, 2020 23:30 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBPuzzles and games can be a fun way to learn te reo, say husband and wife team Scotty and Stacey Morrison. Their new all-ages activity book Māori Made Fun features crosswords, word-finds, colouring, riddles and a bit of maths & science.
Business commentator Rebecca Stevenson - scrap GST?
August 31, 2020 23:12 - 14 minutes - 13 MBBusiness commentator Rebecca Stevenson ponders whether we should rid of GST to boost economic activity? She also looks at what is going on with Team New Zealand. Rebecca Stevenson is BusinessDesk's Auckland bureau chief.
Book review - Battle of Britain by Simon Pearson
August 31, 2020 23:06 - 4 minutes - 4.42 MBQuentin Johnson reviews Battle of Britain: The pilots and planes that made history by Simon Pearson, published by Simon Pearson.
Mary Trump's insight into what makes Donald Trump tick
August 31, 2020 22:08 - 38 minutes - 35 MBDonald Trump's only niece Mary has written a book about the toxic family history that she believes shaped her uncle. She talks to Kathryn Ryan about the revelations contained in Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man.
Kiwis turning E-waste to gold, but not in New Zealand
August 31, 2020 21:30 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBThe New Zealand based start-up Mint Innovation, is on track to open its first commercial refineries for extracting precious metals from e-waste in Britain and Australia later this year, which will also be the world's first to use gold 'eating' microbes rather than the cyanide. But with no official e-waste recycling or recovery scheme in this country, and as the only OECD nation without any national regulations, New Zealanders will miss out on the advances. E-waste is the fastest growing ...
Volunteer firefighter association CEO faces harassment investigation
August 31, 2020 21:08 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBThe Chief Executive of the volunteer fire fighters' association is the subject of an independent investigation relating to two separate complaints of sexual harassment and bullying. The United Fire Brigade Association board has just appointed Kristy McDonald QC to conduct the investigation into its CEO Bill Butzbach. The complaints against Mr Butzbach relate to incidents several years ago, and come as Fire and Emergency faces mounting pressure over the way it handles complaints over sexu...
Off the beaten marine track with Kennedy Warne
August 30, 2020 23:45 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBKennedy discusses his latest story for National Geographic about the vision of the Pristine Seas project, and describes a visit to one of the Philippines' first marine sanctuaries, at Apo Island.
C'est Cheese: Organic cheesemaking in Featherston
August 30, 2020 23:30 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBIt was an office cooking challenge that first got Paul Broughton "stuck on the cheese thing". Now he runs the Remutaka Pass Creamery and C'est Cheese shop in the Wairarapa town of Featherston.
Political commentators Mills and Sherson
August 30, 2020 23:06 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBStephen, Trish and Kathryn discuss the focus of the election campaign, with pandemic management and the economic consequences at the forefront. Also how do you safely campaign in level 2?
Book review - The Gates of Athens by Conn Iggulden
August 30, 2020 22:35 - 3 minutes - 2.77 MBDavid Hill reviews The Gates of Athens by Conn Iggulden, published by Penguin Random House.
Protesters defy regime in Belarus, 300 arrested in German anti-Covid protest
August 30, 2020 22:06 - 7 minutes - 7.33 MBEurope correspondent Seamus Kearney joins Kathryn to look at what's happening on the streets of Belarus, where tens of thousands defied threats of a crackdown to call for the resignation of Alexander Lukashenko. 38,000 took to the streets in Berlin yesterday to protest against Covid restrictions, resulting in the arrest of 300. And a migrant rescue boat funded by UK street artist Banksy needed rescuing itself after it became overloaded with migrants.
Creative couple combine crochet & sculpture
August 30, 2020 22:06 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBThe creative endeavours of artistic south Auckland couple, sculptor Rudi Robinson and designer artist Lissy Robinson Cole include exploring crochet through a Te Ao Maori lens. They incorporate sculpture and yarn work to create large scale three-dimensional art installations.
Cybersickness - what is it, who is affected?
August 30, 2020 21:35 - 9 minutes - 9.04 MBCybersickness is a catch all term for illness caused by using a computer display. It is often associated with affecting gamers or people who are high users of virtual reality (VR) technology, but the illness is also affecting people across a range of industries and workplaces. A team of Sydney researchers is trying to understand what causes it and how to treat it. Dr Juno Kim from the University of New South Wales School of Optometry and Vision Science says cybersickness manifests as nau...
Cybersickness - what is it and who is affected?
August 30, 2020 21:35 - 9 minutes - 9.04 MBCybersickness is a catch-all term for illness caused by using a computer display. It is often associated with affecting gamers or people who are high users of virtual reality (VR) technology, but the illness is also affecting people across a range of industries and workplaces. A team of Sydney researchers is trying to understand what causes it and how to treat it. Dr Juno Kim from the University of New South Wales School of Optometry and Vision Science says cybersickness manifests as nau...
KiwiSaver fund managers 'nervous' 'frustrated' after cyber-attack
August 30, 2020 21:25 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBAfter four days of cyber-attacks and trading halts on the NZX, KiwiSaver fund managers say they are frustrated, embarrassed and nervous. Last week the stock exchange was hit by a series of sophisticated denial-of-service style attacks from overseas, sparking an investigation by the Government's GCSB communications security bureau. The attacks meant fund managers could not buy and sell shares on the open market, and hampered their ability to calculate savers' balances. Sam Stubbs is the c...
WOF extension: Cars with 'potentially life threatening' faults on the road
August 30, 2020 21:06 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBThe Motor Trade Association says the number of cars on the road with expired warrants is "of huge concern". MTA members are anticipating a bottleneck, with drivers whose warrants expired during the first lockdown delaying until the looming October 10th deadline to make sure their cars are road-worthy. Figures from NZTA show the average WoF failure rate is 41%. Nationwide warrants were down 83% in April, with more than half a million fewer vehicle inspections completed during the lockdown...
The week that was with Melanie Bracewell and Te Radar
August 27, 2020 23:50 - 10 minutes - 10.1 MBComedians Te Radar and Melanie Bracewell with some stories to make you smile.
Book review - Not in Narrow Seas by Brian Easton
August 27, 2020 22:35 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBMax Harris reviews Not in Narrow Seas: The Economic History of Aotearoa New Zealand by Brian Easton. This book is published by Victoria University Press.
Two years with an ancient oak tree
August 27, 2020 22:07 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBJames Canton talks with Kathryn Ryan about the two years he spent visiting and studying an 800 year old oak tree in Essex.
Medsalv - recycling medical devices bound for landfill
August 27, 2020 21:40 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBAs the government looks to make producers of certain products responsible for the waste they generate, a Christchurch company is stepping in to save medical devices from landfill.
Crisis-hit Air NZ to dip into huge Government loan
August 27, 2020 21:30 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBAir New Zealand is about to dip into a huge government loan, after reporting heavy losses yesterday.
Contact tracing report finds stress-testing 'urgently' needed
August 27, 2020 21:08 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBThe long-awaited report into whether our contact tracing is fit for purpose has found strategic and structural planning work lacking, with an urgent need for scenario planning and stress-testing.
Listener feedback on FENZ
August 26, 2020 23:55 - 5 minutes - 5.09 MBKathryn shares listener feedback on the issue of Fire and Emergency New Zealand's handling of sexual assault and bullying complaints. The Professional Fire Fighters' Union has criticised FENZ Chief Executive Rhys Jones and the senior leadership, saying it has failed to establish a safe process for complainants to come forward.
Dispatches from Elsewhere, John was Trying to Contact Aliens
August 26, 2020 23:45 - 10 minutes - 9.83 MBFilm and TV reviewer Chris Schulz joins Kathryn to talk about Dispatches from Elsewhere, created by and starring Jason Segel, the interesting true story behind John was Trying to Contact Aliens and World's Toughest Race: Eco-challenge Fiji.
Where can parents get help if their child's dyslexic?
August 26, 2020 23:25 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBFor most children, learning to read is a challenge. For a small number of children, it can be especially difficult. Carla McNeil is the director of Learning Matters, which helps parents and teachers to support children who experience dyslexia. She has some advice for what to do if you suspect your child is dyslexic.
What's behind the NZX outage, and the growth of Sharesies
August 26, 2020 23:05 - 17 minutes - 16 MBTechnology correspondent Peter Griffin joins Kathryn to talk about the NZX outage which appears to have been a denial of service attack. Does the NZX have the means to protect itself in the face of a determined attack? Sharesies now has 200,000 users - what's behind its popularity? Peter will look at Robin Hood, a free share trading platform in the US, which has been criticised for its "gamification".
Book review - Sisters by Daisy Johnson
August 26, 2020 22:35 - 3 minutes - 3.55 MBJessie Bray Sharpin reviews Sisters by Daisy Johnson, published by Penguin Random House.
How clean is too clean?
August 26, 2020 22:15 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBIs our obsession with soap is obstructing the micro biome that keeps us healthy? Specialist in preventive medicine Dr James Hamblin says it maybe time to break the rules of traditional body cleanliness - but stresses we should keep washing our hands. He is also a lecturer at Yale School of Public Health, and co-host of the Atlantic's 'Social Distance' podcast. His new book is called, 'Clean: The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less.'
Exams chaos fallout, Tony Abbott's trade role, Proms row
August 26, 2020 22:05 - 6 minutes - 5.68 MBUK correspondent Harriet Line looks at the resignation of the head of the Department for Education following the exam results fiasco earlier this month, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has reportedly been given a top Brexit trade role and facemasks will be compulsory in communal spaces for high school students - a day after the government said there were "no plans to review the guidance". Around 1,100 new Covid cases are being recorded each day, with around 10 deaths on aver...
How will Canterbury DHB cuts impact vulnerable in community?
August 26, 2020 21:50 - 8 minutes - 7.44 MBThere are fears over looming cuts to community health and well being programs funded by Canterbury DHB, as it attempts to get itself out of a fiscal black hole, amid a leadership crisis and a pandemic. In its annual plan the DHB is looking to slash nearly 57 million dollars of savings, including $1.175m to community services. Vince Barry is Chief Executive of Pegasus Medical Group. He is worried about cuts to primary care, including funding for GP services for vulnerable populations and ...
Air New Zealand posts after tax lost of $454 million for the year ended June.
August 26, 2020 21:45 - 6 minutes - 5.79 MBThe airline has posted a loss of $ million for the year ended June. It comes after the airline was was all but grounded, by Covid-19. Much of the loss was because of write downs in the value of planes, and restructuring costs as it cut costs and sacked about 4,000 staff. Business Editor Gyles Beckford joins Kathryn to discuss the results.
Professional firefighters 'no confidence' in FENZ CEO
August 26, 2020 21:05 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBThe union representing career firefighters says it has no confidence in the CEO of Fire and Emergency New Zealand or FENZ on the handling of sexual assault and bullying complaints. The comments follow interviews on Nine to Noon recently with three volunteer firefighters who laid complaints of sexual assault, sexual harassment and bullying against other volunteer firefighters, which they say were met with inaction, coverup and minimisation by FENZ. There are 14000 volunteer and 1800 paid ...
Professional firefighters "no confidence" in FENZ CEO
August 26, 2020 21:05 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBThe union representing career firefighters says it has no confidence in the CEO of Fire and Emergency New Zealand or FENZ on the handling of sexual assault and bullying complaints. The comments follow interviews on Nine to Noon recently with three volunteer firefighters who laid complaints of sexual assault, sexual harassment and bullying against other volunteer firefighters, which they say were met with inaction, coverup and minimisation by FENZ. There are 14000 volunteer and 1800 paid ...
Paul Spoonley - The New New Zealand
August 25, 2020 23:30 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBMassey University Distinguished Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Paul Spoonley, talks to Kathryn about his what Aotearoa's fast-changing demographics mean for our future. His new book is called The New New Zealand: Facing demographic disruption.
Book review - Fridays with Jim by David Cohen
August 25, 2020 22:40 - 7 minutes - 7.01 MBDean Bedford reviews Fridays with Jim by David Cohen, published by Massey University Press.
Apocalyptic innovations in birth, food, sex and death
August 25, 2020 22:08 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBTech entrepreneurs are selling us solutions to problems that can be solved by simply changing our behaviour, an investigative journalist says.