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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NZ goods exports to China holding up well: NZTE
August 25, 2020 21:35 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBNew Zealand goods exports to China are holding up well, according to Trade and Entrerprise.
Departing nursing head on CDHB funding cuts, 'divisive' board
August 25, 2020 21:08 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBThe outgoing Director of Nursing at Canterbury District Health Board speaks out about her departure, and the looming $16 million of funding cuts for nurses.
Interconnected stories of kiwi runners
August 24, 2020 23:20 - 22 minutes - 21 MBA celebration of Aotearoa New Zealand's running heritage with the country's fastest ever female marathoner, Allison Roe and author of 'The Kiwi Runners' Family Tree' Dreydon Sobanja. It'll make you want to put on your running shoes!
Book review - Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
August 24, 2020 22:35 - 3 minutes - 2.95 MBRae McGregor reviews Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz, published by Penguin Random House.
Ken Gorbey: From Te Papa to Berlin, a lifetime of museums
August 24, 2020 22:05 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBKen Gorbey was instrumental in getting Te Papa Tongarewa, the country's national museum, off the ground. He was then asked to help salvage the Jewish Museum in Berlin - which had run into trouble before it had even opened. He was headhunted to do the task by Michael Blumenthal, the former United States treasury secretary who had fled Nazi Germany with his family. The project faced impossible deadlines - but eventually the museum was a success. Mr Gorbey has written a book about his exper...
Why are billions still being invested in places Kiwis want to avoid?
August 24, 2020 21:30 - 4 minutes - 4.27 MBA new report, called Inside the Black Box of New Zealand Investment Funds, provides a snapshot of the portfolio holdings of all KiwiSaver and New Zealand retail investment funds. It examines 670 investment funds, and finds $6.4 billion dollars of KiwiSaver is still being invested in companies New Zealanders would like to avoid. What more could be done to encourage divestment from things like fossil fuels, gambling and areas with dubious human or animal rights records? Kathryn talks to Ba...
Frustrated parents seek funds for abandoned school trips
August 24, 2020 21:05 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBA group of parents, exasperated by a lack of repayment for school trips that can't proceed, has complained to the Ministry of Education seeking an independent inquiry into the endorsement and use of a non-bonded travel agent. They want support from the Ministry to bring a Commerce Commission complaint into the way school-travel specialist Student Horizons has gone about returning money for trips that can't be undertaken. The situation differs from one Nine to Noon highlighted four weeks ...
Flip Grater brings home the faken
August 23, 2020 23:30 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBWhen Christchurch musician Flip Grater couldn't find gourmet vegan food products to have with her glass of pinot, she decided to make some for herself. Now she and her husband Youssef Iskrane produce a range of vegan meats and cheeses under the label Grater Goods.
Political commentators Mills and Morten
August 23, 2020 23:07 - 20 minutes - 19 MBIs there a disconnect between the Government's covid response plan and the Ministry of Health's execution of it?
Book review - Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
August 23, 2020 22:40 - 3 minutes - 3.67 MBLouise Ward of Wardini Books reviews Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam - a young adult novel about a wrongful incarceration, published by HarperCollins.
Nguyen Phan Que Mai
August 23, 2020 22:07 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBVietnamese writer Nguyen Phan Que Mai has published eleven books of poetry and non fiction in Vietnamese, and now for the first time - a novel in English.
Mosque attack sentencing begins today
August 23, 2020 21:53 - 5 minutes - 5.48 MBThis morning the sentencing of the man responsible for the March 15 terror attacks gets underway in Christchurch.
Calls to bump up sick leave for front-line Covid-19 workers
August 23, 2020 21:40 - 9 minutes - 8.43 MBThe Union representing aged care workers, wants unrestricted sick leave brought in for its members as Covid-19 adds further strain on the sector.
Disarray at the Canterbury DHB, the Crown monitor responds
August 23, 2020 21:07 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBCrown monitor Dr Lester Levy talks to Kathryn about the crisis at the Canterbury District Health Board - with a total of seven executives, including the Chief Executive resigning in the space of two weeks.
Book review - This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
August 20, 2020 22:35 - 4 minutes - 4.16 MBMelanie O'Loughlin of Unity Books reviews This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga, published by Faber & Faber. A follow-up to the highly acclaimed Nervous Condition, written as Rhodesia came to an end, and Zimbabwe began. In this new work, Tambu is no longer an outspoken child full of hope, she is a thirty-year-old woman living in Harare - educated yet unemployed, and forced to reckon with the knowledge that her country has betrayed its convictions. Long-listed for the Booker Prize 202...
Soil health and growing kai with Maanu Paul
August 20, 2020 22:06 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBReinstating swamps drained for agriculture can produce more economically by farming eels than dairy, a respected Kaumātua Maanu Paul says.
NZ's chances of a Covid vaccine
August 20, 2020 21:25 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBAustralia is a step closer to securing a vaccine for Covid-19, and an international deal to produce it locally, if Oxford University's trials succeed. The indication is New Zealand could benefit as a result, but how far down the global priority list are we, due to our efforts at elimination? The Australian Government has signed a letter of intent with UK-based drug company AstraZeneca to secure the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine. It's the most promising vaccine in development, entering phase th...
"Adversarial" board to blame for CDHB resignations: Chief Medical Officer
August 20, 2020 21:06 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MBCanterbury's chief medical officer and leader of the region's Covid-19 response says the adversarial and divisive approach of the board and the Crown Monitor is behind her decision to quit. Dr Sue Nightingale is one of seven senior executives who have resigned from the Canterbury District Health Board in the last two weeks. Yesterday staff held a protest over the string of resignations as the DHB board, led by Sir John Hansen, met to discuss a proposal to cut $56 million from the deficit...
Mulan, This Town, The Boys, Shudder.com
August 19, 2020 23:45 - 10 minutes - 9.38 MBFilm and TV reviewer Sarah McMullan joins Kathryn to talk about why you'll have to pay $40 if you want to see the New Zealand-filmed Disney+ blockbuster Mulan, New Zealand film This Town, season two of The Boys with Kiwi actors Karl Urban and Anthony Starr and some creepy offerings on new horror channel Shudder.
Feeding children - the first 1,000 days
August 19, 2020 23:30 - 20 minutes - 28.5 MBRegistered dietician, Professor Clare Wall talks to Kathryn about the importance of kai for babies and toddlers, simply put, choosing a chicken dinner over chicken nuggets. Professor Wall leads the nutrition and dietetic department at the University of Auckland's Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. She's been involved in the Growing up in New Zealand longitudinal study which has followed children from birth to 11 years old. The research has provided a valuable snapshot of what Kiwi k...
Exam algo bias, fighting back against the boss snooping on you
August 19, 2020 23:06 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBTechnology correspondent Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about how the UK was forced to ditch exam results generated by a biased algorithm after student protests, how workers are fighting back against surveillance software when they're working from home, and Microsoft's new Surface Duo - is it a phone or a tablet? Microsoft calls it neither.
Book review - Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
August 19, 2020 22:35 - 4 minutes - 4.21 MBGina Rogers reviews Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, published by Penguin Random House. This is a brilliant Scandinavian novel with a fantastic cast of quirky characters. A riveting take on a dinner party farce.
A couple of Big Bangers: Carrie and Marty Yaxley
August 19, 2020 22:05 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBBased in Levin, Race Director of the Big Bang Adventure Race Carrie Yaxley and husband Marty tell Kathryn Ryan about the adventure races they put on for teams of people hungry for a challenge. The signature event, the Big Bang Adventure Race, is celebrating its tenth anniversary in November. Here Big Bangers line up in teams, finding out virtually on the starting line what lies ahead of them (a mixture of running, mountain biking, crawling, scrambling, skidding, probably lots of mud and ...
A-level fiasco and a U-turn
August 19, 2020 21:55 - 4 minutes - 3.95 MBUK correspondent Harriet Line joins Kathryn to talk about the government's U-tun on using an algorithm to award A-level and GCSEs in England - but why has there been no repercussions for Education Secretary Gavin Williamson? And the Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced a plan to introduce population-wide testing for Covid-19 so restrictions can be eased, but it's not clear when it might be enacted.
Doctors pen warning to Christchurch over DHB
August 19, 2020 21:43 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBIn a rare move, Christchurch hospital senior doctors are writing an open letter to share their mounting and deep concerns at the state of the local health system with the people of Christchurch. They say with no workable budget and the bulk of the senior management team resigning, it's in crisis. Five high-level resignations have taken place in a month. Kathryn talks about the situation with Sarah Dalton, Executive Director of the Associations of Salaried Medical Specialists.
Justified, but unlawful: A ruling on lockdown legality
August 19, 2020 21:32 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBThe High Court has released its ruling into the legality of the first lockdown. Lawyer Andrew Borrowdale had taken the Director General of Health to task, on whether he had the legal authority to put the country into alert level 4 earlier this year. The Court released its ruling yesterday, finding that from 26 March to 3 April, the requirement for people to stay at home and in their bubbles was justified, but unlawful. Dr Dean Knight from Victoria University's faculty of law sat through ...
Restaurant Association calls for targeted Government support
August 19, 2020 21:08 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBThe Restaurant Association is calling for the government to subsidise the cost of meals in restaurants and cafes - similar to the British "Eat out to help out" scheme. The Restaurant Association says 87 per cent of its members in Auckland are reporting significant revenue losses under Level 3, while 49 per cent of those at alert level 2 are experiencing losses. The Association has launched a petition today asking the government to adopt the British scheme as a way of targeting support to...
Records of Settlement in employment cases
August 18, 2020 23:45 - 10 minutes - 9.96 MBEmployment lawyer Charles McGuinness joins Kathryn to look at issues arising out of a case due to be heard before the Supreme Court that focuses on capacity to settle using a Record of Settlement (RoS) in an employment dispute. It involves an employee who'd been away from work for about a year with anxiety and depression, which her employer knew about, and the RoS she signed with the employer but then tried to overturn, arguing she was mentally incapacitated when she signed it. Charles w...
Poet Ria Masae - from fale to K'Rd
August 18, 2020 23:20 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBRia Masae's poetry draws on her Pacific heritage which she says influences all her writing. She is one of three poets whose work is published in a new book AUP New Poets 7. Some of Ria Masae's poems takes the reader to villages in Samoa, while others depict Auckland street life.
Book review - The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
August 18, 2020 22:35 - 4 minutes - 3.76 MBElisabeth Easther reviews The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue, published by Macmillan.
Architecture with Pacific flair
August 18, 2020 22:05 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBFormer Samoan international Lama Tone tells Kathryn how rugby career ending injuries led him to architecture.
Victoria's infection rate drops, border brawls and virtual parliament
August 18, 2020 21:45 - 10 minutes - 9.58 MBAustralia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to look at the easing of Melbourne's second wave of Covid-19, even as the number of daily deaths is climbing. PM Scott Morrison is trying to broker a deal between states to allow closed borders to reopen to essential workers who live and work on opposite sides, amid a standoff with 100 stranded Canberrans who weren't allowed to drive back home. Negotiations are also continuing on having some MPs attend Parliament by video link when it...
Vic's infection rate drops, border brawls, virtual parliament
August 18, 2020 21:45 - 10 minutes - 9.58 MBAustralia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to look at the easing of Melbourne's second wave of Covid-19, even as the number of daily deaths is climbing. PM Scott Morrison is trying to broker a deal between states to allow closed borders to reopen to essential workers who live and work on opposite sides, amid a standoff with 100 stranded Canberrans who weren't allowed to drive back home. Negotiations are also continuing on having some MPs attend Parliament by video link when it...
Lessons from lockdown
August 18, 2020 21:44 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBA new report on learning in the first lockdown finds inequities in the education system were highlighted and made worse. The report by The Education Hub, a non-profit organisation set up to promote cooperation with the education sector, is based on a survey of over 300 teachers, parents and students from across the country about their experiences of schooling during the eight week shutdown in March, April and May. The report finds that while a minority of students and teachers enjoyed di...
Could antibody testing hold clues for Covid-19 mystery?
August 18, 2020 21:25 - 5 minutes - 5.23 MBGenetic sequencing has linked the Rydges Hotel worker to the same strain of virus found in a woman who stayed at the Auckland hotel between July 28 and 31 after returning from the United States. The Ministry of Health says there is no evidence the worker had any direct contact with the traveller. University of Auckland's Public health lecturer Simon Thornley explains how antibody (serology) testing might help solve the mystery of what is going on.
Auckland losing 250 jobs a day under Level 3
August 18, 2020 21:05 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBEvery day at Level 3 lockdown is costing Auckland 250 jobs and $65-75 million in lost GDP, even with a wage subsidy in place, according to the latest forecasts from Auckland Council's Chief Economist David Norman. He says many businesses pushed to breaking point in the first lockdown, will not survive the second even if it is relatively brief. Mr Norman says Auckland has lost around 24,000 jobs during since the first lockdown and even if the current one ends on Friday, thousands more job...
An outbreak of misinformation
August 17, 2020 23:45 - 9 minutes - 8.66 MBAndrew and Kathryn discuss the covid rumour mill and the role of social media. Andrew Holden is a journalist for more than 30 years including five as Editor of The Press (in Christchurch) and four as Editor-in-Chief of The Age in Melbourne.
Barnyard art: Yvonne Sutherland on creating her Happy Hens
August 17, 2020 23:30 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBFor the better part of 30 years, Yvonne Sutherland's shop and studio has been a must-stop on the Otago Peninsula. She's the creator of Happy Hens - brightly coloured, hand-painted ceramic hens of distinctive shape and assorted sizes. Since opening her Portobello shop in 1990, tens of thousands of visitors from all over the globe passed through her doors. Although the store closed earlier this year, her Happy Hens are still available online.
Book review - AUP New Poets 7 by Rhys Feeney, Ria Masae and Claudia Jardine
August 17, 2020 22:35 - 5 minutes - 4.71 MBHarry Ricketts reviews AUP New Poets 7 by Rhys Feeney, Ria Masae and Claudia Jardine. Edited by Anna Jackson, published by Auckland University Press.
Eat the Buddha: Barbara Demick
August 17, 2020 22:05 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBPulitzer prize-nominated writer, former LA Times Beijing bureau chief and foreign correspondent Barbara Demick's new book is Eat the Buddha - Life and Death in a Tibetan Town. It's a narrative nonfiction account of events that propelled the otherwise unremarkable and obscure Tibetan town of Ngaba to be deserving of the dubious title of "undisputed world-capital of self immolation" in its quest to resist Chinese domination. This is the history behind the 2008 series of self immolations in...
Covid-19 and its impact on Auckland charities
August 17, 2020 21:20 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBNew figures reveal some Auckland charities are relying on charity to operate because of Covid-19. The Trust's funding application data shows Auckland-based charities need an extra 8 thousand dollars on average to help cover basic overheads. With funding streams disrupted by the pandemic they're struggling to cover basic operating costs such as power and rent. A range of community organisations have applied for a grant from the Trusts Your West Support Fund to cover a wide range of expens...
Caution over mortgage extension scheme
August 17, 2020 21:05 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBA finance commentator is warning the mortgage extension scheme is delaying the inevitable for some people. The Reserve Bank confirmed yesterday it will extend the mortgage deferral scheme by six months, to the end of March next year, in an effort to prevent people experiencing financial hardship from losing their home. So far, the retail banks have deferred repayments on 21-billion-dollars worth of loans for over 61-thousand customers. Kathryn Ryan speaks with David Boyle from Mint Asset...
Hannah Miller - A Lady Butcher
August 16, 2020 23:30 - 10 minutes - 9.31 MBIf you eat meat, buying whole pieces and learning how to cut them up yourself is a more cost-effective way to go, says butcher Hannah Miller, aka A Lady Butcher.
Judith Collins says a later date preferable
August 16, 2020 23:15 - 8 minutes - 7.97 MBNational Party Leader Judith Collins says she can work with the new election date, but she would have have preferred 21 November.
Winston Peters satisfied with new election date
August 16, 2020 23:05 - 10 minutes - 9.32 MBNZ First Leader Winston Peters says campaigning can proceed now the election date has been pushed out a month.
Book review - Kokomo by Victoria Hannan
August 16, 2020 22:45 - 5 minutes - 5.06 MBLaura Caygill reviews Kokomo by Victoria Hannan, published by Hachette. A tender first novel about love, family, friendship and hiding from life.
Prime Minister's media conference on election date
August 16, 2020 22:05 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern is due to make an announcement on the dissolution of Parliament, due today. We'll take the press conference live.
Belarus calls Russia for help as protests grow, Brits rush home from France
August 16, 2020 21:45 - 9 minutes - 9.03 MBEurope correspondent Seamus Kearney joins Kathryn to talk about the biggest protest yet against Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed 'Europe's last dictator'. About 200,000 people turned out for a rally in Minsk, as the government called on Russia to help quell the dissent. And there was fresh chaos in Europe as Britons raced to get home from France to beat a new 14-day Covid 19 quarantine rule announced by London.
Abuse of stretched nursing frontline must stop
August 16, 2020 21:25 - 10 minutes - 9.66 MBNurses Organisation Kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku says nurses on the frontline are being abused and bearing the brunt of anxious people waiting in long lines at community testing centres for Covid-19 swabs. She is also calling for a standard testing programme for frontline medical staff, in line with border and port workers.
Economic impact of latest lockdown
August 16, 2020 21:15 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBKathryn discusses the impact of the latest lockdown on the Auckland economy and the broader New Zealand economy with Brad Olsen from Infometrics, and Jarrod Kerr, Chief Economist with Kiwibank.