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Nine To Noon

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263 episodes

Smart, in-depth and relentlessly curious, host Kathryn Ryan dives into the stories shaping New Zealand and its people. Interviews and expert analysis from around the world and at home. It’s where big ideas are unpacked and everyday life explored.

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  1. Science with Stuart Parsons

    · 8:50

    Stuart is University of Canterbury's Executive Dean of Science, and a Professor in the School of Biological Sciences.

  2. Lloyd Jones releases autobiographical memoir

    · 25 min

    The Beaded Curtain was released last week and is part memoir, part reportage.

  3. Around the motu: James Pocock, Editor of the Gisborne Herald

    · 9:50

    James discusses the closure of a local kindergarten, a Ngati Porou lawyer appointed King's Counsel, and the local plumber named apprentice of the year.

  4. Book review: Lynn Freeman's picks

    · 12 min

    Lynn reviews The Passing of the Forest by Richard Wolfe, Sorry Rock by Thalia Henry and Parrot Heaven by Jessica Howland Kany.

  5. Have dating apps and the manosphere distorted romance?

    · 24 min

    Psychology professor Paul Eastwick discusses his latest book, Bonded by Evolution: The New Science of Love and Connection.

  6. Australia: Parliament's tribute to Helen Haines

    · 9:39

    Australia correspondent Bernard Keane joins Kathryn to talk about Parliament resuming and the tributes made to MP Helen Haines who was attacked last week.

  7. The school trades academy building houses for families in need

    · 13 min

    The academy at Hastings Boys High School trains students under the guidance of building tutors, while building homes for Kāinga Ora.

  8. Big discounts possible for overdue student loan borrowers

    · 11 min

    Lawyer Dave Ananth joins Kathryn to talk about the process of getting deals with the IRD for overdue student loans.

  9. Long Covid sufferers being denied insurance pay outs

    · 16 min

    Insurance lawyer Tim Gunn says people are being declined income protection claims when they're unable to work.

  10. Sports correspondent Ben Strang

    · 13 min

    Ben talks NPC, Silver Ferns, Black Caps and Liam Lawson. Ben Strang is New Zealand and Pacific Islands Correspondent for the AFP.

  11. How humans are adapting to technology rather than vice versa

    · 14 min

    Are we as humans increasingly adapting our behaviour to accommodate technology?

  12. Political commentators Andrew Ketels and Phil Goff

    · 23 min

    Kathryn is joined by Andrew Ketels, former Act Party chief of staff and advisor to the National Party, and Phil Goff, former Cabinet Minister, Leader of the Labour Party and mayor of Auckland.

  13. Around the motu: Torika Tokalau in Tamaki Makaurau

    · 8:29

    Torika has the details of animal control workers facing more threats from dog owners, Rugby League supporters warned over late night celebrating around World Cup and the Piha campground given a reprieve against council…

  14. Gardening: Design expert Xanthe White

    · 19 min

    Labour weekend has just passed, so it is traditionally the time to think about getting going with tomatoes.

  15. Brad Pitt's stunt pilot double and local aviation stalwart

    · 20 min

    When a Blenheim pilot got a call from someone looking for a floatplane, he couldn't have imagined he would have ended up doubling for Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt.

  16. USA correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben

    · 7:18

    It is now one week from the midterms in the US, and Republicans look like they might struggle in districts redrawn under pressure from the President to favour votes for his party.

  17. The student who built an app to help his uncle communicate

    · 9:18

    Inspired by his uncle who has cerebral palsy, Jack Harker, a Year 11 student at ACG Parnell College has developed a communication tool that may help more people participate in everyday conversations.

  18. Should empty buildings be made available for shared use?

    · 18 min

    A visiting academic from Naples says he was able to create a legal 'hack' to open unused buildings for civic use.

  19. Construction maybe on the up, but are the skilled workers?

    · 14 min

    There are new indications of an upturn in the construction industry, but prices are on the rise and there are questions about the availability of skilled staff.

  20. Sports commentator Sam Ackerman

    · 10 min

    Christchurch is the centre of the NZ sporting universe this week.

  21. Friday funnies

    · 14 min

    Justine Smith and Donna Brookbanks with a lighter take on some recent stories.

  22. Around the motu: Kaitlyn Morrell

    · 8:36

    Kaitlyn has the latest on what is happening with the Cathedral Cove track, a dispute over the proposed felling of a protected tree, the new freight and logistics hub opened at the Port of Tauranga, meth testing…

  23. Book review: Chris Tse reviews poetry collections

    · 5:45

    Chris Tse reviews two poetry collections: Salt Quilt by Airini Beautrais (Te Herenga Waka University Press), and I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken (Penguin Random House).

  24. Labour candidate Kerrin Leoni resigns over gang campaigning

    · 4:37

    Kerrin Leoni, has resigned as a Labour candidate for Tamaki Makaurau. This comes after a video merged showing her campaigning with gang members. RNZ political editor Jo Moir.

  25. Sociologist Maryam Aslany on why the world depends on peasants

    · 25 min

    Sociologist Maryam Aslany says there are still roughly two billion people out there living as peasants in her new book Peasants: Makers of the Modern World she argues that these small-scale farmers are essential to the…

  26. Asia correspondent Rachel Clayton

    · 12 min

    The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in India, while Japan carries out a first mission to Mars' moons to collect samples.

  27. Inside the world of international competitive e-gaming

    · 13 min

    Gaming is set to take centre stage this Labour Weekend with an international e-sports test match between New Zealand and India. E Blacks team leader Jonathan Jansen and player Sam Johnson

  28. Drew James on reviving the wonder of WOMAD's world music

    · 7:57

    WOMAD is returning to Taranaki in next March, following a year off this year amid rising costs, Drew James is the newly-appointed executive director.

  29. US psychotherapist on how she gets people to leave cults

    · 15 min

    US psychotherapist Rachel Bernstein has spent more than 30 years helping people recover from cults and is visiting New Zealand for the first time to speak at this weekend's DeCult 2026 conference.

  30. Screentime: Tenzing, British and Irish Film Festival

    · 12 min

    Film and TV reviewer James Croot looks at new biographical film Tenzing, which was filmed in New Zealand. He also shares his picks of the British and Irish Film Festival, including: Everybody to Kenmure St, 500 Miles,…

  31. Parenting: Supporting kids through frustration

    · 17 min

    How we can support kids through frustration, without rushing to rescue them from it?

  32. Tech: Hacking into supermarket fridges? Tony Grasso explains

    · 15 min

    Cybersecurity expert Tony Grasso looks at the major attack against nearly 700 French supermarkets, where hackers were able to access commercial fridges and freezers and drive up temperatures to 50 degrees for hours.…

  33. Inflation eases but cost-of-living warnings remain

    · 7:15

    Statistics New Zealand says annual inflation has eased to 3.7 percent in the September quarter. That's down from an annual rate of 4.1 percent in the previous quarter and is slightly lower than market expectations. RNZ…

  34. Around the motu: Kelly Makiha in Rotorua

    · 9:39

    Kelly has more on a bottle store worker injured in what police say was the start of a crime spree, the young Rotorua women who has gone from from opera singing to the Black Fern's Sevens squad, the saga of a trapped…

  35. Pacific: Out-of-season storms, wildfires in Papua New Guinea

    · 11 min

    RNZ's Pacific correspondent Christina Persico looks at the storms that have already hit the Pacific outside of the normal cyclone season, including Cyclone Wati which passed the Cooks without too much damage. Meanwhile…

  36. Testing a world of AI agents

    · 23 min

    From a startup staffed by AI agents to sending his digital clone to online therapy, US journalist and author Evan Ratliff loves testing the boundaries of new technologies.

  37. UK: Controversial gasfield approved, debt hits £3tn

    · 11 min

    UK correspondent Natasha Clare looks at why it was given the greenlight and the reaction to it. The UK government's debt has hit £3tn for the first time, as John Healey gets ready to present his first budget next week.

  38. Burger Burger's comeback - backed by suppliers

    · 11 min

    Less than three months after entering liquidation, gourmet burger chain Burger Burger has started re-opening.

  39. Survey finds few young people are considering career as carers

    · 11 min

    Almost two-thirds of young people thought home care was meaningful work, however few associate it with fair pay or a clear career pathway.

  40. A sunny long weekend for many, but drought threat grows

    · 15 min

    Drought Indicator Maps provided by Earth Sciences NZ show a large part of the country is drier than usual, with only Christchurch and its surrounds wetter than normal.

  41. Science: Tiny, shiny Kiwi start ups

    · 12 min

    Cushla McGoverin is a senior research fellow within the Department of Physics at the University of Auckland, and Principal Investigator in Te Whai Ao - Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies.

  42. How dog registration nearly led to an all-out colonial conflict

    · 14 min

    A new play is taking on a little-known chapter of Aotearoa's history: The dog tax that led to an armed standoff between Māori in Hokianga and government forces.

  43. Around the motu: Logan Savory of the South Tribune

    · 11 min

    Logan discusses the upcoming anniversary of the windstorm that left 50,000 customers without power while a 95-year-old sets a world record on his birthday.

  44. Book review: VOLUME Books' picks

    · 7:30

    Stella Chrysostomou from VOLUME Books reviews two books: U.X.O. by Brannavan Gnanalingam (Lawrence & Gibson), and A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam (Granta).

  45. The only person to have completed the entire Trans Canada solo

    · 27 min

    At 50 she set out alone to travel the full 24,000km route by foot, bike, canoe, snowshoe and ski, through mountains, boreal forest, prairie, and Arctic tundra.

  46. Australia: Motive still unclear in attack on MP Helen Haines

    · 9:30

    Australia correspondent Karen Middleton has the latest in the shocking attack on MP Helen Haines in which she was rammed with a car and has had to have her leg amputated. Pauline Hanson's delivered a rare apology for a…

  47. River of the Year finalists named

    · 6:49

    Three rivers have been selected as finalists in the inaugural River of the Year award.

  48. Which representative positions are US voters selecting?

    · 14 min

    In the United States, voters will soon be making choices in the mid-terms. But what positions are voters being asked to choose candidates for?

  49. New research details national scale of abuse of older people

    · 19 min

    Nearly one in six Kiwis over the age of 55 have experienced abuse in the last year, according to new national research.

  50. Sports correspondent Sam Ackerman

    · 11 min

    Sports correspondent Sam Ackerman has the latest from the world of sport.

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