Nine To Noon

Nine To Noon

From 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.

Episodes

Screentime: Materialists, DocEdge film fest, The Gilded Age

June 18, 2025 • 9 mins
Film and television reviewer James Croot with what he's been watching.
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Parenting - How to talk to children about death

June 18, 2025 • 23 mins
Whether it is a close family member, pet or someone they don't personally know, like a famous person who has died, children experience death and parents will be asked about it. 
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Tech: One NZ, latest cybercrime numbers,

June 18, 2025 • 16 mins
Tech correspondent Tony Grasso details Tuesday's One NZ outage and how it was handled.
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Around the motu: Diane McCarthy in Whakatane

June 18, 2025 • 7 mins
Diane McCarthy is an Eastern Bay of Plenty Local Democracy Reporter with the Whakatane Beacon.
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Book review: The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest

June 18, 2025 • 2 mins
Roger Christensen of Little Unity Books Auckland reviews The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey Hartman published by Walker Books.
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Breakthrough for diagnosing Parkinson's disease

June 18, 2025 • 7 mins
Brain scientists have made a breakthrough that could help diagnose Parkinson's disease and Multiple System Atrophy much earlier. 
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Political editor Jo Moir on Cook Islands funding latest

June 18, 2025 • 6 mins
New Zealand is pausing its funding to the Cook Islands in the wake of a controversial deal signed between China and the Cook Islands.
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Equine therapy: Anna Baigent's rehabilitation journey

June 18, 2025 • 23 mins
After surviving a traumatic brain injury as a teenager, Anna Baigent and her mum Maria turned to horses as a source of healing. 
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UK correspondent Matt Dathan

June 18, 2025 • 11 mins
Matt Dathan is Home Affairs Editor at The Times.
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Farmers, vets say product approval too slow

June 18, 2025 • 9 mins
Farmers' representatives are worried that plans to speed up access to new agri-chemicals won't be fast enough to compete on the world stage. 
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Providers say it's time to rethink alternate education

June 18, 2025 • 17 mins
The founder of one of the country's longest-running alternative education organisations, is urging a re-think on how the sector is viewed.
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NZ pausing funding to Cook Islands

June 18, 2025 • 10 mins
New Zealand is pausing its funding to the Cook Islands in the wake of a controversial deal signed between China and the Cook Islands. 
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An expert on how to manage conflict and aggression

June 17, 2025 • 17 mins
Conflict can happen anywhere - from the playground to the office - or an actual battlefield. How we react to high-stress situations is largely hardwired into us as humans. But can we learn how to manage it better? 
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Around the motu: Libby Kirkby McLeod in Hamilton

June 17, 2025 • 8 mins
Hamilton Annual Economic Report for 2024 has just been released, while Waipa is sick of feral cats and wants them added to DOC's predator free hit list.
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Book review: The Passengers on the Hankyu Line by Hiro Arikawa

June 17, 2025 • 5 mins
Sally Battson from The Next Chapter in Wanaka reviews The Passengers on the Hankyu Line by Hiro Arikawa published by Penguin Random House.
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Volunteers transform Mangemangeroa Reserve

June 17, 2025 • 7 mins
Over 25 years, a volunteer group in East Auckland has quietly achieved something remarkable - a transformation of the Mangemangeroa Reserve from farmland into thriving native bush.
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Census scrapped

June 17, 2025 • 11 mins
The Census is to be scrapped, in the biggest change to how New Zealand counts its population in more than 70 years. 
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Dogs, pigs and birds - one of Australia's leading Film Trainers

June 17, 2025 • 25 mins
Luke Hura has built a successful career in the film industry doing something that people generally advise against. working with animals. 
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Australia: Officer shot, mushroom wrap, Trump dump

June 17, 2025 • 10 mins
Australia correspondent Karen Middleton details the shooting in Tasmania of a police officer who'd gone to serve a warrant to repossess a house in the state's rural north-west.
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Security steps to take before throwing out your old laptop?

June 17, 2025 • 11 mins
Electronic waste is one of the fastest-growing waste streams in the world - but it's also proving to be a boon for cyber-criminals. 
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