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
July 31, 2025 • 11 mins
Our comedians Te Radar and Michele A'Court bring some levity the end of the week.
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July 31, 2025 • 13 mins
Sports commentator Sam Ackerman talks about the return of the NPC Championship, the Black Caps' test series in Zimbabwe, and The Warriors who face The Dolphins on Friday night which could dictate who makes the league playoffs.
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July 31, 2025 • 11 mins
Ian talks about the last print edition of the Marlborough Express as it goes digital only, just enough candidates for local elections and Havelock's water woes.
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July 31, 2025 • 4 mins
Melissa Oliver from Unity Books Wellington reviews In the Hollow of a Wave by Nina Mingya Powles, published by Auckland University Press.
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July 31, 2025 • 25 mins
Tristan O'Hanlon and Grinding Gear Games co-founder Jonathan Rogers are starting a high school focussed on sciences and computer programming.
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July 31, 2025 • 6 mins
The biggest event in the Cook Islands calendar is currently underway, marking 60 years of free association with New Zealand.
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July 31, 2025 • 12 mins
The Chief Executive of Barrier Air, says keeping fares down is a huge challenge, with the cost of aircraft parts up five-fold since Covid.
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July 31, 2025 • 13 mins
The government has a goal of 98 per cent of everyone being able to access "in person" urgent and afterhours healthcare within a one hour drive from their home.
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July 31, 2025 • 19 mins
With 10,000 places across school boards open for nominations - only 2000 people have so-far put their name forward, with the deadline looming this month.
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July 30, 2025 • 11 mins
Film and TV correspondent James Croot.
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July 30, 2025 • 17 mins
Ben Sedley a clinical psychologist on latest book is called Holding the Heavy Stuff - a self help guide for anyone who has struggled with low mood, self doubt, worries or mean thoughts about themselves.
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July 30, 2025 • 19 mins
Technology commentator Bill Bennett looks at Amazon's acquisition of Bee AI which makes a Fitbit-like device that listens in on your conversations. The UK's move to age verification has led to a spike in the downloads of Virtual Private Networks or VPNs and the worsening data breach at Tea, a women's dating safety app.
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July 30, 2025 • 10 mins
Last week film and TV reviewer Tom Augustine shared his picks of the New Zealand International Film Festival - this week James Croot joins Kathryn with his choices. With so many films on offer, no wonder there's no overlap! James Croot is film and television reviewer for Stuff
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July 30, 2025 • 4 mins
Louise O'Brien reviews Strong Words 4: The best of the Landfall Essay Competition, published by Otago University Press.
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July 30, 2025 • 24 mins
Huw Kingston and Laurence Mote are half-way through their 90-day, 4000-kilometre fund raising journey from the north to the south of the country, which will also seem them tackle the slopes of 24 ski areas.
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July 30, 2025 • 9 mins
UK correspondent Rob Watson joins Kathryn to talk about reaction to Prime Minister Keir Starmer's announcement Britain is ready to recognise Palestinian statehood and new talks to help avert any further industrial action by resident doctors and the mighty Lionesses.
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July 30, 2025 • 12 mins
Landslides are among this country's costliest natural hazards. Auckland Council has completed a detailed region wide study to map landslide susceptibility, the first since 1997. Kathryn is joined by Ross Roberts, the chief engineer at Auckland Council.
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July 30, 2025 • 21 mins
Another regional airline - Air Chathams - says it is considering cutting back its services, because of mounting cost pressures. Air Chathams' boss Duane Emeny and Cath O'Brien is executive director of the Board of Airline Representatives NZ (Barnz)
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July 29, 2025 • 7 mins
Science correspondent Allan Blackman joins Kathryn to discuss how a 15-year-old study claiming that a microorganism can thrive on the toxic element arsenic has been retracted by the journal Science - why did chemists and biologists have their concerns about it? A new study turns claims of eggs' effect on cholesterol on its head and a start-up energy company Marathon Fusion claims it can turn an isotope of mercury into gold, wh...
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July 29, 2025 • 20 mins
For many older people, moving out of the family home and downsizing - either to a smaller home or to a retirement village - is an overwhelming task. A lifetime of accumulated possessions - some precious, some not - but all needing sorting and most needing a new home. It can be a painful and emotional process, says Judy Thorpe, who founded Taskmasters in Wellington, and whose team around the North Island have helped thousands o...
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