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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.

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00:25:58

How the CIA is faring under Donald Trump

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/03

Journalist Tim Weiner examines the role of the CIA after the Cold War - and how it's faring under Donald Trump

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00:08:09

UK: Deputy PM in hot water over house tax

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/03

UK correspondent Dan Bloom joins Kathryn to talk about deputy PM and housing secretary Angela Rayner's admission that she underpaid stamp duty when buying an £800,000 flat.

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00:08:10

The charity training teachers in desperately needed...

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/03

As the education sector gets a shake-up, an Auckland-based charity is quietly getting on with their mission to train teachers in classrooms.

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00:21:08

Households, businesses face gas connection conundrum

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/03

Households and businesses in Auckland wanting to disconnect their piped gas could face higher fees to do so.

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00:12:21

Former High Court judge details concerns among judiciary

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/03

The Chief Justice's annual report says too few judges, high workloads and stress, not enough court rooms and fewer lawyers offering legal aid are putting the judiciary under considerable stress.

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00:13:34

NZ's most common poisoning scenarios (+ how to handle...

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/02

Roughly 20 percent of families with kids under five experience an accidental poisoning every year. More than half the calls to the National Poisons Centre are about this.

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00:15:07

The doulas helping people treat death as a journey

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/02

It's a subject that many find uncomfortable, but is a necessity - how to handle the end of life. Kathryn is Treza Gallogly, she's the chair of the End of Life Doula Alliance Aotearoa.

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00:08:22

Around the motu: Piers Fuller reports from the Wairarapa

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/02

Around the motu: Piers Fuller reports from the Wairarapa

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00:03:30

Book review: Flashlight by Susan Choi

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/02

Lisa Adler from Unity Books Wellington reviews Flashlight by Susan Choi, published by Jonathan Cape.

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00:11:16

Ditched fines bring people back to public libraries

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/02

Librarians say since fines for overdue books were ditched visitors are flocking back to public libraries - whose role in a community now extends far beyond issuing books.

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00:23:52

Journalist Jared Savage on organised crime

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/02

In his latest book, investigative reporter Jared Savage explains how the illicit drug trade, depicted in big budget movies or television like Netflix's Narcos, is happening here. Underworld is the third in his series delving into organised crime and the drug trade.

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00:18:49

Is major change needed in managing Conservation Estate?

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/02

A warning proposed moves to shake up who gets to make all decisions on the conservation estate would be hard to undo.

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00:23:24

Local cloud storage competitor sceptical of Amazon's...

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/02

A New Zealand owned cloud data storage firm is sceptical about the scale of investment in New Zealand claimed by the tech giant Amazon Web Services.

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00:09:30

Funding boost for eating disorder services

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/02

The Mental Health Minister has announced a funding boost for eating disorder services of $4 million a year - a 20 percent lift on current funding levels.

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00:10:02

Sports with Sam Ackerman

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/01

It's the start of a big week for the All Blacks, can they defend their Eden Park record having not lost a rugby test there since 1994. Sam continues to discuss rugby as Portia Woodman-Wickliffe sets the Rugby World Cup alight, and back home the Ranfurly Shield changes hands two weeks in a row. Ultramarathoner Ruth Croft makes history, and how will New Zealand's athletes go at the World Athletic Championships in Tokyo?

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00:21:18

Voices of those who built Manapouri hydro power station

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/01

Manapouri is the largest hydro power station in New Zealand. Located on the edge of Lake Manapouri's West Arm in Fiordland National Park - construction began in 1964 and over eight years, 1800 workers toiled on it in punishing conditions - constructing the power station 200 metres below a granite mountain in an underground cavern. Oral historian Dr Rosemary Baird has interviewed 18 workers who were part of the project - she's written a book about them - called The Middle of Nowhere - published

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00:18:06

Business commentator Rebecca Stevenson

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/01

The Government has announced wealthy foreigners on a so-called 'golden visa' will be allowed to buy a luxury home in New Zealand once more. Rebecca discusses where the investment from the visas has been going - with two debt funding firms leading the way. And Rebecca will be speaking to Kathryn from Xerocon in Brisbane, 'the coachella for accountants'. She recounts the journey of Xero from a much-beloved product among the accounting sector to an international business with high-profile hires

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00:09:19

Around the motu: Jonathan Leask reports from mid...

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/01

Residents at the flood prone Upper Selwyn Flat Huts learn their fate, possibly the most hit bridge in the country and Selwyn and Timaru's Local Water Done Well plans. Jonathan Leask is the Local Democracy Reporter with the Ashburton Guardian

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00:04:41

Book review: Fires Which Burned Brightly

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/01

Gail Pittaway reviews Fires Which Burned Brightly: A Life in Progress by Sebastian Faulks, published by Penguin Random House.

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00:06:15

Amazon opens data centres, promises 1000 jobs

Nine To Noon ·

2025/09/01

Amazon Web Services has opened its new Auckland data centres today, claiming the move will add 1000 jobs. The so called "AWS region" has been launched this morning, attended by the Prime Minister. Amazon says as well as 1000 jobs, the investment will add $10.8 bn to New Zealand's GDP. RNZ political reporter Russell Palmer joins Kathryn from parliament.

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