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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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00:06:29

Book review: Nor The Years Condemn by Robin Hyde

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/27

Elisabeth Easther reviews Nor The Years Condemn by Robin Hyde, published by Otago University Press.

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00:07:28

Big Sing Finale gets underway in Dunedin

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/27

The Big Sing Finale co-ordinator is Rosemary Tarbotton - she updates Kathryn Ryan just hours before the competition starts.

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00:19:43

KiwiFibre founders find fresh success on Forbes list

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2025/08/27

KiwiFibre founders Ben Scales and his business partner William Murrell have been recognised on the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list.

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00:08:53

UK: Reform's deportation plan, energy prices, record...

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/27

UK correspondent Matt Dathan look at Nigel Farage's Reform party's plans for mass deportations - 600,000 illegal migrants over five years if Reform wins the next general election, which polls suggest could happen. Energy prices are back up again in the UK - wind farms are being blamed. And less than a week of summer left - and it's been the hottest one on record.

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00:10:33

The impact city lights and sounds have on birdsong

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/27

Just like when we struggle after a poor night's sleep, a new study reveals birds also suffer when their sleep is disrupted.

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00:14:00

Three club ski fields call it a day for 2025

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2025/08/27

After nearly 100 years in operation Mt Cheeseman ski area in Canterbury will not open this year due to poor snowfall.

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00:15:08

Auckland CBD shop vacancy rate highest in country

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/27

Tough times for Auckland retailers with a new report finding a 13 per cent vacancy rate the national record.

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00:10:37

Money: House price debate + the increasing cost of...

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/26

RNZ's money correspondent Susan Edmunds joins Kathryn to look at the discussion this week of what the nation wants out of house prices following new data that shows they're stuck for the most part, despite lower interest rates. And a new report from Consumer NZ shows a big increase in house price insurance - is there a risk some people simply won't be able to insure their homes? Susan Edmunds is RNZ's money correspondent

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00:12:57

When the world came to Dunedin

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2025/08/26

The international exhibition that brought double the New Zealand population to Dunedin in 1925 to visit the South Seas Fair. Historian Jock Phillips talks to Kathryn about how the event came about and what was featured, including a push to buy New Zealand products like Gregg's coffee and Hudson's biscuits.

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00:08:02

Around the motu : Mike Tweed in Whanganui

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/26

The final cost of the Sarjeant Gallery redevelopment, the candidates lining up for council and a final decision over the fate of the Whangnaui East pool

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00:05:25

Book review: Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/26

Stella Chrysostomou from VOLUME Books reviews Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts by Anna Jackson, published by Auckland University Press.

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00:25:14

Natalie Kyriacou: Nine levers of change to help save...

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/26

Award winning Australian author and environmentalist, Natalie Kryiacou on nine levers of change to help save the world.

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00:06:07

Australia: Iran expulsions, police murdered

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/26

The expulsion of Iran's ambassador and the hunt in Australia for a gunman and self-proclaimed 'sovereign citizen' after two police officers were shot dead.

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00:09:24

A new home in the Hutt for world's biggest marine...

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/26

The world's largest collection of New Zealand and Southern Ocean fishes will soon have a new home.

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00:11:02

Carolyn Cooper says govt has no plan for ageing...

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/26

The departing Aged Care Commissioner says the government does not have a proper plan for the health of our ageing population.

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00:22:18

Huge unmet demand for hearing treatment

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/26

New research out today finds half a million people each year are not getting treatment for hearing conditions.

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00:14:13

Sports commentator Sam Ackerman

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/25

The Black Ferns kick off their Rugby World Cup campaign with a win, but lose a key player. What went wrong in the All Blacks defeat to Argentina? And Sam discusses what has happened to Kiwis' rugby league star Brandon Smith.

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00:17:39

Consumer: What's happening to small power retailers?

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/25

Nine to Noon looks at what's happening in the power sector, as smaller retailers get swallowed by the bigger players in the market. This month Flick said goodbye to its customers, as the company was taken over by Meridian. In June it was announced Frank Energy was being absorbed into its parent company Genesis, and the fate of Ecotricity - also owned by Genesis since last November - is unclear. Both Frank and Flick topped Consumer's power company customer satisfaction survey. Kathryn speaks

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00:18:05

Business correspondent Dan Brunskill

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/25

The banking inquiry came out and the Reserve Bank is now talking about a 'higher risk appetite' for capital settings. That followed a decision to cut the OCR by 25 basis points, which upset commentators who have the sympathy of the Prime Minister. Dan Brunskill is an economic policy reporter for Interest NZ.

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00:08:49

Around the motu: John Freer on the Coromandel Peninsula

Nine To Noon ·

2025/08/25

Coromandel news with John Freer.

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