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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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00:18:28

"No one will play with me" - teaching kids about...

Nine To Noon ·

2025/11/05

In parenting today - how to coach children on how to make good friendships. It's a tough moment for any parent if a child comes home from school or kindy and says "no one will play with me".

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00:17:49

Tech: Microsoft's Azure outage, hackers choosing to wipe

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2025/11/05

What was behind Microsoft's Azure outage that impacted businesses around the world? And Wiper attacks are on the rise in New Zealand - these are malware attacks designed to permanently delete data.

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00:09:15

Around the motu: James Pocock in Gisborne

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2025/11/05

A multimillion-dollar Gisborne site is being investigated by council for a possible new waste facility.

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00:05:37

Book review: Case Studies: A story of plant travel

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2025/11/05

Lynda Hallinan reviews Case Studies: A story of plant travel, published by Massey University Press.

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00:08:09

Top chef excited by Michelin guide expanding to NZ

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2025/11/05

Undercover restaurant critics from the Michelin guide are in the country tasting and rating some of the country's best restaurants.

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00:26:04

Historian Alison Bashford on hand reading

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2025/11/05

While palmistry is now more of an entertainment, it's also been inextrictably intertwined with medicine. That path from chiromancy - or hand reading - in late medieval times, to modern genetics, has been charted by historian Alison Bashford. She reveals how signs on the hand - its shape, lines, marks, and patterns - have been elaborately decoded over the centuries. Her fascination with chiromancy was sparked when she came across a handprint of a gorilla that had died in

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00:09:10

UK: More prisoners escape, Chancellor pours fuel on...

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2025/11/05

Harriet Line is Deputy Political Editor of the Daily Mail

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00:07:43

Chch physicist's examination turns NZ X-ray history...

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2025/11/05

Curiosity about an object mounted on his wall at work has led a medical physicist to uncover evidence challenging New Zealand's x-ray history.

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00:11:01

Otago survey finds healthcare failing long covid...

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2025/11/05

Long Covid patients report being gaslit about their illness, and feel increasingly let down by the health system.

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00:22:10

Govt de-links ETS from Paris

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2025/11/05

The carbon price has fallen since the government announced it would de-link the Emissions Trading Scheme from its Paris climate pledges.

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00:09:34

Science:

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2025/11/04

Science correspondent Allan Blackman takes this Guy Fawkes opportunity to talk about the chemistry behind fireworks? What makes them go bang and where do the colours come from? Could sharper knives be the secret to stopping onion tears in the kitchen? And America's Health Secretary RFK wants to put saturated fat back on the menu, but what does science have to say about that? Allan Blackman is a Professor of Chemistry, School of Science, Auckland University of Technology.

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00:16:21

Curious and contested Kiwi placenames

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2025/11/04

A new book unpacks how 850 of our placenames came about.

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00:08:45

Around the motu: Ian Allen

Nine To Noon ·

2025/11/04

Ian discusses a disappointing social housing announcement and more.

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00:04:38

Book review: Whenua: Maori Purakau of Aotearoa

Nine To Noon ·

2025/11/04

Lucy Black reviews Whenua: Maori Purakau of Aotearoa by Isobel Joy Te Aho-White, published by Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand.

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00:08:44

New research highlights how much YouTube kids are...

Nine To Noon ·

2025/11/04

Nearly three quarters of 2 to 14-year-old children are watching large amounts of YouTube content every day, often with minimal parental oversight. New research by Verian, commissioned by NZ on Air, has found the online streaming website dominated viewing, with 69 per cent of children aged 2 to 14 watching daily. Of the 12 to 14-year-olds watching YouTube, nearly 40 per cent had no parental controls at all. The data comes from an online survey answered by 1000 caregivers and children. The

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00:27:53

'Writing my truth is like climbing another summit'

Nine To Noon ·

2025/11/04

Kim Logan is a climber and mountaineer who has summited some of the tallest and most difficult peaks in the world including Mt Everest and K2.

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00:11:56

Australia: Spy threat, streamers to pay, inflation...

Nine To Noon ·

2025/11/04

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about what's happening across the ditch.

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00:08:26

The biggest contributor to landfills - soil

Nine To Noon ·

2025/11/04

70% of material that ends up in landfills comes from construction and demolition and most of that is soil.

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00:06:48

Countries with poor human rights records

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2025/11/04

Half a billion dollars of investments, from KiwiSaver and other funds out of New Zealand, are going into Government bonds of countries with poor human rights records. That is according to a new report published by Motu Research this morning. Researchers there used the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, which ranks countries based on economic, civil and political rights residents have and portfolio data from KiwiSaver and other retail funds - to identify how much money New Zealanders were

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00:04:29

Up to 30 fireworks fires already: FENZ

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2025/11/04

FENZ says there have been as many as 30 fireworks-caused fires throughout the country since sales began on Sunday. Incidents include a house fire overnight in the south of Auckland; and on Monday night firefighters and police being shot at with fireworks in Dunedin's student area. FENZ says conditions in a lot of the country are windy and dry, meaning fires could spread quickly. It is warning people to check conditions before lighting up - and for those in rural areas to ensure burnouts are

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