Nine To Noon
RNZ
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
Mentioned books
Nov 6, 2025 • 14min
Sports commentator Sam Ackerman
Sports commentator Sam Ackerman
Nov 6, 2025 • 12min
Around the motu: Alexa Cook in Hawkes Bay
Alexa discusses the fires that have been hitting the area and meetings over who should be responsible for reducing risk and paying for the work.
Nov 6, 2025 • 3min
Book review: The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie
Lisa Adler of Unity Books Wellington reviews The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie, published by Penguin Random House.
Nov 6, 2025 • 8min
New independent supermarket for Upper Hutt
A new independent supermarket has opened in Upper Hutt - aiming to win locals away from the big duopoly stores.
Nov 6, 2025 • 26min
Taking Predator Free Wellington to the world stage
In 2017, a group of Wellingtonians got together with the goal of eradicating pests on the Miramar peninsula to prove that it could be done.
Nov 6, 2025 • 9min
Pacific correspondent Koroi Hawkins
RNZ Pacific Editor Koroi Hawkins on the COP30 climate summit and the measles situation in Fiji.
Nov 6, 2025 • 12min
The huge art exhibition helping to support Women's Refuge
For the next two weeks a clifftop park in Auckland will be transformed into a giant art gallery.
Nov 6, 2025 • 13min
The amateur Waikato sumo wrestlers with big dreams
Filipo Chanel Tovio and Dwight Rawson are fighting for sumo's growth in New Zealand.
Nov 6, 2025 • 18min
Amendments being rushed through for Fast Track Approval law
The government's pushing through dozens of changes to the Fast Track Approvals Act before Christmas.
Nov 5, 2025 • 10min
Screentime: Bugonia, It: Welcome to Derry, Down Cemetery Road
Bugonia (cinemas), It: Welcome to Derry (Neon) is a horror TV series based on Stephen King's 1986 novel, Down Cemetery Road (Apple TV), Ballad of a Small Player (Netflix).
