

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.
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Nov 5, 2025 • 18min
"No one will play with me" - teaching kids about friendship
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".

Nov 5, 2025 • 18min
Tech: Microsoft's Azure outage, hackers choosing to wipe
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.

Nov 5, 2025 • 9min
Around the motu: James Pocock in Gisborne
A multimillion-dollar Gisborne site is being investigated by council for a possible new waste facility.

Nov 5, 2025 • 6min
Book review: Case Studies: A story of plant travel
Lynda Hallinan reviews Case Studies: A story of plant travel, published by Massey University Press.

Nov 5, 2025 • 8min
Top chef excited by Michelin guide expanding to NZ
Undercover restaurant critics from the Michelin guide are in the country tasting and rating some of the country's best restaurants.

Nov 5, 2025 • 26min
Historian Alison Bashford on hand reading
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

Nov 5, 2025 • 9min
UK: More prisoners escape, Chancellor pours fuel on tax fire
Harriet Line is Deputy Political Editor of the Daily Mail

Nov 5, 2025 • 8min
Chch physicist's examination turns NZ X-ray history on its head
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.

Nov 5, 2025 • 11min
Otago survey finds healthcare failing long covid patients
Long Covid patients report being gaslit about their illness, and feel increasingly let down by the health system.

Nov 5, 2025 • 22min
Govt de-links ETS from Paris
The carbon price has fallen since the government announced it would de-link the Emissions Trading Scheme from its Paris climate pledges.


