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
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Oct 22, 2025 • 3min
Nick James at Wellington Airport
There has been huge disruption to travellers in the capital with trains cancelled and planes not flying.
Oct 22, 2025 • 15min
Life skills course for intellectually disabled people dumped
Weltec is closing the only two courses for students with intellectual disabilities in the Wellington region.
Oct 22, 2025 • 9min
Transpower on massive South Island outage
The national grid has had a major outage at the top of the South Island - cutting power to tens of thousands of homes from Blenheim, to Nelson and Greymouth.
Oct 21, 2025 • 10min
Science: Who won the 2025 Nobel Prizes for science?
Hot on the heels of his examination of this year's IgNobel Awards, science commentator Allan Blackman takes a look at the awards that inspired them - the Nobel Prizes.
Oct 21, 2025 • 15min
Celebrating New Zealand's flowering plants
Botanist, Philip Garnock-Jones has just published He Puawai - A natural History of New Zealand Flowers that celebrates with spectacular photography, all the ways flower reproduce.
Oct 21, 2025 • 5min
An update on the Kaikoura fires
An update on the Kaikoura fires.
Oct 21, 2025 • 10min
Around the motu: Southland Tribune editor Logan Savory in Invercargill
Logan has the latest on the shape of the new council, the impact of the weather, a solar farm gets the go ahead and Southland's entertainer of the year.
Oct 21, 2025 • 6min
Book review : House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk
Phil Vine reviews House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk, published by Text Publishing.
Oct 21, 2025 • 9min
Food waste app with 'surprise bags' launches in NZ
A sustainable food app that started in Denmark a decade ago and is used in 19 countries has now been launched in New Zealand.
Oct 21, 2025 • 23min
The mathematician who tried to game the National Lottery
How many of us have bought a Lotto ticket when there is a big prize at stake and quietly hoped - this might be the one.
