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The Best of Nine To Noon 2017
Kathryn Ryan and the Nine To Noon team present their best stories from 2017.
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French-Malian hip-hop artist Inna Modja: 'I didn’t want to stay broken'
Whether she’s singing in French, English or Bambara, French-Malian hip-hop artist Inna Modja is speaking out against injustice. Video, Audio, Gallery
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"Normal is boring!" - Josef Schovanec
23 Feb 2017Kathryn Ryan meets Dr Josef Schovanec, French writer, academic, polyglot and advocate for people with autism. He's an advisor to the French government, and travels France and the world, speaking about… Audio
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Leif Cocks: saving orangutans
27 Feb 2017Australian primatologist Leif Cocks has spent three decades campaigning on behalf of orangutans. He says the mistreatment of them reflects the incivility of our own species. Audio, Gallery
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Designer shoes for larger feet
3 Mar 2017An Auckland woman who created a shoe business after struggling to find pairs to fit size 10 and above has found plenty of other women face the same problem. Audio, Gallery
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Ice baths: a ‘bone-chilling waste of time’
A new study has thrown cold water on the use of ice baths for muscle recovery, finding they are a complete waste of time. Audio
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New Zealand’s oldest active surf lifeguard
At 88-years-old, Bill Goodwin is New Zealand’s oldest active surf life guard. As the surf club season nears its end, he’s showing no signs of slowing down. Audio
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Miriam Lancewood: 6 years in NZ's wilderness
29 Mar 2017Miriam Lancewood and her husband Peter have spent the last six years living a nomadic, primitive life in the wilderness of the South Island. She tells Kathryn Ryan about her love of the wild: hunting… Audio, Gallery
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The key to creating change
30 Mar 2017How does political and social change happen? Kathryn Ryan talks with Duncan Green, Professor of International Development at the London School of Economics and senior strategic advisor for Oxfam UK… Audio
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Victorians Undone
31 Mar 2017How does knowing about Victorians' horrible bodies enhance the often two dimensional image we have of them? This is the question being asked and, after painstaking, almost forensic research, vividly… Audio
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Trading geometry for comedy
12 Apr 2017From teaching maths to British teens to being an acclaimed stand-up comedian, Romesh Ranganathan says following his comedy aspirations has not always been easy. Video, Audio
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Sniffing out the neighbourhood
19 Apr 2017Award winning Dunedin writer Laurence Fearnley tells Kathryn Ryan about scent-mapping, and her other current quest to find the best writing by New Zealand mountaineers. Laurence is developing a series… Audio
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Rebel woman Roxane Gay
26 Apr 2017Pink is her favourite colour, she watches the Bachelor, and likes thuggish rap even though the lyrics offend her to her core. Writer, educator and cultural critic Roxane Gay made a name for herself as… Audio
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"Just plant sh*t !" Gangsta gardener promotes spades not guns
Ron Finley and other gangsta gardeners like him are planting to transform their neighbourhoods, in some of America's most notoriously dangerous places. For Ron the story begins in front of his house… Video, Audio, Gallery
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Island nurses
Adele Robertson and Leonie Howie have lived and worked on Great Barrier Island for over 30 years. As nurses and midwives, they've been there for births, deaths and some remarkable dramas at the heart… Audio
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Waste not, want not
18 May 2017At the Edinburgh Remakery, people learn how to mend their own furniture, textiles, phones and computers. Sophie Unwin is the founder and the 2016 UK Entrepreneur of the Year. Audio, Gallery
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Canadian writer and artist Rupi Kaur
19 May 2017She burst onto the international literary scene in 2015, becoming a social media sensation and soaring to the top of the New York Times bestsellers list - and now Rupi Kaur is in New Zealand for this… Audio
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John McIntyre: champion of children's literature
26 May 2017John McIntyre, Nine to Noon's much loved children's book reviewer died at home on Saturday 10 June 2017, after a long battle with ill health .
We spoke with John, just a couple of weeks ago in a full… Audio
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Glenn Colquhoun: 'People are medicine to people'
31 May 2017GP and poet Glenn Colquhoun's new book Late Love tells of how he came to love medicine as an act of creativity and looks at the challenges of the NZ health system. Audio
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Vegan burger hits American meat aisles
Seth Goldman's Beyond Burger patties are the first plant-based product to be sold in the meat aisles of the supermarket chains Whole Foods and Safeway. Audio
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Tailoring drugs & diet to your genes? It's already happening.
Now that genetic testing is readily available expect more medicines, and even diet and exercise to be tailored to your gene types. In his latest book, evolutionary biologist, family doctor, surgeon… Audio
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Looking after the 'top paddock'
Doug and Wendy Avery came close to losing everything a few years ago. The farmers from Grassmere, in Marlborough, were hammered by drought for eight long years. Eventually Doug struggled to function… Video, Audio
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"53 years and I've loved every minute"- Lloyd Scott
16 Aug 2017Lloyd Scott has been a much loved voice through the night on RNZ for the last 13 years, and on Radio New Zealand in one form or another for 53 years. Last Saturday he said goodbye to listeners on his… Audio, Gallery
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An unusual slice of wildlife
17 Aug 2017When wild animals turn up dead it's Kathy Burek's job to cut them up to discover what killed them. But when you are one of the few veterinary pathologists working in the remote Alaskan wilderness the… Audio, Gallery
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Lars Mytting - for the love of wood
18 Aug 2017Norwegian author Lars Mytting is passionate about wood. Chopping it, stacking it, burning it and writing about it. Lars Mytting came to world-wide attention 2 years ago with his best-selling practical… Audio, Gallery
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The unlikely friendship of Victoria and Abdul
22 Aug 2017The new film Victoria & Abdul tells the story of Queen Victoria's close 13-year friendship with a young Muslim clerk she called ‘the Munshi’. Journalist Shrabani Basu first brought the 100 year old… Video, Audio, Gallery
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Jonathan Gold: discovering hidden food gems
23 Aug 2017Acclaimed food writer Jonathan Gold talks to Kathryn Ryan about discovering, eating, and writing about food of all types in Los Angeles. Audio
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Lisa Feldman Barrett: How Emotions Are Made
24 Aug 2017Are emotions more than just automatic reactions? The current theory suggests our reactions to what happens around us are hardwired and universal. But Lisa Feldman Barrett rejects this, and says… Audio
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Sebastian Thrun - nanodegrees & flying cars
29 Aug 2017Sebastian Thrun is an innovator, entrepreneur and computer scientist who led the development of the Google self driving car. He's now on a mission to "democratise education", though Udacity, an… Audio
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Hemi Kelly: Sleeps Standing Moetū
30 Aug 2017A first national day of commemoration on October 28th is designed to put an end to what has been described as an "uncomfortable silence" about the New Zealand Wars. Witi Ihimaera's new novella Sleeps… Audio
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Client Earth: Using the courts to defend the planet
6 Sep 2017Who will stop the planet from committing ecological suicide? That's the question James Thornton and Martin Goodman attempt to answer in their new book, Client Earth - an investigation into how… Audio