Nine To Noon for Friday 18 November 2016
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Was capital's CBD declared safe too quickly after 7.8?
9:05 AM.The central city was reopened for business on Tuesday - just one day after what we now know was one of the three biggest earthquakes to hit New Zealand in over a century. The Civil Defence Minister… Read more Audio
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What next for Wellington's commercial buildings?
9:26 AM.Ian Cassels is a director of The Wellington Company which has interests in 13 Wellington CBD buildings. He tells Kathryn Ryan there needs to be a rethink of building on Wellington's reclaimed land. Audio
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1080 opponents reach agreement with DOC
9:38 AM.DOC has reached an agreement with people opposed to 1080 which could see future poison drops in the Mt Taranaki area canned. Read more Audio
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Small dogs and lots of heart: Gisborne's terrier races
9:44 AM.A quirky fundraiser for women with breast cancer cooked up by a bunch of friends over a bottle of bubbly is now a fixture on the Gisborne social calendar. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Asia correspondent Charlotte Glennie
9:53 AM.Japanese PM Shinzo Abe meets US President elect Donald Trump in NYC - why? Audio
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'I think of the image and the words as one language'
10:05 AM.For someone whose first words were purportedly "Donald Duck", Dylan Horrocks has done very well in directing his keen interest into a career. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Unity Books Review - "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany"
10:40 AM."Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany" by Norman Ohler, reviewed by Kiran Dass, published by Allen Lane. Audio
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New Music with Jeremy Taylor
11:05 AM.Jeremy Taylor revisits a pre-ponderous stadium rock incarnation of Pink Floyd, investigates new releases from Bic Runga and Miles Calder & The Rumours, and the most recent release from recent tourist… Read more Audio
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Sports commentator Brendon Telfer
11:29 AM.Brendon Telfer on Cricket-Australia's dizzy fall down the test cricket ratings this year, the excitement building around the All Blacks vs Ireland match, and Australia's netball coach hits out at… Read more Audio
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The Week that was with Te Radar and Gemma Gracewood
11:50 AM.Light relief after an intense week: United Airlines "Misery" Class, Post- truth ( it's a thing) and Trevor Mallard's bollard problem. Audio
09:05 Was capital's CBD declared safe too quickly after 7.8?
The central city was reopened for business on Tuesday - just one day after what we now know was one of the three biggest earthquakes to hit New Zealand in over a century. The Civil Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee has expressed surprise and displeasure at how quickly the decision was made. Kathryn Ryan talks with Wellington's mayor Justin Lester.
09:20 1080 opponents reach agreement with DoC
The Department of Conservation and has told the anti-1080 group 100% Pure Taranaki that if they can keep the number of pests in check using traps then it won't go ahead with a poison drop in 2020. Kathryn Ryan talks to the chair of the group Chris Wilkins, who's hoping similar arrangements can be made in other parts of the country.
09:30 Small dogs and lots of heart: Gisborne's terrier races
Kathryn Ryan meets Derry Stovell, one of the co-founders of Gisborne's Terrier Races, where Jack Russells, Foxies and Aussie Terriers compete on the race track, in a fundraiser for local women diagnosed with breast cancer.
09:45 Asia correspondent Charlotte Glennie
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe meets US President elect Donald Trump in NYC - why?
10:05 Cartoonist and Graphic Novel Author Dylan Horrocks
Kathryn Ryan speaks to graphic novel author and cartoonist Dylan Horrocks who has just been named an Arts Foundation laureate.
10:35 Unity Books Review - "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany" by Norman Ohler
Reviewed by Kiran Dass, published by Allen Lane.
10:45 The Reading
Doing Time a short story by Liz Breslin read by Loren Taylor.
11:05 New Music with Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor revisits a pre-ponderous stadium rock incarnation of Pink Floyd, investigates new releases from Bic Runga and Miles Calder & The Rumours, and the most recent release from recent tourist Robert Forster.
11:30 Sports commentator Brendon Telfer
Brendon Telfer on Cricket-Australia's dizzy fall down the test cricket ratings this year, the excitement building around the All Blacks vs Ireland match, and Australia's netball coach hits out at sexist TV executives
11:45 The Week that was with Te Radar and Gemma Gracewood
Light relief after an intense week: United Airlines "Misery" Class, Post- truth ( it's a thing) and Trevor Mallard's bollard problem.