Nine To Noon

Film and TV reviewer James Croot looks at new biographical film Tenzing, which was filmed in New Zealand. He also shares his picks of the British and Irish Film Festival, including: Everybody to Kenmure St, 500 Miles, Hill, The Incomer, Kenny Dalglish, Parky, Virginia Woolf's Night & Day and The Three Urns. James Croot is a TV Guide and The Press film and television reviewer

How we can support kids through frustration, without rushing to rescue them from it? 

Statistics New Zealand says annual inflation has eased to 3.7 percent in the September quarter. That's down from an annual rate of 4.1 percent in the previous quarter and is slightly lower than market expectations. RNZ economics correspondent Gyles Beckford unpacks the latest data.

Cybersecurity expert Tony Grasso looks at the major attack against nearly 700 French supermarkets, where hackers were able to access commercial fridges and freezers and drive up temperatures to 50 degrees for hours. Not only did it cost millions in wasted food, the high temperatures triggered hardware and electrical fires - and sparked warnings about leaving industrial control systems exposed to t...

Kelly has more on a bottle store worker injured in what police say was the start of a crime spree, the young Rotorua women who has gone from from opera singing to the Black Fern's Sevens squad, the saga of a trapped kitten and attempted car invasions.

RNZ's Pacific correspondent Christina Persico looks at the storms that have already hit the Pacific outside of the normal cyclone season, including Cyclone Wati which passed the Cooks without too much damage. Meanwhile fire has hit an island in Papua New Guinea on a scale not seen before. The US is pushing ahead with its plan to lease 31 million acres of seabed around American Samoa and how are Pa...

From a startup staffed by AI agents to sending his digital clone to online therapy, US journalist and author Evan Ratliff loves testing the boundaries of new technologies. 

UK correspondent Natasha Clare looks at why it was given the greenlight and the reaction to it. The UK government's debt has hit £3tn for the first time, as John Healey gets ready to present his first budget next week. 

Less than three months after entering liquidation, gourmet burger chain Burger Burger has started re-opening.

Almost two-thirds of young people thought home care was meaningful work, however few associate it with fair pay or a clear career pathway. 

Drought Indicator Maps provided by Earth Sciences NZ show a large part of the country is drier than usual, with only Christchurch and its surrounds wetter than normal. 

Science correspondent Cushla McGoverin joins Kathryn off the back of Auckland Start Up Week to shine a light on Kiwi start ups that work with photonic and quantum technologies and are helping contribute $2.18b to the New Zealand economy - about the same as the wine industry. Cushla McGoverin is a senior research fellow within the Department of Physics at the University of Auckland, and Principal I...

A new play is taking on a little-known chapter of Aotearoa's history: The dog tax that led to an armed standoff between Māori  in Hokianga and government forces.

Logan discusses the upcoming anniversary of the windstorm that left 50,000 customers without power while a 95-year-old sets a world record on his birthday.

Stella Chrysostomou from VOLUME Books reviews two books: U.X.O. by Brannavan Gnanalingam (Lawrence & Gibson), and A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam (Granta).

At 50 she set out alone to travel the full 24,000km route by foot, bike, canoe, snowshoe and ski, through mountains, boreal forest, prairie, and Arctic tundra. 

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton has the latest in the shocking attack on MP Helen Haines in which she was rammed with a car and has had to have her leg amputated. Pauline Hanson's delivered a rare apology for a cartoon that ran as part of her 'Please Explain' series that mocked the vaginal prolapse suffered by Jacqui Lambie due to injuries sustained when she served in the Defence Force. Na...

Three rivers have been selected as finalists in the inaugural River of the Year award. 

In the United States, voters will soon be making choices in the mid-terms. But what positions are voters being asked to choose candidates for? 

Nearly one in six Kiwis over the age of 55 have experienced abuse in the last year, according to new national research.

Sports correspondent Sam Ackerman has the latest from the world of sport. 

Jess Dare's latest exhibition, I will Meet You in the Garden, is currently on at Toi Tauranga Art Gallery.

There's a call for a 'Truth in Politics Act' - from a leading lawyer, could it actually work? 

Jimmy has more on the Otaki to north of Levin highway, campaigning in Manawatu and the Polish orphans who came to Pahiatua.

Estrangement between family members can be painful for both the parties involved, and the wider family who must navigate the situation.