The Best of Nine to Noon 2025

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• Groove Armada: thirty years of explosive dance hits

  24 Feb 2025

  

  Andy Cato and Tom Findlay of the Beloved UK electronic duo Groove Armada have produced dozens of dance anthems under the name since the late 90s. Audio

• The Hamills take on the world

  26 May 2025

  

  A Kiwi family has passed the halfway point on their monumental effort to circumnavigate the globe on their catamaran. Audio

• The former gang member and prison inmate turned doctor

  29 Jul 2025

  

  Dr Timoti Te Moke survived family abuse, state care, gangs and prison before training as a doctor in his fifties.  Audio

• Good sh*t: the capsule that could change obesity treatment

  11 Sep 2025

  

  Researchers at the Liggins Institute at Auckland University believe a capsule of healthy gut bugs could change the future of obesity treatment.  Audio

• How one family turned Hawke's Bay scrubland into farming gold

  history farming

  8 Oct 2025

  

  Bill Mouat has turned his family's pioneering farming history into a beautifully detailed book called 'Gold Under the Manuka'. Audio

• Ion Man: Bill Buckley on magnets, mechanics, and motorsport

  history technology

  15 Oct 2025

  

  Bill Buckley is best known for his work with electromagnets, which are used in more than 90 percent of the world's silicon chips.  Audio

• What is pain and how does it work?

  20 Oct 2025

  

  One in five adult New Zealanders have lived with chronic pain at various levels, with women, Maori and those living in areas of high deprivation at higher risk. Audio

• Unveiled: Theophila Pratt's story of surviving Gloriavale

  3 Mar 2025

  

  At 18, after a life of servitude and subserviance, Theophila Pratt was dropped at a bus stop and left to fend for herself. She tells her story of surviving Gloriavale
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• A love letter to fallen Irish music icons

  music arts

  18 Mar 2025

  

  Camille O'Sullivan is an Irish-French musician, vocalist and actress. Previously an award-winning architect and portrait painter, she is known for her interpretations of the songs of Nick Cave,Tom… Audio

• The refugee who defied the odds in Syria to be a dancer

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  4 Jul 2025

  

  The dancer who managed to create a career in ballet despite being brought up in a Palestinian refugee camp after fleeing the Syrian war and against fierce opposition from his father.

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• She detailed war crimes in Ukraine - then became a victim

  20 Mar 2025

  

  Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina spotlighted women in war before she was killed in a Russian airstrike. Her friend and colleague Tetyana Teren helped publish her final work. Audio

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• Steve Williams on his 12-year partnership with Tiger Woods

  31 Mar 2025

  

  For 12 years legendary golfer Tiger Woods was guided on the green by Kiwi caddie Steve Williams, who would become his friend and confidant.  Audio

• Irish actor Ciarán Hinds on the power of telling war stories

  14 Apr 2025

  

  Ciarán Hinds tells Kathryn about his work in New Zealand on the yet-to-be-released Netflix mini-series East of Eden Audio

• Linus O'Brien on his dad's journey to create The Rocky Horror Show

  3 Jul 2025

  

  The Rocky Horror Show - the little musical that ended up with cult following Audio

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• Welby Ings: Kids are being labelled 'dumb' when they're not

  24 Jul 2025

  

  When Welby Ings was 14 he was so desperate to avoid school he'd lather his face in the sap from a euphorbia plant and wait for the blisters to emerge.  Audio