Nine To Noon

09:05 Cyclone Tam update: Flood fears, winds peak, cell disruption in Northland

The wild winds and rain are continuing to plague the upper North Island, with a close eye being kept on Northland's Kaeo River. Damage to transmission towers has disrupted cell coverage in Northland, while winds were due to peak over the Auckland Harbour Bridge about 9am. Kathryn is joined by Auckland's Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson, while  Air New Zealand's GM Airports Kate Boyer details what's happening with flights in the north.

09:20 The departing head of the Islamic Women's Council on security and her super diverse community

Aliya Danzeisen - the departing head of the Islamic Women's Council - says there's been a slight decline in online abuse, probably due other groups being targeted instead. She  is confident in the support shown by the majority of New Zealanders, but says the risk of Islamophobia in public is still assessed as high. For more than a decade, Aliya Danzeisen has championed the rights of Muslim women. She was in charge of government liaison in the run up to the  Christchurch Mosques attacks and helped write the submission to the Royal Commission that detailed the attempts to alert the authorities to the rising threat to her community. She joins Kathryn to talk about her super diverse community.

09:30 Mistake marketing and other traps: what to look out for while Easter shopping

It's Easter weekend and retailers are hoping for a big few days of trading. There are plenty of "hot deals", and "Easter deals" we're being urged to "hop" into. But are there some marketing traps we could also hop into? Massey University Professor of Marketing analytics Bodo Lang, says mistake marketing is a good example - where an organisation supposedly 'accidentally' offers free shipping or a large discount code to lure a shopper in.

09:45 UK: Court sets legal definition of 'woman', pharmaceuticals tariff concerns

UK correspondent Matt Dathan looks at the reaction to a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex. Another key British industry is under threat from US tariffs, this time the vitally important pharmaceuticals sector. The French and UK governments have begun talks about striking migrant returns deals.

Matt Dathan is Home Affairs Editor at The Times

10:05 British poet, Lemn Sissay on his "experiment in hope", a book of poems written at dawn each day 

Everyday for 10 years, Lemn Sissay rose at dawn and wrote a four-line poem. Out of that resource of thousands, he selected the best - nearly 200 of them - for the compilation "Morning Poems - let the light shine in". The collection is described as life affirming and full of wonder. Lemn Sissay was awarded an OBE for his services for literature and was the commissioned poet for the London Olympics in 2012, but he is also an advocate for children in care after being placed in a foster home as a baby and then handed back to social services when he was 12. He was the Chancellor of the University of Manchester for 7 years and a trustee of the Foundling Museum in London - which celebrates those who have been in care.

Lemn Sissay will be appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival 13 - 18 May.

10:35 Book review: Silken Gazelles by Jokha Alharthi 

Jack McConnell from Unity Books Auckland reviews Silken Gazelles by Jokha Alharthi published by Scribner    

10:45 Around the motu: John Freer in Coromandel

Hauraki Coromandel Peninsula has seen a major make-over of the regional tourism organisation, the Waikato’s largest project using provincial growth funding, the Sugarloaf Wharf development, has stalled, and Thames has been listed as having some of the highest petrol prices in the country - that could be changing.

John Freer is a CFM local news reporter, from the Coromandel Peninsula.

11:05 Inflation up on higher food prices 

Inflation edged higher at the start of the year. Stats NZ says the Consumer Price Index rose 0.9 percent in the three months ended March, taking the annual rate to 2.5 percent, compared to 2.2 percent in the previous quarter. The headline rate is within the Reserve Bank's target band of 1 to 3 percent. Gyles Beckford is RNZ business editor.

11:05 Tech: Meta on trial, Shopify seeks AI workers, the Easter unplug

Tech correspondent Mark Pesce has the latest from the federal trial in the US to break up Meta's monopoly. It follows recent testimony before Congress by former Kiwi Facebook employee Sarah Wynn Williams about the company's actions. Commerce platform Shopify has been asking new hires to prove their roles can't be done by artificial intelligence. And Mark makes the case for turning off your devices for a day over Easter - could you manage a whole day off your phone?

Mark Pesce is a futurist, writer, educator and broadcaster. 

11:25 How to co-parent well

Clinical psychologist Tiffany Rochester says parents going through a separation usually have the same priority: ensuring their children's wellbeing. But she says it’s important for parents to get the right support at the right time,  in order to create peaceful two-home families where their children flourish. Tiffany Rochester specialises in working with co-parents. She is coming to New Zealand to hold workshops with mental health clinicians and people working with separating families later this year.

11:45 Screentime: The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Back to Timor, The Penguin Lessons

Film and television reviewer Tamar Munch joins Kathryn to talk about The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Prime Video), based on the novel of the same name. Earlier this week Nine to Noon interviewed Ciarán Hinds about his role in the series. Back to Timor (Three & ThreeNow from Anzac Day) follows the journey of four military veterans who return to East Timor 25 years after serving as peacekeepers there. The Penguin Lessons (in cinemas) is a comedy-drama based on a 2015 memoir by Tom Michell, who rescued a penguin in the 1970s and kept it as a pet at his boys' boarding school.