Nine To Noon for Friday 29 April 2022

 

09:05 Auckland ferries:  electric future

Kathryn speaks with Fullers360 CE Mike Horne, who is overseeing a project to amp-up decarbonised commuter crossings across the Waitematā Harbour.  A hydrogen hybrid ferry and two Crown-funded electric ferries are planned for Auckland Harbour crossings. Auckland ferry operator Fullers360 plans to launch a privately funded hybrid ferry on the water next year, a year ahead of the fully electric models.The Government says it expects the 200-person all-electric ferries for Auckland Transport's inner and mid-harbour services to be launched in 2024.

09:30 Greywacke: cracking the mystery of earthquake faults

Some ground-breaking research into a rock is unlocking the secrets of earthquake faults. From Aoraki Mt Cook to Waiheke Island, and even further North, greywacke is our nation's most common type of rock. But it's the rock no-one particularly loves.  Greywacke is a variety of sandstone.  It's hard, dark, and has nothing shiny, pretty or particularly valuable about it. But lecturer in geology at Victoria University of Wellington Dr Carolyn Boulton is very interested in it. Dr Boulton tells Kathryn Ryan she has been granted EQC-funding to look specifically at how greywacke rocks behave before, during and after earthquakes, and how faults can communicate with each other.
 

09:45 Asia correspondent Oliver Farry

The lockdown in China's economic capital Shanghai is now one month old, with most of the city's 26 million inhabitants still confined to their homes, despite a fall in Covid cases this week. The city has recorded over 530,000 cases since the start of the latest outbreak in early March. A military court in Myanmar has sentenced the country's former leader, Nobel peace laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in prison for corruption. Prize in 1990. And South Korea and Japan agree to "change tenor" of their recently frosty relationship, ahead of the May inauguration of new Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol.

 

10:05 Spy novelist Charlotte Philby on her double-agent grandfather

Charlotte Philby's latest novel tells the story of her grandfather, Kim Philby, the notorious double-agent in the Cambridge spy ring. Edith and Kim is her fourth novel, and tells the  linked stories of her grandfather and Edith Tudor-Hart, the Vienna-born photographer and Communist agent who recommended Kim Philby for recruitment by the KGB. Charlotte Philby's father was a child when her grandfather defected. He tracked him down in Moscow years later, and as a five year old, Charlotte went on a family visit to Kim in Russia. She says initially she didn't want to write about Kim Philby because she didn't want to define herself through his life. But after years of having other people project versions of her grandfather, the time has come to reclaim the story.

10:35 Book review: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Kiran Dass reviews Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield, published by Picador

10:40 Review launched into bullying, harassment at Fire and Emergency 

The State Services Commission has announced an independent review of workplace culture and complaint handling at Fire and Emergency. The review was requested by the Chair of FENZ, Rebecca Keoghan. It's three years since former judge Coral Shaw delivered a devastating report into the culture at FENZ, finding bullying and harassment were rife at all levels and across all regions within FENZ. Since then a stream of current and former firefighters - both volunteer and professional - have expressed frustration over the lack of change in FENZ culture, and a lack of trust in complaint handling processes. Kathryn gets an update from Nine to Noon Executive Producer Clare Sziranyi.

10:45 The Reading

Stuart Devenie with Dorothy McKegg read the final episode of 'Let me Sing you Gentle Songs' by Linda Olsson 

11:05 New music with Jeremy Taylor

Singer-songwriters Kurt Vile and Father John Misty return with new albums, Questlove's Oscar winning film soundtrack, and the striking indie rock of Vera Ellen.

11:30 Sports commentator Sam Ackerman

Sam reflects on a great week for canoe racing, a shocking one for the Warriors and the ongoing, seemingly never ending Silver Lake saga for New Zealand Rugby.

11:45 The week that was with

Comedians Te Radar and Michele A'Court with a few laughs - including a gifting idea that involves sausages!

 

 

Music played in this show

Track:Multi-love
Artist: Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Time Played: 09:31