Nine To Noon for Friday 9 August 2024

09:05 Proud dad and coach Jon Andrews

Ellesse Andrews won gold in the women's keirin at the Olympics in Paris this morning. She becomes only the second New Zealander to win gold in track cycling after Sarah Ulmer in 2004. Ellesse started at the front in the motorcycle-paced race before attacks came from other riders in the field. The biggest threat came from sprint world champion Welsh rider Emma Finucane who she held off before launching to the win. New Zealand cycling sprint coach Jon Andrews was watching on inside the Paris velodrome during that race. But he isn't just the coach - he's also Ellesse Andrews' dad. Paddy spoke to him not long after Ellesse won the gold and this was his reaction.

09:15 Mayors respond to government's new water plan

The government's alternative to Three Waters has finally arrived - a sigh of relief for some councils in the red. New council-controlled organisations will be able to borrow up to 500% of operating revenue from the Local Government Funding Agency to carry out water upgrades. Smaller councils will be able to band together to set up the companies, a plan which the government says is cheaper than Labour's Three Waters plan. But critics say even if some short-term savings are made, in the long term, councils will still be left with ballooning debt. Porirua Mayor Anika Baker and Clutha Mayor Bryan Cadogan speak to Paddy.

09:25 Concern over lack of formal breast milk banks around country

Concern is being raised at the lack of formal breast milk banks around the country - including in our biggest city - with some mums turning to social media to source it for their babies in need. Some new mothers, for a variety of reasons, cannot breastfeed their babies, but with only four formal breast milk donation banks in the country, the options for these mothers are limited. Auckland, which has two neonatal units, has no such facility. The scarcity has seen some parents turn to social media in order to source milk, which comes with its own risks for donor and child. Dr Mariana Muelbert is a Research Fellow at the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland with a focus on maternal nutrition and breast milk.

09:35  Shoring up kākā populations

North Island kākā are at risk and South Island kākā are vulnerable - but there are specialist breeding programmes aimed at boosting the native parrot populations.  Bruce Vander Lee is the director of Project Janszoon, which is a privately funded trust working to restore ecology of the Abel Tasman National Park at the top of the South Island. Kākā have gone from being functionally extinct to thriving in two sections of the park.

09:45 Pacific correspondent Eleisha Foon

The Governor of Guam has defended the use of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles on the territory and says it's needed in order to promote peace in the Pacific region. This comes at a time where the United States territory is preparing to build a 360-degree defence system on the island which will act as a shield.

RNZ Pacific's Eleisha Foon  

10:05 A hearty history of our rural kitchens

The kitchen has long been considered the heart of the home, and in rural New Zealand that heart has undergone significant change since European settlement. In 'Rēwena and Rabbit Stew' historian Katie Cooper explores 140 years of New Zealand's rural kitchens. Her research into the cookhouses and coal ranges, the wharekai and hāngī  pits, explores how food provisioning and preparation evolved with technological change from 1800 through until 1940. Katie Cooper is Te Papa's Curator of New Zealand Histories and Cultures.

10:35 Book review: Capote's Women by Laurence Leamer 

Quentin Johnson reviews Capote's Women by Laurence Leamer published by Hodder and Stoughton

10:45 Around the motu: Chris Hyde covering Hawkes Bay

Some properties zoned Category 3 in Hawke's Bay have begun to hit the market at bargain prices, raising questions about what can be done with them. And Chris talks to Paddy about an intriguing local mystery. Tamatea resident Lisa O’Connor is trying to figure out why steak sauce packets keep turning up in her letterbox.

Chris Hyde is the editor of Hawkes Bay Today

11:05 Music reviewer Grant Smithies​

Prolific Ohio band Guided By Voices has just released its 41st album Strut Of Kings. We’ll hear a key track from that today alongside an older GBV classic, followed by new music from Dunedin trio Death and The Maiden and a slab of irresistible funk brilliance from Godfather Of Soul, James Brown.  

11:30 Sports commentator Sam Ackerman

Sam has all the latest action from the Olympics, including Kiwi Gold at the velodrome and on the water. 

11:45 The week that was with Te Radar and Michele A'Court 

Comedians Te Radar and Michele A'Court with the stories that have tickled them over the last few days