The Best of Nine to Noon 2023

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• Tolaga Bay farmer on Cyclone Gabrielle: 'It's total f****** carnage'

  weather

  14 Feb 2023

  

  Three major flood events have impacted Bridget Parker's farm in the past year and she's at the end of her tether.(Contains strong language) One of Kathryn Ryan's favourite interviews of 2023. Audio

• Opera star Phillip Rhodes - the first Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Laureate

  music culture

  1 Mar 2023

  

  Acclaimed Kiwi opera singer Phillip Rhodes (Ngati Awa and Ngati Kahungunu) talks to Nine to Noon about his career, being appointed the first Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Laureate and what lies ahead… Audio

• Don McGlashan inducted into NZ's Music Hall of Fame

  history music

  24 Aug 2023

  

  Celebrated musician Don McGlashan has been inducted into the NZ Music Hall of Fame. He joined one of his first bands, Ethos, at the age of 15, then came Blam Blam Blam, The Front Lawn, The Mutton… Audio

• B Dylan Hollis: the TikToker who loves vintage baking

  food internet

  1 Sep 2023

  

  After getting curious about a vintage recipe for Pork Cake a few years ago, jazz musician B. Dylan Hollis posted a baking video on TikTok. Now millions of people watch him whip up bizarre creations… Video, Audio

• Meet the Tauranga cobbler turned TikTok star

  internet life and society

  6 Sep 2023

  

  Have you got a pair of boots at the back of your wardrobe that you never wear because they hurt your feet? Or perhaps some scuzzy old Birkenstock sandals that have seen better days? Tauranga cobbler… Audio

• Booker prize winning Irish novelist Anne Enright

  author interview

  13 Sep 2023

  

  Anne Enright is the multi award winning Irish author of seven novels, collections of short stories, a non-fiction work about the birth of her two children, and she was the inaugural Laureate for Irish… Audio

• Jan Jordan: The power of honesty in overcoming deep pain

  30 Oct 2023

  

  Professor Jan Jordan is best known as a criminology academic and victims' rights campaigner, with a long career at Victoria University and many academic books, particularly looking at rape culture and… Audio

• A son's tribute to his father: the legacy of cartoonist Murray Ball 

  8 Nov 2023

  

  The late Murray Ball, created Footrot Flats and other iconic New Zealand characters in his comic strip which first appeared in the Evening Post. Murray passed away in 2017, and his son Mason has… Audio

• Young change-makers: Luke Gray and Georgia Latu

  13 Nov 2023

  

  Mental health campaigner Luke Gray and poi manufacturer Georgia Latu are two of five young leaders recognised at this year's Impact Awards. (One of Kathryn Ryan's favourite interviews of 2023) Audio