Nine To Noon

Technology commentator Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about fast-moving situation with Twitter, how the collapse of the world's second largest crypto exchange is casting a dark shadow over the sector, plans by Australia to crackdown on cyber crims after a disturbing hack on a medical insurer left millions with their private health data exposed and how there could be billions in economic benefits from taking fibre to the regions.

Cynthia Morahan reviews Life: What Nat to Do by Nat's What I Reckon, published by Penguin Random House.

Cricket is a game layered in statistics, mythology and history. But in their new book journalist Tim Wigmore and sports economist Stefan Szymanski use data and statistical analysis to understand the changes the game is going through and predict how it will grow in future. The book Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket touches on all aspects of the game, from the rise and impact of Twenty20 cricket, how India came to dominate the game both on and off the pitch and the reason behind New Zealand cricket's recent success. Kathryn talks to Tim about his love of cricket, how they came together to write the book and some of the most interesting discoveries in the data.

UK correspondent Matthew Parris joins Kathryn to talk about Dominic Raab, the deputy Prime Minister, who's accused of bullying officials when he held previous government roles. He's denied the allegations and asked PM Rishi Sunak to launch an inquiry into his own conduct. And fuel and energy costs have pushed overall inflation to 11.1% - its highest level since 1981, while food price inflation was sitting at 16.2% in October.

A new residential centre for people with eating disorders – set to open next April – already has a lengthy waiting list. Recovered Living NZ founder Kristie Amadio had a severe eating disorder herself but says she was unable to get the care she needed in New Zealand.

COP27, the UN's climate conference, is drawing to a close in Egypt - leaving delegates from nearly 200 countries with the job of settling on an agreement that lays out the ways forward for tackling the climate crisis. Back home, companies that form part of the Climate Leaders' Coalition - and are responsible for some 60 per cent of New Zealand's emissions - have released their fourth annual snapshot of how they're doing. The Coalition was launched in 2018 and its 93 signatories represent 34 per cent of GDP and have turnover of $126b. The Snapshot Report looks at the progress signatories have made in delivering on lowering emissions and investing in climate action. This year's report says despite tough economic conditions almost all signatories have re-affirmed or increased their planned investment against last year's collective commitment to invest $9.5 billion over a five-year horizon to reduce emissions. The Coalition's convenor is Jolie Hodson - also head of the telco Spark.

In today's science slot, Professor Allan Blackman looks at the case of Kathleen Folbigg - dubbed 'Australia's worst female serial killer' over the deaths of her four children. A second inquiry into her convictions has been fuelled by the intervention of a group of researchers who suggest a genetic mutation may have caused their deaths. Allan will also talk about a new study into why some people are mosquito magnets and how low frequency bass can really rock a dance floor!

What would you do, if you arrived home to find your wife naked - but for an apron - bleaching a stain from the carpet that only she can see? It's the set-up for Fiona Sussman's latest page-turning novel - in which two couples who have known each other for years have their lives turned upside down by a cancer diagnosis - and then by a mysterious death. Fiona is an Auckland-based writer who's written short stories and novels - including Addressed to Greta and The Last Time We Spoke, which won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel in 2017. Fiona trained in medicine and was a GP for years - experience she's taken and used for the book, called The Doctor's Wife.

Jenna Todd of Time Out Bookstore reviews Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson, published by Text Publishing.

We look at how British culture and identity have historically been used by Kiwi and other Commonwealth marketers and advertisers to sell products abroad. Felicity Barnes is a senior lecturer in history at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland. She has researched how advertisers between the first and second world wars constructed a shared British identity in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. What she's found is outlined in her new book Selling Britishness: Commodity Culture, the Dominions and Empire. During the inter-war period New Zealand, Australia and Canada, filled British shop windows, newspaper columns, and cinema screens with "British to the core" Canadian apples, "British to the backbone" New Zealand lamb, and "All British" Australian butter. Felicity Barnes says a thread running through the marketing was selling a Dominion-styled British identity. Some international advertising campaigns featured touring sports-people and politicians championing the products of their home countries to British shoppers. And from 1934, here is Australian test cricket captain Bill Woodfull's appeal for Empire buying, talking about being part of one big British family.