Nine To Noon

Rebecca asks whether McDonald's is McDone with Beyond Burger's plant-meat?. She addresses how the fake-meat firm's failed pepperoni plan shows the mountain Beyond Burger has to climb to make its business bigger. Rebecca also talks to Susie about the uber rich and their private jets. Teenage jet tracker Jack Sweeney has filed a public records request with the US government that yielded a form bearing the signature of a particular plane's owner: Tesla boss Elon Musk.

The National party leader Christopher Luxon has just fronted media over the revelations about the Tauranga MP Sam Uffindell. Sam Uffindell was kicked out of Auckland's King's College when he was 16, for taking part in a violent assault of a 13-year-old. Mr Uffindell told the National Party about the incident before he was selected. But Mr Luxon has told media that as leader, he should have been told about it , and so should voters in the Tauranga by-election. Susie speaks with RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson.

Michelle Rahurahu reviews Kohine by Colleen Maria Lenihan, published by Huia Publishers

Barry Crump was the ultimate kiwi icon - a rugged outdoorsman, and quintessential kiwi bloke. His books sold millions of copies and his Toyota TV ads with the hapless Scotty entertained us all. But there was another side to Barry Crump - a tough, womanising, alcoholic who struggled with commitment, particularly to his six sons -Ivan, Martin, Stephen, Harry, Erik and Lyall - born to five mothers. For the first time, Barry Crump's sons have all gone on record about their father - 25 years after his death, in a book called Sons of a Good Keen Man. Susie speaks with the two eldest - Ivan and Martin Crump.

Ron talks to Susie about job growth in the US in a shrinking economy, a victory in Congress for President Joe Biden with the Senate passing major spending bill, the Inflation Reduction Act. Also photographs have emerged which appear to support that former President Trump was a flusher of Oval Office documents.

New research out this morning has looked at the way Maori and Pasifika postgraduates in STEM are treated within the university space - and it paints a concerning picture. The paper includes the responses of 43 current or past post-graduates in science, maths, engineering and technology. Many cited being made to feel out of place, have their presence at university questioned, being seen as an expert on culture - regardless of whether they felt that way, being asked to do unpaid labour, or included as the token representative on funding applications - in some cases even after expressly saying "no". Dr Tara McAllister and Dr Sereana Naepi have been studying why Maori and Pacific academics make up less than 4 per cent and 1 per cent respectively, of professors and 5 per cent and 1.7 per cent of academics. They join Susie to talk about what they were seeking to understand in this research.

Luggage mountains and flight delays are plaguing the travel industry.  Canadian travel writer Tim Johnson joins Susie with his tips for an easy journey.

A leading Australian sexual offences prosecutor says unless sexuality and relationship education is vastly improved, the tide of sexual assault and rape will never be stemmed. Katrina Marson has spent 10 years as a crown prosecutor in Canberra - primarily prosecuting sexual offences. She says dealing with case after case, year after year, she realised how inadequate it is to prosecute a crime after the fact, and turned her attention to how to prevent them happening the first place. Ms Marson won a Churchill Fellowship - stepped out of court room - and travelled the world, examining comprehensive relationship and sexuality education and its impacts. She says our societies are negligent if we don't make a cultural shift towards valuing sexual wellbeing and preventing sexual violence in the first place. Katrina Marson speaks with Susie Ferguson about her new book Legitimate Sexpectations and also Katie Fitzpatrick, associate professor of education at the University of Auckland who led the writing of the current relationship and sexuality education curriculum policy.

Kennedy is back in New Zealand but talks to Susie about his recent expeditionary cruise around the southern coastline of Greenland.

Beekeeper and founder of Manunui Honey Blake Cole is also an ardent conservationist who monitors kiwi, and traps and eradicates pests. Blake tells Susie Ferguson profits from Manunui Honey are invested into returning more of the land to native bush.