Nine To Noon

With the Tokyo Games drawing to a close, Dana says the inevitable post-Games report cards will soon be handed down. While it has been a hugely successful Games for New Zealand athletes, the spotlight will now go on how individual sports are funded and the return on that investment. Dana Johannsen is Stuff's National Correspondent specialising in sport.

Kim Pittar from Muir's Independent Bookshop Gisborne reviews Moth by Melody Razak, published by Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand.

A famous kiwi short story 'Coming Home In the Dark' by Owen Marshall is appearing on screens next week as a feature film of the same name. It's based on the titular story of New Zealand short Story maestro Owen Marshall's 1995 collection and has haunted the dreams of thousands of New Zealanders who have read it. It's based in the world just beyond our towns and "safe" spaces, just off the beaten track. Coming Home in the Dark is directed by James Ashcroft and written by James along with Eli Kent and the author of the original story Owen Marshall. Owen will be appearing later in the year at the Mackenzie Book and Art Festival to discuss his career of writing killer stories.

Over the past nine months Chinese regulators have fired a volley of shots at some of the biggest names across the Chinese technology sector, with more to come with a further overhaul of data security rules. And Ed explains why another Olympic storm is already brewing before the Tokyo games even finishes. Ed White is a correspondent with the Financial Times.

Footnote dancers and choreographers Josie Archer and Kosta Bogoievski are inviting the audience behind the scenes of the weird and wonderful world of creative contemporary live dance. Together they've created a unique show Dance Danced Dancing 2021 - a dance show about dancing. Josie and Kosta join Kathryn with some insights into those moments that may leave some of us guessing.

A new way of detecting lazy eye in pre-schoolers, that doesn't require four year olds to sit still and answer questions, is being trialled by a group of Māori led childcare centres in South Auckland. Rather than a chart-based testing system, the new device tracks the movement of children's eyes. The device has been designed by Dr Jason Turuwhenua, principal investigator at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. Lazy eye, or Amblyopia needs to be treated before it becomes a permanent condition. If lazy eye isn't caught before the age of seven, it becomes a 'wiring' problem, between the brain and the eye. Dr Turuwhenua explains to Kathryn Ryan this is also an opportunity to get a better understanding of eye health in the community.

The aged care sector is short one fifth of its nursing workforce and some not-for-profit care providers say they're at breaking point, being forced to close wards and turn away admissions. There are now 900 nurse vacancies across the sector which usually employs 5000 registered nurses. The New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services says staffing is at crisis point, with nurses are leaving community and not-for-profit providers in unprecedented numbers. The majority are moving into work at public hospitals, where they are paid around $10,000 a year more, but that pay gap could grow to $25,000, if the DHB nurses' current pay claim is successful. Kathryn speaks with Nikki Hurst, the executive officer of the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services, whose members run not-for-profit aged care homes around the country and Nicola Turner general manager of Enliven, which runs 14 not-for-profit care homes between Wellington and Taranaki.

Film and TV reviewer Laumata Lauano joins Kathryn to talk about the new TVNZ series The Panthers, about the Dawn Raids. She'll also look at season two of Head High (Three, OnDemand), an award-winning family drama about college rugby as well as The Justice of Bunny King, a New Zealand film about a struggling single parent.

Five years ago Jacinta Tynan's relationship ended and she suddenly found her self raising her two young sons on her own. The Australian journalist, broadcaster and columnist says despite the challenges, single motherhood can also be a gift. Jacinta's new book The Single Mother's Social Club looks at single parenting as an opportunity to reassess and recreate your life, and find strength you never knew you had. She's interviewed dozens of other single mothers; whether widowed, divorced, or parenting solo by choice, and put together advice for not just surviving but embracing single parenthood.

Technology commentator Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about the Commerce Commission's warning to telcos over the way they're marketing alternative broadband technologies as the copper telephone network is about to be decommissioned. Spark, Vodafone and 2degrees are in another row, this time over the wifi spectrum, Instagram has changed its rules for the under-16s - but is it just a PR exercise?