Nine To Noon

A top Covid-19 modeller says the tools that worked to fight Covid-19 last year are not enough to battle the Delta variant, and points to Sydney where the virus is outpacing efforts to control it. Rodney Jones is warning that until New Zealand gets more of the population vaccinated, the country will be holding its breath that the more transmissible variant doesn't enter the country. Wellington is still on high alert after a visitor from Sydney over the weekend later tested positive for Covid-19. Two days of testing in the capital has yet to return any positive cases in the community but today the first of the crucial 'day five' test results are expected. Rodney Jones provides Covid-19 modelling information to the government.

Film and TV reviewer James Croot joins Kathryn to talk about Stanley Tucci's new foodie-travel show Searching for Italy (CNN). Stanley is also in Limetown with Jessica Biel about the disappearance of 300 people from a research facility. Also in the mix is documentary This is Pop (Netflix) and the new season of Motherland (Neon).

Stuttering is a normal part of learning to speak, particularly when a pre-schooler's language abilities can't keep up with what they want to say. Most children outgrow this phase but for some, the struggle to get words out continues. Wellington Speech and Language Therapist Christian Wright has advice for parents and teachers.

Technology correspondent Mark Pesce looks at how the increasing sophistication of computers is also resulting in them producing random, unpredictable errors.

Ralph McAllister reviews Diary of a Film by Niven Govinden, published by Dialogue Books.

Large numbers are gathering at a pop up Covid testing Centre at Hataitai Park in Wellington this morning. The main testing centre in Taranaki St is fully booked today, and GPs are reporting demand for testing is ten times normal. RNZ reporter Hamish Cardwell is at Hataitai Park.

Kathryn Ryan discusses Australia and China's increasingly fractious and deteriorating relationship with Peter Hartcher political editor and international editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Matthew joins Kathryn to discuss a surprise by-election victory by the Liberal Democrats that overturned a Conservative majority in a seat that had only ever elected a Tory MP, all adults aged over 18 can now book a Covid vaccination while crowd limits are to be raised at Wembley for the semi-finals and finals of the Euro 2020, speed limits derail a London to Glasgow train attempt and Alan Turing’s £50 note enters circulation.

People are rushing to be swabbed for Covid across the Wellington region on the first full day of level 2 restrictions. The scare was sparked after an Australian man, who had spent the weekend in the city tested positive for the virus after returning to Sydney.

A survivor of Lake Alice tracked down the former head of the psychiatric hospital, Dr Selwyn Leeks, and confronted him about the abuse he had endured as a child.