{"podcast":{"title":"Midday Report","slug":"midday-report-5671629","podcast_index_feed_id":5671629,"rss_url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/acast/middayreport.rss","website_url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/middayreport","image_url":"https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--WY2QAzBe--/c_fill,f_jpg,h_2000,q_50,w_2000/v1769126984/4JUD1M0_midday_report_external_cover_jan_2026_png.jpg?_a=BACCd2AD","author":"RNZ","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Midday Report - Te Pūrongo o te Poutūtanga. RNZ National's midday current affairs programme, hosted by Guyon Espiner.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T00:20:24.947964+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/midday-report-5671629"},"episode":{"title":"Midday Report Essentials for Tuesday 22 September 2026","slug":"midday-report-essentials-for-tuesday-22-september-2026","published_at":"2026-09-22T00:59:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/midday-report-5671629/midday-report-essentials-for-tuesday-22-september-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/midday-report-5671629","url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/middayreport/audio/2019052906/midday-report-essentials-for-tuesday-22-september-2026","audio_url":"https://flex.acast.com/podcast.radionz.co.nz/mdr/mdr-20260922-1259-midday_report_essentials_for_tuesday_22_september_2026-128.mp3","summary":"On today's episode Corin Dann talks us through the critique of monetary policy in the time of Covid. One in ten New Zealanders has kidney disease, we spend $340 million a year on dialysis machines; Midday Report has first access to the election wish list from kidney specialists. And New Zealand is a lobbying paradise with no regulation for lobbying - the Greens plan to change that. We scrutinise their plan with party co-leader Marama Davidson.","meta_description":"On today's episode Corin Dann talks us through the critique of monetary policy in the time of Covid. One in ten New Zealanders has kidney disease, we spen…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1379,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/midday-report-5671629/episodes/midday-report-essentials-for-tuesday-22-september-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/midday-report-5671629/midday-report-essentials-for-tuesday-22-september-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}