Afternoons for Thursday 30 July 2009

1:10 PM.Andy Ewan from Sanson chooses My Generation by the Who. Audio

1:20 PM.We are off to visit another of our small centres, today the middle of central Otago. Audio

2:10 PM.FINA, the governing body of world water sports stands accused of tarnishing the image of swimming and turning the current World Championships in Rome into a farce with its about face on the use of… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Muffy, the fluffy white bitser is making headlines across the Tasman after being rescued from a squalid Melbourne backyard and reunited with her Brisbane owner - nine years after she went missing. Audio

2:45 PM.The Maori concert party Te Hokowhitu a Tu was established in 1939 to raise funds for the war effort. 70 years later descendants of the founder Tuini Ngawai took the stage at Te Papa to acknowledge the… Read more Audio

2:50 PM.Our feature album is Ennismore - By English singer/songwriter, Colin Blunstone, the lead singer of the Zombies. Audio

3:10 PM.Simon Morris has a chat to film-maker Geoff Murphy, whose Film Festival movie combines free-style jazz with the works of horror maestro Edgar Allen Poe; and Amelia Nurse finds a new way to spend your… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.Our Christchurch correspondent, Katy Gosset, meets Eri Yahagi who is revealing a new side to Japanese cooking with such toothsome goodies as green tea gateau. Audio

3:45 PM.Ken Ryan and his students are frequent visitors to Antarctica, where they drill cores into the sea ice to see what lives there. Audio

4:07 PM.With Jeremy Hansen and Richard Griffin. Audio

4:35 PM.With Jeremy Hansen and Richard Griffin. Audio