Afternoons for Thursday 13 October 2011

1:08 PM.Kerin Coleman from Hamilton has chosen 'I Run for Life' by Melissa Etheridge. Audio

1:25 PM.This small Bay of Plenty township was named by Captain James Cook in 1769. Actually he named the nearby mountain for his Sergeant of Marines George Edgecumbe. The town did not emerge for more than a… Read more Audio

2:09 PM.Today at Tyne cot Cemetery on the former battlefields of Belgium, one of New Zealand's darkest day will be remembered. Ninety-four years ago, more than 800 New Zealanders died and more than 2,000 were… Read more Audio

2:23 PM.The Kraken - a legendary sea monster the size of a bus that would wrap its tentacles around ships and swallow whales in one bite - ruled the ancient seas and continues to play a big role in movies… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Designing a self-correcting system to stabilise hyper-sonic rockets. Audio

3:21 PM.Sage Forest takes a bit of aluminium and her Nana's old brass golf-club head to Sims Pacific Metals, the country's biggest metal recycler, to see what she can get for it, and meets the metal-munching… Read more Audio

3:32 PM.Lynn Freeman with a story about the band Fly My Pretties and their collaboration with a street artist called Flox, whose paintings are turned into live animations on stage. Audio

3:45 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

4:06 PM.Topics - It's been estimated that more than 100km of Bay of Plenty coastline could be coated in oil if the damaged container ship the Rena should break up and sink. The general election offers… Read more Audio

4:34 PM.Topic - Doctors are attempting to track down all the children in Auckland who haven't been been immunised against measles, as the number of cases in the region continues to rise. Audio