Afternoons for Monday 27 February 2012

1:08 PM.Hamish Walsh from Auckland has chosen 'Higher Trails' by John Hanlon. Audio

1:21 PM.Dr Graeme Downes is the Head of the Music department at Otago University and the front man and songwriter for the Dunedin band The Verlaines. Audio

2:08 PM.The film industry's most prestigious awards are about to begin in Los Angeles. Audio

2:18 PM.A book about Whanganui's antique Krupp artillery gun - the only one of its kind in New Zealand - will be hot off the press tomorrow. Audio

2:31 PM.A critical look at the New Zealand International Arts Festival begins with First Contact, Arcane, The Rehearsal - Playing the Dane, Parabelo/Onqoto, Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex and Symphony of Psalms. Audio

3:09 PM.Irish music writer David Burke has written a book, 'Heart of Darkness: Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska'. Audio

3:38 PM.The Kermadec Trench, north of New Zealand, is one of the deepest places on Earth, with under-water pressures equivalent to more than a thousand elephants standing on a Mini. Audio

3:49 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - A campaign's been launched in Auckland today to hold judges accountable for bailing violent offenders who go on to commit serious crimes. Kevin Rudd's bid to roll Julia Gillard and return as… Read more Audio

4:33 PM.Topics - Is there any such thing as a free education? The police in New Plymouth have arrested six Greenpeace protesters - including the actress Lucy Lawless - who boarded an oil exploration ship four… Read more Audio