Afternoons for Thursday 1 March 2012

1:09 PM.Richard Middleton from Wellington has chosen 'Kite' by U2. Audio

1:25 PM.The little Taranaki township that calls itself the Gateway to Dawson Falls. Settlement began in 1882, with many of the early pioneers coming from Switzerland. Audio

2:09 PM.Davy Jones got his first big break when he was 11 years old playing Ena Sharples's grandson on Coronation Street. But the world will always remember him as the lead singer of the 1960s made-for-tv… Read more Audio

2:21 PM.Neil Silverwood is part of a group of cavers who are tantalisingly close to linking two cave systems in Mt Arthur, creating what could be New Zealand's deepest cave. Audio

2:30 PM.Festival Review discusses the play Henry V, the musical shows Bon Iver and Tubular Bells for Two, the NZ premiere of the dance theatre work Birds with Skymirrors. Audio

3:15 PM.Katy Gosset visits a local business that's got the world talking - in more ways than one. Rocket Languages offers on-line courses in everything from French to Hindi. And, despite a year of upheaval… Read more Audio

3:27 PM.Thirty five years ago University of Otago palaeontologist Ewan Fordyce collected some bones from a 25-million year old giant fossil penguin which has now been reconstructed and named Kairuku. Alison… Read more Audio

3:47 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - might Otago Rugby be merely the first of the country's provincial unions to face a solvency crisis? Internet millionaire Kim Dotcom is talking a good fight, promising to beat the United… Read more Audio

4:37 PM.Topics - An increasing number of students in the United Kingdom are turning to prostitution to pay for their tuition, according to a new paper by a British medical student. Will constant access to the… Read more Audio