Afternoons for Thursday 2 August 2012

1:08 PM.Tom Barber from Auckland has chosen 'Strange' by the UK band The Feeling. Audio

1:22 PM.Kapuni is barely a village; a handful of houses and a general store, but within 10 kilometres of that store is a vast assortment of industries that ensure the wheels of commerce keep turning here. Audio

2:09 PM.The 20 songs on the shortlist for the APRA Silver Scroll award for the best New Zealand song award are now down to five finalists. Audio

2:25 PM.On Saturday, for the first time in 30 years, New Zealand's second oldest lighthouse will shine again from the 1860s lighthouse on the Boulder Bank in Nelson. Audio

3:10 PM.This week some of our local Kiwi talent will be making it onto the international stage as part of The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Writer and actor, Ralph McCubbin Howell has written a twisted… Read more Audio

3:22 PM.The Book Discussion Scheme is a not-for-profit organisation that supplies book clubs, and its just signed up its 1000th group. Our Christchurch correspondent, Katy Gosset, visited the scheme and also… Read more Audio

3:32 PM.For the last three years the $340 million Heatsmart programme has been retro-fitting older houses with insulation and efficient heating, and Philippa Howden-Chapman from Otago University tells… Read more Audio

3:46 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - The Bronwyn Pullar affair; a new article. The NZ Herald reports multimillion-dollar Auckland house sales are back at peak 2007 levels and suburbs not previously associated with the top end of… Read more Audio

4:33 PM.Topics - According to a new poll conducted by Sight & Sound magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo has deposed Orson Welles' Citizen Kane as the greatest film of all time. New Zealand's first Charter… Read more Audio