Afternoons for Thursday 30 August 2012

1:09 PM.Liz Taylor from Christchurch has chosen "Ghost Town" by the Specials. Audio

1:22 PM.Most of the initial 140 immigrants were Lutheran Protestants, but within a few short years more than a quarter of them had left the district. It was, in fact, a settlement built around a pub. A Mr… Read more Audio

2:09 PM.On February 7 1863 the HMS Orpheus, a naval ship carrying British soldiers involved in the New Zealand Land Wars in the Waikato, sunk in Whatipu, near the entrance of the Manukau Harbour. 189 people… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.Dr Will Rayment from Otago University has just returned from a 25-day trip to the remote islands. A team of 12 scientists were there to gather data about about the recovering population of southern… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.An upcoming exhibition by the Fashion Museum has delved into the wardrobes and bottom drawers of some of early home sewers. Lynn Freeman speaks to one of the organisers Doris de Pont, and to one of… Read more Audio

3:24 PM.Katy Gosset reports from the Christchurch suburb of Sydenham, where bare spaces and tagged walls are giving way to some large-scale murals by local graffiti artists. One of them, Wongi Wilson, was… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.Whether it's delicate pink filaments or large brown leathery straps, seaweeds in all their forms and colours are a feature of our rocky coastline. And no one knows more about New Zealand seaweeds than… Read more Audio

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

4:07 PM.Topics - MPs voted for gay marriage in a near-landslide last night, when a conscience vote on Labour MP Louisa Wall's bill passed before a packed public gallery at Parliament. What began as a… Read more Audio

4:35 PM.Topics - "Some of my best friends are psychopaths, it turns out", that was the reaction of prolific tweeter and sometime Panelist David Slack to research showing the use of foul language in your… Read more Audio