All episodes
Tuesday, 9 February 2021
- 1:15 Sustainable beef patties?
- 1:30 Business booming for Matakana family making deluxe hutches
- 1:42 Celebrating our forgotten sporting legends
- 1:50 How to Write a Menu
- 2:10 Book Critic - Catherine Robertson
- 2:25 The musical influence of producer, Joel Little
- 3:10 Anne Applebaum on Post Trump America
Friday, 5 February 2021
- 1:14 Band gets their stolen equipment returned
- 1:21 Instrument bank to help promising young musicians
- 1:31 Central Interceptor unearths rare and unidentified species
- 1:46 The story of Eastwoodhill Arboretum
- 2:09 Film Review with Graeme Tuckett
- 2:24 NZ Live: Louis Baker
- 3:06 Xi'an's Cucumber Salad
- 3:16 Music 101: Charlotte Ryan
- 3:23 Gardening with Lynda Hallinan
- 3:35 Critter of the Week: Sun Orchid, Thelymitra 'Ahipara'
Thursday, 4 February 2021
- 1:17 Otago University opens a dental facility in Auckland
- 1:36 Shadow in the Cloud gets nationwide release
- 1:44 More vacant retail outlets on Lambton Quay
- 1:50 Great album: Love and Disrespect
- 2:14 Music Critic: Simon Sweetman
- 2:29 Recipe request: Inland Adventures' Camp Oven Lasagne
- 2:35 NZ Screen History: McPhail and Gadsby
- 3:14 Solving the World's Problems with Steve Wyn-Harris
- 3:24 History with Dr Grant Morris
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
- 1:17 Arguing over herd sizes predicted
- 1:28 90 years since the Napier earthquake
- 1:37 Fairfield Project restoring the Kukutāruhe gully
- 1:55 Afternoons Quiz Robert Kelly
- 2:08 Afternoons Quiz answers with Robert Kelly
- 2:13 Paul Bushnell on Trumpian podcasts
- 2:23 Bookmarks - Claire Chitham
- 3:10 Decoding the patterns of human connection
- 9:07 Engineering new ways to treat dirty water
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
- 1:10 First Song - Bluey Green debuts 'Morning Sunshine'.
- 1:25 Forest and Bird calls for wetland restoration plan
- 1:35 The redeeming qualities of talkback radio
- 1:45 Helping youth cope with anxieties and depression
- 1:55 How to Write - A Complaint
- 2:10 Book Critic - Pip Adam
- 2:25 Music Feature - Peter Gabriel
- 3:10 John Colapinto on discovering the magnificence of the human voice
Monday, 1 February 2021
- 1:12 IPCC author on the Climate Commission report
- 1:25 The Eggplant: Online safety web series
- 1:35 NZer escaping COVID in the US, boating to the Bahamas
- 1:45 New Zealand's first microforest
- 1:50 Great NZ Album - Here Come the Cars, David Kilgour 1992
- 2:07 Television Critic Caitlin Cherry
- 2:25 Call for COVID Marshals to help improve scanning uptake
- 2:35 Expert on early humans
- 3:10 Your Korean Dad - Unlikely Tik Tok star, Nick Cho
Friday, 29 January 2021
- 1:20 Wellington water pipe woes continue
- 1:30 What's happening on Wall Street: An explainer
- 1:40 A 'roaming ballet' on scooters
- 1:50 Predator free by 2050 - Is it achievable?
- 2:10 Film Review - Ali Ventura
- 2:20 NZ Live - Delaney Davidson and Barry Saunders, Jenny Mitchell
- 3:10 Julie Biuso's Carrot and Date Salad
- 3:20 Music 101 - Yadana Saw
- 3:25 Weekend Stuff - Stan Scott
- 3:32 Critter of the Week - Kupe's grassmoth
Thursday, 28 January 2021
- 1:27 Climate change: Moving from advocacy to action
- 1:38 Ockham NZ Book Awards: Longlist announced for 2021
- 1:48 Mapping Irish citizens in New Zealand
- 2:13 Music Critic: Dianne Swann
- 2:27 NZ Screen History: Gloss
- 3:14 Your Money with Mary Holm
Wednesday, 27 January 2021
- 1:16 First Song: Tone6 release their first single
- 1:27 Housing crisis: Is rezoning the answer?
- 1:42 New study on how female ovulation evolved
- 1:50 A public toilet designed in Auckland is making waves in US
- 2:07 Podcast Critic: Katy Atkin
- 2:22 Bookmarks with Chloe Gong
- 3:06 How to cope with increasing anxiety in the pandemic
- 9:07 The value of community gardens
Tuesday, 26 January 2021
- 1:16 NZ isn't ready for a COVID vaccine roll out - vaccinologist
- 1:33 Sewerage pipe problems persist in Wellington
- 1:46 NZ species of mollusc attracts attention
- 1:54 How to write: A jingle
- 2:07 Book Critic: Claire Mabey
- 2:18 Songs about home
- 3:09 Freeing communities from 'Big Food's' control
Monday, 25 January 2021
- 1:04 Covid-19 community case: An update
- 1:28 First song with Paul Cathro
- 1:35 Call for more action over pyramid schemes
- 1:42 Family's globetrotting abruptly halted in NZ
- 2:07 Television Critic: Perlina Lau
- 2:18 Writing fiction in the pandemic era
- 2:27 Sheep: Intelligent, exuberant, and often homosexual
- 3:07 Embracing emotion in the workplace
Friday, 22 January 2021
- 1:17 Chief Executive of Oranga Tamariki resigns
- 1:27 Democracy fragility in the US overstated
- 1:35 New computer tool to locate shareholders of Maori freehold land
- 1:50 Volunteers sought for Gorsebusters project
- 2:10 Film Review with Graeme Tuckett
- 2:20 NZ LIVE - The Broken Heartbreakers
- 3:08 Food: Blueberry and Coconut Cake with Magical Blueberry Glaze
- 3:16 Music 101: Charlotte Ryan
- 3:25 Gardening with Lynda Hallinan
- 3:35 Critter of the Week: Unsea lichens
Thursday, 21 January 2021
- 1:17 NZer to head UN Development and Innovation programme for Asia Pacific region
- 1:27 How online harms spills from the virtual to the real world
- 1:35 Musicians robbed of all their equipment
- 2:10 Music Critic: Colin Morris
- 2:25 NZ Screen History: Remembering Close to Home
- 3:15 Solving the World's Problems with Steph Tan
- 3:25 The history of New Zealand’s Coats of Arms
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
- 1:17 COVID mutations fast and many
- 1:27 Inauguration eve in the US
- 1:37 Why we can't plant our way out of climate change
- 1:55 Foul smelling large rare flower blooms in Auckland and Dunedin
- 2:12 Podcast Critic Molly Jones
- 2:25 Bookmarks with Nathan Rarere
- 3:10 How kindness can make you live longer
- 9:06 Growing dune plants a challenging passion
Tuesday, 19 January 2021
- 1:17 Fighting antibiotic resistant superbugs with viruses
- 1:27 Promoter questions how immigration NZ decides which performers to let in
- 1:35 NZ expats under fire and estranged from the team of 5 million
- 1:50 How to Write: An Apology letter
- 2:10 Book Critic Lisa Glass
- 2:20 1991: A watershed year in Music
- 3:10 The Economist's Tom Standage on the World in 2021
Monday, 18 January 2021
- 1:17 America's Cup racing drama for American Magic
- 1:27 Sorting out your gut bacteria after Christmas excesses
- 1:34 Horse trainer Cliff Goss at top of his game at 89 years old
- 2:06 Television Critic Linda Burgess
- 2:20 Sleep over social media for teenage well being
- 2:30 Expert on the human spine
- 3:10 The 'failosophy' of coping when things go wrong
Thursday, 24 December 2020
- 7:00 The Rise and Fall of Empire Day
- 12:35 Gray Bartlett, Carson Taare and Mark Dennison - Christmas songs
- 12:45 Profiling the new Olympic sports: Karate
- 1:17 Spending Christmas in managed isolation
- 1:30 Niki Bezzant on the majesty of the potato fritter
- 1:45 Kiwi musicians fundraising to save venues
- 2:10 Music Critic Dianne Swann
- 2:30 Nostaligia listening: the songs that have comforted us in 2020
- 3:15 Ask the Farmer: Steve Wyn Harris
- 3:30 The history of NZ department stores
Wednesday, 23 December 2020
- 9:07 Epiphytes - high-rise plants
- 12:40 Profiling the new Olympic sports: Skateboarding
- 12:50 Tawa College student accepted into Harvard University
- 1:16 High school graduates building state houses
- 1:28 Mayor who used to tow cars warns drivers to be more careful
- 1:38 Looking after your gut health over Christmas and New Year
- 1:54 Afternoons Quiz Robert Kelly
- 2:07 Afternoons Quiz answers with Robert Kelly
- 2:14 Katy Atkin's summer podcast picks
- 2:27 Bookmarks with Freya Daly Sadgrove
- 3:10 Alex Palmer's collection of weird and wonderful holiday traditi
Tuesday, 22 December 2020
- 12:38 Profiling the new Olympic sports: Climbing
- 12:53 Trying to reduce the number of drownings this summer
- 1:12 The ban on blood donations by gay men
- 1:27 Auckland iwi finally has land for a marae
- 1:39 Can stimulating the sense of smell prevent Alzheimers?
- 1:47 Antarctic sea ice measured for the first time
- 2:08 Book Critic Pip Adam
- 2:23 Music Feature: Russell McMurray's Christmas song collection
- 3:10 Andy Cirzan's unusual Christmas music
Monday, 21 December 2020
- 12:38 Profiling the new Olympic sports: Surfing
- 12:53 Kiwi adults know more te reo than they realise
- 1:12 The downsides of a cashless society
- 1:23 Why 'Māoriland' fell out of fashion
- 1:26 Volcanic activity on Mt Ruapehu
- 1:38 Measuring Kiwi-Indians' contribution
- 1:46 Great NZ Album: I'll be Lightning
- 2:07 Television Critic Emma John
- 2:36 What makes a perfect Christmas Lunch?
- 3:10 Jennifer Sander - telling true Christmas stories
- 3:22 Kiwi Christmas Stories
Friday, 18 December 2020
- 1:15 First Song - LAB
- 1:30 Jupiter and Saturn align in the skies for Christmas
- 1:35 Elderly not drinking enough fluids
- 1:40 Scam alert for Christmas pyramid schemes
- 1:50 Coromandel locals take scallop decline crisis into their own hands
- 2:10 Film Review with Ali Ventura
- 2:30 NZ Live: Miles Calder
- 3:05 Food with Kelly Gibney
- 3:20 Music 101 - Charlotte Ryan
- 3:25 Weekend Stuff - DIY with Stan Scott
- 3:35 Critter of the Week - Chatham Island Christmas Tree
Thursday, 17 December 2020
- 7:00 Making Popstars: Truebliss
- 1:15 Ihumātao settlement announced this afternoon
- 1:35 Music mentorship programme Passion to Profession
- 1:37 Dr Siouxsie Wiles on NZ vaccine rollout
- 1:50 Great album: Welcome to the Pleasuredome
- 2:15 Māni Dunlop on the Ihumātao deal
- 2:20 Music Critic Simon Sweetman
- 2:35 Crimes NZ: The David Ross Ponzi Scheme
- 3:15 Your Money with Mary Holm: You don't HAVE to jump on the house buying bandwagon
Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- 1:17 Government opens the books
- 1:23 'Intellectual giant' Prof Jim Flynn dies
- 1:32 High school students' acne product flying off shelves
- 1:42 Ask the Vet about keeping pets safe this Christmas
- 1:54 Afternoons Quiz Robert Kelly
- 2:07 Afternoons Quiz answers with Robert Kelly
- 2:14 Podcast Critic Paul Bushnell
- 2:30 Bookmarks: Ernestina Bonsu Maro
- 3:12 Eric Bana on his return to the big screen for The Dry
- 9:06 Designing low damage buildings
Tuesday, 15 December 2020
- 1:15 Levi the dog training to detect bowel cancer
- 1:25 Kate Sheppard House opens doors as public museum
- 1:37 Large fire on Christchurch's Port Hills
- 1:40 Food charities prepare for busy Christmas period
- 1:53 How to write a plot, with Rose Carlyle
- 2:07 Book Critic Claire Mabey
- 2:26 Celebrating Beethoven's 250th birthday with Cynthia Morahan
- 3:07 Covid-19: Ministry outlines resurgence plan
- 3:23 Harold McGee's field guide to the world's smells
Monday, 14 December 2020
- 1:17 Marlborough Council moves to ban vehicles on Coast beaches
- 1:31 Hastings teacher wins National Excellence award
- 1:40 Building a Māori Garden in East Auckland
- 1:54 Great NZ Album: Herbs - Sensitive to a Smile
- 2:06 Linda Burgess' TV picks
- 2:20 Susan St John on the state of housing
- 2:31 Ask the archaeologist: Brigid Gallagher
- 3:08 Dr Craig Wright Why IQ is overrated
