Afternoons Podcast Options

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

3:39 PM.After 34 years of dormancy the Papakura Geyser, one of the most significant geysers of the Te Whakarewarewa geothermal valley, is coming back to life. Lisa Thompson speaks to GNS Science about why… Read more Audio

3:27 PM.Many families in the Rockville-Bainham region of Golden Bay go back generations and the local museum holds a lot of their heritage. But Sage Forest discovers on the museum's steam-up day, there's more… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Can social media solve the problems of love? Justin Gregory meets Melissa Fergusson from Charlatan Clinic, a theatre company whose new show wants to find out. Audio

2:18 PM.Fifty-nine years ago, a wide eyed teenager from Runanga on the West Coast walked into the Greymouth Evening Star newspaper looking for a job, and it changed his life. George McKenzie started as an… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.This little dot on the map in South Wairarapa is on State Highway 2, five kilometres from Featherston. Around 200 people live permanently in the immediate vicinity, in an area of the country that has… Read more Audio

1:08 PM.Karen Withers of Auckland has chosen 'Careless' by Paul Kelly. Audio

4:37 PM.There are reports today of cowboys racing horses down the main street of Taumarunui, which the Fairfax website says is "helping reinforce the town's Wild West reputation". Have you ever wondered about… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.If reducing the opening hours of bars is a "sure-fire" way to reduce alcohol-related harm, does anyone know why we're not doing it? Do the government's proposed changes to the drink-drive limit go far… Read more Audio

3:45 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:33 PM.The small North Auckland town of Warkworth this week celebrates its founding 160-years ago. Descendants of the first settlers are in for a particular treat… a special trip on the historic scow, The… Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Digital California. Hockney goes digital. Is Google at sea? Audio

2:27 PM.Ringo Starr's book 'Photograph' features pictures drummer took as The Beatles' unofficial photographer. When the publishers of the book needed help with its promotion they put in a call to Hedleys… Read more Audio

2:08 PM.Investigators say the billion dollars worth of paintings taken by the Nazis during the Second World War found in a Munich flat this week may be just the tip of the iceberg. Robert Edsel has written… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Can you spot the connection in our music quiz? Audio

1:08 PM.Doreen McPhail from Hawkes Bay chooses 'Against the Wind' by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. Audio

4:36 PM.Topics - The TAB is predicting record betting of nine million dollars in New Zealand on the Melbourne Cup. The Accident Compensation Corporation is asking people to take care around fireworks this Guy… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - A senior police officer has been brought in from outside Auckland to help investigate a group of young men who've been boasting online about sex with intoxicated girls. The police have been… Read more Audio

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

3:31 PM.Lynda Chanwai-Earle visits a Theravada Buddhist monastery in Island Bay during a vibrant 15-day festival that commemorates lost loved ones. Audio

3:07 PM.Newcastle yachtsman Ivan Macfadyen's firsthand account of the Pacific Ocean, which he describes as 'broken' and 'dead'. Ten years ago Ivan charted a course between Melbourne and Osaka. He could throw… Read more Audio

2:19 PM.The principal of Hawera's Ramanui School - Liz Harrison - has just returned from an eye opening trip to Ghana, mentoring untrained teachers there. Liz and another Ramanui teacher, Kaareen Hotereni… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.A villa built on the Sumner Esplanade in Christchurch early last century has been saved from demolition and given a new lease of life. A Queenstown couple couldn't bear to see the beautiful home… Read more Audio

1:54 PM.The vocab test; The weirdest things eaten by travel bloggers; Food for the Horse lover's soul. Audio

1:46 PM.Featuring the tracks 'Forgiveness' and 'Two Pale Moons' by the group Tiny Lies. Audio