Afternoons Podcast Options

3:29 PM.Making rugby accessible to all players. How researchers from the University of Auckland and Auckland University of Technology are helping to keep hearing impaired players safe on the sports field. Audio

3:19 PM.After a career as an art teacher, Georgina West studied and worked as an engineer. Now she has a business combining the two in 'GEORGEous Designs', and she's passing her metalworking knowledge on to… Read more Audio

2:23 PM.There was a time when businesses would have tried to run Mikaere Gardiner out of town. He was considered a graffiti vandal, leaving his colorful mark on buildings Now, businesses in Hamilton are… Read more Audio

2:08 PM.He called Milford Sound the Eighth Wonder of the World and described Auckland as 'last, loneliest, loveliest, exquisite, apart'. Author and poet Rudyard Kipling said New Zealanders could tell many… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Totara North, on the northern shores of the Whangaroa Harbour, north of Kerikeri, has a population of around 200. There is a primary school, a community hall, a bar and cafe, a small wharf an even… Read more Audio

1:08 PM.Joanne Harland from Auckland has chosen 'Polyester Girl' by Regurgitator. Audio

4:37 PM.Topics - What is the legal status of free range chickens? A claim by a Hastings Historian, mainly known online i think, that Ngai Tahu is extracting never-ending "top-ups" of it's coffers from… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.Topics - more than five thousand homes will be fast-tracked in Auckland, in the first areas to be approved under the city's new Housing Accord. The 10 so-called Special Housing Areas announced by the… Read more Audio

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

3:31 PM.Lisa Thompson takes a tour of the most modern pre-cast concrete manufacturing facility in Australasia, which is producing over 24,000 concrete segments to line the motorway tunnels for Auckland's… Read more Audio

3:09 PM.Your Life in a Tweet challenge - Jim and Jules discuss, pick winners, reveal each other's life tweets. The 'Electronic Sabbath', The Price is Right? The 'iTunes' Radio and Dread Pirate Roberts… Read more Audio

2:24 PM.A Taieri Mouth fisherman hauled in a mysterious and unexpected catch off the coast of the Otago Coast this week. On a windy night, about 300 metres offshore from The Nuggets the skipper of Lady Ann… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.For more than a decade Troika Brodsky from St Louis Missouri has been collecting movie props from the Lord Of The Rings film trilogy. He has Frodo's original sword 'Sting', a pair of Hobbit feet worn… Read more Audio

1:18 PM.Can you spot the connection in our music quiz? Audio

1:10 PM.David Williams from Golden Bay has chosen 'Everything I Own' by Boy George. Audio

4:33 PM.Topics - First there was a website that predicted when your parents would die; now there's a watch that not only predicts when you will die, it also begins counting down. Bob Geldof says the human… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - Mark Lundy's convictions for murdering his wife and daughter have been quashed and he will stand trial again. The Law Lords of the Privy Council have unanimously ruled there was a risk that… Read more Audio

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

3:33 PM.Sook Hua Lee is currently the only tutor teaching Chinese to secondary school students across the country via video conferencing. She does this from the E-Learning Centre at Tamatea High School in… Read more Audio

3:32 PM.Four students talk about their experiences of learning Chinese via video conferencing. Audio

3:10 PM.Professor Simon Mitchell is Head of Anaesthesiology at the University of Auckland Medical School. He talks about how Auckland hospital is saving lives in surgery by using a technique airline pilots… Read more Audio

2:22 PM.The Nation family has been baking chocolate eclairs the size of saucers in Ohakune since 1939. And the giant-sized treat has become so famous, it's being talked about from Munich to Australia - they… Read more Audio

2:11 PM.Nick Afoa hasn't acted since he had a part in his school play 10 years ago and now the 27-year-old has landed the lead role in Australia's rendition of The Lion King musical, which opens in December… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Twitter is filing for an IPO and the Silk Road Bust, Bitcoin and Tor Encryption. Audio

1:46 PM.The phenomenon of word aversion - ordinary sorts of words that some people just detest. Audio