Afternoons Podcast Options

1:08 PM.Toby Fleming from Rotorua has chosen 'Valentines Day' by Bruce Springsteen. Audio

4:36 PM.Topics - Do employers prefer beauty over brains in job interviews? Discrimination cases logged in Australia suggest "lookism", where workers are judged on appearance, is a real thing. In the past five… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - Yesterday Fonterra revealed all contaminated products have been found and there was now no or little risk to the public; but today a baby in Southland has fallen ill and undergone tests for… Read more Audio

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

3:30 PM.How many times a minute does the heart of a green-lipped mussel beat, and how do you measure it? Norman Ragg is a physiologist working with shellfish at the Cawthron Institute. Alison Ballance joins… Read more Audio

3:19 PM.Katy Gosset meets one of Christchurch's top tailors. Mark van Roosmalen may have lost his premises in the earthquake but he's busier than ever, turning out bespoke garments for the city's… Read more Audio

2:21 PM.Shaun and Beth have no fixed abode and they like it that way. About two years ago, they chucked in their jobs in London for the life of nomads. They have a motorhome they affectionately call Giseppie… Read more Audio

2:09 PM.Ben King from Mapua has cycled his way through 30 countries, covering 30,000 kilometres in places like Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, Morocco and Iraq. But it's not about the bike. Ben is an accomplished… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Located in rough, dry country 430 metres above sea level and 110 kilometres from Dunedin, Ranfurly was a gold rush town in the 1860s, but not a very important one and not that big until the Otago… Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Phil Boorman from Papamoa has chosen 'Overkill' by Colin Hay. Audio

4:36 PM.Topics - Researchers have connected noise to how food tastes. Associate professor Russell Keast and his team at Deakin University in Melbourne, has found that food on planes tastes bland because of… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - They've just held a media conference, and Fonterra's CEO says all the remaining contaminated product is now in warehouses and there is little or no risk to any consumers. They say our 100%… Read more Audio

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

3:27 PM.Even for the bravest of people, visiting the doctor can be a uneasy experience, and for young children it can be positively daunting. A group of Auckland medical students are working to demystify… Read more Audio

3:06 PM.Chromecast, an open protocol streaming device; SaneBox - does this really work or does it simply postpone?; Navman fights for relevance with rapid map refresh - and reveals surprising NZ sales; I'm… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.After 50 years of tuning pianos in Timaru, Stuart Croft has hundreds and hundreds of pennies. Coins that fell into the pianos and were forgotten until it was time for a tune up. Now Stuart is teaming… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Nelson area artist Darryl Robertson has returned to New Zealand after returning a piece of history to the Abbey of Monte Cassino. Seventy years ago, when the New Zealanders were fighting in Cassino, a… Read more Audio

1:22 PM.Can you spot the connection in our music quiz? Audio

1:10 PM.Kate Jensen from Alexandra has chosen 'Have Some Madeira, M'Dear' by Flanders & Swann. Audio

4:32 PM.Topics - With all the dramas happening lately involving Members of Parliament, it's no surprise they have ended up at the bottom of a new Trust and Confidence poll. Lest we forget, because we do… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - The Fonterra food contamination scandal has gone global. Countries around the world are pulling Fonterra infant formula from their shelves, and some countries, including Russia, are putting… Read more Audio

3:44 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:32 PM.Lynda Chanwai-Earle hears from researchers uncovering the cost of problem gambling to our Asian communities and she asks Sky City Casino for a response to this investigation. Audio

3:10 PM.Richard A. Friedman is a professor of clinical psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. He's got tips on how to make time pass more slowly as we grow older. Audio

2:19 PM.The Shut-In Stitchers is a group of volunteers who've been teaching quilting to the inmates of Arohata Women's Prison every Saturday morning since 1993. Two decades later and the stitchers are still… Read more Audio