Afternoons Podcast Options

1:49 PM.Jim reviews some amusing quotes from magazines in the 1800s. Audio

1:41 PM.The Map Room. Audio

1:36 PM.'The Ghost Riders of Ordebec' by Fred Vargas. Audio

1:20 PM.'Dynamo: Magician Impossible'; the Colorado Gorge Walk; 'DCI Banks'. Audio

1:08 PM.Terry Barrington from Auckland has chosen 'I Cried Last Night' by Charles Brown. Audio

4:34 PM.Topics - Some researchers believe that boosting optimism could provide new ways to improve health. Eminent figures from the Victorian era including William Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli and Florence… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - Australia's big four banks - who own New Zealand's big four banks - have been ranked the most profitable in the developed world for the third year running, reigniting criticism about their… Read more Audio

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

3:31 PM.On Matiu Somes Island in Wellington Harbour, the Department of Conservation has installed a renewable energy system which has made a diesel powered generator practically redundant. The 'HyLink'… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Astrophysicist Mario Livio explores the colossal errors committed by scientific greats, from chemist Linus Pauling's botched model of DNA, to Charles Darwin's failure to understand genetics - the very… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.It's part of the rural idyll - the dream of being able to wander up the road and get your milk straight from the farm gate. It's a tradition long gone by the wayside, but one that is being revived by… Read more Audio

2:09 PM.The British star screenwriter who calls New Zealand home. Creator of hit detective series 'Luther' and gritty spy drama 'Spooks', Neil Cross is one of the hottest properties at BBC TV. So much so, his… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Travelling to Mars today a man whose oxygen is words. He's an expert on them and their origins, and he's an historian too, fossicking in our past to illuminate the National Anthem for example. He's… Read more Audio

1:08 PM.Megan Hindmarsh from Kaikohe has chosen 'The Power of Love' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Audio

4:36 PM.The new deadliness of distracted walking; stress and its effect on the Christchurch population; should the good people of Arrowtown have the right to stop people coming to their town and living in… Read more Audio

4:06 PM.The price of a life - the airforce's compensation payouts to the dead airmen in the helicopter; what is wrong with this new variety of nicotine dispensers as we cut down on smoking; new discoveries… Read more Audio

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

3:41 PM.The snow and cold isn't going to stop pig hunters from taking part in the inaugural Awatere Shortest Day Pig Hunt this weekend. The Starborough Tavern in Seddon, south of Blenheim, already has 150… Read more Audio

3:31 PM.Sarah McMullan reviews apocalyptic horror film 'World War Z', American apocalyptic comedy film 'This is the End', and Canadian drama 'Still Mine'. Audio

3:22 PM.Woollaston Pinot Noir, $30; Auntsfield SV Sauvignon Blanc, $22; Rosemount Diamond Label Shiraz, $15. Audio

3:07 PM.Julie Biuso shares her recipe for Chilli Chicken Stir-fry with Cashews, and Curried Cauliflower and Potato, taken from her first book 'All This and More'. Audio

2:45 PM.Out of the Blue by British rockers the Electric Light Orchestra from 1977. Audio

2:20 PM.For the first time in fifty years, the kiwis are calling on the Kaipara. Eight young birds have been welcomed on to a Kaipara farm, joining five others released two weeks before. David Steemson was… Read more Audio

2:16 PM.In 1942, an American pilot flying a Kittyhawk aircraft was forced to make a belly landing on a beach in Vanuatu during World War Two. He survived, but the plane remained there on the beach, frozen in… Read more Audio

2:09 PM.No matter where you live in New Zealand, the weather has delivered some unpleasant conditions - snow in the South Island, wicked winds in Wellington and freezing temperatures further north. Fierce… Read more Audio