Afternoons Podcast Options

2:45 PM.Today's feature album is from the Beach Boy Brian Wilson. Released in 2004, his solo album 'Smile' was critically lauded at the time with one pundit noting, "...better 37-years late than never." Audio

2:25 PM.Generations of Chinese New Zealanders from around the country make a special pilgrimage to the giant sand dunes of Mitimiti in the Hokianga, but they’re uncovering more surprises than the bones of… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.On 3 July 2013, it will be the 50th anniversary of New Zealand's worst internal air disaster. All 23 passengers and crew were killed when their National Airways Corporation DC-3 went down in the… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.New Zealand Live today with southern folk/country duo - Into the East. They've just released their debut album and are touring to promote it. Their travels have brought them to Auckland where they're… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.For Norm Booker in Auckland, it's Al Hibbler's original version of Unchained Melody. Audio

4:34 PM.Topics - Pope Francis has launched a stinging attack on the 'culture of waste'. He says throwing good food away is like stealing from the poor. Education authorities are demanding a primary school… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - The decision to remove fluoride from Hamilton's water supply has divided opinion. Has Novapay been built on antiquated and weak software, compared to much faster modern software that's… Read more Audio

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

3:30 PM.New Zealand's a land of birds - and there's now a website that's the ultimate one-stop shop for everything you ever wanted to know about them. Alison Ballance is off to find out more. Audio

3:10 PM.Peter Arnett is our most famous war reporter. This former Southland boy has covered the most dangerous conflicts of the last fifty years, and a documentary team in Auckland now wants to tell his… Read more Audio

2:22 PM.In the cemetery at St Mary's Cathedral in New Plymouth are the names of some of the city's founding fathers. Each stone, has a story to tell: children who died in epidemics in 1860, the man who fell… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.For more than 30 years, the Lee family has been involved in the ski industry in the Cardrona valley. John Lee developed the Cardrona Ski Area, which opened in 1980, his wife Mary Lee established the… Read more Audio

1:32 PM.At the junction of State Highways 25 and 26, Kopu is the gateway to the Coromandel. At last count the permanent resident population stood at only four, but during the working week it bustles with 30… Read more Audio

1:08 PM.Hamish McCallum of Ashley Downs, Clinton has chosen 'Pomp and Circumstance' - March No. 1 in D. Audio

4:34 PM.Topics - We increasingly multi-task as we consume our meals, eating as we work at our desk or watch television. The NZ Herald is reporting that the mother of a 12-year-old boy hit by a car as he… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - how was Talent 2 ever selected for the job of creating a payroll systems for teachers? Figures from Tourism New Zealand show overseas tourist arrivals were up 10 per cent from 2012 for the… Read more Audio

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

3:32 PM.The tiny north Auckland community of Puhoi is this month celebrating its founding 150-years ago, by a boat load of settlers from Bohemia, which is now part of what is the Czech Republic. After four… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Changing your computer hardware - Buy or Upgrade? traditional HD or the newer, faster SSD [solid state drive]? Which backup? Which iPad do I buy? which camera? Audio

2:20 PM.Her adventures are in faraway exotic lands all over the world; Bhutan, Indonesia, Lebanon and Yemen. Brenda Sewell is 80 years old, she and her husband have been seeking adventure once a year in the… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.For 34 years, Fishermen in trouble in the rough and often treacherous waters off the coast of Invercargill have reached out to one woman for help. Meri Leask is a volunteer Fisherman's radio operator… Read more Audio

1:26 PM.Can you spot the connection in our music quiz? Audio

1:07 PM.Andrew Palace from Auckland has chosen 'Love Reign O'er Me' by The Who. Audio

4:37 PM.Topics - Members of Tuhoe have signed a Treaty settlement with the Crown this afternoon in another step towards resolving the iwi's historical claims. The novelist and poet Albert Wendt has been… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - 107 out of 161 "high-wealth individuals" who own or control more than $50 million worth of assets declared their personal income in the last financial year was less than $70,000. An… Read more Audio