Afternoons Podcast Options

1:09 PM.Bron Claridge from Oamaru has chosen 'Mama' by Beth Hart. Audio

4:37 PM.Topics - A council in Britain has ordered its rubbish-truck workers not to go down uneven rural roads because they could suffer 'whole body vibrations'. Accepted wisdom was that people who run could… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - We're standing by for the announcement of a food-in-schools programme this week. At what point can a borrower claim that a loan is unjustly burdensome? Audio

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

3:30 PM.Generation Zero is a group of young people with a clear goal: a New Zealand without fossil fuels - in their lifetime. Veronika Meduna meets Louis Chambers and Stephanie Gregor who want a zero-carbon… Read more Audio

3:09 PM.For 365 days, Paul Miller disconnected himself from the internet. No Google, no Facebook, no emails. That's a big deal when you're a writer for the online news and culture website, The Verge. In fact… Read more Audio

2:09 PM.Locals called it 'the occupation', but far from being an act of war, this was friendly invasion by our North American Allies during the war in the Pacific. Today is Memorial Day in the USA, and the… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.One of our best known actors, Michael Hurst is currently performing a one man play at Wellington's Downstage. What is special about this show is that it was created by two emerging, young acting… Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Chris Jensen from just north of Auckland has chosen "Life is Eternal " by Carly Simon. Audio

4:35 PM.Motor industry commentators are blaming intense competition, a strong Australian dollar and a move away from large cars for the demise of the Ford Falcon. A new Anglican Church poll shows most people… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.The British police have arrested a man and a woman on charges of conspiracy to murder in relation to an attack in the London suburb of Woolwich. The US President Barack Obama has defended America's… Read more Audio

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

3:41 PM.5 thousand people, 30-thousand oysters.. you do the math. It all adds up to a celebration of a much loved delicacy in the place synonomous with oysters... Bluff. Tomorrow the annual Bluff Oyster and… Read more Audio

3:30 PM.Sarah reviews The Hangover 3 & Snitch. Audio

3:20 PM.Koonunga Hill Cabernet Sauvignon $14 on special. South Australia. Ara Pathway Pinot Noir 2011- About $18. Audio

3:08 PM.French mussels, cooked Normandy style with shallots, cider and cream. Audio

2:20 PM.In 1902 a ship carrying the exhumed bones of 499 Chinese gold miners sunk off the Hokianga coast. At the time, local iwi took up the bones that washed ashore to protect them until family could come to… Read more Audio

2:08 PM.4 million people, all over the world, call Hamilton home. Not of course, the one in the Waikato, but the 129 Hamiltons around the world. It's taken a Hamiltonian from the Waikato to put them all… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.On NZ Live Joseph & Maia are quite possibly the hottest duo in New Zealand music. They have been catapulted into public attention in the last six weeks with an EP that was initially recorded just for… Read more Audio

1:08 PM.Greg Byrnes rrom Christchurch chooses this Gene Clark tune. Audio

4:32 PM.Topics - One of the people convicted after the "Terror Raids" in the Ureweras has called for indigenous reservations to be established in New Zealand. Environmentalists have reacted angrily to today's… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.Topics - The British intelligence agency MI5 has briefed the Home Secretary about the hacking to death of a young man in south London, which is being treated as a terrorist attack. An Invercargill… Read more Audio

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

3:32 PM.Almost every major criminal investigation by the New Zealand Police has an electronic component. Electronic evidence is processed by the Electronic Crime Laboratory, which is in a secret location in… Read more Audio

3:17 PM.Charleston is said to be the only place in the world where gold was extracted from elevated, ancient sea-bed. Coast gold is like powder, and extracting it from it's paydirt took super-human effort and… Read more Audio