Afternoons Podcast Options

3:29 PM.A car-pooling advocate says Auckland can fix its congestion problems simply, if more Auckland drivers would only share a ride to work. Audio

3:10 PM.Topics - Sony Playstation 4 verces the Microsoft Xbox One and fundraising goes digital with Schoola.com. Audio

2:21 PM.What started as an adventure - a single mother doing an OE with a toddler and a 10-year-old, then a dream to publish a book about the trip - is now going to be a reality. Rebekah Tyler quit her job… Read more Audio

2:09 PM.Brian James Curtis, the 79-year-old former drug lord, led the kind of life that is the stuff of crime novels. A successful property developer, he turned to a life of crime and drug dealing in the… Read more Audio

1:21 PM.Can you spot the connection in our music quiz? Audio

1:08 PM.Terry Locke from Auckland has chosen 'The Birth of the Blues' by Frank Sinatra. Audio

4:36 PM.What's going on with Owen Glenn's enquiry into child abuse? Audio

4:08 PM.More chat about how we're spied on, and the implications of Peter Dunne's resignation. Are knighthoods simply the result of brownie points and should sitting judges get them? Audio

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

3:30 PM.A new chapter for China/New Zealand exchanges. Lisa Thompson meets young Chinese writer Huo Yan, the inaugural winner of the Rewi Alley Writing Fellowship. Audio

3:09 PM.The theory is simply: to master any skill it takes 10-thousand hours of deliberate practice. It's a theory made popular in Malcolm Gladwell's book 'Outliers'. In April 2010, professional photographer… Read more Audio

2:50 PM.The Feature Album is 1986's 'True Colors' by Cyndi Lauper. Audio

2:20 PM.A memorial to one of New Zealand's most famous shipwrecks could do with a wash and brush up. The South Wairarapa District Council has been asked to tend to the headstone marking the grave of a dozen… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.In January 2010, a magnitude 7 earthquake devastated the Carribbean Republic of Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people, and displacing millions more. But the rebuild in Haiti, though slow, is… Read more Audio

1:54 PM.Ben Gracewood talks about a Contact Lens Computer, and the Apple iOS7 announced. Audio

1:44 PM.Nick Atkinson talks about A Hori Buzz, and Fat Freddy's Drop. Audio

1:36 PM.Nicky Pellegrino reviews 'Americanah' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Audio

1:24 PM.Sarah McMullan reviews Wentworth, and Arrow. Audio

1:13 PM.Andrew London from Kapiti Coast chooses 'One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)' by Frank Sinatra. Audio

4:37 PM.Topics - Do you find that time speeds up as you get older? The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that Volkswagen Australia is about to issue a recall. Most New Zealanders think they'd be more… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - The United Future leader Peter Dunne could be brought before the privileges committee over his denial that he leaked a GCSB report to a journalist. A 29-year-old contractor at the US National… Read more Audio

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

3:33 PM.If you stand at Cape Reinga in the Far North on a fine day you can just glimpse some islands on the horizon. They are the Three Kings Islands, where Alison Ballance joined Auckland Museum's recent… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.When Emma Brockes was 10 years old, her mother Paula made that pledge to her only daughter - "One day I will tell you the story of my life and you will be amazed". Emma knew her Mum had emigrated to… Read more Audio

2:21 PM.Outward Bound is the outdoor education course that teaches teamwork, leadership, and resilience to young people all over the world, since it was first founded in Wales in 1941. The cutters of Outward… Read more Audio