Afternoons Podcast Options

3:34 PM.In 1993 the South Auckland freight company Mainfreight became a benefactor of Otara school Baird's Road Primary. Since then the company's given $750,000 to the school and its now bumping up its annual… Read more Audio

3:09 PM.Topics - Your Watch Is Ready, Almost; Google Glass; Interview With A Digital Migrant; Researcher: Hackers can cause traffic jams by manipulating real-time traffic data; AT&T Hacker 'Weev' Sentenced to… Read more Audio

2:31 PM.Festival Review critiques the play Leo, discusses the theme of the Festival and wraps-up the visual arts programme. Audio

2:19 PM.Pete Langford decided to travel the length of New Zealand, Bluff to Cape Reinga, 2500 kilometres, on horseback. He started in November last year and has made his way to Nelson so far. Pete is raising… Read more Audio

2:08 PM.Seventy years ago flight commander Lloyd "Tommy" Thomas and lieutenant Ray McLauchlan of Timaru were about to make a strafing run over a Japanese airfield when Thomas's Hurricane was struck by ground… Read more Audio

1:17 PM.Can you spot the connection in our music quiz? Audio

1:09 PM.Fiona Stewart from Christchurch has chosen 'Moody's Mood for Love' by Amy Winehouse. Audio

4:35 PM.Topics - In Auckland parking fines were referred to by one councillor a while back as a straight-out money grab to hold down rates. A plane belonging to a respectable German airline has problems… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - The Government will pay six million dollars in compensation to schools to go towards meeting the costs of additional work caused by the failures of the Novopay system. The Prime Minister… Read more Audio

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

3:30 PM.In Asian Report - tea leaf salad! Lynda meets men and women from the Burmese community cooking up a storm for the Migrating Kitchen project in Wellington. Audio

3:10 PM.Fears that a tiny island in the Western Pacific will lose its culture if a massive Chinese tourism project goes ahead. The plan for Yap, one of the Federated States of Micronesia, will double its… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Festival Review critiques White Night at Auckland galleries and museums, early music performance Coffee with Mr Bach and Peruvian band Novalima. Audio

2:09 PM.Actor, singer, author, philanthropist, prolific tweeter, brown bag wine taster - William Shatner is a person of myriad accomplishments. Audio

1:54 PM.Topics - restoring the movie set of "Luke Skywalker's" house and Americans Abandoning News Outlets. Audio

1:42 PM.The songs 'Only Good For Conversation' by Rodriguez and 'Bag Of Money' by Barnaby Weir. Audio

1:32 PM.'Life After Life' by Kate Atkinson. Audio

1:20 PM.The TV shows 'The Vote', '3rd Degree',and 'The Secret Millionaire'. Audio

1:08 PM.Cliff Bartle from Wellington has chosen "When He Returns" by Bob Dylan. Audio

4:33 PM.Topics - Pope Francis has appeared before some 150,000 pilgrims massed in St Peter's Square for his first Angelus prayer and asked the faithful to pray for him. 'Younger Generation Lags Behind Its… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - most of the North Island has received a welcome smattering of rain. Some areas got up to 25 millimetres yesterday. Scientists are confident the rare earthquakes in Auckland at the weekend are… Read more Audio

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

3:10 PM.Developing the mental powers of Sherlock Holmes, his deductive techniques and his superior reasoning, can help anyone think more clearly and with deeper insight. So says Maria Konnikova, a… Read more Audio

2:32 PM.In today's Festival Review slot; a world premiere of a New Zealand play, a celebration of Maori music and stories from halfway down Dominion Road. Audio

2:21 PM.'A Day in the Life of New Zealand' is a remarkable document, a compilation of 450 photos that capture not only unforgettable moments, but also the quiet, ordinary beats that make up the minutes, that… Read more Audio