Afternoons Podcast Options

3:08 PM.Kiwi Kitchen chef and author, Richard Till joins us to talk about a great slow cooking roast lamb / hogget recipe idea. Audio

2:20 PM.They came from New Zealand but sounded like Motown. The Maori Volcanics formed in 1964 and launched the musical careers of some of New Zealand's most loved performers like Billy T Williams and Prince… Read more Audio

2:08 PM.They were a combat ready unit of soldiers from the 1st Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment serving in Vietnam in 1968. Victor Company, were deployed in South Vietnam, and have the… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Our tour guides are from the famous coal-mining town of Runanga, 10k's northwest of Greymouth. Audio

1:07 PM.Julie Collis from Auckland chooses this Carole King song. Audio

4:35 PM.Topics - Despite the screeds of data Facebook collects about people, the social network needs to know its users much better if it is going to become - as it says it wants to - the Web's most effective… Read more Audio

4:06 PM.Topics - The Department of Conservation has ruled out any increase in the price of using national parks as a means of increasing revenue. Fonterra has lifted its half year profit, and its forecast… Read more Audio

3:44 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:30 PM.Dozens of native trees are dying at Auckland's Tawharunui Regional Park as a result of the big dry. Endangered kiwi and pateke (the New Zealand brown teal) are succumbing too. Audio

3:10 PM.Topics - The GoPro camera; The Touch-Screen Generation; and Teens prefer tech to cars. Audio

2:22 PM.Out in the distant galaxy, thousands of years ago, a star exploded, becoming a supernova, and the first person to notice saw it from his shed in the backyard of his home in Geraldine. The Central… Read more Audio

2:07 PM.Amanda Knox says she will fight with her head held high the latest decision by the Italian Supreme court ordering another trial for the death of her former roomate. Knox and her former boyfriend… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Can you spot the connection in our music quiz? Audio

1:08 PM.Colin Woods from Auckland has chosen 'Teenage Kicks' by the Undertones. Audio

4:35 PM.Topics - The Sultan is in New Zealand on a four-day state visit. The CEO of the Earthquake Commission has kept his job, after a meeting today with the Minister for Earthquake Recovery Gerry Brownlee… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - 140 jobs at the Department of Conservation will disappear as a result of the latest round of restructuring. A Herald DigiPoll suggests public opposition to same-sex marriage has grown… Read more Audio

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

3:34 PM.Imagine fleeing your war-ravaged home and living in hiding for 20 years. Tales of survival from two Burmese men participating in the Migrating Kitchen Project features in this Asian Report. Audio

3:10 PM.The science of friendship includes research that shows how friends can help lower heart rates and blood pressure during times of stress, improve our immune and digestive systems, and increase… Read more Audio

2:13 PM.When the National Hip Hop Dance Championships take place in Auckland next month, The Hip Op-eration Crew, aka The Hip-Op Crew, from Waiheke Island will be one of the biggest crews in the competition… Read more Audio

2:06 PM.Pilots from all over the world are flying in the Air Safari, which has been taking place for the last seven days in the skies above us. Audio

1:54 PM.Topics - advice from bankers and their wives on saving money; and cool and unusual packaging. Audio

1:44 PM.The songs 'Patient Love' by Passenger and 'Gal From Kitchen's Field' by Wayne Hancock. Audio

1:39 PM.Vanda Symon has read around 160 books as a judge for this year's NZ Post Book Awards. Audio

1:26 PM.The shows 'Top of the Lake', 'The New Normal' and 'Bunheads'. Audio