Afternoons Podcast Options

1:53 PM.Topics - Watching TV reduces your life expectancy; running increases your life expectancy; absurd patents; and Dutch Marines, before during and after Afghanistan. Audio

1:43 PM.The songs 'Fire In The Crawlspace' and 'Empty World' by SJD. Audio

1:32 PM.'Gone Girl' by Gillian Flynn and Pamela Stephenson's autobiography: 'The Varnished Untruth'. Audio

1:18 PM.'Kit and Marnie', 'A Song of Good', 'I Hate My Teenage Daughter', and 'Great Expectations'. Audio

1:08 PM.Trevor Gratton from Wellington has chosen 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' by Iron Butterfly. Audio

4:37 PM.Topics - 5.8 million people in Britain admit to being superstitious. An article in the Sunday Star Times suggests that changes to the Education Act could lead to "double-bunked" "mega schools". Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - The Prime Minister has confirmed that New Zealand taxpayers are paying for the Duchess of Cornwall's hairdresser while she is visiting the country. Is there a fundamental problem with our… Read more Audio

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

3:31 PM.The challenge is to build a bridge using just MDF and glue and then test it to destruction. Audio

3:09 PM.We talk about a new book by Sherlock Holmes creater Arthur Conan Doyle, not about mystery and murder but his voyage to the Arctic aboard the whaling ship SS Hope. Jon L. Lellenberg is the… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.In 1957, at the age of just 21, a young woman from Te Kotu surprised the world when she made it to the quarter finals of the Wimbleton Open, making history in the process as the first Maori woman to… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.He's been a Billy T Award winner, a Fred Award winner, performed at the Edinburgh and Melbourne comedy festivals, and is host of C4 TV shows 'Roll the Dai' and 'Insert Video Here'. He's recently… Read more Audio

1:08 PM.Emily Batchelor from Taranaki has chosen 'Calliope' by the Veils. Audio

2:53 PM.The Semi-Permanent Design conference Wellington's first crack at hosting the Semi-Permanent Design conference, a meeting of local and international creative minds. It's a concept that started in New… Read more Audio

4:33 PM.There are fresh demands to reform the system of appointing Archbishops in Britain, The debate on gay and transgender marriage continued this week in Parliament, The Prime Minister has denied in… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.Almost $20 million in poker machine revenue has been diverted from community and sporting groups as a consequence of a racing industry takeover of poker machines. A former police officer accused of… Read more Audio

3:50 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:45 PM.Sunday is Armistice Day, the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice between the Allies and Germany to officially end the First World War. In Cambridge, the commemorations actually begin tomorrow… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.The Sessions is loosely based on the true life story of Mark O'Brien - an American poet, philosopher and writer who was unable to move and needed to spend time in an iron lung every day due to Polio… Read more Audio

3:22 PM.Belinda's wine picks Mount Beautiful Riesling 2010 - North Canterbury $22 Auka Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 - Mendoza, Argentina $25 Koonunga Hill Shiraz - $15 on special Audio

3:08 PM.Dame Alison Holst shares a recipe for traditional Christmas mince meat. Audio

2:20 PM.Deb Nation explores the archives to celebrate the Women's Conventions which radicalised country ladies, rape victims and feminist separatists alike, 50 years ago. Audio

2:10 PM.Laura Dekker was just 10 years old when she first began preparing to sail around the world by herself. Born on a yacht in Whangarei and raised in the Netherlands, she would have to battle Dutch… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.A jet-lagged Greg Johnson plays songs from his album 'Exits'. Audio

1:08 PM.Jacquie Walters from chooses this Mike Brosnan song. Audio