Afternoons Podcast Options

1:25 PM.The small town about 25 minutes from New Plymouth on State Highway 45. Audio

1:08 PM.Ali Beaumont from Queenstown has chosen 'Stay Human' by Michael Franti. Audio

4:34 PM.Topics - Hotels are charging exorbitant rates for Wi-Fi and guests are much better off paying for their own mobile internet. It sounds like bad fiction, doesn't it? An Auckland court has heard how a… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.The Minister of Justice, Judith Collins, is defending the requirement for councils to wait for a year before they can use their new liquor licensing powers. Audio

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

3:34 PM.The Education Trust COMET says as many as 400,000 Aucklanders don't have good budgeting skills. It's developing what it calls a new financial literacy framework nicknamed "GEM", to help them. Audio

3:10 PM.Topics - Cloudy Day, Back Up, Protect your online ID, Use it and lose it, and Smart to buy a Smartphone? Audio

2:28 PM.A few weeks ago we spoke to Roger Button, originally from Norwich in England, about the kindness New Zealand children showed him 60 years ago that has not been forgotten. When Roger was just 8 years… Read more Audio

2:17 PM.More than 60 years ago an Auckland beekeeper scrawled his name on a hut used by trampers and mountaineers in mid-Canterbury. For years, mystery surrounded the whereabouts of the pencilled words... 'Ed… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Clark Kent is giving up his day job. After working for the Metropolis newspaper The Daily Planet since about 1940, Superman is quitting. In the new issue of Superman (No. 13), Clark Kent becomes… Read more Audio

1:24 PM.Can you spot the connection in our music quiz? Audio

1:08 PM.Doug Owens from Tauranga has chosen 'The Secret Garden ' by Quincy Jones with Al B. Sure. Audio

4:34 PM.Topics - A Princes Wharf apartment owner is fuming over a 207 per cent rise in outgoings, (Body Corp charges). John has sent us an email in which he describes the difficulties of trying to separate… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - tributes have been flowing for the former All Black and businessman, Sir Wilson Whineray who died yesterday, aged 77. U.S. President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney are… Read more Audio

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

3:30 PM.Imagine the ocean sweeping away everything: your home, your family, your village… the first New Zealand Sri Lankan theatre piece to hit the main-stage in Wellington, was inspired in by the… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Professor Natalie Phillips from Michigan State University with research on how reading the Jane Austen novels can activates areas of the brain more commonly associated with movement and touch. Audio

2:21 PM.Bay of Plenty man Max Deal had a dream… to build a yacht and sail around the world, and as it turns out - that was the dream of his brother, Greg, too. Audio

2:08 PM.Scientists believe that a beluga whale called Noc was trying to make sounds as close to the human voice as possible to communicate with us. Audio

1:52 PM.Topics - an introvert's manifesto, no-one's sure if it takes more muscles to frown than to smile, but smiling is better for us, and I'm not overweight I'm under-slept! Audio

1:42 PM.Featuring the songs 'Last Generation' by Kora and 'I Found You' by Alabama Shakes. Audio

1:29 PM.'Don't Trust the B**** in Apartment 23', 'Revolution', and 'Downton Abbey'. Audio

1:26 PM.The Lake Superior State University annual list of banished words and phrases is out. Audio

1:17 PM."A Cat, A Hat and a Piece of String" by Joanne Harris and "The Elephant Keepers' Children" by Peter Hoeg. Audio

1:08 PM.Victoria Harvey from Auckland has chosen 'I'm A Believer' performed by the Monkees. Audio