Afternoons Podcast Options

1:10 PM.Eva Bradley from Hawkes Bay has chosen 'I Know It's Over' by The Smiths. Audio

4:33 PM.Topics - Complaints about a Napier church billboard that claimed 'Jesus heals cancer' have been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority. Car makers say the tastes of Chinese consumers are having… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - pressure continues on Prime Minister John Key to stand down the ACT leader, John Banks, from his ministerial roles while police investigate donations to his campaign. There's been a big… Read more Audio

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

3:33 PM.Lynda Chanwai-Earle gets a close up look at the miracles of plastic surgery with reconstructive plastic surgeon, Dr Swee Tan. Audio

3:10 PM.At any time of the day or night, technology allows us to connect with people all over the world. But whatever happened to a good old fashioned face to face chat? Some experts believe relentless… Read more Audio

2:22 PM.Throughout the country, maimais are being built and shotguns and duck-callers are being dusted off, as about 50,000 duck-hunters prepare for the opening of the season on Saturday. Audio

2:10 PM.Oceanographer, Giora Proskurowski, says wind drives large amounts of rubbish deeper into the sea and believes this isn't being picked up by researchers who only take samples from the ocean's surface… Read more Audio

1:54 PM.A UK court rules that some ISPs must block the Pirate Bay website and the 'Descriptive Camera' that prints what it sees. Audio

1:46 PM.The songs 'Montauk' and 'Jericho' by Rufus Wainwright. Audio

1:38 PM.'Beastly Things' by Donna Leon and 'The Forrests' by Emily Perkins. Audio

1:22 PM.A new television channel on Freeview called Choice, documentaries on the box, the Edge Festival, and Tainui Stephens' program 'Requiem for Charlie'. Audio

1:09 PM.Grant Hamilton from the Far North has chosen 'Man of Colours' by Australian band Icehouse. Audio

4:32 PM.Topics - The Sydney Morning Herald reports Australia's big four banks will have reported a combined first-half profit of about $12.5 billion by the end of the next fortnight. A Hamilton man has begun… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - The New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters, has accused the Prime Minister, John Key, of double standards for not forcing John Banks to stand down as a minister. A recording of a critical… Read more Audio

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

3:35 PM.SPARX is a 3D computer game developed by the University of Auckland which is helping teenagers beat depression. Audio

3:09 PM.Professor James W. Hall thinks he's identified the DNA of a best-seller. In his book 'Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers' he describes the 12 necessary… Read more Audio

2:24 PM.The main road into Thames has split, revealing an important part of the area's gold mining history. Part of a pump that was built in 1888 to drain the town's richest gold mines can now be seen through… Read more Audio

2:08 PM.Dave Snell is a Waikato University student who has just completed his PhD on bogans. Audio

1:21 PM.He planted his first grapes after a successful career as a broadcaster and journalist, escaping the bright lights of television and heading for Central Otago where he bought land in Gibbston Valley… Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Lionel Wilson from Timaru has chosen 'The Living Years' by Mike and the Mechanics. Audio

4:35 PM.Panellists have their say and our listeners do too in the Complaints Choir; Financial crunch time for NZ Post? and; TVNZ7 and its loyal band of determined followers. Audio

4:05 PM.The Hobbit and how far did the government go to keep its production in New Zealand... and sex on the beach. Audio

3:45 PM.A look at who's been tweeting what to whom and other cyber space traffic: Rupert Murdoch; Asma al-Assad; worst careers; Octomom and; Deity believers among others. Audio