Afternoons Podcast Options

1:12 PM.Emily Percy from Auckland chooses 'Peaches' by The Presidents of the United States of America. Audio

4:31 PM.Topics - The Mongrel Mob says it will take the Porirua City Council to the Supreme Court, if it has to, to overturn a ban on offensive insignia on headstones. Soaring property prices in Auckland… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - The Alcohol Reform Bill will go back in Parliament to pass its final stages next month. The embattled Act leader and government MP John Banks says he kept political donor Kim Dotcom briefed… Read more Audio

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

3:33 PM.Lisa Thompson went to the South Auckland Pacific Arts Summit, which celebrates a broad spectrum of Pacific arts and culture. Over the month of May, the Summit will feature exhibitions, a live public… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Topics - Is Siri smarter than Google?; Google Wave is gone, hello Google Drive; Google 'aware of data scoop' from their streetview project; the Apple company profit - where are their ethics? Audio

2:21 PM.It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but a team of researchers in Australia say they could be less than a year away from making a bionic eye available to people with degenerative eye disease. Audio

2:10 PM.The description of a set of golf clubs up for auction at Sotheby's in London claims they are "probably the earliest known examples of traditional hand-crafted club-making from New Zealand". But New… Read more Audio

1:26 PM.Can you spot the connection in our music quiz? Audio

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