Afternoons Podcast Options

1:22 PM.Can you spot the connection in our music quiz? Audio

1:09 PM.David Brydon from Nelson has chosen 'Home' performed by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Audio

4:32 PM.Topics - Chinese-made poppies will go on sale in New Zealand for the first time in this week's annual poppy appeal. Has banning the cane and the strap left schools unable to impose discipline and led… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - SkyCity's chief executive Nigel Morrison says the Auckland casino's slot machines are less harmful to the public than Lotto tickets - and he says claims of social harm are out of proportion… Read more Audio

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

3:36 PM.Lynda Chanwai-Earle catches young and talented entrepreneur Graci Kim before she heads to Taipei for Diplomatic training. Graci chats to Lynda about her brand new interactive children's iPad book that… Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Journalist, author, cultural critic and social historian Gordon McLauchlan is taking another look at New Zealand in his book 'The Passionless People Revisited'. Audio

2:21 PM.A New Zealand company is calling for more people to take up goat farming after the European Food Safety Authority accepted evidence that goat milk is a good source of nutrition for babies. Audio

2:10 PM.Thanks to Robyn and Robert Guyton's Open Orchard Project, there's now 500 species of apple trees, 20 types of pears and a dozen species of plums growing throughout the Southland province. Audio

1:54 PM.Tupac's Coachella 'performance' is equal parts amazing, tacky, and macabre; The UK government's war on internet freedom; and the Economist's Graphic Detail Blog. Audio

1:45 PM.Featuring 'Stop And Think It Over' by Full Wood and 'Marion Bates' by Tono and The Finance Company. Audio

1:35 PM.'The 1960s Scrapbook' - compiled by Robert Opie; 'Maggie's Verjuice Cookbook' by Maggie Beer; 'The Library Book' (23 well-known writers with essays on how libraries influenced them and what they mean… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.A quick word about Jersey Boys on at the Civic in Auckland. Audio

1:21 PM.Discussing - Titanic dramas, 'The Chawners' Last Chance', 'Game of Thrones', and 'New Tricks'. Audio

1:09 PM.Jessica Doube from Wellington has chosen 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt.1' by The Flaming Lips. Audio

4:39 PM.Topics - The Hunger Games far outperformed The Three Stooges (the latest thing from Hollywood) over the weekend to claim the No. 1 spot for the fourth consecutive week. John Key has promised the… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - The Trade Me website has withdrawn the rental property listing of a Fijian Indian landlord after he described his ideal tenants as "European". Auckland's SkyCity wants more cashless gambling… Read more Audio

3:48 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:37 PM.Getting rid of a small introduced animal on a large island in remote Fiordland is no easy walk in the park. Audio

3:10 PM.Nadia Lim is a dietitian, with a BSc in Nutrition and a Postgradute Diploma in Dietetics. She is also last year's Masterchef Winner. In her first cookbook, Nadia takes a common sense approach to food… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Bears, rattlesnakes and tics are just some of the challenges facing Dunedin man Jeremy Star, who's getting set to walk a 4,265 kilometre track in the States. The Pacific Crest Trail starts at Mexico's… Read more Audio

1:23 PM.He's busy teaching a course in gastronomy at the Auckland University of Technology, writing for Cuisine magazine (which he's been doing for 20 years) and a Sunday newspaper, and you've almost… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Martin Stubbing from Auckland has chosen 'The Long and Winding Road' by The Beatles. Audio

4:35 PM.What could be more dangerous than drink driving? Only 35% of hybrid vehicle owners chose to purchase a hybrid again when they returned to the market in 2011, according to auto information company R.L… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.More and more cases are being reported, to the Herald and to us, of unfair wheel clamping, Police have confirmed that a review is underway following another budgetary overspend on the Diplomatic… Read more Audio