Afternoons Podcast Options

4:36 PM.Topics - in an entertaining column, Natalie Reilly has had a go at the use of the Internet hashtag '#Just Sayin'. Cars may no longer require a six-monthly warrant of fitness check under reforms being… Read more Audio

4:06 PM.Topics - The Privacy Commissioner is welcoming the Government's plan to overhaul New Zealand's 20-year-old privacy laws. An Australian judge has ruled the Family Court has no power to order a woman… Read more Audio

3:44 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:14 PM.Our Christchurch correspondent Katy Gosset visits the Richmond Working Men's Club Pigeon division, to share their anxious wait for the birds' return. Audio

2:21 PM.Inger Sheil has been fascinated with the Titanic since she was a child, which is very useful when your job is Director's Assistant at the Australian National Maritime Museum. Next week, she will join… Read more Audio

2:06 PM.Gerco Hiddink and his partner are graphic designers from eastern Holland. They've taken two months off from their graphic design company for an extended holiday in Golden Bay, where Dutch explorer… Read more Audio

1:21 PM.Our Your Place tour guides today are from Maungati in South Canterbury, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary next month. Audio

1:07 PM.Paul Moss from Wellington has chosen 'Singing the Dolphin Through' by the Manfred Mann's Earth band. Audio

4:36 PM.Topics - The New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns says fighting to clear his name in the High Court in London "was a real rollercoaster". For the first time since his arrest in January, the alleged… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - The Green Party says a police upgrade to double-shot tasers is a slippery slope towards greater frontline firepower. After a chaotic day of refusals and climbdowns, Downing Street has… Read more Audio

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

3:38 PM.A group of Auckland lesbians are looking for angel investors to fund this country's first Lesbian Elder Village. Audio

3:10 PM.Topics - a retraction related to the one man show of actor Mike Daisey, turn in your facebook key and the Nigerian FBI scam. Audio

2:21 PM.Last year we spoke with one of the volunteers at the The Fantasy Cave in Dannevirke, which was under threat of closing down. Well it did close down, for two weeks, but now a sponsor has saved the… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.People who eat chocolate on a regular basis may actually be thinner than those who don't, according to a new study by the University of California, San Diego. Audio

1:18 PM.Can you spot the connection in our music quiz? Audio

1:07 PM.Louise Ayyrey from Auckland has chosen 'Three Little Birds' by Bob Marley. Audio

4:33 PM.Topics - A new book called "The Righteous Mind," by Virginia University professor Jonathan Haidt, argues that for liberals, morality comes down to caring for the weak, fairness and liberty. A Japanese… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - A new waste management scheme proposed under Auckland's long-term plan will see residents paying to have their rubbish collected. Lawyers for the freelance cameraman Bradley Ambrose, Prime… Read more Audio

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

3:30 PM.Lynda Chanwai-Earle checks out the dance moves of the very cool JDK hip hop crew, a group of teenagers with intellectual disabilities in Wellington. Audio

3:09 PM.It's estimated that 1 in every 100 New Zealanders is affected by coeliac disease. For people who have coeliac disease, gluten is a real problem. It's in wheat and other grains and is sometimes used as… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.A Levin man whose inventions have made life easier for lumberjacks throughout the world has come out of retirement to design similar tools for orchardists. Ken Scott - who designed loppers for the… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.The renowned boutique Waikato cheesery, the Kaimai Cheese Company, is in financial difficulty, after the dairy giant Fonterra took it all the way to the Supreme Court. The issue dates back four years… Read more Audio

1:56 PM.'A way to scroll to the ocean's depths', 'A visual personality quiz' and 'Artist Simon Beck spends days plodding through the snow creating sensational patterns of snow art'. Audio