Afternoons Podcast Options

3:10 PM.Speed will be the hallmark of 2024. Life comes at us fast says Tom Standage, deputy editor of The Economist magazine and editor of the annual forward looking special edition, The World Ahead in 2024.

2:30 PM.For Bookmarks today we meet one of the incredible founders of Trade Aid, a not-for-profit business founded forty years ago, designed to help the lives of people in poverty stricken parts of the world… Read more Audio

2:18 PM.For this week's collectors corner we head to the Waikato where Helen and Brian Gibson have been collecting Christmas miniatures for the past 15 years. Read more Audio

1:51 PM.For 2024 we're starting a new weekly feature all about travel. Today we speak to Darnel Eparaima who enjoyed a cruise with her two young daughters, she's got some great inside knowledge about enjoying… Read more Audio

1:34 PM.Kiwi Melissa Gunn is one of the winners of an international short story competition, Imagine 2200: climate fiction for future ancestors, run by American magazine Grist. Read more Audio

1:21 PM.Lighthouse gin head distiller, Rachel Hall, is the one woman production line that makes and bottles every single bottle herself. But, she didn't always like gin. She speaks to Jesse. Read more Audio

1:12 PM.Evolutionary biologist Distinguished Professor Hamish Spencer has received international recognition as a new Fellow of the International Science Council (ISC). He's received the highest honour to be… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.While she was writing her book Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet, Dr Hannah Ritchie had a picture of her younger self by her computer. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Ten years ago, musician, composer and podcast host Hrishikesh Hirway started a podcast called Song Exploder to get over his own writers block. It's now an internationally award winning podcast… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Back from the holiday break, Brad Foster reports on the Australian PM calling his cabinet ministers back to Canberra two weeks early to discuss the ongoing cost of living challenges for everyday… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.An Auckland couple, Grant and Amy Difford wanted to turn their love of mid-century pieces into a business, and the death of someone close to them was the catalyst to take that leap of faith. Grant… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.One of our listeners, a chap named Andrew, text in yesterday because they noticed a familiar sound missing from the usual summer chorus of cicadas and crickets. The bug man, Ruud Kleinpaste is with us… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.Alethea Boon is a high achieving athlete herself, representing New Zealand in both gymnastics and weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games. Now she's in a new role being a gladiator in the Australian… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Crispin Thurlow is  a professor of language and communication and he says, embracing mediocrity and having the courage to be ordinary may actually be the path to contentment. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.The different "plaque trajectories" of good, so-so and very bad teeth-brushers in The Dunedin Study confirm dental hygiene is a long game that rewards commitment, says Otago University professor… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.For Made in NZ today we're going down to Ashburton, where a company has been manufacturing socks for well over 120 years. The New Zealand Sock Company was established in 1901. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Each year across New Zealand more deaths are caused by medicine related errors than lives lost on our roads. A University of Canterbury start up is hoping to turn around that statistic. Script Sense… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Our National under 18 women's ice hockey team have started 2024 on a high by winning a gold medal at the International Ice Hockey Federation world championships in Bulgaria. Read more Audio

1:15 PM."Think like a skink" - that's the advice of wildlife photographer and enthusiast Holly Neill, who for the past couple of years has been nurturing a lizard garden, or 'Mokomoko Manor'. Read more Audio

3:35 PM.Santa isn't the only one zipping around in a red coat at this time of year. The beautiful redcoat damselfly, Xanthocnemis zealandica, is commonly seen flitting around streams and ponds all over the… Read more Audio