Afternoons Podcast Options

1:39 PM.Kiwi music legend Dave Dobbyn talks about writing and composing his 1998 album The Islander, which reached number 1 on the charts. Read more Audio

1:31 PM.Climate change is having a noticeable effect in the Queenstown and Wanaka areas this winter. The shortage of snow is causing anxiety for ski field workers. Read more Audio

1:22 PM.In 2000 a group of Raglan locals re-mortgaged their home to take over their town's waste management system. They created the organisation Xtreme Zero Waste. Read more Audio

1:18 PM.Egyptian Bass-Baritone Ashraf Sewailam is currently touring New Zealand performing in New Zealand Opera's comedy The Barber of Seville.  Read more Audio

3:28 PM.Nicola Toki, Doc's Threatened Species Ambassador, talks today about a group of Australasian shrubs or small trees, often with large toothed leaves and big daisy-like flowers or clumps of flowers… Read more Audio, Gallery

3:15 PM.Stacey Morrison joins Afternoons with Jesse to share some helpful te reo Māori phrases and some useful tips on social etiquette. Read more Audio

3:06 PM.Celebrity chef Simon Gault talks us through how to make his delicious Swati's Indian potatoes. Read more Audio

2:47 PM.Wellington-based singer-songwriter Louis Baker performed this stunning cover of Prince's 'Purple Rain' as part of Jesse Mulligan's Friday afternoon live music feature, New Zealand Live. Read more Audio

2:23 PM.Louis Baker one of the biggest names of the NZ live music circuit who only last month released his first full-length album, Open. Louis and his incredible band give us a peek – and play a stunning… Read more Video, Audio

1:49 PM.A recent report by a UN organisation stated that one million species are under threat of extinction. But an Auckland University scientist says that estimation is wrong, that it's far fewer, and for a… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.What will the world look like in 2040? That's the question posed by Australian filmmaker Damon Gameau. He searches for the answer in the movie aptly named 2040. Read more Audio

1:24 PM.Teen drinking is down but the number of older people drinking too much is on the rise. Alcohol is the drug of choice for Baby Boomers, an editorial in the New Zealand Medical Journal argues.  Read more Audio

1:14 PM.World Head and Neck Cancer Day is tomorrow and this year there's a push to highlight the correlation between these cancers and the HPV virus.  Read more Audio

9:00 AM.It's 2029, and a meeting of three unlikely buddies who have been detained at her majesty's pleasure

By Paul Casserly

Voices - Cohen Holloway and Toni Potter

Studio Engineer - Rangi Powick Audio

9:06 PM.The Department of Conservation and volunteer groups, including the Coal Island Trust, are hard at work removing pests such as stoats and deer from Fiordland's many islands. Read more Audio

3:11 PM.Financial journalist and author Mary Holm looks at your options in a rising share market - should you get out or stay in? And if you stay in - what should your approach be? Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Dame Whina Cooper was considered by many to be the most determined woman in the country for her leadership in bringing to the country's attention the loss of Māori land ownership.  Read more Audio, Gallery

2:13 PM.Back in April, the Flaming Lips released a limited 4,000 gold vinyl copies of a new full-length album called King's Mouth: Music And Songs exclusively for Record Store Day.  Read more Audio

1:37 PM.Rugby as a career is an aspiration for many young players though it's pretty tough job and doesn't last forever. So police in Hawke's Bay have met up with members of the Magpies and Tuis squads.  Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Māori artist Jimmy James Kouratoras is one of a selection of Kiwi artists representing New Zealand at the 8th Beijing International Art Biennial, an event for contemporary artists from around the… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:16 PM.The invasive seaweed Undaria is wrecking havoc on the native seaweed of New Zealand. The process of picking away the pest in Fiordland has been documented by emerging filmmaker Bérénice Mathieu. Read more Audio, Gallery

3:08 PM.Comedy and the classics are not usually two things that go together, you know, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Trojan War. But classical scholar turned stand up comedian Natalie Haynes loves these complex… Read more Audio

2:23 PM.Fiona McQueen is with us for Bookmarks today. She's gone from a clinical and research career in rheumatology to writing. She lives in beautiful Glenorchy, near Queenstown where she's a passionate… Read more Audio