Afternoons Podcast Options

1:37 PM.A previously undiscovered early recording of 'Blue Smoke', the song that launched New Zealand's recording industry, has been unearthed. Read more Audio

1:28 PM.Are teachers funny? A new TVNZ comedy show is banking on it. Educators starts today on TVNZ and two of the co-creators Jackie Van Beek and Jesse Griffin join Jesse to explain how they wrote an… Read more Audio

1:13 PM.Last Sunday if you wanted to catch a bus in Wellington there's a very good chance you would have been out of luck as 58 bus services were cancelled.  Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Poet, Rapper and philsopher Akala says his rise out of poverty and success are not proof that he's special, he says, just lucky. He talks race, class and hip hop Shakespeare. Read more Audio

2:19 PM.Most music fans have heard about Prince's vault - some 30 albums' worth of unreleased material.  Read more Audio

1:39 PM.It's the ninth month of the Islamic calendar - which means Muslims around the world are observing Ramadan.  Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Over the last year a team of New Zealand Herald journalists and Greenstone Pictures have been working with the communities hammered by methamphetamine to make the documentary Fighting the Demon.  Read more Audio

1:22 PM.A UN report released yesterday paints a dark picture for future biodiversity of the planet with 1 million species threatened with extinction.  Read more Audio

1:09 PM.The young Indie Rock band Daily J have just released a new single Black Lagoon. The band is made up of three brothers and their mate, and they perform live in our Auckland studio Read more Audio

3:06 PM.Parents, with the best of intentions, can inadvertently create anxiety in their children by over scheduling and worrying too much about doing everything right. Read more Audio

2:29 PM.In New Zealand there are around 2000 species - some are endemic and others have made their way here by hitching a ride with humans.  Read more Audio, Gallery

2:20 PM.We always hear that some things are like riding a bike, but how do we actually learn to ride?  Read more Audio

2:07 PM.Killing Eve - TVNZ on Demand and The Bay - TV1. Audio

1:44 PM.So - Peter Gabriel. Audio

1:36 PM.New Zealander Petra Leary is photographer obsessed with looking at things from above.  Read more Audio, Gallery

1:28 PM.Archaeologists have unearthed a jawbone in Tibet which changes the way we see our pre-human relatives. Until very recently the only remains of Denisovans that we've been able to find have been in a… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:15 PM.Auckland's development remains one of the biggest talking points in New Zealand and since 2015 there's been a new big player in town.  Read more Audio

3:26 PM.Periegops suterii or, the 6 eyed spider, is endemic to our very own Banks Peninsula. Most spiders have 8 eyes, but this one only has 6, and not a lot is known about it.  Read more Audio

3:16 PM.Did you know if you want to make a salad you can probably gather enough greens from the side of the road? Felicity Joy does it regularly and teaches others how to forage for edible weeds. Read more Audio, Gallery

3:07 PM.While rehearsing six-to-seven hours a day for the TV show Dancing with the Stars, celebrity chef Nadia Lim is still breastfeeding her second child. She shares with us her recipe for breastfeeding… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Auckland-based, Christchurch-bred band SPAWTS are bringing back the jangle with their throwback guitar-bass-drums indie sound. Today they release their new single 'Piss in the Wind' from their… Read more Video, Audio

2:14 PM.Over the past decade or so, e-sports has developed into an international, billion-dollar industry. And while some people might still view this as a glorified hobby, playing video games is a legitimate… Read more Audio