Afternoons Podcast Options

8:00 AM.Bismuth is a heavy metal that expands when frozen, and can be used to levitate trains and soothe upset guts, as Allan Blackman from AUT explains in episode 11 of Elemental. Read more Audio

9:06 PM.Caves are a subterranean library of past climate change records, captured as water dripping from above creates flowstones and stalactites. Read more Audio

3:25 PM.Legal historian Grant Morris walks us through what a commission is and what role they've had in New Zealand's constitutional past. Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Are you chatting to someone online or IRL (in real life) who seems attractive, but you get the feeling they're not who they say they are? New Zealanders in the dating game can now get a private… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Te Papa's Curator of Photography, Athol McCreedie, is the author of New Zealand Photography Collected, and is here to share his knowledge on the man behind the famous "Monsoon Girl" photo. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:28 PM.Nearly 50 years ago, the musical Hair premiered in New Zealand - causing outrage around the country, and the world, for its profanity, treatment of drugs and sex, and nudity. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:20 PM.Right now, one of the biggest kauri seed collections in decades is happening across the upper North Island - trying to fight back against kauri dieback. Read more Audio, Gallery

7:00 AM.Not that long ago, the New Zealand economy was built on sheep, sheep and more sheep. We were asking for economic trouble and in the late 1960s, we got it. Produced by Justin Gregory. Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Fascism wears a very different face than it did 50 or 100 years ago, according to author and activist Laurie Penny. “This new kind of villainy, it looks like the people in your street, it looks like… Read more Audio

2:19 PM.The name Michael Hill is synonymous with jewellery and entrepreneurship. He joins Jesse with some of his favourite books and music while discussing a life in gems. Read more Audio

1:39 PM.It's the cricketing dismissal which raises hackles like no other: a non-striking batsman being run out by the bowler while backing up too far. Read more Audio

1:28 PM.It might feel like the Christchurch earthquakes struck a lifetime ago, but the city and its residents are still recovering, both physically and mentally. Read more Audio

1:20 PM.In 2017 Tonga's Parliament was dissolved and since then the government, King and Parliament of Tonga have been wrestling with constant instability. Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Country singing couple Brendan and Alison Turner are about to tour the country and swing in to perform one of their new songs live in our Auckland studio. Read more Audio

3:11 PM.For more than 27 years, Bob Langert made it his mission to serve up sustainability with the 75 hamburgers severed every second at McDonalds Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Carmel Courtney has mastered the art of playing two saxophones at once. She chooses iconic solos from across the world of the saxophone to play us. Read more Audio

2:06 PM.At the Fringe Bar in Wellington tonight, some of the country's best poets are coming together to read their work and raise money for Muslims around the country, Read more Audio

1:38 PM.You've heard of walking on water ... but what about cycling on water? Read more Audio, Gallery