Afternoons Podcast Options

1:28 PM.Poetry New Zealand Yearbook's 2019 edition is out now, focusing on Hamilton poet Stephanie Christie, and containing more than 120 poems.  Read more Audio

1:16 PM.The measles outbreak continues in Canterbury, with the number of confirmed cases now 22. There are concerns many people aged between 29 and 50 in New Zealand have not been fully immunised against… Read more Audio

1:08 PM.The folk pop group Paper Cranes released their new album 'Voices' earlier this year. Fraser and Naomi Browne are a husband and wife team and perform a track from the album, live in our studio. Read more Audio

3:30 PM.DoC's Threatened Species Ambassador, Nicola Toki tells us about this species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. the Pitt Island Longhorn Beetle Read more Audio

3:15 PM.Have you ever wanted to knit but just don't know where to start? Tash Barneveld is a Wellington knitter and knitting blogger and she comes in to talk all things yarn Read more Audio, Gallery

3:07 PM.The head chef of Black Estate in North Canterbury shares a recipe for Lamb Pops Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Beat Rhythm Fashion were the darlings of the post-punk music scene in Wellington in the late '70s and early '80s. Now, over 30 years later, they're back together with a new album Tenterhook. Read more Video, Audio

1:43 PM.Researchers at Australia's Griffith University have carbon-dated an ancient Tongan tattooing kit, discovering it's at least 2,700 years old. Read more Audio

1:23 PM.We talk to Akaroa local Dale, who says cruise ships are having a big effect on marine life in the area, before chatting to Craig Harris, managing director of McKay Shipping Limited Read more Audio

8:00 AM.Argon is in every breath you take and its inertness is its best feature, as we discover with AUT chemistry professor Allan Blackman, in episode 5 of Elemental. Read more Audio

9:06 PM.New research shows that bull kelp along a tectonically uplifted stretch of coast south of Dunedin has a surprisingly different genetic signature to the kelp on either side. Read more Audio

3:32 PM.Isobel was 14-and-a-half when the Napier earthquake hit. Decades later, her grand-daughter interviewed her about it for a school project.  Read more Audio

2:28 PM.Hone Tuwhare, the boilermaker from Northland who didn't have enough money to attend high school and went on to become one of our most esteemed poets. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:39 PM.Earlier this week we spoke to a Park Mews resident about these unusual buildings in Wellington. There was a LOT of response - so we thought we'd have a chat to their designer Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Comedian Tim Batt is one half of The Worst Idea of All Time - a podcast in which he and his co-host watch and discuss the same (terrible) movie every week for a year. Read more Audio

1:15 PM.The cruise ship industry is lucrative, contributing nearly half a billion dollars to the economy every year - but with that economic gain comes a big environmental cost. Read more Audio

3:08 PM."Homemade" is a term that gets thrown around a lot by marketers, but to Eleanor Ozich, it's a way of life. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Award-winning playwright Albert Belz tells us about how his experience growing in Whakatane in the 80's and shares his favourite songs, books, movies and TV shows. Read more Audio