Afternoons Podcast Options

2:20 PM.Wellington roots reggae band Tunes of I (aka TOI) are fresh off the back of a summer tour, following a run as support for Australian reggae fusion favourites Ocean Alley on their sold-out tour last… Read more Video, Audio

1:29 PM.Writer Rajorshi Chakraborti was extremely nervous about having to write something to be published in public in just 2 hours. So he wrote about the anxiety dream that woke him at dawn. Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Stitch Kitchen is teaching people to mend their clothes rather than throw them out. Read more Audio

1:14 PM.Could robots really replace teachers? Read more Audio

3:25 PM.The tension between NZ and China over Huawei's involvement in the 5G network is the latest example of NZ having to deal a world power. As a small nation, NZ has been facing these kind of challenges… Read more Audio

3:12 PM.Today Rebecca Stevenson - Stuff's Business Editor - joins us to solve the problem of business governance; what boards do, what they need to do better and how to add more diversity. Read more Audio

2:27 PM.Until her death in 2004, Janet Frame was New Zealand's most celebrated living author, but also very misunderstood.  Janet's niece, Pamela Gordon talks about the beloved aunt who was funny… Read more Audio

1:46 PM.Emma Wright is a Family Body Confidence Consultant, and she's found that many kids movies make jokes about large people. She gives tips on how parents can respond to this. Read more Audio

1:28 PM.Scottish Indian Danny Bhoy may as well be an honourary New Zealander he's been here so many times. His observational brand of comedy has resonated with many Kiwis. Read more Audio

1:19 PM.Why do young people commit crimes? How do they get on a path to imprisonment? These are the questions Professor Nathan Hughes has been trying to answer. Read more Audio

1:12 PM.The Undercuts have set themselves a pretty daunting task - they plan to write, record and release 12 songs in just 12 hours. So we invited them to come on the radio to show us just how quickly they… Read more Audio

3:09 PM.On a Sunday afternoon in 1986, two drug addicted rock stars from Aerosmith, Steve Tyler and Joe Perry, and rising hip hop artists from Run DMC went into a studio and changed musical and cultural… Read more Audio

2:18 PM.Mark Mitchinson came late to acting but he's now become a very well-known face and with a new series, High Road, which has just been picked up by the on-demand platform Lightbox.  Read more Audio

1:34 PM.Next week, the final entries of a project to mark 125 years of women's suffrage in New Zealand by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision will go online. The project curate's a permanent exhibition profiling 125… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:26 PM.Technology commentator Peter Griffin joins us live from Barcelona where he's attending the Mobile World Congress. 5G security and high price tag "hero" phones are dominating the discussion. Read more Audio

1:18 PM.Cardinal George Pell could be taken into custody today following his conviction for child sex offences. So what can they do to right these wrongs, and to instill faith back into the church and its… Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Auckland based band Daniel and The Monsoons bring their crooning styles into the studio today to play our first song! Read more Audio

3:10 PM.There is a moment in the operating room, after hours of surgery on a patient whose own organs have given up, when transplanted lungs start breathing, and hearts start pumping. Dr Joshua Mezrich knew… Read more Audio