Afternoons Podcast Options

1:43 PM.Auckland mum Sabrina Nagel couldn't find a primary school that allowed her twins to spend lots of time in the outdoors, so she created her own. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:27 PM.Ann Andrews was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease when she was 58. Her third book tells the honest truth about what it's like to care for someone who has Parkinson's and other degenerative diseases. 

1:17 PM.A multi-year court battle effectively came to an end yesterday when the Environment Court declined a Permanent Protection Order for a centuries-old native Kauri tree.  Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Right now a group of country music rising stars are touring the country with their Nashville live stage show in which they perform some of the biggest country hits of all time. Read more Audio

3:06 PM.More than 50 years on from The Monkees formation, the two surviving members of the band, Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz are coming to New Zealand in June - to perform the band's hits in a two hour… Read more Video, Audio

2:27 PM.Jarrod Gilbert is one of the leading researchers into gang culture in New Zealand, he is the author of Patched: The History of Gangs in New Zealand, and he's just released a new book, A Rebel in… Read more Audio

1:38 PM.At a time when the kauri tree has been declared a threatened species, it is hard to remember that the kauri was once seen as just another natural resource of Aotearoa to be logged and exploited.  Read more Audio, Gallery

1:32 PM.Russell Museum is preparing for a new exhibition, about a Swedish scientist who sailed into the Bay of Islands 250 years ago. Paradise Lost, Daniel Solander's Legacy transferred from Wellington. Read more Audio

1:20 PM.It's pretty easy now to find out where you came from. Spit in a tube and send it off to a DNA website and you get back a breakdown of your ancestry. But do these tests do more harm than good? Read more Audio

3:07 PM.Well before the tragedy in Christchurch journalist and author Ginger Gorman warned about the dangers of Facebook Live and the connection between online rhetoric and murder. Read more Audio

2:14 PM.How do we navigate the world of music - especially when so much of it is now at our fingertips?  Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Armageddon Expo kicks off in Wellington in a week or so, and it's announced rule changes, in light of the Christchurch terror attack.  Read more Audio

1:29 PM.Community foundations are fast becoming a popular way for kiwis to help their fellow locals. A new community foundation, Te Awa, is launching tomorrow. Read more Audio

1:17 PM.The Brexit deadlock continues, with MPs rejecting all four proposals for leaving the EU. So the question is, what happens now? A new deal, an extension to decide, or a no-deal Brexit?  Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Get lots of natural light, not too much direct sun, and avoid blue light at bedtime. Those are the simple rules to live by when it comes to our ancient and complex relationship with the sun.  Read more Audio

2:36 PM.Broadcaster and Māori language proponent Stacey Morrison talks through some of the nuts and bolts of speaking te reo. The grammar, the dialects, popular sayings, and some of the subtleties of the… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.They provide clean air for us to breathe, beautify our spaces and bring nature to our doorstep - but not all areas in Auckland have as many trees as others. Auckland council has released a strategy to… Read more Audio

1:22 PM.Decades worth of rubbish is washing up on West Coast beaches following bad weather. Heavy rain eroded the Fox landfill, so waste from it is flowing into the Fox River.  Read more Audio

1:13 PM.Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said teaching against extremism should be put into education systems. But making teachers look for potential "radical" students can have negative consequences.