Afternoons Podcast Options

1:30 PM.One in four New Zealanders are at risk of developing a stroke during their lifetimes - the second-highest rate among developed countries. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.18 year-old Wellingtonian, Thomasin McKenzie has spent the past few weeks in LA for awards season - but today we're talking to her Dad! Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Nanotechnologist Michelle Dickinson (aka Nanogirl) recently discovered that one of her own long-held beliefs was false. She had believed artificial sweeteners are cancer-causing then found out that… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.English soccer is now the domain of  Emirati sheikhs, American tycoons, and Asian Tiger titans thanks to the development of the Premier League Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Jeremy Toy is a member of Opensouls and She's So Rad, and a synthesiser scholar. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.The New Zealand men's and women's curling teams are in action in the Central Otago town of Naseby, hoping to make it to the World Championship qualifiers. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.A new initiative to cut New Zealand's carbon emissions: buy a mountain, and plant a bunch of trees on it! Read more Video, Audio

1:15 PM.In Australia they can be paid up to $180,000 per year, so why aren't our domestic women's cricket players paid for what they do? Read more Audio

3:09 PM.Dr Michael Mosley doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk. When the BBC host and champion of intermittent fasting started seeing new research about the benefits of an 800 calorie a day diet, he… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.There will be a binding referendum on personal use of cannabis at 2020 election, but there has been some concern we're moving too fast ... Read more Audio

2:20 PM.The creators and hosts of the popular RNZ podcasts BANG! and Black Sheep are heading to Christchurch for a live show! Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Social psychologist Jeremy Frimer from the University of Winnipeg wanted to know why both liberals and conservatives have become so resistant to one-another's views. So he conducted an experiment. Read more Audio

1:15 PM.Around three-quarters of the 26,000 submissions on Auckland's long-term 2050 plan were made by Pakeha, despite making up just half of the region's population.  Read more Video, Audio

2:10 PM.Mel Parsons, Tami Nielson and Lawrence Arabi are among the many fantastic live performances we enjoyed on NZ Live in 2018. RNZ's studio engineers got together and picked their favourites. Read more Video, Audio

1:40 PM.In a suburb of Palmerston Crissy Shiels' house is brimming with gifts - but none of them are for her or her family. She collects unwanted gifts and other items and then gives them away free to people… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM.Hayden Pickford's kākāpō Lego design has more than half the support it needs for the huge company to consider turning into a commercially available set.  Read more Audio

1:17 PM.It's not fake news but Facebook and other social media platforms that are really polluting our media landscape and our lives, argues Wellington writer Danyl Mclauchlan. Read more Audio

3:30 PM.In our final Critter of the week for 2018 we bring you the Amelotopsis mayfly! Read more Audio, Gallery