Afternoons Podcast Options

1:17 PM.We're rapidly replacing fossil fuel-powered appliances with electric substitutes, but what will those increased demands for electricity mean? Read more Audio

3:08 PM.We lose something of our inner selves when we constantly present ourselves on social media, an art critic says. Read more Audio

2:22 PM.Jared Mackley Crump, our regular music expert is back with us, for his alternative Christmas music special - with Christmas music you may never have heard before, from a wide range of genres. Read more Audio

1:36 PM.Nik Sharma is a food columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and also runs a food blog, A Brown Table, and he's just published a new book, Season. Read more Audio

1:29 PM.Christmas is a week away! And that means lots and loooots of rich food, which can wreak havoc on an unsuspecting stomach ... Read more Audio, Gallery

1:17 PM.An investigation into government departments' relationship with the security company Thompson and Clark has turned up a lot of interesting, condemnatory, complicated material. Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Eric Clapton, a white working-class Surrey boy, was transformed on hearing the music of the Mississippi Delta, but as biographer Phillip Norman explains he was spoilt and despite avoiding controversy… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.We live in an age when New Zealand comedy is cool: not just in New Zealand, but in Edinburgh, New York and Hollywood. But how did we get here? Read more Audio

2:09 PM.We asked our audience to tell us their favourite tv shows of 2018. Here they are. Read more Audio

1:34 PM.Paper Rain is a Picton- based social enterprise which takes old wine barrels from nearby Marlborough vineyards and turns them into ornamental skateboards, etched and painted with local artists'… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:26 PM.Crayfish stocks in the Hauraki Gulf and Bay of Plenty are getting to crisis levels and some environmentalists are calling for a three-year ban until the population's back to normal levels. Read more Audio

1:19 PM.The NZTA has changed the road layout at McKay's crossing, and motorists aren't at all happy at the resulting long queues and traffic jams, especially coming just before Christmas. Read more Audio

1:11 PM.You may remember the incredible Silika Isaia from Papatoetoe High School who was one of the winners of the Stand Up Stand Out school singing competition a few months back She's back to perform a… Read more Video, Audio

3:27 PM.The Alborn Skink. Discovered in the 1990s by famous herpetologist Anthony Whitaker (who died in 2014), in among other emerging research about skinks.  Read more Audio

3:16 PM.This stunning walk near Wanaka is a favourite of Rachel Schmidt- McLeave who describes herself as a weekend warrior. Read more Audio, Gallery

3:08 PM.Most Kiwi Christmas dinners now include some vegetarians, so the vegetable dishes you serve on the day need to be treated with a lot of respect, says food writer Lauraine Jacobs. She shares a recipe… Read more Audio

2:27 PM.Christchurch band Yurt Party have people dancing in bars, at parties and literally in the street to their Balkan folk-inspired 'gypsy roots music'. Read more Video, Audio

1:34 PM.Julie Collis has been a working actor for many years, but a chance encounter in Los Angeles recently has opened up the possibility of her working in Hollywood. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.There's long been a debate about whether violent video games impact players, emotionally or mentally. A new study has found that gamers are more immune to disturbing images than non-players.  Read more Audio

1:16 PM.That's what the Kai Ika project does, it diverts fish waste from landfill and turns it into healthy food for South Auckland communities. Since 2016, 21,000kgs of fish heads and frames have gone to the… Read more Video, Audio