Afternoons Podcast Options

1:42 PM.Te Papa is holding its first art exhibition aimed at children - Curious Creatures & Marvellous Monsters. The curator, Dr Chelsea Nichols, says kids already use monsters to explain the unknown - and so… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:36 PM.Could Daphne Fraser's situation happen in New Zealand? Jan McNamara from Mac and Co. Lawyers has the answer Read more Audio

1:24 PM.Daphne Franks' elderly mother, who had dementia, was forced into a marriage with a man who then inherited her home and assets when she died a short time later. Daphne says with the rise in dementia… Read more Audio

1:11 PM.Fraser and 04's are about to release their new album Life is Magic, Where is my Rabbit. Fraser has been working with some Wellington musicians on the new record - and performs one of the new tracks… Read more Audio

9:00 AM.John Campbell is looking forward to his new job and Ken does his bit for Free Speech.

By Paul Casserly and Lee Baker

Voices - Cohen Holloway, Toni Potter, Paul Casserly

Studio engineer - Rangi… Read more Audio

9:06 PM.Field notebooks from some of NZ's first surveyors are among 1000s of historic documents digitised by LINZ in one of the world's largest cultural heritage projects. Read more Audio

3:23 PM.Marta Rychert's thesis looks at the Psychoactive Substances Act from 2013 - which was introduced in response to the prolific use of legal highs in New Zealand Read more Audio

2:39 PM.It didn't begin and end with Don Brash - New Zealand universities have often being sites of controversies. Historian Grant Morris of Victoria University takes a look at some of these controversies… Read more Audio

2:31 PM.Cornel West and Douglas Murray are debating each other in the Aotea Centre on Friday night, and we're also getting Nigel Farage and Jordan Peterson. Who are these people and what do they want with… Read more Audio

2:18 PM.Podcast fan Katy Atkin recommends two new podcasts, Wrong Skin from the Melbourne Age, and I, Survivor from Wondery. Read more Audio

1:42 PM.When you think Antarctica, you think penguins, seals, whales - but living under the ice is a cornucopia of curious and colourful marine life. Nicole Hill from the University of Tasmania, is on the… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Sally Johnson's 7 year-old son Digby is on the autism spectrum, and used to find it a bit overwhelming at public play-centres. So Sarah took matters into her own hands, converting an empty warehouse… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:28 PM.We spend about 75 percent of our days either sitting or lying down - but just two minutes of light exercise every half-hour can have genuine health benefits. Dr Meredith Peddie from Otago University… Read more Audio

3:09 PM.Journalist Michael Scott Moore researching a book about pirates when he was captured and held hostage for two and a half years. He describes his treatment, attempted escape and the mental gymnastics… Read more Audio

2:27 PM.The University of Canterbury's Dean of Law Ursula Cheer loves dogs, poetry, John Clark and Private Eye. She's also the first woman to hold the position at Canterbury's law school - and she came into… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Fifty years ago, the first wave of children born in the post-World War II baby boom were growing up - and they weren't happy about the world they had inherited. In today's visit to the sound archives… Read more Audio

1:27 PM.New Zealand-born, New York-based photographer and food artist Henry Hargreaves has created a photographic exhibition celebrating the 'uncelebratable' birthdays of baby names submitted, but then… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:19 PM.Earlier this morning 23 people died and a further 15 were injured when the Morandi Bridge collapsed.

Professor Alessandro Palermo of the University of Canterbury joins us to talk a bit about this… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Australian blues band, Kings and Associates join Jesse in studio B in Auckland - they're here for a tour of the North Island. Read more Audio