Afternoons Podcast Options

11:30 AM.A special mini-episode - quick fun for the quick witted.

Ken does gender reassignment and a well-known right wing pundit hits the cycleway in Auckland.

By Paul Casserly, Karyn Hay and Michael Sheils

9:06 PM.Rare native New Zealand falcons are thriving in some unexpected places, including recently logged pine forests. Read more Audio

3:24 PM.Kathryn Rivai's doctoral thesis came out of her work setting up education centres for disadvantaged children in Malaysia.  Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.In Mary's last segment with Jesse, she asked listeners to send in questions. The best five questions are answered in this segment. Read more Audio

2:16 PM.Katy Atkin reviews the best podcasts of the year, including Serial, The Teacher's Pet, Slow Burn and Brains On! Read more Audio

1:48 PM.More than 65 million people are displaced globally. Hamiltonian Tania Jones met some of these refugees when she was volunteering in Greece. When she came home she decided more needed to be done to… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:38 PM.Diet can be a crucial component in the remission and prevention of diabetes. British professor Dr Anthony Leeds is a researcher and practicing medical doctor who is focusing on low energy diets to… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Dr Lucy Hone used resilience to help cope after her daughter Abi died in a crash in 2014. The New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing and Resilience director is now bringing those skills into kiwi… Read more Video, Audio

1:20 PM.The changes announced today focus on a health approach for the users of synthetic drugs, instructing police to consider treatment instead of prosecution.  Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Singer songwriter, Sophie Mashlan is only 19 but already making waves on the New Zealand folk scene - her debut album is out next year, and she's just released a new single - which she performs for us… Read more Audio

7:00 AM.In last year of the old millennium, governments and businesses warned us all of the dangers of the Y2K Bug. So did the hype help? Or was this bug never going to bite? Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Deep in a forest in Southeast Alaska, on an island with the highest population of bears per square kilometer on earth, stands of yellow cedar trees that have survived millennia are dying.  Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.It's a year and a half since Dr David Gaimster became Auckland Museum's director. Like his predecessor Roy Clare, he's British, and he arrived early in a major strategic transformation of the 155… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.Verisafe was designed to make it easier to get help if you're in a dodgy situation. The app's founder Hannah Milward tells us how it works and why she created it. Read more Video, Audio

1:25 PM.A gondola has been pitched as a solution to traffic problems in Queenstown, ferrying tourists and locals to the Remarkables Park. Read more Audio

1:09 PM.The Beths have been named Best New Act of 2018 by the American music magazine Paste. The Auckland band perform a live version of their recently released Christmas song. Read more Video, Audio

3:10 PM.There are two kinds of people; those who follow the 5 second rule when food drops to the floor and those who don't. Which one is more likely to get sick? Read more Audio

2:08 PM.We asked our listeners to tell us what they reckon are the best songs about leaving. We got hundreds of suggestions and have culled the list down to 20! Get your tissues ready! Read more Video, Audio

1:36 PM.We're two weeks out from Christmas and many kids, and adults, are well into their advent calendars. Some may say the countdown calendars are just a commercialised gimmick, but Tash Nilsson's one can't… Read more Audio, Gallery