Afternoons Podcast Options

3:28 PM.Guy Frederick tells us about his thesis on the relationship between people and place. He looked the places we engage with in our professional lives - using scientists who work in Antarctica as a case… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:29 PM.Mary and remuneration expert Geoff Summers discuss a controversial issue from the last segment about employer contributions to KiwiSaver - a practice called total remuneration. Then Mary turns to a… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.It's an ambitious step to go completely plastic free, and the question is - how can this be done practically, not just for the month, but forever.  Read more Audio

1:27 PM.Family businesses - they're not all mum-and-dad corner shops, and there are more of them than you think. But as you can imagine, they can problematic to run. Read more Audio

1:17 PM.The Croatian Cultural Society hall in Te Atatu filled up pretty quickly early this morning with first and second generation Croats convinced their team had what it took to hold off England in the… Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Mathew Klickstein joins me to talk about his behind the scenes book Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies From a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons. Read more Audio

2:28 PM.Ant Sang is one of New Zealand's most well-known graphic novelists. His comics have been published in the US, UK, Canada, France, Taiwan, and Australia. He was also the head designer for the animated… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.For the past week Wellingtonians have been whale-hunting - with their cameras. In the past it would have been a different story, as whales were hunted in Cook Strait right up until 1964.  Read more Audio, Gallery

1:26 PM.The Family Court should have more powers to direct children and parents to therapy when they have been alienated by another parent, a lawyer and author of a paper on the subject says. Read more Audio

1:17 PM.We're hearing more about what's going on in our gut - what bacteria lives there and what impacts it. In babies, new research has found what mums-to-be eat during pregnancy may have an effect on the… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Auckland based Indie Rock band, Mecuzine are about to release their debut album, Cutting Strings - but they are far from new to the music scene.  Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Australian writer and feminist thinker Clementine Ford's new book Boys Will Be Boys targets toxic masculinity, and explains it's not a condemnation of men, but of society. Read more Audio

2:15 PM.A few weeks ago we talked about the Irish pop music explosion of the 80's and 90's. Around the same time Latin music also took the world by storm.  Read more Audio

1:44 PM.We trust photographers to capture the most important days of lives. Weddings! But what do they deal with? It's not just bad lighting and unruly ring-bearers. It's drunken uncles, tears from the mother… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.We're constantly bombarded by information on screens. Texts, news alerts, social media updates. It may not be great for our minds and mindfulness is often pitched as a solution to the overload. But… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.This World Cup hasn't disappointed when it comes to penalty shootouts - most of the upsets of the series have happened in those crucial extra minutes after the game.  Read more Audio

1:14 PM.The UK government is in disarray after British foreign secretary Boris Johnson quit, accusing the Prime Minister of suffocating the the Brexit dream. What does this mean for the deal and for the… Read more Audio

3:09 PM.Talking to boys is pretty easy until they hit a certain age, around adolescence, and then the wall of silence often goes up. Chalking it up to 'boys being boys' is not good enough for clinical… Read more Audio