Afternoons Podcast Options

3:25 PM.Dinah Vincent graduated with a PhD from Massey University with her thesis 'Dressmaking: How a clothing practice made girls in New Zealand, 1945 to 1965'.  Read more Audio

2:22 PM.Is that new item of clothing really going to make you happier in the long run? Do you really need to hold on to your Saturday brunch habit? Mary Holm looks into why we spend unnecessarily and suggests… Read more Audio

1:37 PM.Comedian Clarissa Chandrahasen has opened up about her experience with bipolar disorder, and her time in a psych ward, in her award-winning theatre show Committed. Read more Audio

1:27 PM.Three years ago, Helen O'Connor was working in a law firm in London – "wasn't lovin' my job" – when she first got the idea of writing a bespoke book. Her beloved dad's birthday was coming up and she… Read more Audio

1:22 PM.Yesterday National Party MP Jami-Lee Ross released a recording of a phone call between himself and party leader Simon Bridges. What does New Zealand law say about people secretly recording and which… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.English singer, songwriter and author Terence Blacker is in our Wellington studio for First Song today. He's on his first New Zealand tour and is playing at this weekend's Wellington Folk Festival in… Read more Audio

3:07 PM.Anxiety is more than stress, it can feel like a gut punch out of nowhere for no apparent reason. It is frightening, isolating and hard to understand if you don't suffer from it. Thirty New Zealanders… Read more Video, Audio

2:22 PM.Jesse's guest for Bookmarks this week is Anne Firth Murray; an activist, academic, author and philanthropist who has been pushing for social change for decades.  Read more Audio

1:33 PM.Next month there will be celebrations worldwide to mark the centenary of the end of World War I on November 11, 1918. There are plenty of recordings of memories of this period. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:23 PM.How do we keep a house in order without hurting the environment? Get back to the basics, says former journalist Wendyl Nissen. She has some tips in her new book The Natural Home. Read more Audio

1:17 PM.Canada is about to legalise the use and sale of recreational cannabis making it just the second country to do so after Uruguay. Read more Audio

1:09 PM.We're delighted to have Tiny Ruins back in our studio! Hollie Fullbrook has brought the whole band this time, ahead of their upcoming tour.  Read more Audio

3:10 PM.It's time we destigmatise the anger of women for the sake of our health as individuals and as a society, says Soraya Chemaly, the author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger. Historically… Read more Audio

2:13 PM.Steve Gadd is the man behind the effortless drumming on legendary tracks like Aja by Steely Dan and Chuck E's in Love by Rickie Lee Jones. He's in NZ this month for shows with James Carter and the… Read more Video, Audio

1:35 PM.A short film about two Ōtaki gravediggers has its premiere at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto next week. The Grave Digger of Kapu is a companion piece to Libby Hakaraia's award-winning 2012… Read more Video, Audio

1:24 PM.Award-winning columnist Leah McFall has been writing a back-page column for Sunday for the past two years, answering such enduring questions as "how do you react when a sex shop opens next to your… Read more Audio

1:16 PM.Elderly people who self-harm are being failed by their health system, according to new research out of the Lancet Psychiatry journal. The study suggests over-65s attempt suicide at rates comparable to… Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Today we have an a cappella treat for the first song, Kiwi trio The Koi Boys. They're back in New Zealand to perform with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra this month. Read more Audio