Afternoons Podcast Options

2:35 PM.The fight over Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation as a US Supreme Court justice was bitter and divisive - the latest in a long line of controversial judicial appointments there. But what about in New… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Stuff's Business Editor Rebecca Stevenson looks at predatory lenders, following the Government's decision to crack down on loan sharks and truck shops. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.As global temperatures rise, so do sea levels - and that's bad news for little old island countries in the south-pacific surrounded by the ocean like New Zealand. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Moa went extinct about 500 years ago, but researchers think there’s plenty we can still learn from it and the whakataukī - proverbs or sayings - Māori had about them. Looking to better understand how… Read more Audio

1:17 PM.Research suggests that both men and women see environmental behaviour, like recycling, as feminine, spurring fears some men avoid being eco-friendly because of it. Seattle University marketing… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Sarah Wilson created an empire with her programmes to quit sugar - now she's walking away from the business to focus on anxiety issues and the food-waste movement. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Judge Andrew Becroft has been the Commissioner for Children for two years now. Before the appointment he was the Principal Youth Court Judge. He joins Jesse to talk about the books, films and tunes… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Writer Katherine Mansfield – one of Wellington's favourite daughters – was born 130 years ago this Sunday, and the capital is throwing her a birthday party. This weekend's birthday party – held at… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:25 PM.The upcoming Māori-inspired endurance event Hawaiki Toa offers participants "a hell of an experience", says race director Beez Te Waati.  Read more Audio

1:15 PM.At the start of this month some new legislation was pushed through with guidelines on how authorities can search your digital devices at the border. Privacy commissioner John Edwards joins us to… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Private prisons are always worse than public ones because they're under constant pressure to cut costs, says investigative journalist Shane Bauer who went undercover in a private US prison as a… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Sometimes songs take on a life of their own and all sorts of interpretations develop around them. And sometime those interpretations reach mythical heights. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Jason Ross is the co-founder of First Light - a wagyu beef and venison company headquartered in Hawkes Bay - so you'd expect him to be spreading the Gospel According to Carnivores. Not so! Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Death is one of the most ubiquitous settings and plot devices in the TV, films and theatre we consumer, and has been since antiquity. Read more Audio

1:15 PM.The government has announced a new "hub" offering a bunch of separate services to Christchurch locals with ongoing earthquake-related problems. Read more Audio

3:10 PM.According to Christine Armstrong, it's a myth that working women can effortlessly balance work, family and relationships. In her new book The Mother of All Jobs she says it's time to be open and… Read more Audio

2:33 PM.Catherine Hamilton was the lead designer of Takaro a Poi - the Margaret Mahy Family Playground in Christchurch. She joins us to talk all things playground! Read more Audio, Gallery

2:28 PM.A new international report has found the world will need to go undergo unprecedented change in all aspects of our society, if we are to reach the global warming goals made in the 2015 Climate… Read more Audio