Afternoons Podcast Options

1:40 PM.Dogs in Antarctica - Tales from the Pack is the name of a new exhibition at Canterbury Museum. Sarah Johnston  delves into the sound archives to see what recordings we have about these heroic canines.

1:19 PM.Anti-1080 sentiment in New Zealand is symptomatic of a deeper problem, writer Dave Hansford says.  Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Kiwi singer Bridget Walsh has been touring with bands around the UK since 2013 but is back home to perform a small run of shows. Her first solo EP "The Tendency Toward Complexity" is due to be… Read more Audio

3:07 PM.A marriage was arranged for Khalida Brohi before she was even born. Her own cousin was the victim of an honour killing. But Khalida's father wanted her to be the first girl in her village to go to… Read more Audio

2:21 PM.Music-themed novels can explore the machinations of a muso's mind, the destructiveness of celebrity, or simply use music as a plot device to explore the nature of the human condition.  Read more Audio

1:35 PM.The impact of climate change is already being seen on the island of Kiribati. The children that live there are faced with what their home might become. Their story has been told in a new short… Read more Audio

1:27 PM.Kiwis are dying from mostly preventable illnesses nowadays, obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancers. Rather than seeking out drugs, Jason Shon Bennett believes we can make ourselves healthy by… Read more Audio

1:16 PM.Salt water is a building block of the human body, essential to the planet’s temperature regulation, could help mitigate climate change, but is not very well understood and often considered ‘boring’… Read more Audio

1:08 PM.South Auckland singer-songwriter, Paige Tapara is just 20, but has been performing since the age of 7. Her first single 'So Far' was released earlier this year, and has already had well over 100,000… Read more Audio

3:07 PM.Eddie Woo has a superpower. He makes maths fun. A few years ago he started uploading his lessons to You Tube, he calls it Wootube, and has more than a quarter of a million subscribers and videos… Read more Audio

2:31 PM.Mark Broatch is a self-professed language nerd...also a writer, editor and journalist. His latest book is Word to the Wise where he untangles the mix-ups, misuse and myths of language.  Read more Audio

2:21 PM.A fourth shark has been killed in North Queensland, after two people were attacked. But is this the right way to deal with the problem? To answer that we're joined by Behavioural Ecologist Culum Brown… Read more Audio

2:08 PM.Linda's had a sneak peak at TV3's comedy pilots which air all this week at prime time, as well as reviewing NZ's version of Gogglebox and Killing Eve. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.The drought is over, Tiger Woods is back! The golfer has won the PGA Tour Championship, his first title in five years. Less than a year ago Tiger Woods was ranked 1,199th in the world so today's win… Read more Audio

1:26 PM.In New Zealand we boast that over 30% of our waters are protected. But is that really the case? The World Wildlife Fund says it's not, in fact they claim less than 1% of our marine environment is… Read more Audio

1:13 PM.Measures to protect cities from the intense storms and rising sea levels caused by climate change should consider projects which also enhance life in the city, visiting expert Kai-Uwe Bergmann says. Read more Audio

3:33 PM.Ghost moths aren't scary, but they are a little strange. They have no mouth so they never eat and some only live for one day!  Read more Audio

3:16 PM.Neil Brown tells us about the Queen Charlotte Track in the Marlborough Sounds. Read more Audio, Gallery

3:07 PM.Megan May of Little Bird Organics joins us in studio to talk chocolate, and share her recipe for Gluten Free Chocolate Chunk Energy Cookies. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.The Royal New Zealand Airforce Band has over 60 members in total. Today their five-piece dance ensemble plays some Motown and Latin-infused numbers in our Wellington studio. It's a bit of a warm-up… Read more Audio, Gallery