Afternoons Podcast Options

2:20 PM.Journalist and Television presenter, Miriama Kamo has been a judge of the New Zealand book awards, and is now a published author herself. Her children's book The Stolen Stars of Matariki has just been… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:38 PM.It has hosted U2 and B.B. King, Dire Straits, Pope John Paul II and Her Majesty the Queen. It has seen countless historic cricket and rugby matches. We pay tribute to Christchurch's legendary… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:23 PM.If we accept that straight women's sexual preference for tall, dominant men has an evolutionary basis, it will be easier to break down cultural norms which reinforce sexism and heteronormativity, an… Read more Audio

1:13 PM.This week women in Saudi Arabia were granted the right to drive. Many refugee women here in New Zealand never learned how to drive in their original countries. So a training programme was set up in… Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Mental health is a little less intimidating to talk about if you can have a few laughs along the way, says the host of the interview podcast The Hilarious World of Depression. Read more Video, Audio

2:19 PM.Eric Dozier is an expert on gospel music and African American musical traditions. He tells us about the history of gospel music, and looks at its role in protest and community building. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.This week New Zealand's top mathematicians and math students have descended on Auckland to put their brains together to help some of New Zealand's biggest companies solve problems. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Former lawyer Pania Newton's mission to preserve Ihumātao – a stretch of coastal land in Mangere where the first New Zealanders planted Aotearoa's first gardens – has already taken the 27-year-old to… Read more Video, Audio

1:16 PM.Music videos can be the difference between a hit and a miss, a great video can elevate a dud song and vice versa. But currently videos aren't included in the charts. That's about to change in the UK.

3:10 PM.Multi tasking is a myth according to neuroscientist Amishi Jha. She says we need to pay more attention to attention because stress and mind wandering diminish the power of our brains to work at peak… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.The first ever episode of Star Trek went to air in 1966, three years before humans set foot on the moon. Since then it's grown into a pop culture behemoth, spawning TV incarnations, movies, video… Read more Audio

2:23 PM.Students in the South Island are learning how to keep their local streams healthy. The Nature Agents programme will help kids develop skills with hands-on traning, by tracking and collecting data on… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:39 PM.If you've ever seen Jaws, or really any movie that features sharks, you probably think the sea animals are pretty scary. No doubt they are, but are they as menacing to us as has been portrayed in the… Read more Audio

1:31 PM.Forest & Bird presented its top honours this weekend and Wellington teenager George Hobson took out the Te Kaiarahi Rangatahi o te Taiao youth award.  Read more Audio

1:17 PM.A milestone today for soil scientists - more than 8 million hectares has been digitally mapped in New Zealand. That's 30 per cent of the New Zealand land area.  Read more Audio

8:00 AM.The first Indian to set foot on Aotearoa arrived in 1769. A new publication throws light on the buried history of the Indian diaspora to New Zealand. Read more Audio, Gallery

3:30 PM.Pestering you for the leftovers from the fish n' chip packet, or making raucous noise and squabbling with each other to get the best place to stand on a rail; anyone who lives by the coast will be… Read more Audio

3:18 PM.We continue our series on some of the multi day walks around the country. Today Hazel Phillips tells us about solo tramping. She's just done a traverse of the Kaimanawa Ranges and Kaweka Forest Park.

3:07 PM.For the annual Gate to Plate event, chef Martin Bosley mentors Rimutaka Prison inmates to prepare and serve a gourmet meal to the public. He tells Jesse about the programme and shares a recipe for… Read more Audio