Afternoons Podcast Options

1:40 PM.200 years ago, the young Ngare Raumati chief Tuai left the Bay of Islands for an epic trip around the UK and Europe. Professor Alison Jones from Auckland University joins us to talk a bit more about… Read more Audio

1:32 PM.Lee Jay Berman is a Hollywood mediator who talks bands out of breaking up, gets actresses out of ill-advised record deals and brokers sit-downs between luminaries who can't stand the sight of one… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.What are business confidence surveys? Who do they survey, and what do they actually mean?

Cameron Bagrie of Bagrie Economics joins us to answer a few of these questions. Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Julien Van Mallaerts is a multi award winning opera singer - he's in the country for New Zealand Opera's La Bohème and joins us in the studio to perform a song and tell us about his career so far. Read more Audio

3:27 PM.The Chatham Petrel is on a comeback tour. Nicola Toki from DoC joins us to sing the praises of this sea bird.  Read more Audio

3:19 PM.Sean Gillespie tells us about the joys and the perils of the Tararua Forest Park.  Read more Audio, Gallery

3:13 PM.Bombolini are one of the most popular items on the menu at Jacob Brown's Wellington restaurant The Larder. He shares the recipe with us. Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Settle in for some dark, quirky, high-energy alt-pop from Ha the Unclear – a South Dunedin band now based in the "big city" that is Auckland. Read more Video, Audio

1:35 PM.New Zealand's oldest dealer gallery is preparing to celebrate its first half century with a brand new exhibition.  Read more Audio

1:26 PM.Authors without borders have banded together to write the Freedom Papers. It's edited by Nick Barley who is in New Zealand for the Word Christchurch festival.  Read more Audio

1:17 PM.Young kiwis aren't getting help for sexual health issues early enough according to new research by Massey University. Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Ken talks numbers of cops and Annabelle rings in with her take on tasers.

By Paul Casserly

Voices - Toni Potter, Paul Casserly

Studio engineer - Rangi Powick  Audio

9:06 PM.Long-tailed bats are thriving in gullies and bush along the Waikato River, where it flows through central Hamilton. Read more Video, Audio

3:27 PM.Sally Grace tells us about her PHd thesis on body dysmorphic disorder. Read more Audio

2:38 PM.The death of Senator John McCain reminds us that war heroes often play important roles as political leaders. This has been a tradition throughout the world but to what extent does it apply to New… Read more Audio

2:22 PM.Steve talks us through two pretty contentious farming issues: feedlots and water storage dams. Read more Audio

1:38 PM.Wellington's oldest colonial house Nairn Street Cottage will reopen this weekend after a makeover. The cottage was closed over the winter season to be re-imagined to showcase the Wallis Family story… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:27 PM.An Australian company Orange Sky runs the world's first free laundry service for homeless people, and they're bringing their washers and dryers to New Zealand to help those living rough here.  Read more Audio, Gallery