Afternoons Podcast Options

1:26 PM.Professor Miranda Stewart, a tax expert from Melbourne University's Law School says tax systems affect men and women differently, with women often taking the biggest hit.  Read more Audio

1:17 PM.An equipment failure has lead to a boil water notice for Dannevirke, closing some schools. The issue is not yet resolved and may not be for a couple of days. Read more Audio

9:00 AM.Duncan gets over-excited, Trump pulls out and something wicked this way comes.

By Lee Baker, Mike Sheils and Paul Casserly

Voices - Toni Potter and Paul Casserly

Studio engineer - Rangi Powick. Audio

9:06 PM.Michele Prinsep is a 'drug hunter' - she looks for potential pharmaceuticals in marine organisms and cyanobacteria. Read more Audio

3:25 PM.Paul Winter tells Jesse Mulligan about The Balance of Power. Paul's 2015 thesis looked at why nation states desire nuclear weapons and has a focus on the Republic of North Korea. Read more Audio

3:14 PM.Jesse Mulligan and Claire Murdoch discuss the story Lucky by Mandy Hager. Read more Audio

2:23 PM.The Commission for Financial Capability is suggesting that some KiwiSaver contributions be diverted into a rainy day fund, which people can draw on in a financial crisis. Read more Audio

2:15 PM.The Football world cup starts tomorrow in Russia, and our own obsesssive football fans - Afternoons producer Emile Donovan and Max Towle of the Wireless are making a thrice weekly podcast on the… Read more Audio

1:38 PM.Last month the future of Wellington's Citizens Advice Bureau looked very bleak, with the council's grants subcommittee voting not to renew its 3 yearly funding to run its five branches in the city. Read more Audio

1:28 PM.This week a team of volunteers will begin planting 20,000 native trees at Manurewa's Totara Park as part of this year's Matariki (Māori New Year) celebrations. The trees have been grown from seed by… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:17 PM.News outlets are reporting that White House Communications Director Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her deputy Raj Shah are planning to leave their positions. Read more Audio

7:00 AM.Moscow, near the end of the Cold War; paranoia, politics and perestroika. An embassy guard recalls life behind the Iron Curtain. Produced by Justin Gregory. Read more Audio

3:10 PM.The University of Otago is trialing the use of intravenous high dose Vitamin C for patients with sepsis, because smaller clinical trials overseas have shown remarkable results. Read more Audio

2:26 PM.For Bookmarks comedian Kura chooses her favourite things from Tina Fey, Amy Schumer, Troy Kingi, Andre Agassi, and Coco Solid amongst others. Read more Audio

1:37 PM.In a world-first, a trailer for a book will play with a film trailer in New Zealand cinemas later this year. The NZ Book Council are working to make reading relevant again, targetting the group least… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:27 PM.Lincoln University Associate Professor Mick Abbott is organising the PA2050 conference - about the management of New Zealand's conservation land. Mick suggests that we put too much focus on individual… Read more Audio

1:16 PM.The Broadcasting Standards Authority has just put out some guidelines for broadcasters on using images, videos and other content sourced from social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Read more Audio

3:12 PM.This is the story of seven father's whose wives had died of cancer. They didn't think of themselves as "support group" kind of guys until two doctors stepped in and organised monthly meetings, which… Read more Audio

2:23 PM.A look and listen back to the Irish pop music explosion of the 1990's. Read more Audio

1:39 PM.They only have a million brain cells compared to our billions, but bees are far from being mindless drones - they are, so far, the only insect that can comphrehend zero. Read more Audio