Afternoons Podcast Options

3:35 PM.Our Changing World joins a group of botanists during their first ever attempt to reintroduce our rarest and most elusive native orchid back to the wild.

New Zealand’s native orchids are much more… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.You may not know her name, but chances are Carol Leifer has made you laugh.  Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Today for bookmarks Jesse is joined by novelist, essayist, curator and short fiction writer Tina Makereti.  Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Kelly Gibney says curried sausages are a delicious, nostalgic cool-weather dish and who are we to disagree. Read more Audio

2:12 PM.Matthew Crawley has brought two new tracks in his music bag to play for you.  Read more Audio

1:45 PM.There has been a 42% increase in solo travel over that last couple of years and of those solo travelers around 8 out of 10 are woman.  Read more Audio

1:35 PM.The Hawke's Bay Indian Cultural Centre is celebrating their 10th birthday with a brand-new show, 'Wairua Paani'. Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Get ready for a story with a bit of grassroots hustle and ingenuity.  Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Wastebusters is a waste minimisation project. Read more Audio

3:30 PM.How much do we spend on cleaning products? And could we do it cheaper ourselves ? Katy Gosset gets a crash course in making her own home cleaners. Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Witches are having a moment. Beyond the hit musical Wicked, there TikTok Hashtags and millions of posts celebrating witches as icons of empowerment, mystery, and resistance. It's far from the dark… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.We haven't done this one since the end of 2023, but It's time to revive a bit of a classic music feature concept. I'm joined by Author and our sometimes book critic Claire Mabey. As well as critiquing… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Brad updates us on Australia's reaction to the death of the Pope. He also describes something of a horror weekend with seven people reported as drowned; an appeal in the case of a former police… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Anna Rankin reviews Murdoch Stephen's Visas Now! And she looks at Lucinda Williams' memoir Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Street art has played a major role in bringing life back to Christchurch post-Earthquakes. A major player has been Watch This Space. They are a charitable trust established almost 10 years ago that… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Jesse talks to Rev Timothy Lee, the Committee chairman, Rotorua CCS Disability Action Access Group. The new Accessibility for All management policy was recently submitted to the Community and District… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Jesse talks to Horizons Regional Council freshwater and projects manager Logan Brown about the Akitio rabbit weir, located along the river near Waione. The weir had the impact of creating an… Read more Audio

3:20 PM.Once upon a time, tariffs were very common and one of the main ways for governments to raise money. Read more Audio

3:15 PM.Steve Wynn-Harris, rural commentator, Hawke's Bay farmer and sometimes meteorite hunter talks about what he's learned from working in farm forestry. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.At just 19 she was the women's two-time Motorcross World champion. The first time anyone had held the title back-to-back. Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Evie Ashton has two audiobooks she swears by and she's sharing them with us: Charles & Mary Lamb's abridged Tales from Shakespeare and Elizabeth Jenkins' Jane Austen biography. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.We check in with RNZ reporter Peter De Graaf who is in Pahia with latest on Cyclone Tam. Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Trusted financial journalist Mary Holm has a new revised edition of here 2018 bestseller Rich Enough? A Laid-back guide for every Kiwi.  Read more Audio

1:10 PM.A survey of Kiwi adults revealed around 10 percent of us are sensitive to noise.  Read more Audio