Afternoons Podcast Options

1:44 PM.Yes, you may laugh, but perhaps you will also secretly enjoy this and sing along! We play a few of Barry Manilow's hits, including Mandy. Read more Audio

1:36 PM.New Zealand was the first place to give women the vote, Saudi Arabia was the last. To mark the 125th anniversary of Suffrage here, City Gallery Wellington is holding an exhibition featuring the work… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:27 PM.Waitaki Whitestone Geopark could soon be recognised as a UNESCO Global Geopark. It will be the first of its kind in Australasia. This month commissioners will visit geosites in the South Island… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:15 PM.Sexual health education experts are calling ACC's consent classes an $18 million waste of money. ACC decided to roll out its controversial Mates and Dates programme nationally, despite opposition from… Read more Video, Audio

3:08 PM.Are the kids today less disciplined than ever? According to a US researcher and author the answer is emphatically yes. Read more Audio

2:27 PM.Matt Weinert is the Industry Development Officer for Bananas with the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries. He's otherwise known as the Banana Guru.  Read more Audio, Gallery

2:19 PM.Last week schools around the country with year 7 and 8 students were treated to a new school journal - a comic book in fact - all about one of our most important historical artefacts, The Treaty of… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.In Taranaki a group of community members have come together to revitalise the natural biodiversity of the region. The Restore Taranaki initiative is working to engage locals in making a positive… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:27 PM.Our native plants were cultivated and utilised by Maori for hundreds of years. Journalist Rob Tipa has sort to fix that, writing a book containing traditional knowledge about the native plants of the… Read more Audio

1:16 PM.New Zealand has vested interest in Antarctica and questions over its future hold importance for us. Climate change is one of those serious questions marks. How will it survive what's coming… Read more Audio

7:00 AM.As one aquaculture business turns to Tonga to recruit labour for its south Auckland mussel processing plant, how do the women coming to New Zealand feel about their new jobs? Read more Audio

3:28 PM.Today's critter is definitely one of our 'cuter' ones, but with an interestingly gross habit. Antipodes Island Parakeet is known to prey on seabirds and scavenge carcasses on the remote Subantarctic… Read more Audio

3:15 PM.Normally at this time on a Friday we talk about some of the different multi day walks around the country - but today we're looking at a different way of exploring New Zealand ... by train. Read more Audio, Gallery

3:07 PM.Kyle Street started out at Depot and now runs his own Auckland restaurant Culprit. He is involved in Auckland Restaurant Month, including the Chef Dining series. He shares a recipe for yam and grape… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.Nearly two decades after their last release, Wellington four-piece Orangefarm are back with a bouncy, melodic indie pop EP called The Water. Read more Audio

1:41 PM.Ever noticed how streets in certain suburbs tend to have a theme running through their names? Well, there's a reason for that - and a whole bunch of other rules and regulations that go into street… Read more Audio

1:29 PM.Last year we spoke to young marine biologist Melissa Marquez about her thesis on sharks, skates, rays and chimaeras Since then she's worked with the Discovery Channel on Shark Week, done a TED talk… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:20 PM.The only way to see many of our native animals is at a national park or a protected island. But what if we could see kiwi or tuatara in our backyard? That's the vision of academics at the University… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Auckland's The Gramophone band were one of Jesse Mulligan's highly commended entries for his recent Battle of the Cover Bands contest. They describe themselves as a vintage-styled band that perform… Read more Audio

9:08 PM.Kākahi or freshwater mussels are being moved to Zealandia sanctuary in Wellington as part of an ambitious restoration project. Read more Audio