Afternoons Podcast Options

1:47 PM.Black Keys - Thickfreakness. Audio

1:42 PM.The team at the South Canterbury Museum are into the finals of the International Museum Dance off with their video set to Ball Room Blitz by The Sweet. Read more Video, Audio

1:30 PM.The Australian comic duo The Umbilical Brothers met in miming class but found they preferred making noise. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Toby Ricketts works out of a home studio in the Far North has just won 4 prestigious British awards for his voice work for clients all over the world. Read more Audio

1:16 PM.Today we find out some of the protocols that are in effect when the country has an Acting Prime Minister. The deputy PM and leader of NZ First Winston Peters will step into the role for six weeks, an… Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Another live first song for NZ Music month today, Being. has just released her second single and performs it live in our Auckland studio. Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Evidence is growing that the mediterranian diet can be good for a healthy mind as well as a healthy body.  Read more Audio

2:29 PM.David Cameron-Smith is a professor of nutrition at the Liggins Institute. He joins us to debunk fad diets, and answer questions about staying healthy as we age. Do we need to change what we eat? Read more Audio

1:36 PM.Eurovision fan and ethnomusicologist Dr Jared Mackley-Crump from AUT analyses the 2018 Eurovision song contest and the usual controversies that surround it. Read more Audio

1:23 PM.Compassionate communication is a critical aspect of caring for someone with dementia, says author Angela Caughey, who looked after her husband Brian for 12 years. She shares some tips. Read more Audio

1:14 PM.Nearly 2500 calves and yearlings were slaughtered and dumped at the privately-owned AB Lime landfill between Winton and Browns, in Southland. The meat is perfectly fine for human consumption. Read more Audio

8:00 AM.Empower is a charity established in 2017 by former Kurdish refugee and Young New Zealander of the Year Rez Gardi. It enables higher education for refugee youth here and Rez is prepared to spend… Read more Audio, Gallery

3:27 PM.In just a few places in the mid-Canterbury high-country, White bellied skinks slink and slither between the sliding stones of scree slopes.  Read more Audio

3:18 PM.Margaret McLachlan tells us about doing the Abel Tasman with kids in tow for our series on the great walks of New Zealand - Talk the Walk. Read more Audio, Gallery

3:08 PM.Food writer, Delaney Mes shares her recipe for fennel, mint and ricotta flatbread. Read more Audio

2:28 PM.Ashburton folk musician Matthew Smith plays four songs from his self-titled solo debut – plus a Finn brothers cover. Read more Video, Audio

1:34 PM.The US state of Louisiana is facing a very serious, scary threat. Giant swamp rats that are causing serious damage to the wetlands. Read more Video, Audio

1:28 PM.In a couple of weeks Ireland will vote on whether to repeal its Eighth Amendment which prohibits abortion in almost all cases. Four Wellington-based Irish women have created a group pushing for it to… Read more Audio