Afternoons Podcast Options

1:38 PM.If you're a Led Zeppelin fan, you'll be excited to hear about Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening. It's a live recreation of the band's sound featuring the son of original member John Bonham (aka… Read more Video, Audio

1:32 PM.Huge news for New Zealand Coronation Street fans - the beloved show will jump ahead 18 months in order to bring it in line with the UK broadcast.  Read more Audio

1:22 PM.Health education has been in the spotlight recently, over what to tell young people about drugs. It also often comes up when discussing sexual and mental health at school. So how much should kids be… Read more Audio

1:11 PM.Brothers Nainz and Viiz Tupai (aka Adeaze) took a long hiatus from music, but the recent death of their beloved mother inspired them to write music again. With the help of children's choir TONE6, they… Read more Video, Audio

3:07 PM.When Paula Stone Williams transitioned from male to female, she knew she would be treated differently. But what she didn't expect was the immediate assumption she was less intelligent. Read more Audio

2:23 PM.As well as being a talented small screen producer Nicole Hoey is passionate about Maori language and culture. She speaks to Jesse on today's bookmarks about her latest project for pre-schoolers Tākaro… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:32 PM.It's New Zealand Music Month and in our visit to the sound archives today with Sarah Johnston of Nga Taonga Sound & Vision we'll hear from some of Kiwi artists reflecting on their first international… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

1:16 PM.For National Privacy Week this week, a scientist is speaking to parliament to warn them of the dangers of the coming quantum age, and to offer some solutions.  Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Sophie Morris is a singer and performer who specialises in musical theatre and contemporary classical music and on Saturday kicks off her month-long tour with the Australian ensemble, The Ten Tenors.

3:07 PM.For most of us, it's hard to come up with a list of things to love about flies, they're annoying, they bite, they spread disease. But for Dr Erica McAlister flies are endlessly fascinating and… Read more Audio

2:19 PM.Simon Sweetman talks about the use of whistling in popular music - and plays us some of the songs that make use of this sound in unique ways. Read more Audio

1:38 PM.They began in 1968 as the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards, and are now the Ockhams. We look back on the past 50 years with author, Paula Morris. Read more Audio

1:27 PM.Texas-based New Zealander Lamia Imam (aka Sassy Little Hobbit) has been tweeting a daily update of Donald Trump's frequently surprising American presidency. We check in with her on Day 472. Read more Audio

1:15 PM.One in 7 New Zealand children take medication for asthma. But why do some get it and some don't? A new study has found the answer lies in the flora that surrounds them.  Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Chef James Briscione and his wife Brooke Hayward have written a guide to the science of flavour and which flavours work together. He takes Jesse Mulligan inside The Flavor Matrix. Read more Video, Audio

2:36 PM.It's time to talk cheese and for this we've gone and found one of New Zealand's biggest cheese fans, it's the Curd Nerd himself, Calum Hodgson.  Read more Audio, Gallery

1:39 PM.It's been suggested South African teams are looking to swap the Super Rugby competition for a European one. Meanwhile sports journalist Joseph Romanos has been ranking his favourite athletes here and… Read more Audio

1:28 PM.A new international report says many product labels claiming a product is sustainable or environmentally friendly is simply green-washing, and too often the certifiers are too intertwined with those… Read more Audio