Afternoons Podcast Options

1:28 PM.A team of scientists from Auckland and Tasmania has finally seen what is known as a stellar glitch after monitoring the Vela Pulsar neutron star for some four years. Read more Audio

1:23 PM.Dentists say they all too often have to pick up the pieces when New Zealanders travel overseas for dental treatment. "The quality of work was absolutely appalling," one says. Read more Audio

1:15 PM.A leader in urban design is strongly urging the Government to consider a technique known as perimeter block when building up to 4,000 new homes on a site in Auckland's Mt Albert. Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Andrew Santella is a terrible procrastinator who's not afraid to admit it. The American writer takes a deep dive into habitual postponement in his new book Soon. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Author Barbara Else's new work is Go Girl; a Storybook of Epic NZ Women, a collection of true stories about New Zealand women who have done extraordinary things. Read more Audio

1:40 PM.In today's trip to the sound archives of Nga Taonga Sound & Vision we will hear about the Springbok tour that never happened and the reaction of Kiwi rugby fans, which set the scene for the showdown… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM.Comedian David O'Doherty is coming to New Zealand for The NZ International Comedy Festival and talks to us about comedy, writing for children and his "music". Read more Audio

1:24 PM.Dementia is a heartbreaking condition that we don't talk about enough, says Pip Desmond, who has written the memoir Song for Rosaleen about her family's experience. Read more Audio

1:17 PM.A dog rescue group is furious a letter sent out by Christchurch City Council demands that some dogs must be muzzled at all times outside of a cage, including in the home. Read more Audio

3:09 PM.Humans beings love to be part of a group. It's what we do. We identify with others who are similar to us culturally, ethnically, politically. We are hardwired with a need to be belong and also to… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.It's time for our music feature and this week we're tipping our hat to those behind the curtain of music. Recording engineer, record producer and multi-instrumentalist Dr Lee Prebble discusses how to… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:41 PM.A Wellington plumbing company, run by a woman, has won the country's top plumbing award for 2018. Hutt Gas and Plumbing employs three of of just 22 women plumbing apprentices and tradespeople across… Read more Audio

1:21 PM.After a long walk around the deck of the sinking Wahine 50 years ago, Sharon Major realised she would have to throw her 6-month old daughter, Sarah, into the arms of a stranger in a life raft below. 

1:11 PM.Paris based kiwi Zoe Dadson and French musician Sylvain Brousse are Open Top and they are in the studio to talk about their recently released album, Take it slow.

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3:10 PM.It's no secret that many millionaires with money to burn love the idea of owning a little piece of New Zealand. Some buy for the investment, others like the idea of a refuge in the South Pacific - in… Read more Audio

2:38 PM.Neil Dodgson is a professor of computer graphics at Victoria University. He's with us today to talk about how science fiction can show us the possible pitfalls, and benefits, of technology. Read more Audio

1:42 PM.Kids seem to go through clothes as fast as you buy them, and if there are no brothers or sisters for hand-me-downs, there can be a lot of waste. A clothing programme in Wellington takes those clothes… Read more Audio

1:29 PM.Historian Elizabeth Cox specialises in the history of buildings, but she doesn't just look at the buildings themselves, she looks at their social histories as well.  Read more Audio

1:16 PM.We ask Minister of Conservation, Eugenie Sage whether her vision has changed since she started the role and what issues the department is facing. Read more Audio