Afternoons Podcast Options

1:41 PM.Next Tuesday, the 10th of April will be the 50th anniversary of New Zealand's worst modern maritime disaster, the sinking of the inter-island ferry 'Wahine' in Wellington Harbour in 1968, with the… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:31 PM.It's feijoa season, so we invited Annabel Langbein in to talk feijoas, as she has a new cookbook out - Essential Volume Two: Sweet Treats for Every Occasion.  Read more Audio

1:23 PM.The New Zealand cricket team drew with England yesterday to achieve a historic test series win. Our tailend batsmen held out for over after over in an exciting finish that reminded many fans of just… Read more Audio

1:17 PM.It's not landlords giving tenants a tough time, it's property managers, a new Consumer NZ survey has found. Lack of heating and mould are much more likely to be reported by tenants who have property… Read more Audio

3:15 PM.Poker is a series of decisions; knowing when to hold em and when to fold em. Winning is not just about luck, or the odds, it's about making decisions and embracing uncertainty says Annie Duke. Read more Audio

3:06 PM.On this day in 1943, hundreds of American and Kiwi soldiers clashed on the streets of Wellington. The brawl was hushed up at the time but is still remembered by many who were around back then.  Read more Audio

2:20 PM.We're focusing on The Rolling Stones with possibly this country's biggest Stones fan, Richard Fox. This year he'll get to his 48th, 49th and 50th Stones' concerts in Europe.  Read more Audio, Gallery

1:35 PM.Ophthalmologists at Nelson-Malborough District Health Board are warning beer drinkers after seeing three separate eye injuries in as many weeks. Read more Audio

1:27 PM.Trudy Burrows could never have imagined the width and depth of poverty she's seen face-to-face at her community fridge and pantry in the Christchurch suburb of New Brighton.  Read more Video, Audio

1:18 PM.Just days ago, the UK introduced a tax on sugary drinks. A levy of this kind has been debated by health professionals across the world for years now, with many other counties making similar moves to… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Misha was born in Wellington but grew up in Karamea on the West Coast. He plays guitar, baritone horn, accordion and latarra, in both conventional and unconventional ways. Read more Audio

9:07 PM.Dragonflies are precision flying machines, and Ruary Mackenzie Dodds says they are an indicator of clean water. Read more Audio

3:30 PM.Trade Me - buyers sending money to people they've never met for goods they've never seen? It'll never catch on! Produced by Justin Gregory. Read more Audio

3:15 PM.The Kitchen Pig Smokes the Mouseketeers by Amy Head The writer of the best email about this story wins Amy's s first collection of short fiction, Tough. jesse@radionz.co.nz Read more Audio

2:29 PM.Wellington alternative country band Eb & Sparrow play songs from the new album Seeing Things ahead of a nationwide tour. Read more Video, Audio

1:38 PM.When we think of cheerleading our minds are usually filled with scenes from American football movies. But it may surprise you to know New Zealand has four teams that have qualified for the World… Read more Video, Audio

1:28 PM.The effects climate change may bring is still being figured out. For Kauri trees, researchers from the University of Auckland are studying how the native trees might survive drought in the future.  Read more Video, Audio

1:20 PM.A man in the UK has contracted what's being dubbed the 'world's worst' super-gonorrhoea, an sexually transmitted infection that may not be cured by traditional antibiotics.  Read more Audio

1:11 PM.3-piece garage rock band, Loudhailer, perform our first song live from our Auckland studio. Read more Audio

3:09 PM.Junk in space is a whale of a problem. There are more than 75 hundred tonnes of junk orbiting the earth. European aerospace company Airbus thinks it has a whale of a solution. Read more Audio