Afternoons Podcast Options

2:23 PM.We learn about composing in New Zealand from Chris Gendall who is also the current president of the Composers Association, and he plays us some recent compositions, some of which you might find a… Read more Audio

1:38 PM.U.S research has linked lead exposure to more than a quarter of a million premature deaths each year. Read more Audio

1:29 PM.A new cycling lobby group has been formed to stop making it compulsory to wear helmets. Biking Choice talks to Jesse about why they want a law change. Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Joshua Fields Milburn had it all before he was 30, the big salary, nice house, nice cars. But he was miserable. He decided to throw it all away and embrace minimalism. He tells us what happened. Read more Audio

1:11 PM.Seattle based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer Matthew Bean performs live in our Auckland studio - he's known musically as Sneaky Bones and is in New Zealand for a tour. Read more Audio

3:09 PM.The most comprehensive slang dictionary ever created has are more than 776 terms for madness, 247 for fat, 279 for ugly and more than 1700 for sex. But there is not one slang word for love. Read more Audio

2:26 PM.The cabbage tree is still fighting back from the ‘sudden decline’ disease, and remains one of the most widely cultivated trees in New Zealand, but what are its prospects? Read more Audio

2:18 PM.School holidays are creeping up once again and parents will be thinking how to entertain their kids. If you're in Gisborne though there's an option for young girls aged 8-12 - a surf squad.  Read more Audio

1:38 PM.Aussies and kiwis. We're mates, brothers-in-arms and friendly rivals on the rugby field. But lately you can just tell by the look in their eye that something's changed.  Read more Audio

1:24 PM.Kiwi rapper and musician, MC Tali has worked with some of the biggest names in drum and bass in the UK, but now she's turned her hand to another art form - writing her first novel The Little White… Read more Audio

1:14 PM.Some of the solutions to make public transport better have not been welcomed by local communities. Businesses of Mt Eden Village are angry at Auckland Transport's plan to extend bus stops in the… Read more Audio

8:00 AM.A Life Like This: Critically acclaimed, Cambodian Filmmaker Isiah Tour's animation about his father surviving the Khmer Rouge, extraordinarily, will go back to Cambodia. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

3:26 PM.The very popular mollusc toheroa Read more Audio, Gallery

3:07 PM.Chef, Jacob Brown from Wellington restaurant, The Larder, shares his recipe for lamb and mint meatballs, and gives us his tips to make perfectly cooked meatballs and tomato sauce. Read more Audio

2:29 PM.Stellar* - one of the country's best-known and favourite bands of the '90s and 2000s Read more Video, Audio

2:21 PM.Some people say they cannot help their loud sneezing, and are tired of being given a hard time about it. Read more Audio

1:41 PM.Jesse helps Tom prepare for his roasting this weekend at the Writers and Readers festival in Wellington Read more Audio

1:33 PM.Does a chat about leaving this mortal coil over tea and biscuits appeal to you? Read more Audio