Afternoons Podcast Options

3:09 PM.Dr Lucy Jones is a world renowned seismologist. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis are going to happen, she says, but disasters don't have to if we prepare.  Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Award winning composer and musician Victoria Kelly talks about some of the pioneering female musical artists both here and internationally and play some of their music for us too. Read more Audio

2:09 PM.We're honoured to have our regular book critic, Pip Adam in. Today Pip is talking about the 'monstrous feminine' - an idea that challenges the idea of women as victims.  Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Celebrity chef Matty Matheson is known as somewhat of a bad boy in the food world - his TV shows average about 150 expletives per episode.  Read more Audio

1:26 PM.The kilogram is getting an overhaul. 'The Big K' is a lump of metal kept away under glass in Paris that has defined the measurement for more than a hundred years.  Read more Audio

1:16 PM.Five days before her birthday last year, Bec Fisher decided she wanted to try something new. So she thought the best way to find her next passion was to do 40 jobs during her 40th year.  Read more Audio

3:10 PM.In our every day lives, surprises are not always welcome; the bill that comes out of the blue, 19 lollies in a package that was supposed to have 20. But we love surprises in the books we read and the… Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.Have you seen the new thong or seam jeans? Would you wear them? It got us thinking about strange fashion trends in history - there have been plenty of strange short and long lived trends.  Read more Audio, Gallery

2:23 PM.Toys are an essential part of helping kids grow and learn. But not everyone is able to buy the latest toys and teach children how to play with them. That's where toy libraries come in.  Read more Audio

1:42 PM.The Royal Wedding this weekend went off without a hitch. But there was one line in the ceremony that really got our attention - "does anyone object?"  Read more Audio

1:29 PM.The moth plant is an aggressive vine that smothers and kills plants. A South American import, it multiplies quickly and is a big problem in Auckland. An Auckland teacher wants to change that - pod by… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:18 PM.Hate speech is hardly anything new...but what is new is the ability for it to spread like wildfire and remain relatively anonymous thanks to modern technology.  Read more Audio

8:00 AM.Love and loss from Hiroshima to Hastings. Little is known about the Japanese war brides who married New Zealand soldiers stationed in Japan with the occupying force after World War II. One of the last… Read more Audio, Gallery

3:28 PM.It's 12cm across and loves to munch on weta!  Read more Audio

3:20 PM.We continue our series on the Great Walks of New Zealand, and today Sue Hope tells us about walking Waikaremoana with her women's walking group. Read more Audio, Gallery

3:08 PM.Forget those tragic rock-hard, numbers... these buttermilk scones are light and fabulous, says chef Annabelle White. The trick, she says, is to freeze and grate the butter – and touch the mixture only… Read more Video, Audio

2:25 PM.Auckland R&B singer Sharnar was discovered at 15 after a video of her performing one of her own songs at high school got out. Now 22, she's already released three singles and has big plans for the… Read more Video, Audio

2:10 PM.Dan reviews Deadpool 2 and Swagger of Thieves, the new documentary about the NZ band, Head like a Hole. Read more Audio

1:48 PM.Van Halen - Van Halen. Read more Audio

1:38 PM.The move away from single use plastic bags is gaining momentum - the Warehouse today announced it is scrapping plastic bags from its 254 stores by the end of the year. It's replacing them with… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:30 PM.An online law business Consensus is throwing out the old billable hours model and replacing it with a fixed fee system. But there's more to the concept than just how the legal fees are billed. Anton… Read more Audio

1:19 PM.CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) are banned because of the damage they do to the Earth's upper atmosphere. But alarmingly it seems that CFC manufacture may not be a thing of the past. Emissions of CFC-11… Read more Audio