Afternoons Podcast Options

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

1:09 PM.Poet and singer songwriter, Bill Direen joins us to perform a song in our Auckland studio ahead of his show tonight at the Audio Foundation in Auckland, Expendable Animals: Songs and Improvisations by… Read more Audio

9:07 PM.Botanists have banded together to bring native mistletoes back to Wellington city, using seeds rescued from a plant growing on a dying tree. Read more Audio

3:29 PM.Esther Calje from Christchurch has a masters of midwifery and is currently a senior midwife and clinical leader at Christchurch Womens Hospital. She tells us about her thesis on the iron status of… Read more Audio

1:47 PM.REM Green. Read more Audio

1:34 PM.Kākā have nested metres from backyards and tui are “dripping off the trees” in a Wellington suburb where residents have been trapping predators. Read more Audio