Afternoons Podcast Options

3:30 PM.How well do candidates know their local ethnic communities? Lynda Chanwai-Earle is at a public forum in Wellington to hear candidates being grilled in the hot seat, in today's Voices programme Read more Audio, Gallery

3:11 PM.Dimitri Bontinck tells the story of rescuing his son from ISIS, after the teenager became radicalised in Belgium and joined the jihadist group.   Read more Audio, Gallery

2:38 PM.Comparative physiologist, Tony Hickey of Auckland University tells us exactly how hibernation works... and how it could be the key to space travel, if only humans could do it! Read more Audio

1:43 PM.Lillian Grace from Figure.nz tells us about the statistics held about our trains and rail network Read more Audio

1:36 PM.Plastic waste collected on beaches is being turned into something most of us wear to the beach – jandals. The two New Zealand brothers behind Subs came up with the idea 16 months ago. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:25 PM.Next time you're ill should you be reaching for a paintbrush instead of rushing to the doctor for a prescription? Read more Audio

1:16 PM.Do New Zealanders have a "vowel shift," that is causing us to mis-associate certain words with their spellings?  Read more Audio

3:25 PM.Leopard seals are true seals, great in the water but on land they move like a lumbering caterpillar Read more Audio, Gallery

3:08 PM.Nadia Lim shares a recipe for banana and blueberry bran muffins from Let's Eat! - her seventh cookbook and the first she's self-published. It's full of recipes she's cooked countless times for… Read more Audio

2:31 PM.Auckland based folk/rock singer Simon Comber already has two albums to his name. For his latest project though, he has formed a band and traveled to the United States to record with one of his heroes… Read more Video, Audio

2:20 PM.One of the many guests at the Going West Books and Writers Festival is Professor of Education, Peter O'Connor, who works with trauma victims, prisoners and troubled school children to address their… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.University of Otago student Sam Deuchrass first picked up a second-hand camera two years ago. A week ago he put his first ever time-lapse video online and it's already had 65,000 views and attracted… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

1:25 PM.An Auckland-based industrial designer has solved a problem that has been giving sheep farmers repetitive strain injuries for years - removing lambs' tails. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:15 PM.Australia is in the grip of its worst flu season in over a decade, due to the H3N2 strain of Influenza A, which is mutating fast and has killed at least 73 people so far this year. Read more Audio

9:06 PM.Kohurangi, or Kirk's tree daisy, is rare in the Wellington region, but botanists are taking on the challenge of bringing it back to the city. Read more Audio, Gallery

3:30 PM.The 1980s will be remembered for big hair, shoulder pads and the biggest destruction of wealth investors had ever seen. It's 30 years since the 1987 share market crash but the legacy of Black Monday… Read more Audio

3:24 PM.Regular RNZ contributor and sometimes host Charlotte Graham has just completed her Master's thesis - At War on Twitter. Read more Audio

3:08 PM.We discussed Witi Ihimaera's Story, The Seahorse and the Reef Read more Audio

2:17 PM.Part 2 of Mary's session on What to tackle first - debt or KiwiSaver? And why ANZ and AUT have clashed on KiwiSaver fees Audio