Afternoons Podcast Options

2:20 PM.Wellington band Joe Blossom play songs from their latest album All of The Above. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Lotta Dann describes herself as a frantic, sugar-bingeing, internet-loving, recovering-alcoholic housewife. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Ken Arkind is an American National Poetry Slam Champion,Tedx Speaker, and educator who has performed his work through-out the world. And he's just graduated from the Manukau Institute of technology's… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.A new way to try and open people's 'maths eyes' was launched at Waikato University today. It's a 1.6km long trail, with maths problems along the way, and it's free to the public. The project is an… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:07 PM.The Ash Lab at the University of Canterbury is where geologists test the impact of volcanic ash on all sorts of vital infrastructure. Read more Video, Audio

3:24 PM.Today Mark Easterbrook tells us about his thesis, titled Rugby, Masculinity and National identity: the Use of Rugby as a Signifier in New Zealand Television Advertising. Read more Audio

3:09 PM.This week's story is Descent from Avalanche by Eleanor Catton. Read more Audio

1:44 PM.Today, the Grammy award winning fifth studio album from UK rock band Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms, which was also one of the first to be made on a 24-track digital recorder. Read more Audio

1:34 PM.Dhaulagiri 816 is an especially remote and difficult mountain to climb. NZ mountaineer Lydia Bradey says it was one of the best summits she's ever done. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:26 PM.The community-led, Hundertwasser Art Centre project, is appealing to Aucklanders for help. The project is in the final stages of fundraising and tonight a pop-up concert is being held, in a bid to… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.A Hamilton law graduate is going to the High Court, to take on the Government's policy on climate change. It's thought to be the first case of its kind in New Zealand. The move by 26-year-old Sarah… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.This year marks the 20th anniversary of National Poetry Day, so today instead of a first song, we're having a first poem. Read more Audio

3:09 PM.Writer, sailor and surfer Jonathan White believes that tides teaches us to live with mystery and complexity. He goes around the world investigating the way people around the world have organized their… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:24 PM.Composer, musician, and sound designer Peter Hobbs has created soundtracks for film and television for 15 years. While studying music at Otago University he was a member of Dunedin band Kitset. Read more Audio

1:33 PM.Today in our visit to the sound archives Sarah Johnston from Nga Taonga Sound & vision plyas us some radio ads from the 'swinging 60s'. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.It's hard enough giving a teenager the right messages about sex but new research shows when it comes to Pasifika youths, the job is even harder. Dr Analosa Veukiso-Ulugia has been talking to Samoan… Read more Audio

1:14 PM.A Ministry of Education report shows hundreds of schools throughout the country are considered over capacity, or at risk of becoming over-crowded. The Education Network Annual Assessment report was… Read more Audio

3:07 PM.There's TS Eliot and there's TS as in Taylor Swift, and while most of the time the two aren't mentioned in the same breath, they both can produce poetry says English professor and founding director of… Read more Audio

2:23 PM.Former Split Enz drummer Paul Crowther joins Jesse Mulligan to talk guitar effects pedals and the effect they've had on pop music, including the pedals he manufactures right here in New Zealand. Read more Audio

2:09 PM.The author of The Dragon Defenders, James Russell, reviews Flight Path by David Hill, 1917 Machines of War by Brian Faulkner and Pieces of You by Eileen Merriman. Read more Audio