Afternoons Podcast Options

3:23 PM.Yes, our new series is here, and we begin with AJ Macfarlane, who tells us about his recently completed thesis looking at playing the guitar upside-down. Read more Audio

3:07 PM.Today we'll be talking about a new short story, Alexander, Two, by Sarah Quigley. Email us your thoughts on the story. Jesse@radionz.co.nz. The writer of the best email will receive a copy of Sarah… Read more Audio

2:29 PM.It's time New Zealand's amateur historians got a shout-out, says Grant Morris of Victoria University. The personal stories researched and shared by these unsung heroes add precious colour and texture… Read more Audio

2:16 PM.Dr Jess Berentson-Shaw discusses the pros and cons of food in schools as a Government policy. Read more Audio

1:34 PM.The Workers Cup goes inside Qatar's labour camps, where African and Asian migrants work under miserable conditions with little pay, to build the facilities for the football World Cup 2022. The… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:23 PM.A 110 million-year-old nodosaur fossil has gone on display, and it's so well preserved the find has been described by National Geographic, 'as rare as winning the lottery'. The fossil was unveiled at… Read more Audio

1:14 PM.The problem of clandestine, or mobile meth labs in Marlborough, is part of a drug awareness seminar in Blenheim next week. And Community Constable Russell Smith, says it's common for P manufacuturers… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.In science research, it's better to be exciting than to be right – and the result is worthless cures and wasted money, says science journalist Richard Harris. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Gina Cole was one of the winners at last night's Ockham NZ Book Awards. She won The Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction for Black Ice Matter, a collection of short stories that explores… Read more Audio

2:08 PM.Myrtle Rust has been found in a plant nursery in Taranaki, Jesse speaks to MPI's Myrtle Rust Response Incident Controller, David Yard. Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Diesel and Dust is the sixth studio album by Australian rock band Midnight Oil. It was released in August 1987. The songs focus on the struggles of Indigenous Australians and environmental… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.One of our most famous institutions, Plunket, turned 110 years old this week. Sarah Johnston from Nga Taonga Sound & Vision has been listening to some sound recordings from the archives about the… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:40 PM.Only about 62 percent of 18-24 bothered to vote in the 2014 General Election. A group of teenagers wants to change that. They've set up the organisation Active Citizenship Aotearoa. Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Moors murderer Ian Brady, who killed five children with Myra Hindley, died yesterday in a high-security hospital aged 79. Read more Audio

1:14 PM.New Zealand's mainland yellow-eyed penguins face extinction unless urgent action taken according to a new study. Read more Audio

3:09 PM.Politics used to be divided between left and right, but now people are split along different lines, according to a UK writer. Read more Audio

1:48 PM.Today's Great Album is the second from seminal Kiwi band The Mutton Birds, released in 1993. Salty. Read more Audio