Afternoons Podcast Options

1:15 PM.After a long and strange search, writer for the Spinoff Hayden Donnell, finally tracked down the inventor of Kiwi onion dip. Read more Audio

3:30 PM.Chinese New Year is now the largest community festival held in the capital. Lynda Chanwai-Earle finds out from three generations of the Tom family why it's such a special time of year. Read more Audio, Gallery

3:06 PM.Astronaut Mike Massimino’s journey into space was far from smooth. Read more Audio

2:33 PM.Mental resilience means not being destroyed by adverse events, and an expert says we can all develop these skills.   Read more Audio

1:33 PM.New Zealand artist, Rebecca Holden, has been invited to show her solo exhibition, 'Sand in the Apricot Jam', at the Museum of Rishon LeZion in Israel. The exhibition features large-scale painted works… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.AJ Hackett is the name that probably comes to mind when you think of bungy jumping, but Chris Sigglekow taught Hackett the ropes, and had bungy jumped six years before he met him. Read more Video, Audio

1:13 PM.Pharmac is considering whether to help cut the cost of sanitary products. The government funding agency has received an application for it to subsidise the products and hopes to report back to the… Read more Audio

3:25 PM.Our critter this week is only found in one location in the world and the total population size is unknown. One catastrophic event - a fire or effects of climate change, could as good as exterminate… Read more Audio

3:08 PM.In our food segment today, we meet one of the team behind Pomegranate Kitchen, a social enterprise where refugees to New Zealand cook meals for Wellingtonians, using recipes from their homeland. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:20 PM.Today, in our Auckland studio, a Bluegrass band based in Brisbane, Australia but with an ex-pat Kiwi at the helm. George Jackson left New Zealand at sixteen. He moved to the BIG COUNTRY with his… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Autism could be detected in children long before symptoms start to show, meaning intervention could start much earlier. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Our native kokako could soon be on the move. Back to Mt Pirongia in Waikato, where it's been absent for 21 years. Read more Audio

1:15 PM.A study by New Zealand scientists has led to the possibility that a region of the Pacific Ocean east of Australia which includes New Zealand and New Caledonia, may be considered a continent. Jesse… Read more Audio

9:06 PM.Archaeologists have been working alongside the Milton community to excavate an old Anglican cemetery, to find 'lost burials' and restore the stories of early Otago farmers. Read more Audio, Gallery

3:25 PM.Kristen moved from Wellington to Beijing as a student in 2013. She is now working as a freelance writer, translator and promoter in Chengdu. Blogs about NZ/China music and culture at kiwiese. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

2:20 PM.Mary Holm answers more listener questions on Kiwisaver, particularly for people who are near retirement or already 65. Audio