Afternoons Podcast Options

3:09 PM.A taste for chocolate has done more than break the will power of people across the generations. It's also started wars. The fascinating impact of food on history is told in the new book, Food Fights… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Wellington based Viking records was once New Zealand's largest independent record label. And now, all of the company's back catalogue has now been donated to the National Library for digitisation and… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

1:38 PM.It's the 25th anniversary of the Pasifika Festival, and RNZ's film guy, Dan Slevin has been delving into the films set in the Pacific over the last few decades... and has concluded that Hollywood has… Read more Video, Audio

1:23 PM.Dave Stephens is 37 years into his 200-year plan. From bare land in 1979 he began building his 10 acre park, that now has 10,000 trees and shrubs, thousands of bulbs and dozens of garden features and… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.The Department of Conservation is undertaking a partial review of the Tongariro National Park Management Plan. It's proposing the construction of three new shared-use walking and cycling tracks, and… Read more Audio

3:30 PM."Break Free", a practical handbook for migrant and refugee youth breaking free from family violence has just been published by the Shakti Youth Unit. It was inspired by young women from our ethnic… Read more Audio, Gallery

3:10 PM.Just when it feels like there are few places left on the earth unexplored, Professor Anthony Martin says all you have to do is look down to discover some of nature's deepest, darkest secrets. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:30 PM.Our Monday expert is Mark Amsler - an Associate Professor Comparative Literature at the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics at the University of Auckland. He talks through the history of… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Kiwi music legend Dave Dobbyn talks to Jesse Mulligan about his other passion - photography. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:35 PM.More than 80 percent of Madagascar's 14,883 plant species are found nowhere else in the world. Eric Miller is the President of the Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group, and will soon be visiting New… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:25 PM.What exactly is, and is not, considered a native bird? And how is this decided? It seems like a simple question but it could be harder to define than we think. Whanganui Regional Museum curator of… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.A new Gisborne-based study, suggests a plant-based whole-food diet may be the answer to reduce obesity and diabetes. Read more Audio

3:25 PM.In the depths of the rainforests of New Zealand's rugged Southwest breeds one of the world's rarest penguin species - the Fiordland crested penguin. Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Chef Annabel Langbein has just released her latest cookbook, Essential and is with us to share her recipe for ceviche Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Rising folk singer-songwriter Nadia Reid plays a couple of tracks from her album Preservation. Read more Video, Audio

1:30 PM.Auckland-based designer, Sherylene Chan. She was named second in the world, at The Rookies Graphic Designer of the Year. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.What can bird brains tell us about the evolution of intelligence? Dr Rachael Shaw is a postdoctoral research fellow, from the School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University. She's been testing the… Read more Audio