Afternoons Podcast Options

1:15 PM.Back in March, Jesse spoke with the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Jan Wright, who was saying electric cars help combat climate change, but solar panels do little. She was backing… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.David Griffiths from Napier restaurant Mister D joins Jesse in RNZ's Napier studio, and shares a recipe for winter roots soup. Audio

2:15 PM.Tom Cunliffe describes himself as a story teller of moonlit folk songs. He's another in a long list of local musicians who have made the pilgrimage to the Sitting Room Studio in Lyttleton. What he's… Read more Video, Audio

1:35 PM.DOC's threatened species ambassador, Nicola Toki talks about the New Zealand praying mantis (Orthodera novaezealandiae). Read more Audio, Gallery

1:30 PM.A $37 million dollar white water rafting park caters to both the enthusiastic amateur and the established pro but it also offers students from low decile schools the chance to learn water safety. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:25 PM.The debate over water, and who owns it, is heating up throughout the country as the government undertakes a consultation process on water reforms. It maintains the line that 'no one owns the water'… Read more Audio

9:45 PM.Veronika Meduna joins BRANZ physicist Manfred Plagmann as he equips a home with sensors that track how heat and moisture move through the rooms. Read more Audio

9:36 PM.Craig Rodger explains how large solar storms can overwhelm the protective shield of the earth's magnetic field and disrupt national power grids. Read more Video, Audio

9:20 PM.University of Waikato professor of environmental planning Iain White argues that our 'same again' response to flooding is hindering our ability to plan more effectively. Read more Audio

3:28 PM.Our expat this week is a New Zealander living in Jakarta, Indonesia. Read more Audio, Gallery

3:10 PM.Astronomer Dr Ian Griffin is the Director of Otago Museum in Dunedin. He is the former CEO of Science Oxford and the former head of public outreach at NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute. He… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

1:42 PM.Tomorrow afternoon at 3:18 that last Ganz Mavag train will arrive at Wellington station on a regularly scheduled service from Melling in the Hutt Valley. The trains have been taking passengers in the… Read more Audio

1:28 PM.DOC staff have left Port Timaru on a ship, bound for a small set of islands 900 kilometres south east of New Zealand. Their mission is to eradicate mice from Antipodes Islands, a campaign which they… Read more Audio

1:22 PM.You may remember yesterday we spoke to the principal of St Dominic Girls college about the rules around what kind of the dresses senior girls can wear to their ball. However since that interview we've… Read more Audio

1:13 PM.It's budget day, and among the wish lists for regional leaders is more money to help tourist areas cope with the growing number of international visitors. Tourism is expected soon to overtake dairying… Read more Audio