Afternoons Podcast Options

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

3:25 PM.Bearded hipsters are an everyday sight in cities like Wellington. Male facial hair has made a comeback in recent years, including Movember. But beards and moustaches are nothing new for this nation… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:35 PM.Photographer Nikki Denholm has seen much of her life through a camera lens. Over the last two decades her work has taken her to some of the world's most depraved areas. From the orphanages of war-torn… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:10 PM.We've been told for years that high fat diets are bad. Then came the Atkins diet which said the opposite. There's new advice confirming we should be eating more fat, and that it will help us lose… Read more Audio

1:36 PM.Depending on your age - and where in the country you lived - you might remember tuning in to The Lever Hit Parade, The Fabulous 50 or maybe Kasey Casem's American Top 40. Sarah Johnston from Nga… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:27 PM.An Auckland girls college has sparked controversy over its new guidelines for what its students can wear at their school ball. Read more Audio