Afternoons Podcast Options

1:37 PM.What is the history and current comic scene like in New Zealand? The champion of the graphic novel, Adrian Kinnaird, is involved in the Going West festival in Auckland. Audio

1:25 PM.Unless you're at the helm of a big blockbuster, making movies is as much about raising money and calling in favours as being creative. We speak to local filmmaker, Kirsty Hamilton, about her latest… Read more Audio

1:14 PM.Could the smell of a chicken throw predators off the scent of our native birds? Dr Grant Norbury is hoping to prove his theory that could, in an ideal world, help to save the 25-million native birds… Read more Audio

1:08 PM.'Dizzie' by Gecko Turner. Audio

3:45 PM.Kevin talks about the C-Tug kayak trolley. His design is now sold around the world. Audio

3:45 PM.Kevin talks about design. He's one of few designers around who doesn't design on the computer. Audio

3:45 PM.Kevin talks about his kayaks. He creates kayaks for commercial and personal purposes. Audio

3:45 PM.Kevin talks about the Quad Bug. A safer quad bike that looks cool. Audio

3:45 PM.What the world is talking about. With Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts. Audio

3:40 PM.The Ogo is an electric wheelchair that runs on lithium-ion batteries. Kevin Halsall designed it for his friend Marcus Thompson, a paraplegic since 2003. Amelia Nurse visits his workshop in Otaki to… Read more Video, Audio

3:30 PM.Our colleagues over at the Wireless have started a new series of videos featuring ordinary people talking about issues they really care about. Audio

3:10 PM.Our technology correspondent Paul Brislen is here to talk about on-line voting and electromagnetic sensitivity, among other things. Innovator of the Week - this week the entire computer game sector is… Read more Audio

2:50 PM.Rebecca Wadey is the owner of The Centre in Auckland, which focuses on wellness. Audio

2:35 PM.Breakfast is something we often have when we're flying out the door, in the car or on the hoof. Audio

2:32 PM.Amelia Nurse has been checking out some of the Auckland region's more exciting food enterprises. Today she visits a restaurant that is one of only a few in New Zealand. Audio

2:20 PM.Mahoe is one of the big names in New Zealand cheese. Winner of multiple medals in the NZ Cheese Awards including Supreme Best Cheese winner for their very old edam, the business is run out of a small… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Frequent Facebook use could be making us less happy with our bodies. Audio

1:40 PM.'I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got' by Sinead O'Connor. Chosen by Gabe McDonnell. Audio

1:25 PM.Dr Ingrid Visser usually spends her time rescuing orca, but on Monday she made a rescue of a different kind, when she carried out her first shark rescue in the Bay of Islands. And it sounds like it… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Jessica Fox on an Air BnB listing inviting writers, artists and thinkers to Scotland's book town to run a bookshop for short stay. Designed to bring new creative talent to Wigtown, and raise awareness… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Dear Prudence - The Beatles. Audio

3:45 PM.What the world is talking about. With Paul Brennan, Jim Mora and Noelle McCarthy. Audio

3:10 PM.Some plane crashes do have a happy ending. German photographer Dietmar Eckell spent 3 years, travelling to four continents to find 15 aircraft crash sites where everyone on board survived. His quest… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.On the Great New Zealand Concerts show today, we're featuring Tina Turner in New Zealand in 1985 and 1993. Audio

2:10 PM.Our next guest spent 35 years as a coroner, eight as New Zealand's first Chief Coroner, and oversaw two of New Zealand's biggest mass casualty events: the Pike River mine disaster and the Christchurch… Read more Audio