Afternoons Podcast Options

3:31 PM.Sarah reviews Fast & Furious 7 (the final Paul Walker one), Dior & I, The Sponge Bob Movie: Sponge out of Water, The Book of Life and mentions Tinker Bell & the Legend of the Never Beast. Audio

3:20 PM.Wine selections for your weekend are Mount Riley Marlborough Gewurztraminer 2014 $13-$16, Coopers Creek Bell Ringer Gisborne Albarino 2014 $22, Greylands Ridge Central Otago Pinot Noir $30. Audio

3:10 PM.Richard Till shares his recipe for slow-cooked roast lamb. Audio

2:45 PM.The big news in music this week is the launch of Tidal, a music streaming service aiming to take some of the power and the money away from major internet music providers like Spotify. Tidal is owned… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.When it comes to brain blood flow, what is normal? Shieak Tzeng and his team are finding that different people can have widely varying results when the two systems that regulate blood flow to the… Read more Audio

2:08 PM.A leading roboticist says killer robots could actually save lives. Professor Ronald Arkin, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, is in New Zealand giving talks on how he says, using robots in… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Our New Zealand A to Z checks out some of our Southern Islands. Audio

1:10 PM.Gary Sutton from Kaikoura has chosen 'Every Knock is a Boost' by Georgia Fame. Audio

3:46 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:35 PM.Roland de Bruyne is an elderly Malaysian Aucklander and a survivor of the infamous Changi Prison during the Japanese occupation of Singapore during WW2. Last year his children discovered letters and… Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Paul Brislen on Meerkat, Periscope, Semble and Google trying to map the human body. Audio

2:47 PM.We're featuring the new Van Morrison album, "Duets" - just out - which revisits 16 tracks from his catalogue with the help of some big name guests, including Mick Hucknall, Mavis Staples, Natalie… Read more Audio

2:22 PM.This Sunday daylight savings comes to an end and at 2am our clocks will go back an hour. One man who will be wide awake and on the job is clock technician John Rodgers. He's based in Nelson and his… Read more Audio

2:09 PM.It's four minutes long. And it's a sequence of a man's face staring out at you, a series of 2660 selfie photographs edited together. The man's face is pretty much in the same position in every frame… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.No clues here, sorry! Audio

1:08 PM.Sully Alsop from Wairarapa has chosen 'I won't back down' by Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers. Audio

3:45 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:10 PM.Thousands of archaeological sites dating back to the beginning of civilization are being destroyed by ISIS in Northern Iraq and Syria. Archaeologist Amr Al Azm is part of a team training activists how… Read more Audio

2:45 PM.Today's feature album is the brand new record from British folk singer Laura Marling - Short Movie. Audio

2:20 PM.The book the Hobbit is a world-wide classic - and has been translated into about 60 different languages from Arabic to Ukrainian, Cornish to Hebrew. And now we can add Hawaiian to the list. Dr Keao… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.In a world's first researchers are using Google's technology to map the human body. The new imaging technique was announced at a convention in the United States this week. It will allow medical… Read more Audio

1:55 PM.Ele Ludeman has the best of the web starting with the surprising origins of some well-known expressions. Audio

1:45 PM.Book reviewer Cushla Mc Kinney talks about The Utopia Experiment by Dylan Evans. Audio

1:38 PM.Radio NZ's music producer Zac Arnold talks about Death and the Maiden and Shayne Carter. Audio

1:25 PM.Phil Wallington talks about Jeremy Clarkson; John Campbell and The Naughty Bits. Audio