Afternoons Podcast Options

1:10 PM.Becoming Something Other by Chris Knox. Chosen by Dan O'Sullivan of New Brighton. Audio

9:46 PM.The kaka from Zealandia Sanctuary are an urban success story, but they are developing lead poisoning, probably from chewing roofing nails and old lead paint. Read more Audio

9:34 PM.Massey University zoologist Anne Wignall explains how web-building spiders use vibrations to communicate and to make sense of their world. Read more Audio

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

3:10 PM.This week's Expat is Simon Moffatt, who is living and working (and skiiing on a daily basis) in Banff, Canada Audio

2:46 PM.Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees Audio

2:20 PM.For more than a decade this country has built a particular relationship with Afghanistan. That's because of the Defence Force, which has worked in reconstruction and training in a country which has… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.A massive solar storm has caused an impressive aurora, most easily seen in the south of the country. Bob Evans runs the Aurora and Solar section of the Royal Astronomical Society. Read more Audio

2:08 PM.Stephen Adams talks Kiwi on the BancFirst (Oklahoma) Ad Audio

1:21 PM.Today's A to Z explores New Zealand's Amateur Dramatic Societies. Jenny Quin is vice president of Upper Hutt Musical Theatre. Craig Ogilvie is the marketing manager and board member for Showbiz. Grant… Read more Audio

1:08 PM.Liz from Wellington has chosen 'I Love You Suzanne' by Lou Reed. Audio

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

3:08 PM.A proposed GST on Internet products, the tech sector's 'women problem' (a lack of women that is, in leadership roles) and the future is ... flying cars. Audio

2:45 PM.The feature album today is Too Low For Zero, the seventeeth studio album by Elton John from 1983. Audio

2:20 PM."Exhilarating and addictive…" that's how UK-born, New Zealand-based Francesca D'Oriano describes the feeling of riding a wave. Based out in Lyall Bay, the yoga instructor and founder of Wellington… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.It's the largest cave in the world, and one photographer has used drones to capture it both by ground and air. To date, the footage has been viewed nearly 900,000 times online. The cave is called Hang… Read more Audio

2:15 PM.A new vaccine to combat disease caused by rheumatic fever may soon become a reality. It has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of deaths from preventable heart disease, throughout the world… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.It's been four days since a devastating category five cyclone struck Vanuatu, with severe winds causing widespread destruction to infrastructure and food crops. The country is warning of food… Read more Audio

1:22 PM.No clues here, sorry! Audio

1:08 PM.Tim Egan from Gisborne has chosen Time Makes A Wine by Ardijah. Audio

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

3:10 PM.Some people will try anything from starvation diets to injections of questionable material to stay looking and feeling younger. Journalist Bill Gifford looks at the myths and the science of longevity… Read more Audio

2:50 PM.Hozier, the self-titled first album from singer songwriter Andrew Hozier-Byrne. Audio

2:22 PM.A team of New Zealanders are also on track to try and break their own world record. In 2012 Project 64 Mini took their custom 1964 Mini Cooper S to Bonneville and smashed two records. And this August… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Three University of Waikato students have attempted a world record to cycle across Australia. They're still waiting to hear if it's theirs but they had an epic adventure trying. Tim Chittock, his… Read more Audio