Afternoons Podcast Options

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

3:30 PM.Sarah McMullan reviews some of this weeks new movies, including the new Ben Affleck thriller, Gone Girl as well as Dracula Untold and the German drama, Beloved Sisters. Audio

3:25 PM.Blenheim wine consultant Belinda Jackson takes us through two wines and one craft beer: Vidal Reserve Hawkes Bay Chardonnay 2013 $18, Wolf Blass Gold Label Shiraz 2012 $22 and Craft beer Renaissance… Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Jacob Brown is owner and chef of The Larder restaurant in Miramar. Audio

2:45 PM.The feature album is the new one from Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter and vocalist Stevie Nicks called '24 Karat Gold: Songs From The Vault'. It features new recordings of previously unreleased… Read more Audio

2:21 PM.A lettuce head can produce up to 30 000 seeds - roughly one for every person on the Kapiti Coast. The Kapiti Seedbank acts as a community chest of seeds with an emphasis on finding varieties of… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Anna Butterfield sees seeds as cultural artefacts, each bean or basil seed carrying the story of its cultivation. And when you consider there are 300 000 edible plants in the world - and we only eat… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.A documentary about life aboard the largest civilian hospital ship in the world, is about to hit our shores. It's called 'The Surgery Ship' and it documents the life-changing experiences of patients… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Auckland's Sola Rosa. Andrew Spraggon, Ben White, Matt Short and friends - their new album, 'Magnetic' is just out. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Odhran Devlin nominates 'If You Want Me To Stay' by Sly And The Family Stone. Audio

9:36 PM.This weeks marks the start of the Antarctic science season and of the 2014 New Zealand IceFest in Christchurch. Read more Audio

9:06 PM.Geodesy is the study of the shape and size of the earth, and it underpins systems such as the Global Navigation Satellite System and allows very accurate surveying of major infrastructure projects Read more Audio

3:43 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:09 PM.Tomorrow marks the official change of the Commanding Officer for the Royal New Zealand Navy base, HMNZS PHILOMEL. Captain Corina Bruce was appointed as the first female Commanding Officer of the… Read more Audio

2:46 PM.Our feature album is 'Eye in the Sky' by British rock band, The Alan Parsons Project, from 1982, recorded in London's Abbey Road Studios, and their first Top Ten hit since 1977's I Robot. Audio

2:17 PM.New Zealand will take 100 refugees from the Syrian conflict for the first time, with the first families arriving in Auckland soon. There are more than three million refugees registered with the United… Read more Audio

2:08 PM.A 600-year-old ancient waka is shedding new light on the how the Pacific was settled. The canoe was found in Golden Bay back in 2011, but research published recently has potentially unlocked secrets… Read more Audio

1:23 PM.Today it's T for Taihape. Taihape is located in the central North Island on State Highway 1. It has recently celebrated it's 120th anniversary. Taihape's icon is the gumboot - humble but hard-working… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Nicole Chesterman-Kircher has chosen 'Everything is Alright' from Jesus Christ Superstar. Audio

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

3:07 PM.'Second level' domains like the '.co' in '.co.nz', FireChat - the messaging app that's powering the Hong Kong protests, Ello, pretender to Twitter's throne, Microsoft unveils Windows 10 system with… Read more Audio

2:44 PM.Our feature album is 'A New Flame' the third LP by British pop group, Simply Red, from 1989. It was Simply Red's first UK number one album and a huge hit world-wide - it went platinum seven times over… Read more Audio

2:19 PM.If you're looking for the key to longevity then Ron Blicq may have the answer for you. Instead of sitting back in his retirement, the 89-year-old great-grandfather decided to take up flying gliders… Read more Audio

2:09 PM.Two New Zealand motorcyclists have made headlines this morning after a saving a pensioner from burning car wreck in Utah. New Plymouth men, Rhys Humphries and Maurice Doyle, were riding… Read more Audio