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Jesse catches up with Chantal Patton about Covid-19 stalling her and her family's travels in New Zealand for almost a year. Audio

This week Nicola Galloway of Homegrown Kitchen has a fabulous recipe for the abundance of blueberries.  She shares her delicious recipe for a summery cake topped off with her special glaze that gives… Audio

Organisers of a six day kayaking adventure are hoping to attract up to 40 volunteers for a Gorsebusters project. Baz Hughes of Okarito Kayaks explains to Jesse what's on offer and what work is… Audio

Sydney Shep and Rere-No-A-Rangi Pope have worked a project developing a computer system to make it easy to track down Māori freehold land shareholders. They explain the system to Jesse. Audio

Mary Holm is a financial journalist and is a regular on RNZ's Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan. Today though she's talking books, music and films instead of dollars and cents. Audio

 Historian Grant Morris investigates the history of both our national and local Coats of Arms. Audio

Researcher at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale School of Public Health, Steph Tan, talks to Jesse  about what an ideal school would look like. Audio

For our new feature, New Zealand Screen History we looked back to New Zealand's first soap opera: Close to Home was New Zealand's very first soap opera. Irene Gardiner took Jesse back in time to look… Audio

Online harassment isn't just "being rude on the internet", it can ruin peoples lives, says Massey University professor Dr Kevin Veale. In his new book Gaming the Dynamics of Online Harassment, he… Audio

Today - a regular music critic on Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan - Dianne Swann - who has had a long and varied musical career including with When the cats Away, she's toured with Radiohead, supported… Audio

For Bookmarks this week, Jesse speaks to the new presenter of First Up on RNZ, broadcaster Nathan Rarere.  He joins Jesse in the studio to talk about his favourite books, movies, tv shows, music and… Audio

Native carnivorous plant researcher Taylor Davies-Colley, talks to Jesse about the giant rare bloom and other plants that like to eat animals. Audio

Scientists doing genome sequencing of COVID-19 are finding that the virus is mutating at an alarming rate with many more mutations than would have been expected. Jesse talks to Dr David Welch, a… Audio

Every year The Economist magazine looks at the trends to watch in the coming year. Jesse talks to editor Tom Standage about the World in 2021. Audio

New Zealander Laura Walters is based in London. She explains to Jesse that whenever the expat community speaks up about their lives abroad they face a nasty, vitriolic back lash from Kiwis at home. Audio

There's been advances in the fight to combat antibiotic resistant superbugs. One of the Australian scientists at the forefront of this research Jeremy Barr of Monash University talks to Jesse about… Audio

Elizabeth Day prefers to think of 2020 as the year we got a lot of opportunities to learn about what to do when life doesn't go to plan. She's a writer and host of the podcast, How To Fail. She talks… Audio

Cliff Goss has been training horses since the 1940's. He is now 89 and has shunned retirement, instead training 3 horses. Cliff talks to Jesse about his long career with horses and why he still loves… Audio

Need a hand to get your system reset after seasonal overindulgence?  Claus Christophersen is a senior lecturer in nutrition at Edith Cowan University in Perth, and has some advice on how to get your… Audio

RNZ presenter Wallace Chapman is loving spending time with his whānau this summer, but he did come back limping from a family holiday in Waipu Cove. The reason? Three-year-old Wallace Junior's daily… Video, Audio

For Bookmarks today, we're talking to someone who writes books for a living and often joins us on Afternoons as our book critic. Pip Adam joins us in the Wellington studio to share some of her… Audio