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Television Critic: Caitlin Cherry
Caitlin reviews Fleabag, Atypical and The Good Doctor. Audio
Great NZ Album: Successor by Anthonie Tonnon
Successor by Anthonie Tonnon was released on 2 February 2015. Audio
Anthonie Tonnon performs at new arts festival
Anthonie Torran is playing at the first ever Te Tairawhiti Arts Festival which opens this Friday and runs through to the 20th of October. Audio
What can we learn from magma?
It sounds like a recipe for disaster - drilling into a magma chamber. But the process could unlock the mystery of volcanoes and tell scientists how magma operates. Audio
Organic contaminants in our groundwater
Traces of organic contaminants - including compounds found in caffeine, pain relief drugs and sunscreen - have been found in nearly two thirds of the country's wells. Audio
First song: DOONS
Local Wellington indie froth rock band DOONS released their debut EP High Beam'in early August, and join us today from our Wellington studio to play one of the tracks. Audio
Breakfast asparagus with crispy egg - Lauraine Jacobs
Recipe by Lauraine Jacobs
From Afternoons on Friday 20 September 2019
Lauraine Jacobs' Ultimate Fresh Asparagus Rolls
Recipe by Lauraine Jacobs
From Afternoons on Friday 20 September 2019
Great album
Florence + The Machine - Lungs 10th Anniversary Edition on burgundy vinyl. Audio
JFK's granddaughter on the environmental impact of consumerism
Tatiana Schlossberg is on a mission to help the world better understand what it all means. The environment journalist (and daughter of Caroline Kennedy) has just written her first book Inconspicuous… Audio
The changing members of Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac is one of the biggest bands in the world. And part of the Fleetwood Mac story is the soap-opera - its various members, the affairs and the "rumours" surrounding the famous musicians. Audio
Book Critic: Pip Adam
New Zealand is a farming nation so for today's book review, Pip Adam talks about three bits of writing that are sparked by ideas of farming animals - and perhaps our relationship to the animals that… Audio
Wanted for research: unmarried mothers from the 1960s and 70s
The 60s and 70s were a time of tremendous social upheaval: the pill was invented; first-wave feminism took off; the sexual revolution took place. Audio
Going West Writers' Festival launches this Friday
Something very cool is happening this Friday in West Auckland ... music will fill the air! And the soaring voices of some of our wisest, cleverest, most insightful and inventive writers. Audio
Globalisation, and what it'll mean for you and your job
Globalisation is a bit of a buzzword these days, but a lot of the time it has an annoyingly vague, ivory tower sort of ring to it. Audio
Snowball: ABC podcast about falling victim to a con-artist
In the year 2006, Greg Wards was a Kiwi expat living it up on his big OE in London. One night he went to a house party and met an American woman. Audio