Afternoons Podcast Options

2:08 PM.Pratik Navani reviews a new sitcom that follows a teacher in a Texan school and explores some of the amazing TV in Japan. Read more Audio

1:53 PM.It's the type of crime that many of us don't want to read or speak about - the content is often too disturbing to comprehend. But the sharing of child sex abuse material has skyrocketed both… Read more Audio

1:36 PM.New Zealand fashion legend Liz Mitchell has teamed up with Wanaka fashion brand 'Precious Collaborative' to create a limited edition woollen coat. The coat is made of a "kiwi version" of tweed… Read more Audio

1:18 PM.The National Pub quiz championship was held on Saturday. The event - which crows the nation's best team - saw 560 participants go head-to-head. They battled it out over Sports, Science, TV, Geography… Read more Audio

3:23 PM.Gardening expert Kate Hillier has some expert advice for keeping those nasty pests away from your precious plants. Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Julie Biuso brings Italy to the show with a dish from her late mother-in-law Mamma Rosa. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Today Jesse is joined by Psychedelic folk/rock songwriter Arthur Ahbez. He's been in the game over 10 years and just put out his third album, 'Arthur Ahbez & The Flaming Ahbez'. As the name implies… Read more Audio

2:07 PM.Dom Corry is in the studio to talk what's on in the theatres. He reviews Heretic, starring Hugh Grant; a Lucy Lawless directed documentary Never Look Away and the drama Memory, featuring Peter… Read more Audio

1:53 PM.Listener Rick explains how his life has been marked by incredible coincidences. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.A couple of months ago there was a campaign for Hamilton to redesign its coat of arms... Spoiler alert - The mayor said it's not going to happen. But that got us thinking.... Why do our cities even… Read more Audio

1:24 PM.Yesterday Steve Gurney joined us for Sporting History. You can still listen to that conversation with the nine-time Coast to Cost race champion on the RNZ website Near the end of our conversation he… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.Human or Horse? Who would win a 40 km race? It sounds like the kind of question you'd toss around after a few too many beers at the pub... and that is exactly where the idea for 'The Only Fools and… Read more Audio

3:20 PM.Dr Grant from Victoria University looks at the history of mass protests in New Zealand and how they stack up against Tuesday's hikoi to Wellington. Read more Audio

3:15 PM.Publicist Ali Jones says she has the answer to poor health outcomes for mothers and newborns: a health system where midwives are front and center. It's an approach advocated for by the WHO in a new… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Adventure racer and multisport triathlete Steve Gurney joins us for this week's NZ Sporting History. Steve is most well-known for winning the 243km Coast to Coast race a record 9 times and… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.RNZ News reader Evie Ashton reviews an eclectic bunch of podcasts that can help send you off to sleep. Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Staff at an Upper Hutt Wildlife reserve are devastated after the alleged theft of its "loving and talkative" Cockatoo 'Pepper' Staglands staff believe the 6-year-old sulphur crested cockatoo was taken… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.For over a decade, an irreplaceable ring laser has been trapped in a cavern 30m below Christchurch port hills. The Carl Zeiss laser was installed in an old World War Two bunker in 1997 until a… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Beef cattle account for roughly 10% of Aotearoa New Zealand's total greenhouse gas emissions. There's plenty of research looking into methods to reduce emissions - vaccines, seaweed-based feed, and… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.A new study has found that native plants in Tongariro National Park are being hit hard by the spread of invasive heather, with a 40 to 50 percent decline in native species in some areas. Dr Julie… Read more Audio