Afternoons Podcast Options

1:45 PM.Culture 101 host Perlina Lau talks to Jesse about her time in Taiwan. Audio

1:35 PM.Growing your own food is a blessing during times of financial hardship. But we're not just talking about a vegetable patch - Te Puke's Kris Edgington can teach you how to feed your family by planting… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Fancy a bit of garden DIY? Learn how to make your own birdbath and to attract more native wildlife into your garden. Audio

1:10 PM.Nelson's Beer Chair Competition is an art competition for anyone who's ever wanted to enter one but never thought they could. Audio

1:08 PM.There are reports that Kiwi Formula One driver Liam Lawson has been dropped by Red Bull after just two races. RNZ Sports reporter Barry Guy has the latest. Audio

2:30 PM.Today Jesse talks to the one and only Billy Gibbons as tickets for ZZ Top's New Zealand tour have just gone on sale. Read more Video, Audio

2:20 PM.Our man in OZ, Brad, talks about the Queensland government which is set to announce its plans today for new infrastructure for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics and Paralympic Games.  Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Pip Adam reviews a number of short novellas that have villains as their central characters.  Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Daniel Watson, managing director for Vertech.co.nz has a couple of handy tips to keep your money safe while spending it on the internet. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.The beauty of braided art will be on display at the Basement Theatre next week as part of the 'HER* A women's festival' in Auckland. Read more Audio

1:15 PM.A traditional Māori martial art is helping to turn around the lives of at risk youth. Read more Audio

3:35 PM.This week on Here Now, Caribbean reggae artist Omega Queen chats with Kadambari Raghukumar about how it all began from her, in her home island of Trinidad and Tobago. Audio

3:10 PM.Finding misery in even the best circumstances was always one of writer Olga Khazan's special talents. So she set out to change her personality, using science to become more open, less neurotic, and… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Nearly every garden or gardener has to deal with waste and what to do with it. Ali Nicholls from Gardens4Health is an expert on composting and she's in the studio to answer your pressing compost… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Every week Jesse literally cold calls a random information center somewhere in Aotearoa. Will it be awkward? Or will it be a lovely chat where we learn something new? Audio

2:10 PM.Caitlin Cherry reviews two fun formulaic thrillers where you don't know who the real baddies are amongst the red herrings and bureaucrats: Protection (TVNZ On Demand) and Zero Day (Netflix). Audio

1:35 PM.In 2016 then Prime Minister John Key stood on stage and announced, "by 2050 every single part of New Zealand will be completely free of rats, stoats and possums" To many this was a remarkable… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Right now, a major new exhibition is open to the public at Auckland Museum. Ko au, ko Ngati Whatua aims to offer a doorway into the story of Ngati Whatua Orakei, one of the hapu of the the wider Ngati… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.You can be passionate about lots of things - wine, fashion, art but would you invest in them? Gertjan Verdickt from the University of Auckland's business school, is the co-author of The Passion… Read more Audio

3:25 PM.How should I group my arm chairs? Should I use dark or light colours in the bathroom? Do I use wallpaper or paint? These, and questions like them, are all questions about interior design. And they're… Read more Audio