Summer Times Podcast Options

11:30 AM.'Slow television' has been slow getting to New Zealand but it's soon to arrive in the form of Go South – a Prime TV programme taking viewers on a 12-hour journey from Auckland to Milford Sound. Read more Video, Audio

11:05 AM.Our travel feature now escorts us to the Chatham Islands. Wellingtonian Erin Daldry headed there with geologist Hamish Campbell and scientist Chris Adams one on of the two trips they take each year to… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:30 AM.Now there's not much that's more subjective than taste in music. But is there a way to place an objective lens on the comparative merits of a band's efforts? RNZ Music's Nick Bollinger is on a writing… Read more Audio

10:20 AM.A series of "frightening and breathtaking" photographs of the Port Hills Fires in February last year, won Joseph Johnson the Best News Photography Voyager Media Awards last year.  Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.Lisa MacLaren, is a PhD at the joint centre for disaster research, and she's also the national convenor of Generation Zero. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Our regional check in series continues today with RNZ Taranaki correspondent Robin Martin. We're looking ahead to 2019 and what issues the region faces in this local government election year. Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Peter Zimmer has spent many hundreds of hours in the New Zealand mountains in severe weather conditions, helping to search for lost and injured climbers. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:20 AM.A New Zealander is helping Vanuatu to realise an ambitious project to build a museum about the Second World War in the South Pacific.  Read more Audio, Gallery

9:10 AM.The government shutdown in the United States is now stretching into its fourth week with no end in sight. It has big implications for things like national security and the country's scientists. Read more Audio

11:50 AM.After Peter Bland's daughter "sort of bullied him into it," the acclaimed British-NZ poet and actor started recording Facebook videos. Now he enjoys both the intimacy of reading to the camera – and… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.A First Generation Tertiary Student programme for students who are the first in their family to progress beyond secondary education, is part of a new academy aimed at helping some of this year's… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.Over the summer we're talking to young leaders in their field. Today it's the turn of Sir Peter Blake Trust ambassador Emily Gordon who describes herself as an atmospheric physics nerd who has a… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.Over the summer we're talking to young leaders in their field. Today it's the turn of Sir Peter Blake Trust ambassador Emily Gordon who describes herself as an atmospheric physics nerd who has a… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.When is it poetry and is it music? Like many types of art if you try and pick apart the minutiae of a form you can end up killing it, but it is an interesting dilemma.  Read more Audio

10:30 AM.If you have a piece of furniture that's seen better days, you have several options. One is to upcycle, to stamp your own mark on it, rather than throwing it out.  Read more Audio

10:20 AM.We continue our series helping historian Jock Phillips with his project exploring New Zealand history through objects. Today we look at pre-colonial design, braile technology and a humble cookbook. Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Dr Cynthia Winkworth works in the zoology department at Otago University, and she's just embarked on a project, along with some local schools, to study how an unusual wee fellow called the peripatus… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.We turn our attention to Fiordland now for today's regional cross and our correspondent is Te Anau volunteer fire brigade chief fire officer Graeme "Possum" Moffat.  Read more Audio

9:35 AM.WanderSearch is a branch of Land Search and Rescue that offers tracking devices for people who have health conditions that mean they may head off without being able to find their way home. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:20 AM.It seemed data security was in the news every other day in 2018. Whether it was cyber-bullying, internet fraud, or scandals in which enormous multinational social media networks were found to be… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.A "slow-motion trainwreck" is how Scott Macindoe describes the quota management system (QMS) introduced 32 years ago to guide the sustainable use of New Zealand's fisheries. Macindoe is a fisherman… Read more Video, Audio

11:54 AM.The Whanganui Opera Week is in full swing at the Royal Theatre. We check in with Bev Kirkwood to see how it's all going. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Next in our series on Kiwis keeping age old crafts alive - Simone Bensdorp from Christchurch who creates a myriad of colourful creations out of Felt. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:24 AM.Ethno New Zealand is an artistic residency of traditional, folk, and world music that gathers musicians from New Zealand and the rest of the world for 10 days of collaborative workshops.  Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Collecting and preserving the oral histories of remote Indian communities and the craftspeople whose ways of life are changing, is the mission of Dr Indira Chowdhury.  Read more Audio