Afternoons Podcast Options

1:10 PM.More than 500 singers are about to gather in the capital for massive barbershop battle on a scale that Wellington hasn't seen in years.  Read more Audio

3:35 PM.We all experience anxiety – when our brains look into the future and imagine bad things happening. Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Four tech billionaires are selling us a vision of the future where the world is run by Artificial Intelligence, crypto is standard currency and humans will be living on Mars. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.John is an opera and theatre director, directing the opera Verdi Meets Puccini, and he joins Jesse on Bookmarks. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Sam offers up a vegetarian dream with sticky tofu and kumara on a bed of fluffy jasmine rice.  Read more Audio

2:12 PM.Alex Barnes reviews local podcast Around the Table, a podcast by creatives for creatives and Mind your own, with Lupita Nyong'o, a storytelling podcast navigating what it means to belong, from the… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Kirianna Poole has been on the road with her husband and three kids for eight years - their beloved Kombi and caravan have taken them across New Zealand, Australia, and more recently, Japan.  Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Headlining the Te Ahurei Toi o Tamaki Auckland Arts Festival, SIX the Musical tells the story of the six wives of Henry VIII with an empowering take on history.  Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Working from home is the talk of the town now after Christopher Luxon and Nicola Willis decreed that public servants should trapse back to the office... what works best for workers?  Read more Audio

1:15 PM.The Wagyu beef market is high end, high value, and researchers want to see New Zealand farmers getting a bigger and better slice of the industry. Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Music can be medicine. It can help treat diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and depression says neuroscientist Daniel Levitin. He's not just a brain scientist, he's a record producer working with… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Country music star Aly Cook takes us on a journey through the songs of American singer-songwriter Lucinda WIlliams. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Brad calls in with news about the Australian Government taking legal action against misleading pricing in supermarkets; the latest in NRL games lined up this weekend and the 20th anniversary of Oz… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Claire Mabey discusses 'the perfect Sunday read' from David Nicholls. She also recommends Commune: Chasing a utopian dream in Aotearoa by Olive Jones and a deep dive into evolution: Eve: How the… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Tim Batt tells Jesse about the latest events in the tech world, including an incredible blow to the Internet Archive; Sony's $400m failure; and a new Nintendo that may be on the horizon. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Four lucky Otago Uni students have been given a pretty unique chance to kickstart their music careers after winning a highly sought after Six-60 scholarship. The scholarships were set up in 2021 by… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.If you've looked for a house recently, you might have heard - you can't build them for what you can buy them at the moment. With construction prices up by as much as 40 percent - combined with land… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.It may feel too soon to be eating asparagus with two months of spring still to go, but the end of September means the harvest is well underway. Growers are relieved to be getting their product on the… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Late bloomers are people who find a way to be successful when no one expects them too. Henry Oliver is a writer who finds inspiration in people who were living one kind of life and then said perhaps I… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Today's guest SallyAnn Harbison has been working in the field for over 30 years. She's the Director of Auckland Universities' Forensic science programme, and leads the forensic biology team at ESR… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Claire Chitham reviews a swath of new TV shows to put on your must watch list. Read more Audio