Easter Monday Podcast Options

11:35 AM.As we're now just over three months away from the 2024 Paris Olympics. The first two athletes to qualify and be announced in the official team were twenty-three-year-old Sarah Tetzlaff &amp… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Grace Yee's book, Chinese Fish, is a collection of poems, which tells the story of the Chin family, Chinese immigrants who move to New Zealand in the 1960s. The poems explore themes of migration… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Oceans before me is a charitable trust set up by Daphiney Owen and her husband Glynn. It exists to preserve and tell indigenous stories via music. It doesn't have a permanent line-up of musicians, but… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.As well as being Easter Monday, and April Fools day today is also something a little less exciting - the start of the new tax year. Many of us are taking stock of our finances and thinking ahead for… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Plabita Florence is one of Auckland's best chefs. Her restaurant Forest was awarded one hat in the 2021/22 Cuisine Magazine Good Food Awards. This year Cuisine also named her one the 50 most inspiring… Read more Audio

9:27 AM.Auckland based fine art dealer John Gow joins Susana to talk about the opening of the the new Gow Langsford gallery in Onehunga. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Rise Global is a Maori owned and operated organisation which develops and implements indigenous-led development programmes for women and organisations globally with a particular focus in Aotearoa… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Nicole Avant's father - Clarence - is known as the Black Godfather and her mother Jacqueline Avant - a philanthropist and community pillar. They opened their Beverly Hills home to an incredible array… Read more Audio

8:05 AM.The 60th International Art Exhibition opens at the Venice Biennale on Saturday 20 April. The theme is Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere. The layout of the Venice Biennale encompasses the… Read more Audio

11:29 AM.A trip on the Northern Explorer - New Zealand's great rail journey. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.One in four Americans report chemical sensitivity, with nearly half of this number diagnosed as having Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, or MCS. For this group, everyday fragrances like bath bombs and… Read more Audio

10:32 AM.A Professor of Science at Harvard University believes a meteorite that crashed through earth's atmosphere in 2014 landing somewhere between Manus Island and Papa New Guinea could be an alien object… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.High heels are fast disappearing from the high street and office, leaving some to question whether they still have a place in the modern work environment. Is anyone still wearing shoes a cobbler can… Read more Audio

9:41 AM.Behind the scenes workers across Britain have been beavering away to replace the royal monogram from Elizabeth II to Charles III. Commemorative pieces are already on sale and in Stoke-on-Trent, the… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Tony and Fi give advice on autumn planting and answer your questions. Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Nadia Lim shares the view outside her window and a recipe for cosy Easter gatherings. Read more Audio

8:27 AM.People love lists. And books. People love lists and books and the central character of this story... is a list of books. Nearly seventeen hundred titles meticulously logged with a manual typewriter. A… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.An hour of a journey through music on The Through Line. All the tracks are connected, with Karyn explaining the links as we go. Sit back and enjoy!  Read more Audio

10:47 AM.Wellington Chocolate Factory was the first bean-to-bar factory in the country, and now produces the only certified organic chocolate made right here in Aotearoa. Its been busy creating special treats… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Designer Evie Kemp loves to breathe life and colour into old and second hand furniture. She has honed this skill from childhood and she tells Karyn her secrets. Read more Audio

10:12 AM.Autumn is a wonderful time of the year and we dig out a few woollen jumpers, it's also a great season to be in the garden preparing for winter and spring. April is also the time for harvesting the… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Australia's Federal election campaign is in full swing before Aussies go to the polls on May 21st. Scott Morrision's foe Labour leader, Anthony Albanese has had a bumpy start to the campaign… Read more Audio

9:42 AM.The research is in, wearing your outdoor shoes indoors is a big no-no. A recent study from environmental chemists in Australia found that people were bringing in a myriad of nasty bacteria into their… Read more Audio