Afternoons

Kelly Gibney shares her cosy Minestrone soup. Click here for the recipe

Time for our weekly travel segment Heading Off, your chance to hear about some amazing adventures without leaving the comfort of your home. Although, with today's destination, comfort isn't necessarily the number one priority. We're off to Papua New Guinea with one of our listeners Frank Bollen, who's been living in New Ireland while volunteering with VSA. He's also had the chance to explore fasci...

Time now to catch up with Our Changing World's Claire Concannon. And across a two-part deep dive the show has been investigating the controversial plans to de-extinct the moa.

To write It Gets in Your Blood: Lives of a Racecourse, Marty Smith spent 10 years documenting life at Hastings Racecourse. The book is part memoir, part portrait of a changing industry. Along the way, readers meet the trainers, jockeys, horses and the other characters at the centre of our horse racing industry. Author Marty Smith spoke with Susanna.

Scorpio Books' owners have decided that now is the time to expand - and works are underway at a new location in the city. The shop is also celebrating its 50th birthday this year. To talk bookshops, reading trends and how Christchurch is faring, Scorpio head buyer Bel Monypenny chatted to Susanna.

Things are heating back up in the middle east. After a period of relative calm, Iran and the US have resumed exchanging fire. This morning - NZ Time - the US Military announced it has destroyed 5 Iranian oil tankers, in retaliation for attempted Iranian attacks on a US Navy Warship. In Europe, the war in Ukraine grinds on, while Germany has accused Russia of being behind an attempted drone attack...

All over the world, people just aren't having babies anymore. Journalist and author Anna Louie Sussman says years of society putting economic growth and individual success ahead of shared wellbeing has made it harder for young people to imagine a future where they want to have kids. Anna has been reporting on population decline and reproductive issues for more than a decade and choosing not to hav...

Each week we get your help to solve a dilemma. This week we're looking at whether a daughter in law should insist on requiring her mother-in-law to swaddle their baby when she babysits.

Tim Batt joins Susana to discuss what's hitting headlines in the world of technology. This week he'll look at whether our LG TVs are spying on us, The OpenAI Hugging Face hack and chatbots.

Claire Maybe reviews Green Sea: Lost in the New Zealand Bush by John Summers, Hide by Rebecca Hawkes, and The Taming of the Cat by Helen Cooper.

It's time for Mayoral minutes, where we speak with a local mayor about the challenges they're facing, how they're working to solve them and what makes their community special. Today we're heading to the Horowhenua Mayor District. Susana spoke to Mayor Bernie Wanden.

A Tauranga group is using art as way for people to connect and challenge the stigma around dementia Artful Mind pairs local artists with people living with Alzheimer's and dementia - to see what they create together The works are then shown and sold at Dementia Tauranga's annual awareness exhibition. Dr. Bronwyn Copeland is a Tauranga based geriatric psychiatrist and artist, she spoke with Susana.

Papatoetoe's night patrol volunteers are calling for more funding and better equipment as they try to plug the gap left by stretched Police resources The Counties Manukau Community Safety Patrol Trust says its volunteers are patrolling into the early hours ... observing incidents and reporting concerns to Police and other agencies. Patrol team leader Bella Tamotu spoke to Susana.

Following in the footsteps of Taylor Swift ... another one of the world's biggest acts has decided to park up in Australia.... and skip NZ entirely Radiohead announced its 2027 tour overnight, with 18 shows across Perth, Melbourne and Sydney, plus five dates in Japan. But there's not a single show here in Aotearoa. For Kiwi music fans, international artists bypassing New Zealand is becoming an inc...

Winter can feel like one long game of pass the parcel when it comes to sickness. One person gets a cough, then someone else gets the flu, the kids are off school, a colleague calls in sick, before you know it, everyone seems to be unwell This flu feels particularity bad - with reports of people waiting 20+ hours to be seen in hospitals, while octors becoming increasingly disillusioned by the healt...

Wallace Chapman and Jesse Mulligan star in the shortest show on radio, where they show they really can make something out of nothing, join them to be part of their delight, or to simply despair. Wallace will also preview what's on The Panel tonight.

The AI debate usually sounds like a choice between the camp that thinks artificial intelligence will solve our biggest problems, and the other camp, certain it will create entirely new ones. But there's a lot of territory between utopia and apocalypse. That's where longtime journalist Josh Tyrangiel is looking. Rather than asking what AI might do in theory, he looks at what happens when people put...

We've got a segment on Afternoons we like to call Roadie Songs ..we want to know the songs you love to turn up loud when you're on a road trip. If you have a song and a story you'd like to share, send your suggestion to 2101 along with your phone number. Aileen shared her song with us today.

Caitlin Cherry reviews 'Alone Australia' (available on TVNZ+) and 'Trying' (Apple TV)

Jesse calls the Hannah Purdie from the Pania Plodders Hash House Harriers.

Brad Foster joins us to discuss the NSW Governments plan to combat organised crime, tougher enforcement of the U16s social media ban, and the NRL finals.

Who does most of the thinking, planning, and scheduling involved in the running of your household? New research has confirmed what many of us might already know - that it's women who cop most of the burden. And it's not just cleaning, cooking, and laundry - there's a cognitive load including remembering appointments, organising activities and planning meals. Dr Sarah Coundouris is a Research Fello...

Every Monday we invite an expert to take your questions on their subject. You can send them to 2101 or Afternoons@rnz.co.nz. Today we're discussing freediving. Freediving is diving underwater on a single breath of air. There's no tanks. No breathing apparatus. No bubbles. Just complete silence New Zealander William Trubridge is a freediving world champion, and the first person to dive deeper than...

A group overseas-trained doctors calling for better working conditions in New Zealand for doctors who trained in less affluent countries. The group, of almost 400 doctors from places like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China and South Africa, want more support on the job. Having navigated and paid their way through our qualification pathways - they often feel isolated and unsupported once they're in...

Foodstuffs and Woolworths would be forced to sell 120 stores and two distribution centres into public ownership under the Greens' plan - with a 2.8 billion dollar price tag. 2degrees founder Tex Edwards runs pro-competition think-tank Monopoly Watch... and has previously attempted to get a third supermarket chain off the ground. He joins Jesse in the Auckland studio. [picture id="4JIQ7MV_greens_ki...