Afternoons

Afternoons

Jesse Mulligan presents an upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time.

Episodes

Critter of the Week: The giant mole weta

November 20, 2025 • 17 mins
Did you know that one of our giant weta species is a burrowing specialist? As their name suggest, the giant mole weta dig subterranean burrows in which they live. These burrows can extend under the peaty soil up to 30 cm in length! No other giant weta does this! Jesse and Forest and Bird Chief Executive Nicola Toki chat about this week's critter of the week - the giant mole weta
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Weekend Stuff: Getting organised ahead of Christmas

November 20, 2025 • 9 mins
We're about halfway through November and things are starting to get busy .. the last four weeks before Christmas are often the most stressful and frantic time of the year for many of us, juggling school, exams, work, social life and chores Here with tips and tricks to getting organised is Rachael Quin from The Housekeeper.
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Food with Gretchen Lowe

November 20, 2025 • 8 mins
Gretchen Lowe shares her recipe for snapper, agria, lemon & tarragon croquettes. These crispy morsels are full of fresh snapper, lemon and licorice-like tarragon. Serve with good aioli.
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Film Review with Kate Rodger

November 20, 2025 • 12 mins
Today Kate shares her picks of what to see on the screen: Wicked for Good - cinemas Frankenstein - Netflix
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Freaky Friday

November 20, 2025 • 3 mins
If you have one you'd like to share please reach out via text - 2101 - or you can email us, afternoons@rnz.co.nz. Today Tim joins Jesse to share his spooky tale.
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Up in smoke? How worried should we be about tobacco

November 20, 2025 • 15 mins
A dubious honour for New Zealand this week. The country received the 'Dirty Ashtray' award at a WHO tobacco control conference, and that followed the news that we've fallen from second to 53rd in the global tobacco industry interference index. That's on top of news that the tobacco black market in Australia is doing a raging trade right now. All of this has had us thinking about smoking rates, reputation, vaping and the black ...
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A Dog Show like you've never seen it before!

November 20, 2025 • 7 mins
The tv programme A Dog's Show ran from 1977 to 1992. It seems slightly bonkers in 2025, but for those of you who don't remember it, it was a show about sheepdogs wrangling sheep and for many it was must watch tv. Now a new feature film inspired by A Dogs Show is in production, due for release late next year.
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Are Black Friday sales really sales?

November 20, 2025 • 7 mins
Black Friday traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season in the US and is the busiest shopping day of the year there. Over the years, retailers here have embraced the promotion, and we are now bombarded by offers of specials and discounts for Black Friday. But are these discounts really specials? And what do we need to look out to make sure we don't get end up getting sucked into the hype. Abby Damen from Co...
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Meet the best hockey goalkeeper in the world!

November 20, 2025 • 5 mins
We want to start the show with some good news; Black Sticks' Grace O'Hanlon has been awarded goalkeeper of the year by the International Hockey Federation. It's the first time a New Zealander has won the prestigious award. Grace O'Hanlon joins Jesse.
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The pre-Panel 20 November 2025

November 19, 2025 • 8 mins
Wallace Chapman previews tonight's instalment of The Panel.
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Your Money with Mary Holm

November 19, 2025 • 13 mins
It's time to talk about your money now, personal finance whizz Mary Holm joins Jesse and today she's going to address some of your feedback. Focusing on home ownership versus renting and investment strategies.
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NZ Sporting History: The one and only Barry Magee

November 19, 2025 • 29 mins
It's time for NZ Sporting History, and today Jesse is joined by our oldest living Olympic medalist Barry Magee. Barry is best remembered for taking home Bronze in the 1960 Rome Olympic marathon. In 1961 he led the world 10,000m rankings and was part of New Zealand's world-record-breaking 4 × 1 mile relay team. After retiring from international running in 1965, Barry moved into coaching, where he became one of the country's mos...
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Group Chat: the issues filling up your feeds

November 19, 2025 • 10 mins
It's time now for group chat, a chance for us to talk about the topics filling up your phone, distracting you from work or helping pass the time while you wait for coffee. Culture 101's Perlina Lau and Afternoons Senior Producer Olivia Wilson join Jesse to talk about Tom Cruise's Oscar win and whether honorary titles and awards actually devalue the prestige, plus if smoking cigarettes is back in vogue.
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Find out why the GM debate isn't just about food or labels

November 19, 2025 • 12 mins
Recently on the show we've been talking a bit about Genetic Modification, and the Gene Technology bill currently in front of Parliament. So far, we've mostly focused on food. The pros, cons and issues with labelling. You can listen to all of those via the afternoons page on the RNZ website. Today we're looking at another application of the technology - helping us meet our predator free 2050 goal. To that end, Professor Peter D...
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What exactly is a water crematorium?

November 19, 2025 • 11 mins
When we talked about how the country is running out of cemetery space last week we were inundated with your messages. So when we saw that the NZ's first water crematorium, which was opened earlier this year, is proving a popular option for people, we wanted to know more. Also called Alkaline Hydrolysis, the process claims to be gentler on people and the environment. Debbie Richards started Christchurch Water Crematorium back i...
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Ultra Processed Food - what should we be eating instead?

November 19, 2025 • 10 mins
Yesterday on the show we started a conversation with Professor Boyd Swinburn about ultra processed foods, and new research he has been part of that shows just how damaging these foods are. Lots of you got in touch to say you want to know more about what constitutes as ultra processed and what we should be eating in its place. So today Jesse is joined by registered dietitian and co-founder of The Food Tree Rachael Wilson.
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Butter prices falling at global auction - why not in shops too?

November 19, 2025 • 8 mins
Dairy prices fell for the 7th time in a row at last night's Global Dairy Auction with butter - a hot topic of conversation this year - falling 7.6%. When prices were on the up a few months ago, the talk was all about how our prices move in line with global prices. So now that they're heading down - so should the price of butter in the shops right? NZX Head Of Dairy Insights Cristina Alvarado chats to Jesse.
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Stories from Our Changing World

November 18, 2025 • 11 mins
Time now to catch up with Our Changing World's Claire Concannon, she's been talking to an Auckland-based team of chemists that have developed a new way to help oil and water mix.
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Easy Eats: Black pepper beef stir fry

November 18, 2025 • 6 mins
Wednesday means we're halfway through the week, which is often when all cooking inspiration, or indeed motivation, goes out the window, But don't worry, we've got you! Kelly Gibney is with Jesse to share a perfect mid-week recipe.
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Heading Off: "Welcome to my Garden"

November 18, 2025 • 8 mins
Time for our weekly travel segment Heading Off. On this segment last week we focussed on slow travel - and we continue that theme this week. "Welcome to my Garden" is a network of free guest accommodation across the world where travellers can camp for free in a host's garden. The only proviso? You must be a slow traveller. Brigitte Masse and her partner have just returned from six months of slow travel around the world and say...
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