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

How to not have your funeral cost the earth

April 30, 2025 • 16 mins
Nationwide tours are usually the preserve of musicians, comedians, entertainers, maybe the odd politician. But much less common - people aiming to disrupt the funeral industry But Fergus Wheeler hasn't let that put him off... For the next couple of weeks he's taking his "death without debt" tour nation-wide, hitting spots from Whangarei to Invercargill.
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40 years of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa

April 30, 2025 • 10 mins
Our first story today takes us to Waikato - where a special anniversary is being marked this week. Te Wananga o Aotearoa is celebrating 40 years since it was established in Te Awamutu. It was set up in response to many young Maori being expelled or being failed out of school. Since then, it's gone from strength to strength, with around a million other tauira or students coming through the Wananga. To reflect on its journey, an...
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Help Riku at the Archery World Cup in Shanghai!

April 29, 2025 • 1 min
Last month Jesse talked with Riku van Tonder. Riku is an archery champion, competing to a high level in tournaments around the world. After emigrating from South Africa to New Zealand he struggled with his mental health. Dealing with that wasn't easy, but he told Jesse that archery helped him keep the black thoughts at bay. He and the Silver Arrows team are due to fly out this Saturday to compete in the Hyundai Archery World C...
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Our Changing World: Fiordland's black corals

April 29, 2025 • 12 mins
Join Claire Concannon aboard the DOC research vessel Southern Winds.   Claire is with a team from Victoria University of Wellington, led by Professor James Bell, studying Fiordland’s underwater life.   By diving to take photographs and samples, and using remotely operated vehicles to video deeper depths, the researchers are building up a picture of what lives where, and how these animals are doing.   One of the critters the...
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Feature interview: how Meta and X will eat themselves

April 29, 2025 • 25 mins
This is how huge tech platforms like Google and Meta roll; first, they're good to their users; then they abuse them to make things better for business customers, then they exploit their business customers to squeeze out every last bit of value for themselves. Then, they die. That's how author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow sees tech's slow-motion collapse. He's in New Zealand to meet readers and talk about his latest b...
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Easy Eats: Stir-fried Quinoa with Broccoli and Fried Eggs

April 29, 2025 • 7 mins
Kelly Gibney turns quinoa into something akin to fried rice in a lovely use of this seed which has a pleasant, gentle pop to its texture. Get the recipe here.
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Heading Off: Samoa

April 29, 2025 • 7 mins
We've talked about travelling solo, planning a nudist adventure, and even going to Mars. Today we're keeping it a bit more local... Well at least more so than Mars...
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Eastwoodhill's new curator, Menno Kluiters

April 29, 2025 • 5 mins
Our national arboretum near Gisborne encompasses over 131 hectares planted in exotic and native trees, shrubs and climber plantings. Eastwoodhill is regarded as the largest and most comprehensive collection of Northern Hemisphere trees south of the equator. Now it's entering an exciting new phase, with the appointment of a new curator. Internationally respected arborist Menno Kluiters, will take on the role next month.
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The special relationship between bees and tomatoes

April 29, 2025 • 15 mins
Bumble bees are the only insects that can pollinate tomatoes. Professor Jenny Jandt from Otago Uni's zoology department has just completed a study looking at how we can help the bumble bees thrive and by doing so make sure our toms grow big and strong.
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The New Zealand writer in a groundbreaking new TV show

April 29, 2025 • 13 mins
Earlier this week we received an email from a listener Craig Dowling. He told us that he'd been selected - out of hundreds - to compete in a reality TV show.
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Thrift

April 28, 2025 • 15 mins
Let's go swapping! Clothes swapping that is. Katy Gosset checks out a clothes swap where more people are updating their wardrobes for free.
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How to say what you mean and mean what you say

April 28, 2025 • 23 mins
A global effort to make communication clearer, kinder, and more meaningful for everyone started in the front seat of Jefferson Fisher's car. He's a Texas trial lawyer who started recording videos from his car during breaks in court.
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Update on Oz with Brad Foster

April 28, 2025 • 6 mins
Brad discusses the incoming Aussie election, the huge court case of Erin Patterson (the accused mushroom poisoner) and the happy ending for a sausage dog stuck on an island for 529 days.
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Book Critic: master of horror, Mariana Enríquez

April 28, 2025 • 9 mins
Pip Adam talks about the horror maestro's work and the horror genre in general.
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Tech Tuesday

April 28, 2025 • 11 mins
Tim Batt talks Chat GPT and how they appear to have ramped up the LLM to 'Full Sycophancy Mode'.
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Greymouth's newest tourist attraction

April 28, 2025 • 6 mins
It's been described as the most underappreciated and spectacular feature of the West Coast town of Greymouth. And it gets its nickname because it's said to be so cold it could cut you in half like a barber's razor. It is the "Barber" - a unique cloud formation usually only seen in sunny cold conditions.
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An extraordinary display of forgiveness

April 28, 2025 • 14 mins
One of our most tragic exports is mass shootings inspired by the Christchurch mosque attack That sad legacy includes a 2019 shooting at a Walmart in El Paso Texas. A shooting that resulted in the murder of 22 people. It is the deadliest case to be prosecuted in a US court room. Robert Moore a journalist and founder of news website EL Paso mattes has been reporting on the trial where something unexpected and striking happened. ...
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Juggernaut Season 2

April 28, 2025 • 11 mins
About 9 months ago we had The Spinoff's Toby Manhire in to talk about a new podcast - Juggernaut It took us inside David Lange's 4th Labour government and ended up being one of the years surprise hits. Toby's just announced that work has started on season two - this time looking at the 4th National government... That's the Jim Bolger & Jenny Shipley era and they want your leads and tip offs.
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Feature interview: 7 small habits to help make big changes

April 27, 2025 • 24 mins
Big problems don't always need big solutions. Sometimes, it's the small stuff that can break a deadlock at the office, at the dinner table, or in conversations about politics. Listening, letting go of control, and staying present even when things get tense are habits, we should learn says Adam Kahane. He's a conflict and peace negotiator who Nelson Mandela called to help South Africa when apartheid ended. His 6th book is calle...
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Expert Feature: Beer

April 27, 2025 • 25 mins
Today we're talking Beer with Thomas Shellhammer. He's a Professor of Brewing Science, expert in the chemistry of hops, and a Fellow of the institute of Brewing and Distilling. A serious heavyweight, with pints of knowledge.
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