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

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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Honouring Douglas Wright

November 18, 2025 • 12 mins
A landmark trans-Tasman dance collaboration will honour Douglas Wright, one of New Zealand's most revered choreographers. The restaging of his iconic work Gloria is being presented by The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) and Co3 Contemporary Dance Australia, for next year's Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts New Zealander Raewyn Hill is Founding Artistic Director of Co3 Contemporary Dance - and she joins Jesse from our ...
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The Epstein Files are to be released - so what happens now?

November 18, 2025 • 9 mins
This morning - New Zealand time - the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly - 427 to1- in favour of the Epstein Files Transparency ACT. That means the US Justice Department has to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein. And while that all might feel a long way away from New Zealand, this is a story that seems to have gripped the world, so we wanted to know more. Washington DC correspondent Mitch McCann joins Jesse...
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Why ultra processed foods are even worse for us than we thought

November 18, 2025 • 10 mins
Ultra-processed foods are becoming so dominant in our diets, they are causing a surge in diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and depression, that's according to research that has just been released this afternoon. The findings are in three papers by a group of scientists from around the world, including one from New Zealand and published in the medical journal, The Lancet. It's estimated that consumption of ultra processed food ...
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You're the Judge: Give us your reckons!

November 17, 2025 • 4 mins
Our weekly segment where we ask the audience to help with irks or pickles that listeners have sent in. Today - should grandparents be paid to help care for their grandchildren?
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Spoken Feature: Thrift

November 17, 2025 • 13 mins
This week Thrift is looking into decorating your home, without breaking the bank. In this second episode with an op shopping expert, Katy Gosset looks at home design on a budget and tags along on a thrift shop mission.
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Feature interview: Re-examining Christian values

November 17, 2025 • 24 mins
When John Fugelsang was growing up, his parents and his church taught him that Christianity was about kindness, forgiveness, and helping your neighbor. But he says somewhere along the way between the televangelists, the politicians, and the endless culture wars, Christianity got hijacked. He says he's watching in disbelief as people use Jesus as a campaign slogan while promoting laws that seem more judgmental than Christian. A...
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Update on Oz with Brad Foster

November 17, 2025 • 6 mins
Jesse catches up with Brad Foster about the news across the Tasman. Today he'll chat about The Liberal Party's decision to abandon net zero by 2050 climate target; where Australia is at with the play sand recall and the latest in sport.
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Book Critic: Christmas present suggestions

November 17, 2025 • 11 mins
Catherine Ross, the Director of Library at Auckland Grammar School and creator of the blog 'The School Book Wizard' joins me with some recommendations that would make good Christmas presents. For Ages 10-12+ The Grimmelings by Rachael King (Aotearoa Author) Published in 2024 Wolf Road (#1 in series) by Alice Roberts Published in 2023 For Ages 13/14+ Best of all Worlds by Kenneth Oppel Published in 2025 For everyone and anyone ...
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Podcast Critic: AI - how worried should we be really?

November 17, 2025 • 7 mins
It feels like every day there is something new to be across when it comes to artificial intelligence and keeping across the hype and the fear is rather daunting. Fortunately like most things now, there's a podcast that has you covered! It's called The Last Invention and our podcast critic Ximena Smith tell Jesse whether it's good or not.
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