Afternoons for Wednesday 10 June 2009

1:06 PM.There's some homely advice doing the rounds of the internet in an email. Audio

1:10 PM.Heather McLachlan chose Chiquitita by Abba. Audio

1:20 PM.Did you get the link? Click, play and listen. Audio

2:11 PM.No-show students are being targetted by schools that are using text messaging to dob them into their parents. Audio

2:20 PM.A once in a lifetime, all-expenses paid trip around New Zealand, with the proviso you become World Famous in the process. Audio

2:45 PM.The Ministry of Womens Affairs has begun another push to increase the number of Maori women directors on commercial and government boards. In He Rourou today Ana Tapiata talks about directorship with… Read more Audio

2:50 PM.It was raw, it was bleak, it came as a shock to Neil Young fans after the sweetness of Harvest, but it was great. On the Beach was released by Neil Young in 1974. Audio

3:10 PM.On the programme today: - TED's Open Translation Project brings subtitles in 40+ languages to TED.com. - Cloud Computing. - Pirate Party Wins and Enters The European Parliament. - Robots forming… Read more Audio

3:34 PM.Twenty computer students from the Manukau Institute of Technology have been investing in the education of school children in Samoa. Audio

3:45 PM.Most stars, including our sun, will end their lives as a white dwarf, a dense and dim object that slowly cools its way to oblivion. Dennis Sullivan is an astronomer at Victoria University. Audio

4:06 PM.Topics, issues, guests, your thoughts and more dissected into digestible bit sized audio. Audio

4:35 PM.Topics, issues, guests, your thoughts and more dissected into digestible bit sized audio. What makes this part different however is David McPhail and Tim Watkin, today's guests, share their thoughts… Read more Audio