Afternoons for Wednesday 13 October 2021

1.12 First Song:

1:17 Property prices: 'Fringe towns' most at risk?

Property price pundits are predicting 'fringe towns' in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty are the most at-risk places in the country if property prices drop. 

This includes Ōtorohanga - but mayor Max Baxter reckons those predictions aren't quite right.

1:31 'The Unthinkable’: Talking about the taboo

RNZ podcast 'The Unthinkable', hosted by Morning Report's Susie Ferguson, has taken out the gold award for Personal Lives Podcast at the New York Festivals Awards.

Susie joins Jesse to speak about Baby Loss Awareness Week and the response to the podcast.

1:40 Vote for your favourite plant

Got a favourite native plant?

Well now's your chance to have a say and get your plant in the spotlight!

The New Zealand Plant Conservation Networks Favourite Plant Competition is under way and runs throughout October.

Native plant enthusiast and one of the organisers behind the competition, Taylor Davies-Colley, speaks to Jesse.

You can place your vote here.

1:55 Afternoons Quiz Robert Kelly

RNZ producer and onetime bookseller Robert Kelly presents his weekly quiz and gives away a special kids' book prize.

2.12 Podcast Critic: Ellie Jay

Ellie reviews CBC Uncover: season 3 - The Village, BBC: Sports strangest crimes - Allen Stanford, the man who bought cricket and The Telegraph: Bed of lies season 2.

2.20 Settling The Score 2021 with Clarissa Dunn

RNZ Concert presenter Clarissa Dunn shares a favourite short classical piece with us and the chance to join in on Settling The Score 2021:Your Choice, where you can request the classical music you'd most love to hear and share on RNZ Concert. Then listen on Labour Day Monday for 24 hours of audience requests.

2:25 Bookmarks with Megha Kapoor

Today we have Vogue India's head of editorial content and the founder of INPRINT Magazine Megha Kapoor joining us for Bookmarks.

She leads Vogue India's editorial team and oversees strategy while working closely with Vogue's global editorial director Anna Wintour.

Megha speaks to Jesse from Sydney. 

3:10 Bringing male infertility into the open

It's time to have an honest conversation about male infertility, and Ben Ashwell wants to go first. When he and his wife couldn't get pregnant, they sought advice from fertility experts. They never expected to hear that Ben didn't have a low sperm count, he had none at all. He says that led to a crisis of existence and masculinity and questions about how much he and his wife really did want to have children. He shares his experience and hope for better understanding about the fallout from male infertility.

3:35 Stories from Our Changing World

This week on Our Changing World, Claire Concannon hears from Dr Brigid Ryan of the University of Auckland about the New Zealand genetic frontotemporal dementia study and speaks to some of the family members involved in this unique research study. 

3:45 The Panel with Michele A'Court and Stephen Franks