Lately Podcast Options

10:45 PM.For 30 years the World of WearableArts has wow-ing audiences with its annual design competition. We go behind the scenes with WOW Wardrobe Manager, Leonie Trathen, to talk about the preparations… Read more Audio

10:35 PM.Kiwibank will stop taking cheques from March next year, but with banks and ATMs disappearing in remote areas and the increasing emphasis on Internet banking, what happens if you're not online, or not… Read more Audio

10:28 PM.Bob Hawke, Australia's 23rd prime minister and former Labor Party leader, has died at the age of 89. Mr Hawke led the country and his party from 1983 to 1991, and his contribution to public life… Read more Audio

10:20 PM.RNZ News Political Reporter Jo Moir is on the line from Paris where she is travelling with Prime Minister Jacinda Adern, who has been co-hosting tech companies and governmental officials as they sign… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Jeremy Rose is this weeks Midweek Mediawatcher. Audio

10:20 PM.The government is considering toughening up the laws around random roadside drug testing of motorists. The Ministry of Transport has issued a discussion document , and will take public submissions for… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.The Villainesse website has partnered up with NZME to produce a new podcast - the REAL drug talk - featuring well-known and well-educated faces talking about drugs, alcohol, and everything in between… Read more Audio

10:20 PM.WhatsApp users are being told to immediately upgrade to the latest version of the messaging service after the company revealed it had been hacked by what it called "an advanced cyber actor". The… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Ivan Aristeguieta turns 40 in a couple of months and he's created a stand-up comedy show about that experience. It's called the Fourth Floor and it's on at the Q Theatre in Auckland every night this… Read more Audio

10:45 PM.RNZ Journalist, Christine Rovoi, talks us through this year's Rotuman Language Week. Audio

10:30 PM.Over the next few weeks in the lead-up to the first Democratic Presidential Debate in the US, we'll be talking to Dr Maria Armoudian, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at The… Read more Audio

10:20 PM.The government has announced an overhaul of the National Certificates of Educational Achievement, or NCEA. The changes, which will be phased in over the next four years include removing all fees for… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.The Indian state of Odisha has been bombarded by the powerful tropical Cyclone Fani, taking 62 lives and causing millions of dollars' worth of damage. Thankfully the storm has now dissipated but the… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.As the latest incarnation of the Star Trek franchise - one of the longest sci-fi franchises ever - heads off into another chapter, freelance writer, Eleanor Tremeer has been looking at why so many… Read more Audio

10:20 PM.Excavators today descended in droves upon the Maniototo in Southland after seven - INCREDIBLY RARE - fossilized moa footprints were discovered in the Kyeburn River Kane Fleury is the assistant curator… Read more Audio

10:45 PM.Species that wouldn't be unusual in Japan, or Australia, or New Caledonia ... but which are rarely, if ever, seen in New Zealand waters have been spotted around our shores. Massey University marine… Read more Audio

10:20 PM.At a summit in New Plymouth earlier today, Prime minister Jacinda Ardern announced plans to build a new 27-million-dollar clean energy centre in Taranaki, and pump another 20-million into cutting-edge… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Colin Peacock is in the studio, suitably chastened after posting once too often about typos in New Zealand's digital media. He's here to talk John Campbell, and whether bemusement at his new role on… Read more Audio

10:20 PM.The government today released the Zero Carbon Bill - legislation which lays out a route to ZERO NET EMISSIONS by 2050, and establishes an independent commission to police that process. There's been a… Read more Audio

10:50 AM.The leader of the opposition, Simon Bridges, was today expelled from parliament ... for a somewhat unusual reason: mimicking the sound of a barnyard animal. Dr Grant Morris from Victoria University… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Israel Folau has been found to have breached the Rugby Australia's player's code of conduct, with a social media post. Folau, a fundamentalist Christian, posted a comment on Twitter and Instagram… Read more Audio

10:20 AM.Two Reuters journalists jailed for their reporting on war atrocities in Myanmar have finally been released from prison, more than 500 days after they were incarcerated. Some observers say it could… Read more Audio