Summer Times Podcast Options

10:40 AM.When is it poetry and is it music? Like many types of art if you try and pick apart the minutiae of a form you can end up killing it, but it is an interesting dilemma.  Read more Audio

10:30 AM.If you have a piece of furniture that's seen better days, you have several options. One is to upcycle, to stamp your own mark on it, rather than throwing it out.  Read more Audio

10:20 AM.We continue our series helping historian Jock Phillips with his project exploring New Zealand history through objects. Today we look at pre-colonial design, braile technology and a humble cookbook. Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Dr Cynthia Winkworth works in the zoology department at Otago University, and she's just embarked on a project, along with some local schools, to study how an unusual wee fellow called the peripatus… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.We turn our attention to Fiordland now for today's regional cross and our correspondent is Te Anau volunteer fire brigade chief fire officer Graeme "Possum" Moffat.  Read more Audio

9:35 AM.WanderSearch is a branch of Land Search and Rescue that offers tracking devices for people who have health conditions that mean they may head off without being able to find their way home. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:20 AM.It seemed data security was in the news every other day in 2018. Whether it was cyber-bullying, internet fraud, or scandals in which enormous multinational social media networks were found to be… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.A "slow-motion trainwreck" is how Scott Macindoe describes the quota management system (QMS) introduced 32 years ago to guide the sustainable use of New Zealand's fisheries. Macindoe is a fisherman… Read more Video, Audio

11:54 AM.The Whanganui Opera Week is in full swing at the Royal Theatre. We check in with Bev Kirkwood to see how it's all going. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Next in our series on Kiwis keeping age old crafts alive - Simone Bensdorp from Christchurch who creates a myriad of colourful creations out of Felt. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:24 AM.Ethno New Zealand is an artistic residency of traditional, folk, and world music that gathers musicians from New Zealand and the rest of the world for 10 days of collaborative workshops.  Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Collecting and preserving the oral histories of remote Indian communities and the craftspeople whose ways of life are changing, is the mission of Dr Indira Chowdhury.  Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Gareth Shute wrote an excellent piece late last year about unsung gems of 2018 in New Zealand music. We asked him in to spin some of these tunes for us and talk about what's going on in the kiwi… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.New Zealand's oldest exotic tree – a Williams pear tree near Kerikeri – enters its third century this year. When the Māori warrior chief Hongi Hika granted European missionaries some land on the site… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.A lizard garden tucked away amidst Kapiti coast regenerating bush is proving a hit with the intended residents, and it's also been a great way of getting the community involved in conservation… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.RNZ's Tim Brown looks ahead to a year in Otago and Southland as the regions grapple with growth and the problems that can come with it. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.We continue our series on volunteering with Carmen Greenland and her aunt Lynn Brooks, two members of a family that has a long involvement with the Waimangaroa Fire Station on the South Island's West… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:30 AM.Jock Phillips is a free-lance writer who lives in Wellington, and is one of the country's most well-known historians. He's now in the early stages of an new project called A History of New Zealand in… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.Ian Newman is the LANDSAR (Land search and rescue) Group Support Officer for the Upper North Island - in the second of our series of LANDSAR volunteers he talks about unforgettable searches, and how… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.New Zealanders' favourite fish to eat are salmon, snapper, tarakihi, gurnard and hoki. Fishing company GM Justine Powell wants people to branch out by plating up some mirror dory, mackerel, kahawai or… Read more Video, Audio

11:05 AM.Makere Rika-Heke, Pouarahi Mid Northern, Heritage New Zealand is a pre-eminent indigenous archaeologist and a strong advocate for indigenous archaeology who's worked on sites in NZ and Australia, as… Read more Audio

10:37 AM.UltrasouNZ is in the midst of rehearsals but Joe Blossom and Vanessa Stacey got special permission to join us in the Wellington studio Read more Audio