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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.

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00:08:46

Cover your ears: Bagpipers join for largest world...

Afternoons ·

2025/11/10

This Wednesday, pipers will pay homage to AC/DC when they descend on Fed Square in Melbourne to smash the record for the largest ever bagpipe ensemble. They're hoping for around 350 players to show up. The music video for "It's a Long Way to the Top" was filmed in the same spot in 1976, and one of the original pipers was Les Kenfield. He joins Jesse for a chat.

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00:11:59

The West Bank through a New Zealand man's eyes

Afternoons ·

2025/11/10

While Gaza continues to capture the world's attention, the West Bank has also experienced a dramatic escalation of violence. Aid agencies are reporting that it's suffering near economic collapse, widespread hunger and schools and people living in fear. Christchurch man Cole Martin spent six months there in a refugee camp and has just returned home. He tells Jesse about his experience.

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00:14:18

Where do you find locally made content for our kids?

Afternoons ·

2025/11/06

It seems our children aren't so engaged with locally made content. That's according to new research which has also revealed that parents don't know where to find local shows. The survey - commissioned by NZ On Air - has prompted the agency to launch a dedicated hub on YouTube for our kids. To find out more about this NZ On Air's head of funding Amie Mills is with Jesse.

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00:13:59

Your Money with Mary Holm

Afternoons ·

2025/11/06

Today the focus is on debt and diversification.

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00:23:14

NZ Sporting History: Horse trainer Sheila Laxon

Afternoons ·

2025/11/06

It's Melbourne Cup week and we're thrilled to have trainer Sheila Laxon with us. In 2001, Sheila was the first female trainer to win the Melbourne Cup, with a horse named Ethereal. Last year she became the first woman to win it twice when Knight's Choice crossed the line first. The success doesn't stop there, earlier this year she was honored at the NZ Thoroughbred Racing Awards. Sheila chats to Jesse.

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00:11:39

Group Chat: Lily Allen, Celebrity Traitors UK, and...

Afternoons ·

2025/11/06

Time now to talk through the content filling up your group chats, the conversation fodder distracting you from the task at hand. Joining Jesse is film critic and friend of the show Kate Rodger and Senior Producer Lucy Walker.

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00:08:30

Ride and Sing: The Invercargill taxi with a (loud)...

Afternoons ·

2025/11/06

If you're in Invercargill on a Friday or Saturday night you might catch the bright lights and booming sound of a karaoke taxi. Josh Coats created Super Ridez just five months ago - and it's already proving a popular option for party goers.

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00:07:03

Katie Wolfe directs Witi Ihimaera's play Woman Far...

Afternoons ·

2025/11/06

Two of New Zealand's most well-known and celebrated creative voices have come together for a new staging of the iconic play Woman Far Walking. Written by Witi Ihimaera and directed by Katie Wolfe, the play follows the life of a Maori woman born in 1840, the year the treaty of Waitangi was signed, as she travels through our history. This version of the play is called Tiri: Te Araroa Woman Far Walking, and it has an updated script with English and te reo Maori weaved together. Katie Wolfe chats

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00:12:53

Individual actions and combating climate change

Afternoons ·

2025/11/06

We're want to talk about climate change, and more specifically whether policy makers are throwing in the towel on the climate battle. It's a question we're asking because Climate Change Minister Simon Watts has announced changes to the Climate Change Response Act. The biggest amendment seems to be the proposal to end the current requirement for the Climate Change Commission to advise the Government on the country's emissions reduction plans. It would also mean the public would no longer be

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00:12:57

Stories from Our Changing World

Afternoons ·

2025/11/05

Susana catches up with Our Changing World's Claire Concannon, who has recently travelled to the Waikato to learn more about the gold clam.

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00:21:48

Feature interview: An insight into wildlife trafficking

Afternoons ·

2025/11/05

On the outskirts of Malawi's commercial capital in South East Africa, two of the world's most vulnerable groups, children and wildlife, were being exploited at an orphanage established by a Taiwanese monk. Behind its walls, children were being groomed to take part in an international wildlife trafficking network in ivory, rhino horn, lions' teeth, shark fins and pangolins. For more than a decade, journalist Rachel Nuwer has investigated the illegal trade in endangered animals, often putting

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00:06:27

Easy Eats: Chicken, coriander and cashew salad with...

Afternoons ·

2025/11/05

Our regular Easy Eats contributor Kelly Gibney is back from her holiday and joins Susana to share this recipe.

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00:11:32

Heading Off: Afternoons listener Frida Harper takes...

Afternoons ·

2025/11/05

Time for heading off. It's the moment in the show when we take you travelling to locations you might always have wondered about. We love hearing about your adventures, so if you have one you'd like to share, please email us afternoons@rnz.co.nz Today we're going with Afternoons listener Frida Harper to Kazakhstan, Kyrgistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.

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00:14:13

Saxophonist Jess Gillam is coming to NZSO

Afternoons ·

2025/11/05

On the world's classical music stage, Jess Gillam is making a big splash. It's 20 years since Jess first found a saxophone in her hometown of Ulverston, Cumbria in England's northwest. Jess is on her way to perform with the NZSO this month and when we caught up between rehearsals

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00:09:21

How safe are our seniors when it comes to big tech?

Afternoons ·

2025/11/05

This week we've been delving into the impact that phones are having on us. And while the focus is often on young people, there are actually many more who are impacted. Yesterday, Jesse interviewed Canterbury University's Dr Miriam McCaleb about high screen time for new mums. Today we are continuing the conversation to look at the impact of cell phone use on seniors. Otago University's Dr Edmond Fehoko chats to Susana.

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00:07:08

Are you taking the correct dosage of paracetamol?

Afternoons ·

2025/11/05

If you're just about to pop a Panadol tablet - you may want to pause first. New research by Auckland University shows many of us are taking too much paracetamol. It found a third of us commonly take more than the recommended dose of two painkiller tablets at once. Meanwhile 11 percent of us commonly exceed the daily limit of eight tablets a day. To talk about this more - chair of General Practitioners Aotearoa Dr Buzz Burrell is with Susana.

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00:04:00

You're the Judge: Is honesty always the best policy?

Afternoons ·

2025/11/04

We've got a newish segment called 'You're the Judge' where we present an issue that's been sent in by one of our listeners, and you, our audience, decide what the right course of action is. If you've got an irk you'd like resolved, please do email me jesse@afternoons.co.nz

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00:22:48

Feature interview: The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz

Afternoons ·

2025/11/04

It was a bargain with the devil they couldn't refuse. A group of women prisoners in Auschwitz were offered a slim chance at survival in exchange for playing music. They played as inmates got off the trains. They played as prisoners marched for roll call. They played as ash from the crematoriums rained down on them. Historian and biographer Anne Sebba tells the story of the only female orchestra in the camps, exploring not only the moral dilemmas they faced, but the impact their music had on

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00:06:11

Update on Oz with Brad Foster

Afternoons ·

2025/11/04

It's Melbourne Cup day! We talk to Brad about the issues that have got Australians talking. Today we're looking at a new public register of child sex abusers, head knocks in the NRL, abandoning Australia's emissions reduction target of net zero and of course Melbourne Cup.

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00:09:34

Book Critic with author Catherine Robertson

Afternoons ·

2025/11/04

Author Catherine Robertson joins Jesse to chat about books she thinks are worth reading: The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume 3 by Philip Pullman (David Fickling Books) 1985 by Dominic Hoey (Penguin) James by Percival Everett (Mantle)

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