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Jesse hosts an upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time.

The show within a show, the little show that could, call it what you will, Wallace Chapman and Jesse Mulligan will always make you smile as...

The rich and famous have gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the Met Gala, for a dinner where a ticket costs around $100,000 U.S....

Every Tuesday we take a dilemma and ask for your help in solving it. This week we're looking at emoji usage - and what to do if your boss ch...

Ximena Smith, Afternoons podcast critic, joins Jesse to share what she's been listening to: 'Expanse: The Nannup Four' 'Everything Is Fake a...

Verb Wellington's Claire Mabey chats to Jesse about what she's been reading: Empire of AI by Karen Hao The Other Catherine by Lauren Keenan...

It's time for Mayoral minutes, where we speak with a local mayor about the challenges they're facing, how they're working to solve them and...

As fuel costs rise, Katy Gosset talks to a transportation engineer about thrifty ways to get around instead of using the car.

Clinical nurse Bini Mathew has been awarded the Aged Care Association 2026 Nurse of the Year. Bini is based in Palmerston North where she ov...

Now to a "cleantech" startup aiming to eliminate carbon emissions from the making of steel. The idea involves replacing carbon with hydrogen...

Stats NZ released the latest marriage figures yesterday and they show a continual decline. 17,481 marriages and civil unions were registered...

It's that time of year when many companies will be doing performance reviews and the idea of a pay rise gets floated. But with inflation and...

It's a show within a show! Guaranteed to make you smile, or grimace. The Panel team previews tonight's edition of their programme.

A five-second chat with a stranger can sometimes do what a week of self-care can't. Tiny moments like a comment in the supermarket line, a q...

Afternoons TV critic Michelle Langstone reviews: Half Man (TVNZ+) Bait (Amazon Prime Video)

It's time now for our expert feature where we tackle a topic and put your questions to the people who know it best Today, we're talking abou...

Every Monday we like to check out a local club or society doing something cool. If you've got a club we should know about then let me know -...

We catch up with Brad Foster, our friend across the Tasman, to find out what's hitting the headlines in Australia.

You might remember the film Heathers from the late 80s. It starred Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, and it's stood the test of time as a c...

A cool study caught our eye, and we wanted to learn more about it. A University of Waikato project is looking at taking advantage of neighbo...

We came in this morning to a text machine full of with messages about the American butter that's in some of our supermarkets. Most of them e...

Wallace Chapman and producer José Barbosa preview tonight's instalment of The Panel.

This week's critter is a gentle giant of the seafloor, a mussel so big it sticks out of the mud like a little underwater skyscraper. It filt...

Lynda joins Jesse to talk about the pros of autumn, turns out there are some silver linings about making an autumn to-do list and getting st...

Borscht is popular throughout Eastern Europe, with countless variations. This hearty version, almost thick enough to be a stew, is meaty, sm...

Freaky Friday is the home for all of your terrifying tales and eerie coincidences. So if you've spent a night in a haunted house ... seen an...

In 1982 teenager Roxanne Sharp was killed in the woods of St Tammany Parish, which is about 48km north of New Orleans in Louisiana. At the t...

We are officially entering school ball season which means the giddy excitement of choosing partners, dresses, suits, make up, party limos an...

Afternoons film critic Kate Rodger joins Jesse to give her hot takes on the latest films out in cinemas. The Devil Wears Prada 2 Apex

On a recent trip to the Chatham Islands, Mela and David Greenslade were struck by how reliant the islands are on diesel, despite being compl...

Mary Holm is with Jesse to talk money matters and today she's focusing on KiwiSaver: ACT's KiwiSaver idea and the two KiwiSaver changes Mary...

We're working our way through the alphabet to highlight people, places or events that make New Zealand, New Zealand. This week we're at T an...

Professor Kirsty Ross from Massey University's School of Psychology joins Jesse to discuss issues and how to solve them. Please get in touch...

New research shows that homeowners, and aspiring homeowners, are less concerned about beautification of their homes and more focused on the...

This weekend marks the start of the New Zealand Comedy Festival, and gosh couldn't we all use some laughter right now? Tony Lyall is one of...

Research by some Auckland scientists has been labelled one of the big science breakthroughs of 2025 by Quanta magazine - a renowned US publi...

For many school leavers, university seems to be the default option, and doing an apprenticeship or going into the workforce is often seen as...

We've all seen the child who eats three foods on repeat, refuses anything green, and can't abide by food touching other food. But social his...

Kelly Gibney comes up with the dishes every week and joins Jesse to share today's one.

This week we're off to sunny Vanuatu with Alice Berry.

Host Claire Concannon is in the field this week, so Liz Garton is with us to talk about her visit to the Bioeconomy Science Institute.

Harlem Globetrotters Kaylin "Sunshine" West and Alex "Moose" Weekes join Jesse in the studio.

Dennis Renshaw is driving across some of Australia's most formidable roads to raise money for cancer research.

Scott Radnitz is a professor at the University of Washington who has written on conspiracism, and he joins Jesse Mulligan.

For years we've been told marijuana can treat everything from anxiety to chronic pain, often with more confidence than evidence because cann...

On Tuesdays we play You're the Judge - we put a dilemma to you and ask for your help to solve it - today's one is about not posting photos o...

Tim Batt chats to Jesse about all things tech. This week, the TVNZ+ app, the big data center being built in Utah and a new EU rule about mob...

It's time for Mayoral minutes, where we speak with a local mayor about the challenges they're facing, how they're working to solve them and...

Afternoons book critic Bill Hastings shares what he's been reading: Edward Chisholm, Murder in Paris '68, A True Story of Death and Glamour...

Coming up on Thrift, ready or not, retirement comes to all of us but how prepared are we? Katy Gosset takes a look.

Professor Jesse Bering has spent almost three decades researching the way we think about the afterlife. That research led him to the work of...