Afternoons

The show within a show, the little show that could, call it what you will, Wallace Chapman and Jesse Mulligan will attempt to make you smile as they preview tonight's edition of The Panel.

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Extreme weather keeps getting more extreme. Once-in-a-century flooding is starting to feel routine here, while wildfires and major disasters devastate communities around the world. The Atlantic hurricane season is just weeks away and the financial stakes are about to get very real. The Earthquake Commission covers some disaster damage in New Zealand, but someone still has to pay for the rest. That's where catastrophe bonds come in. They're a strange financial product where investors make money betting on whether disaster will strike. Jeff Guo is a host of NPR's Planet Money, and he explains how catastrophe bonds work, why they're spreading, and what it means when climate risk becomes an investment.

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Wednesday is Easy Eats, a chance for us to share a recipe that tastes delicious and doesn't take forever to make. This week Kelly Gibney shares her recipe for chorizo, white bean and spinach soup.

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Heading Off is our weekly travel segment where we go on adventures. We'd love to hear from you if you've got a travel yarn you'd like to share - text us 2101 or email us on [email protected] Today we jet off to Yunnan, a mountainous province in Southwest China with author and blogger Dunc Wilson,

Claire Concannon, host of Our Changing World joins Jesse.

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Sir Richard Faull is one of New Zealand's most respected neuroscientists, he's well known for his work on diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's & Alzheimer's. He founded the University of Auckland's Centre for Brain Research in 2009 and now for the first time, you can get a front row seat to what kind of discoveries they are making. A new podcast series - Brainstorming - is bringing the centre's research directly to your ears, Sir Richard Faull chats to Jesse.

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The Others Way Festival, one of New Zealand's independent music festivals won't be back next year, and organisers say there are no plans for it to return in the future. The eclectic music festival has run for the past 10 years along Karangahape Road in central Auckland, featuring a mix of local and international acts. While it might have been your cup of tea - it is the latest in string of local festivals forced to say farewell. Which got us wondering, what does society look like without gigs? Or are live music events becoming luxuries only the wealthy can afford? The Others Way Festival director Reuben Bonner joins Jesse.

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Hunters Gold was a 1970s children's TV show, which seems to have come along at a seminal moment in New Zealand screen history At the time of its launch it was the most expensive local TV drama, with a budget of $326,000 excluding staff costs! Hunter's Gold came up on Monday's show and lots of you sent in your fond memories of it. Including Max Quinn who got in touch to tell us the show kickstarted his screen career.

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National has confirmed it will campaign on lifting the retirement age, with leader Christopher Luxon saying the current system is "unworkable and unaffordable." But any changes will need bipartisan support, and currently that isn't looking likely. Treasury's December forecasts estimated the annual cost of superannuation will hit $30 billion by the end of the decade, so if the age isn't changed, what can be done to make sure superannuation remains affordable? Miles Workman is a senior economist at ANZ, he chats to Jesse.

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The show within a show, the little show that could, call it what you will, Wallace Chapman and Jesse Mulligan will attempt to make you smile as they preview tonight's edition of The Panel.

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