Afternoons

Passionate conservationist Nicola Toki and Jesse talk critter of the week. This week it is the green hydra. This bright green, stinging, tentacled predator is immortal, swallows live prey whole, is closely related to jellyfish…and is probably lurking in your local stream. Luckily, it's less than a centimetre long. It reminds Nicola of the wee guy (her research tells her it's a bow truckle) that hangs out in Newt Schamander's pocket in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016). Big thanks to Ross McCulloch, University of Otago for the information on the green

Interior design expert Sylvia Sandford talks patterns with Jesse. She says it's time to discard the sleek smooth lines of plain and punctuate our lives with pattern! She offers suggestions as to how and where you can add colour and texture.

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Tom Newfield from Earl Bistro shares Celery & White Bean Stew.

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Kate Rodger joins Jesse to share what she's been watching at the New Zealand International Film Festival. Minotaur, The Fox and the classic French film BETTY BLUE.

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The place for all your strange, unexplainable experiences. We'd love to hear from you if you have your own Freaky Friday tale to share - just text us on 2101 so our producers can get in touch. Today we're joined by Helen Shrewsbury, who's taking us back a few decades to tell us about a strange encounter her then 4-year-old had.

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Some new research out of Harvard University caught our eye .. it's found a connection between women finding love and a job .. if they are slimmer. The study compared the marriage and employment rates of women on GLP-1 drugs, like Wegovy, to a control group of women who wanted to take the drugs but hadn't yet started. Around 18,000 New Zealanders are taking Wegovy after prescriptions became available in New Zealand last year. AUT Associate Professor for Planetary Health Julie Trafford chats to Jesse about the study and its findings.

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Tomorrow morning - at 5AM NZ Time - the All Blacks kick off a tour of South Africa The schedule is a demanding one: three provincial matches, four Tests against the Springboks, and a one-off clash with the Lions. It's the first full tour since 1996. That's 30 years ago, and well before most of the current squad were even born. The tour has been branded Rugby's Greatest Rivalry, and few people know what that rivalry feels like better than former All Black Murray Mexted. He toured South Africa with the Cavaliers and played three seasons of domestic rugby there. He chats to Jesse.

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Shelly Hamilton has lived experience with one of her children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and another currently going through testing.

Wallace Chapman and Jesse Mulligan star in the shortest show on radio, where they show they really can make something out of nothing, join them to be part of their delight, or to simply despair. Wallace will also preview what's on The Panel tonight.

Welcome to the politics group chat, a chance for interesting people to say what they're thinking out loud on topics that have been in the news in the last week. Tim Batt, Dane Giraud and Natalia Albert are our guests and today we're looking a range of issues from Prime Minister Chris Luxon's bad week, whether the media is too tolerant of political violence on the left, Treasury's diversity plan and why less young people are enrolled to vote.

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