Afternoons

Wednesdays are often the day when you need some inspiration in the kitchen .. fortunately Kelly Gibney joins us to share her Easy Eats recipe for the week.

Time for our weekly travel segment Heading Off, your chance to hear some adventures, and maybe plan your next one. We'd love to hear from you if you have a tale to tell ... it doesn't need to be exotic, just memorable. Text us on 2101 or email [email protected]. Today we're heading off to Ecuador with one of our listeners Jo, who spent three months managing a cloud forest reserve with her husband in Ecuador.

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Time now to catch up with RNZ podcast Our Changing World's Claire Concannon. This week Claire and Jesse talk about hydrogen in steelmaking.

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Before we get into our next topic .. we want to let you know we're going to be talking about anorexia .. we know for many this can be a distressing topic, so this might be triggering for some. If you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, you can call Heathline on 0800 611 16 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Psilocybin is an active ingredient in magic mushrooms .. which some of you might know that better than others. My next guest, University of Auckland's Dr Hannah Douglas, has just published the results of a trial using the drug to help in Anorexia recovery.

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Sticking with cold weather .. snow and ice hit many parts of the country yesterday and again this morning .. several roads around the country had to be closed due to dangerous conditions. MetService is predicting that the frosty weather will continue for at least the next few days. To make sure we're all driving as safely as possible on the roads Jesse is joined by Mark Warren. Mark's taught Freeze drive courses in The Remarkables region for over a decade.

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Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee is back. Loosely based on a traditional spelling bee, the television quiz show went from a lockdown Zoom quiz to international success. The third season hits screens on August 6th on Three and ThreeNow. To tell us more, Guy Montgomery is in our Auckland studio.

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We're going to start the show talking about power ,, because get this .. this morning, the highest-ever power use was recorded in New Zealand. According to Transpower, at its peak, electricity use was clocked at 7247 megawatts .. and mainly due to increased demand from Aucklanders. This cold snap is clearly putting demands on the grid, so much so that power companies are warning there might be an energy shortfall on Friday morning. Larry Blair is the man behind the New Zealand Energy Substack He keeps a close eye on our energy networks - and can explain how our energy systems respond to demand. He joins Jesse.

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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.

Virginia Giuffre helped expose Jeffrey Epstein, was part of the pressure for Andrew Windsor to be stripped of his royal titles and thus became one of the world's most recognizable survivors of sexual abuse. But while Virginia Giuffre was taking on powerful men on the global stage, she was fighting a very different battle behind closed doors at home in Perth Australia. In the final months of her life, Giuffre and her husband of 22 years, Robert, accused each other of being violent. The courts denied her access to her children and, months later, died by suicide at age 41. A new podcast called Virginia from The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and WA Today investigates the private struggles that defined the end of her life. Journalist Melissa Fyfe asks whether the institutions meant to protect her, ultimately failed her. Need to Talk? Free call or text 1737 any time to speak to a trained counsellor, for any reason Lifeline: 0800 543 354 or text HELP to 4357 Suicide Crisis Helpline: 0508 828 865 / 0508 TAUTOKO. This is a service for people who may be thinking about suicide, or those who are concerned about family or friends Depression Helpline: 0800 111 757 or text 4202 Samaritans: 0800 726 666 Youthline: 0800 376 633 or text 234 or email [email protected] What's Up: 0800 WHATSUP / 0800 9428 787. This is free counselling for 5 to 19-year-olds Asian Family Services: 0800 862 342 or text 832. Languages spoken: Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese, Hindi, and English. Victim Support 0800 842 846. Rural Support Trust Helpline: 0800 787 254 Healthline: 0800 611 116 Rainbow Youth: (09) 376 4155 OUTLine: 0800 688 5463 Aoake te Ra bereaved by suicide service: or call 0800 000 053 Women's Refuge: 0800 733 843. It's Not OK 0800 456 450. Shine: 0508 744 633. Victim Support: 0800 842 846. HELP Call 24/7 (Auckland): 09 623 1700, (Wellington): 04 801 6655. The National Network of Family Violence Services NZ has information on specialist family violence agencies. If it is an emergency and you feel like you or someone else is at risk, call 111.

Every Tuesday we put a pickle to you, our audience, and get your help to resolve it. This week we're looking at whether you should have to sit through all the credits of a movie. We'd love to know your reckons - 2101 on text or [email protected] on email.