Afternoons

It's time for Freaky Friday, your home for the spooky and the unexplained... We've had UFO sightings, ghostly encounters, eerie coincidences.... If you've got a spooky story to share ... we'd love to hear from you - email [email protected] or text 2101. Today we're chatting to Keith.

A new tool kit is going out to 500 classrooms across the country .. and it's all about helping our young ones shape the future. Christchurch-based social innovation lab Tokona te Raki wants rangatahi to see themselves not as passive bystanders, but as active participants in the world around them. The initative is called Mo Apopo Future Makers, and it's going to reach around 16,000 students. Project Lead Alice Dimond is with Jesse.

Whether music is good or not is entirely subjective .. or is it? What makes some songs catchier than others? We wanted to get an expert opinion. Dr Patrick Savage knows a bit about this; he is a musicologist at the University of Auckland and joins Jesse.

Whether music is good or not is entirely subjective .. or is it? What makes some songs catchier than others? We wanted to get an expert opinion. Dr Patrick Savage knows a bit about this; he is a musicologist at the University of Auckland and joins Jesse.

The 2026 Commonwealth Games are officially underway in Glasgow! Scotland stepped in after Victoria pulled out as host, and the result is a more compact Games this time around. About 3000 athletes will compete across 10 sports and 4 venues through to the 2nd of August. More than 110 New Zealand athletes are taking part, with some of our most successful Olympic and World champions amongst them. RNZ reporter Adam Burns is in Glasgow and chats to Jesse.

We're starting the show talking business because US President Donald Trump has announced that New Zealand will face trade tariffs of 12.5 percent. We're one of 60 countries who've been set new tariffs. To help explain what that means and who it will affect Jesse is joined by RNZ Business Editor Corin Dann.

We're starting the show talking business because US President Donald Trump has announced that New Zealand will face trade tariffs of 12.5 percent. We're one of 60 countries who've been set new tariffs. To help explain what that means and who it will affect Jesse is joined by RNZ Business Editor Corin Dann.

Welcome to the politics group chat - Afternoons' chance to discuss the issues that have cropped up this week ...with Jesse in the Auckland studio is comedian and commentator Tim Batt .. political scientist Dr Lara Greaves and from Feilding, screenwriter and Free Speech Union member Dane Giraud. Today we're looking at whether it's okay for non Māori to give their children a Māori name, the under 16 social media ban, why making workers turn on their camera in a Zoom call can be disability discrimination and of course Stuart Nash.

Mary Holm is with Jesse in the Auckland studio to talk about personal money matters - this week she's turning her attention to what you should do when shares and KiwiSaver funds wobble. Spoiler Alert - ignore the wobbles and stay the course!

It's time to talk relationships now, Jesse is joined by Professor Kirsty Ross from Massey University's School of Psychology If there are any topics you would like Kirsty and me to cover.. drop Jesse a line at [email protected]