Rnz: Afternoons With Jesse Mulligan

Award-winning local musician Vera Ellen performs a live session in our Wellington studio.

An international team of researchers has undertaken the most extensive review of masks so far. Among them was our very own Professor Michael Baker, of the Department of Public Health at Otago University in Wellington.

Budget Day 2024 is coming up next week on Thursday 30 May.It will be one of the biggest political events of the year and possibly define the Coalition Government. Some critics have predicted it will be a 'Black Budget' but what does that actually mean? Today Dr Grant Morris looks back to 1958 and the infamous Black Budget.

Today Simon Wilson's with Jesse to talk about 'green housing' off the back of the NZ Green Building Council Housing Summit held in Auckland this week.

A three-time Olympic gold medal-winning rower, a Commonwealth Games bronze for road cycling, and soon-to-be Team New Zealand cycler, Hamish's athletic career knows no bounds. Hamish speaks to Jesse.

Rachel talks about Reb Fountain's cover of OMC's How Bizarre and a new track out from Vera Ellen.

The New Zealand Catan National Championships take place on June 1st and 2nd at Wellycon. 

RNZ has created an Asia unit, largely based here in Auckland to reflect the diversity in our communities and share their stories.

Charlotte Squire helps people write their family history - for themselves and future generations. Why? 

Central Auckland's Kelmarna Community Farm have been feeding the community and bringing the joy of gardening to urban residents for forty years. 

This week, Phil Vine dives into the science of climate attribution. How much is climate change affecting extreme weather events? And how can this new science prepare us for the future?

Every generation has its own brand of crisis. As far as writer, linguist, and podcaster Amanda Montell is concerned, celebrity worship, conspiracy theories and a tad of mysticism is a crisis. She says our shared grasp of reality is slipping. She says the rise in irrationality is a response to information overload in the digital age. She offers a message of hope that we can regain our ability to reason in her new book, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality.

Our bookmarks guest this week is an example of what it means to beat the odds. As a tech entrepreneur, David Downs was at the centre of many amazing innovations during the 1990s and 2000s. He also spent over a decade working with Microsoft as a regional director. In 2013 he was a semi-finalist for New Zealander of the Year for his dedication to improving cancer research and treatment following his own battle with the disease. He's with Jesse this week to share what he likes to read, watch and listen to in his down time.

Each Wednesday she presents us with Easy Eats - the solution to putting something healthy delicious and affordable on the table rather than reaching for your device to get a take out or meal delivery.

Today Matt Heath talks to Jesse about The Rest is History and Professor G.

We held our very first reading party here in Auckland last night. We reflect with one of the guests and our very own people about how that went.

While kids are usually accused of not being interested in local democracy, Rotorua's Jimmy Bathgate has shown age is no barrier to having your voice heard on local matters.

Using drones to find lizards might sound like an impossible task, but it's hoped the technology can get to our endangered ones. Carey Knox has spent 13 years as a lizard ecologist - or herpetologist is the technical name - and he's in the process of undergoing research collecting important data on New Zealand's endangered lizards. He's fundraising to get a drone to help him get to the tricky places where they live. He explains it all to Jesse.

The disappearance of 11 years Mike Beckenridge and his stepfather John was initially thought to be a sad story of a murder suicide. Stuff journalist Michael Wright's podcast on the complex and compelling case released this morning.  

They're called The Redheaded Murders, the brutal killing and dumping of up to 14 women along motorways in the American South more than 30 years. The murders remained a mystery, almost forgotten, until Mr Campbell's students from a small high school in Eastern Tennessee got on the case. They identified a serial killer connected to six of the murders. The work of the high school students is featured in a 10 part podcast called Murder 101. At one point it was the most listened to podcast in New Zealand. We'll talk to Mr Campbell and student sleuth Hannah Metcalfe.