Rnz: Afternoons With Jesse Mulligan

Today Mary looks at what happens to your Kiwisaver when you go through a relationship break up.

Sean Becker has 'curled' for New Zealand in 5 men's world championships, won three Pacific champs and represented New Zealand at the 2006 Olympics. 

Adam Burns discusses the latest season of Guilt and reviews a new documentary series about football hooliganism.

45 years ago, today New Zealand suffered its worst aviation accident in history.

In an episode of Grand Designs, Buddy made his cameo as a two-day old lamb that had been rejected by his mother.

Jesse talks to Katie Rood, she's a professional football player who's just returned from COP29.

Today on the pre-panel Wallace Chapman and Jesse Mulligan previews tonight's show. Also producer Sam Hollis joins to discuss the trend of car manufacterers retuning simpler designs, buttons and knobs included.

Today we have an episode from the ABC series Pacific Scientific.   The series travels across the Pacific to meet researchers tackling different problems – from climate change to protecting baby turtles.   In this episode Samoan reporter Adel Fruean is in her hometown to visit a secretive lab at the Scientific Research Organisation of Samoa where scientists are unlocking the power of plants.  

Technology is now all over our homes, with cameras on door bells, and refrigerators that keep shopping lists. Our homes may be getting smarter, but are we asks trend forecaster and author Karen Rosenkranz. She says all these automated, artificial intelligence guided appliances are actually disempowering. A little bit of discomfort rather than just convenience, can actually strengthen our resilience. She makes the case for getting smarter about smart homes.

This gorgeous (almost foolproof) tart is an easy weeknight dinner but will also shine for summer lunches and picnics. Using a mixture of different coloured cherry tomatoes will add extra visual appeal. Get the recipe here.

It's been called one of the world's most scenic and shortest car races. Winding up the ski access road of Coronet Peak it measures just 2.7kims long. With this year's race upon us Jesse talks to Vice President of the Queenstown Car Club Matty Pester.

"The media sector is now forecasting its own death". "For the first time, I'm looking at the future with genuine concern." That's direct quote from NZ Geographic owner James Frankham. He wrote those words a month ago. They sit right at the top of an article about why the publisher has opened its finances to the public. Jesse asks James if the bid to bring in more money and convert subscribers to stakeholders has worked.

Our cultural relationship without the USA usually flows in one direction, from them to us. But for some things they are looking to us, here in Aotearoa. Caroline Klibanoff is currently visiting on an Eisenhower fellowship. Her aim - to learn how we incorporate youth into civic life and set up a similar system back home.

A Taupo-based company is working to reduce New Zealand's reliance on imported packaging Following the single-use-plastic ban in 2019 two childhood friends looked into who was manufacturing paper locally and discovered that much of the paper produced here was exported to Asia, converted into paper bags, and then sent back to New Zealand The friends then set up 'Gratpak' and began manufacturing bags here. They now supply 25 to 30 million bags a year to Foodstuffs. 'Gratpak General Manager Stephen Folcarelli talks to Jesse.

What did you learn about money from your family? And how does that fit with your partner's financial values? Trying to trim costs only works when everyone in your household is on the same page. Katy Gosset looks at financial literacy for the whole family.

The birthrate is dropping all over the world which means fewer parents become grandparents.

Our Australian correspondent Brad gives us the latest on the methanol poisoning in Laos and there's new efforts in household recycling in Sydney.

Claire Mabey discusses the latest from the NZ writer Damien Wilkins. She also looks at The Hotel Balzaar by acclaimed children's novelist Kate DiCamillo and The Haunted Wood, a history of children's literature by Sam Leith.

Freelance journalist Nikki Bezant recently wrote an opinion piece bemoaning the difficulty in finding swimwear that fits for a wide range of body types

In July this year, twenty-two businesses were told they had to move out of Nelson's Morrison Square, but Italian restaurant Babagatto is still holding on.