Rnz: Afternoons With Jesse Mulligan

A groundbreaking automated road cone machine, developed in Stratford, Taranaki, is set to transform roadwork safety.

Failure can be fascinating and when Hollywood produces a box office flop, it can often happen in spectacular fashion. Tm Robey is a film critic for the Daily Telegraph and tells the stories of 26 film flops who he says often come from out-of-control white male genius who were often given budgets to match their egos. He offers the lessons flops like Rex Harrison's Dr Dolittle and the star studded musical Cats in his new book, Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops.

It's the time of year when a lot of us are thinking about summer and pool owners are looking at whipping their pools into shape, so the kids - and neighbours - can enjoy them. So how do you turn a green pool into something inviting and sparkling? Jesse talks to pool cleaning and maintenance expert Ally Boggs from Pool Water Specialists.

Every week Jesse calls an iSite somewhere in the country purely at random and chaos (or just a nice chat ensues). This week he tries giving Tirau a bell.

Pratik Navani reviews a new sitcom that follows a teacher in a Texan school and explores some of the amazing TV in Japan.

It's the type of crime that many of us don't want to read or speak about - the content is often too disturbing to comprehend. But the sharing of child sex abuse material has skyrocketed both internationally and here in New Zealand NZME Journalist Jared Savage was given unprecedented access to NZ Customs' Child Exploitation Operations Team, an investigative unit working tirelessly to rescue children from exploitation "Unmasking the Monsters," is a must-watch for every parent and screens tonight at 7.30 on TVNZ Chief Customs Officer Simon Peterson and NZME Journalist Jared Savage joins Jesse to talk about the documentary and their work.

New Zealand fashion legend Liz Mitchell has teamed up with Wanaka fashion brand 'Precious Collaborative' to create a limited edition woollen coat. The coat is made of a "kiwi version" of tweed hand-spun on 100-year-old Hattersley looms by boutique weaving company McLean & Co in Oamaru The coat will be sold at auction with the proceeds going toward funding a collection of wool and hemp streetwear Jesse talks to Sue McLean of McLean and Co.

The National Pub quiz championship was held on Saturday. The event - which crows the nation's best team - saw 560 participants go head-to-head. They battled it out over Sports, Science, TV, Geography, and of course beers. This year the trophy was taken home by "Eddie's Back, Don't Call" Team captain Kelvin Lange joins Jesse to talk about the win.

Today on the pre-panel producer Carol Stiles joins Wallace Chapman & Jesse Mulligan to preview tonight's show.

Have you ever wondered what critter creates those large horizontal webs in our native forests? This week, Forest & Bird CEO Nicola Toki will introduce you to the creator behind the webs, the New Zealand sheetweb spider, Cambridgea foliata. It's the largest of our sheetweb spiders and can craft a web up to 1 m in diameter!

Gardening expert Kate Hillier has some expert advice for keeping those nasty pests away from your precious plants.

Julie Biuso brings Italy to the show with a dish from her late mother-in-law Mamma Rosa.

Dom Corry is in the studio to talk what's on in the theatres. He reviews Heretic, starring Hugh Grant; a Lucy Lawless directed documentary Never Look Away and the drama Memory, featuring Peter Sarsgaard.

Listener Rick explains how his life has been marked by incredible coincidences.

A couple of months ago there was a campaign for Hamilton to redesign its coat of arms... Spoiler alert - The mayor said it's not going to happen. But that got us thinking.... Why do our cities even have Coats of Arms? And are they actually any good? Or could some cities do with a bit of a rebrand? So to answer that question - and come up with a distinctly un-comprehensive - regional coat of arms ranking... We're joined by David Jack & Dick Frizzell David is an expert in all things Coats Of Arms and Dick is an internationally famous artist.

Yesterday Steve Gurney joined us for Sporting History. You can still listen to that conversation with the nine-time Coast to Cost race champion on the RNZ website Near the end of our conversation he mentioned a charity project he's involved with - the Coast To Coast Rangers. We ran out of time to talk much about it, but our interest was piqued.

Human or Horse? Who would win a 40 km race? It sounds like the kind of question you'd toss around after a few too many beers at the pub... and that is exactly where the idea for 'The Only Fools and Horses Race' came to life. Runners and horses will go head-to-head in a race through rugged terrain in central Otago While horses can average speeds of up to 40km/h, Humans typically run at around 10km/h ... but who have the endurance to go all the way? 'The Only Fools and Horses Race' coordinator Steve Tripp joins Jese to explain why this is happening.

Today on the pre-panel producer Carol Stiles joins Wallace Chapman & Jesse Mulligan to preview tonight's show.

Dr Grant from Victoria University looks at the history of mass protests in New Zealand and how they stack up against Tuesday's hikoi to Wellington.

Publicist Ali Jones says she has the answer to poor health outcomes for mothers and newborns: a health system where midwives are front and center. It's an approach advocated for by the WHO in a new report. But there is one place where a system like this is already implemented: Aotearoa/New Zealand. but is it appropriately funded?