Rnz: Afternoons With Jesse Mulligan

Did you know that one of our giant weta species is a burrowing specialist? As their name suggest, the giant mole weta dig subterranean burrows in which they live. These burrows can extend under the peaty soil up to 30 cm in length! No other giant weta does this! Jesse and Forest and Bird Chief Executive Nicola Toki chat about this week's critter of the week - the giant mole weta

We're about halfway through November and things are starting to get busy .. the last four weeks before Christmas are often the most stressful and frantic time of the year for many of us, juggling school, exams, work, social life and chores Here with tips and tricks to getting organised is Rachael Quin from The Housekeeper.

Gretchen Lowe shares her recipe for snapper, agria, lemon & tarragon croquettes. These crispy morsels are full of fresh snapper, lemon and licorice-like tarragon. Serve with good aioli.

Today Kate shares her picks of what to see on the screen: Wicked for Good - cinemas Frankenstein - Netflix

If you have one you'd like to share please reach out via text - 2101 - or you can email us, afternoons@rnz.co.nz. Today Tim joins Jesse to share his spooky tale.

A dubious honour for New Zealand this week. The country received the 'Dirty Ashtray' award at a WHO tobacco control conference, and that followed the news that we've fallen from second to 53rd in the global tobacco industry interference index. That's on top of news that the tobacco black market in Australia is doing a raging trade right now. All of this has had us thinking about smoking rates, reputation, vaping and the black market here in New Zealand. Professor Janet Hoek is co-director at ASPIRE Aotearoa, a University of Otago research centre, she joins Jesse.

The tv programme A Dog's Show ran from 1977 to 1992. It seems slightly bonkers in 2025, but for those of you who don't remember it, it was a show about sheepdogs wrangling sheep and for many it was must watch tv. Now a new feature film inspired by A Dogs Show is in production, due for release late next year.

Black Friday traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season in the US and is the busiest shopping day of the year there. Over the years, retailers here have embraced the promotion, and we are now bombarded by offers of specials and discounts for Black Friday. But are these discounts really specials? And what do we need to look out to make sure we don't get end up getting sucked into the hype. Abby Damen from Consumer NZ chats to Jesse.

We want to start the show with some good news; Black Sticks' Grace O'Hanlon has been awarded goalkeeper of the year by the International Hockey Federation. It's the first time a New Zealander has won the prestigious award. Grace O'Hanlon joins Jesse.