Rnz: Afternoons With Jesse Mulligan

There's a stage few people talk about between the worst days of an eating disorder and full recovery. It's the messy and misunderstood middle. That's where author and professor Mallary Tenore Tarpley finds herself as an adult who spent her teenage years in and out of hospitals with anorexia. In her new book, she blends her own story with insights from hundreds of patients worldwide and the doctors working to better understand this space, where setbacks are real but so is progress. Her book is called Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery.

For Monday Expert feature today, we're going to answer all your burning questions about physiotherapy. Today is World Physiotherapy Day and the theme this year is healthy ageing, with a particular focus on preventing falls and frailty. Jessie Snowdon is down in our Christchurch studio. Jessie is a physiotherapist specialising in aged-care, and the founder and director of On the Go Physio. As always if you've got a question, you'd like me to put to Jessie, you can send it to me on 2101.

As regular listeners will know, we like a cold call here on Afternoons, a chance to add a little suspense to the day, will they answer? 

TV Critic Caitlin Cherry with her take on the gritty Scottish drama Dept Q (Netflix) and also Country Calendar (TVNZ), is it time for a refresh?

A new trial is underway that involves facial recognition technology, for sheep. 

We're really excited about this next conversation, it combines some of our favourite things, architecture, design, travel and comedy. 

What does it mean to be a charter school, and how do they compare to state schools?

This morning the news broke that fugitive Tom Phillips has been shot and killed by police. 

This week's critter is small but very fierce! The Northland Tusked Weta is around 2 cm in size, they are a beautiful orange-brown colour with bands along the back. These little critters live in small tunnels of trees during the day, plugging up the entryway with their own special mix of saliva and wood dust. This can make them incredibly hard to find, if they are not out and about munching on other small creatures during the night. Forest and Bird Chief Executive Nicola Toki talks to Jesse about the endangered critter.

It's spring! Whoop! Lynda Hallinan is here to celebrate the changing of the seasons and she has some advice for eager gardeners - don't start planting your vegetables yet!! She reveals the perfect time to get them in the dirt.

Kara Rickard host of Music 101 talks about what's happening on the music scene over the weekend, what's coming up on her show tomorrow and because Friday is new music day - she'll pick us a track to play.

We're thrilled to have Olivia Galletly on the show today, Olivia also known as The Hungry Cook has got a blog of the same name, and now a book! She shares her story and her recipe for crunchy cauliflower tacos with coriander & lime mayo. Click here for the recipe.

Dominic Corry shares his picks for best flicks this week: The Conjuring Rites (Cinemas) Pee-wee as Himself (Neon)

It's Freaky Friday time! Each Friday we speak to a listener about a scary, coincidental or otherwise unexplainable experience they've had. If you have one of your own do reach out to us, 2101 is the text number or email afternoons@rnz.co.nz. Today's story is a little less spooky and a bit more existential. Mary from Upper Hutt joins Jesse.

It's Father's Day on Sunday, so what better time to chat about fatherhood. Healthy parents are key to a child's development .. but it's not always easy becoming a new mum or a new dad. A research team in Christchurch has spoken to dads whose babies spent time in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU), to see how they're coping. It's for their NICU Dads study which is about to launch. Dr Suzy Hodgson leads the Fatherhood Research Team at Ara Institute of Canterbury.

What are your rights when it comes to neighbourhood disputes? If a neighbour was throws rock through your lounge window for instance - as reported this week - this would be a police matter. But what about other, less cut and dry issues .. like hostile interactions or lewd behaviour .. playing music you don't like very loudly or parking in what you deem to be 'your spot'? Andrew Hubbard is Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the Citizens Advice Bureau NZ is here to help.

Yesterday we spoke about Auckland's roaming dog problem after new statistics show a worrying trend in dog attacks and call outs. Probably most worrying, 228 children under 15 were attacked last year. On the show councillor Daniel Newman said that the most effective way to deal with the over population problem is through de-sexing. But what about on a practical level for those of us walking the streets .. what steps should you take to stay safe if a roaming dog approaches you? Animal behaviourist Mark Vette joined Jesse to discuss what to do.

Time now for Our Changing World, and today we join Claire Concannon as she heads into the Rees Valley to try to spot a takahe. Twice believed to be extinct, now there are over five hundred takahe, and each year more birds are being released into the wild. The Rees is their newest home. Claire's guide is Chrissy Becker-Fifield who works in the Glenorchy field office for the Southern Lakes Sanctuary conservation group.

History with Dr Grant Morris The manhunt continues for the Australian man accused of shooting two police officers in Victoria last week. Dezi Freeman shares views that align with the "sovereign citizen" which deny the authority of state and law.

It's time to solve some of the world's problems now and today Ali Jones joins us to discuss voter turnout and what we can do to improve it. Local body elections are in October, but even more pressing is this weekend's Tamaki Makaurau by-election, and Labour and Te Pati Maori are already expressing concerns about low turnout.