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SOUNZ have marked the start of New Zealand #MusicMonth with a new work from the epicentre of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Chinese New Zealand composer Gao Ping composed Bitter Cold Night in honour of Dr Li… Video, Audio

Gao Ping's classical work 'Bitter Cold Night' for violin and piano, is a poetic acknowledgement of the pandemic sweeping the earth in 2020. It is also a celebration of music responding to the world… Video

Best selling Australian author Liane Moriarty has sold more than 14 million copies of her books around the world.  Audio

When should we start getting worried when our volcanic fields start heating up - and which parts of Aotearoa are most vulnerable when it comes to an eruption? Audio

When an Irish journalist raised the possibility of a drug culture in South African rugby he was attacked by fans for wrecking a good news story. But reporters who raise this subject are usually… Audio

The former doctor accused of murdering Amber-Rose Rush lied about his mother's death to save his job at Dunedin Hospital, a High Court jury has been told.

Venod Skantha is on trial for the… Audio

The Crown's key witness in the murder trial of a Dunedin doctor has been accused of making up a stream of lies to cover his own involvement in Amber-Rose Rush's death.

Venod Skantha denies killing… Audio

Samoans are flocking to clinics following news of two more deaths suspected to be from measles. Audio

France criticised for ignoring French Polynesia's decolonisation as Tahiti leader wants to stay French. Audio

The Tudor Consort, directed by Michael Stewart. Audio

Rumours about authorship disputes don’t get in the way of an entertaining second season of Big Little Lies, reports Dan Slevin. Video

Film and TV reviewer Sarah McMullan looks at the new Netflix documentary on Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, The Great Hack. She'll also talk about whether the second season of Big Little Lies… Audio

French Polynesia marks 53rd anniversary of first French nuclear test Audio

Mount Maunganui folk-rock duo Pig Island is a collaboration between songwriters and producers, Antony Jeffares and Luke Thompson. Video

Conspiracy theorists date back to ancient Rome, but social media has given them a vector to distribute their unusual and sometimes dangerous ideas. Audio

A Breast cancer sufferer is devastated by lack of funding in Budget 2019 for the government's drug buying agency, Pharmac. Audio

National is confident the investigation into Gabriel Makhlouf's Budget hacking claim will prove that Treasury sat on a lie.

The State Services Commissioner Peter Hughes says the investigation will… Audio

Kiese Laymon is an author and academic whose memoir about his childhood in Mississippi has been described by reviewers as "astonishing" and "an act of truth telling unlike any other". Heavy: An… Audio

The inaugural Pacific People's Housing Forum was launched in Auckland last week. Discussions centred on the housing challenges and needs of the island communities in NZ and around the region. Audio

This week on Mediawatch Midweek Jeremy Rose talks to Karyn Hay about the NZ Herald's new paywall; the new daily podcast: The Detail: and a couple of stories that have barely made the news. Audio

Something different for New Zealand Live today - we have a one man band in the studio: Li'l Chuck the one man skiffle machine - AKA multi-instrumentalist David Thorpe Audio

Grant Smithies tells Kathryn that something very special is brewing in Naenae. Today we hear two cosmic folk tunes from Lower Hutt's Albert Mikolaj, also known as A.U.R.A. We'll also indulge in a… Audio

French Polynesia ponders Chinese fishing activities in its territorial waters. Audio

French Polynesia's leading advocate for the victims of France's nuclear weapons tests has died, but his work is set to continue. Audio