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Behind the scenes at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, a "menagerie" of specimens is a treasure trove for curator Dr Matt Rayner, who is researching how the Hauraki Gulf's seabirds are faring using… Audio

Why isn’t New Zealand part of Australia? | The Aotearoa History Show | RNZ

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Kōtiro Music Video Performance Video

Mild Orange are a New Zealand pop-rock band who've received international acclaim and clocked up millions of streams on YouTube and Spotify. Video, Audio

Iwi in Hastings want to transform an old fruitpackers lodge on police land into a revolutionary space to keep whānau out of prisons.

But they're struggling to get support from the council because it… Video, Audio

NZ Live - Kora

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From a standing start of little tank engines chugging along wooden rails, New Zealand built a vast rail network, made up of enough steel rail to wrap halfway around the moon. Video, Audio

Marine mammals were a source of food and clothing for Māori and Moriori, and valuable oil for Europeans. Hunting them brought cultures together, made fortunes and cost lives but today it's saving them… Video, Audio

We begin this morning in Australia where the Federal budget has been announced. Joining Nathan Rarere from Brisbane is our correspondent Pam Corkery Audio

These are the wars that cost more lives than any other in our history. Stretched over more than a decade & the entire country, these conflicts changed Māori warfare & much of what came next.

Moriori are the original people of Rēkohu (aka Chatham Island or Wharekauri) & they have a tragic and inspiring story. Unfortunately, that story's often been twisted into, well, utter rubbish. Video, Audio

In 1841 a few tiny islands of Pākehā settlement existed in an ocean of Māori land. Today, that picture has reversed & Māori own a fraction of Aotearoa. A big part of the reason? The Native Land Court.

In the summer of 2019, musician Aimee Renata (aka Erny Belle)  relocated from Tāmaki Makaurau to the Northland township of Maungatūroto to write and record her debut album Venus Is Home. She performs… Audio

New Zealand music legend Don McGlashan and Anita Clark (aka MOTTE) join us for a live session. Video, Audio

The discovery of gold drew tens of thousands to New Zealand in search of fortune. It was a hard life, but diggers brought mateship, fashion & egalitarian ideas that changed the country forever. Video, Audio

New Zealanders have battled Covid-19 for more than two years, but if you think it's the first time disease has knocked us around, well, this one's for you. Epidemics have long been part of our story. 

The 1950s saw an explosion of youth culture. “Bodgies and widgies' ' tearing round on motorbikes & hanging out in milk bars scandalised many Kiwi adults. Was “the teenager” invented in the 1950s? And… Video, Audio

The first 500 years of Māori settlement in Aotearoa saw significant, dynamic changes to how people lived; changes that challenge the idea of Māori culture as something carved in stone. Video, Audio

And it's Monday morning so time to cross to our Europe correspondent Nita Blake-Persen. Audio

No-one knows for sure who first introduced rabbits to New Zealand, because no-one wanted to take the blame for what became one of New Zealand's biggest environmental and economic disasters. We start… Video, Audio

Auckland folk musician Tom Cunliffe is currently touring NZ with his new album Secret Exhibition. He performs a live session at our Auckland studio and chats to Jesse Mulligan. Video, Audio

Mermaids are not just resigned to fairy-tales and myths but can actually be a very real life career option. Te Pataka Toi Adam Art Gallery's upcoming exhibition by Megan Dunn. She joins Jesse to talk… Audio

Aotearoa (New Zealand) born, musician and multi-format artist Kelly Sherrod is Proteins Of Magic. Video, Audio

Ainslie Allen became a household name in the 1990s when, aged 16, she was thrust into the spotlight on the McDonald's Young Entertainers television show. She's in to perform for NZ Live today with her… Video, Audio

Former rugby players are 2 and a half times more likely to develop degenerative brain disease and 15 times more likely to get motor neuron disease than the general public. These were the findings of a… Audio