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In his 2025 Lilburn Lecture, New Zealand music icon Don McGlashan talks about how bodies of water have shaped him as an artist and person. Video, Audio

Throughout the middle east shakshuka is a staple and simple meal. Eggs are simmered in a tomato based sauce spiced with cumin, paprika and cayenne, topped with fresh coriander and crumbled feta… Audio

Scientists have been researching the cooling ocean east of New Zealand for a while, but more recently it has really been getting attention. Dr Pedro DiNezio is an Associate Professor at the University… Audio

New Zealand has had some big ambitions in the Pacific and mixed relations with our neighbours. Video, Audio

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

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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

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

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

Priya Sami of the band BUB, performs her new single BORED, live for us un the RNZ studio, in support of  the Eastern Women's Refuge Fundraiser at Galatos 9th July 2022. 
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The eyes of the world may be on Ukraine right now, but Dr Jeffrey Veidlinger has focused on a largely forgotten period of history that once captured international attention there too. At the end of… Audio

With the world pretty much kept out of Aotearoa New Zealand thanks to a certain pandemic, we have to find the world within our shores. And the surprising thing is how often that seems to be happening… Audio

The Prime Minister continues her whirlwind tour of Eastern North Island centres today - trying to put a rocket under the vaccination uptake.

Data released yesterday show vaccination levels in wealthy… Audio

A massive evacuation effort is under way throughout the north of the country, following an 8.1 earthquake off the Kermadec Islands at 8.30am.

It has triggered tsunami waves expected to reach New… Audio

New Zealand is set to swelter this weekend with parts of the country forecast temperatures in the mid 30s.

Canterbury and Southland are due to for the best of it on Friday and Saturday as well as the… Audio

Tuvalu is looking to use its climate change fight as a marketing tool to attract more tourists. The low lying coral atoll nation of just under 11-thousand people is the least visited country in the… Audio

Traditional marine conservation practices in the Pacific could be key to more successful commercial practices says a marine conservationist from Palau. Audio

Health authorities in Papua New Guinea's Eastern Highlands are worried that water supplies are being put at risk by protesting landowners. Audio

The head of Tonga's geology team says scientific data from Nasa about emerging life on the country's four year old volcanic island is hugely exciting with the government considering offically naming… Audio

The volcano on Vanuatu's Ambae Island is emitting a fresh load of ash and smoke after an eruption on Monday. Audio

In this episode of Squeaky Bum Time, hosts Emile Donovan and Max Towle welcome The Totally Football Show's Iain Macintosh, and RNZ's Mediawatch presenter, Colin Peacock, onto the pod to wrap up the… Audio

More evacuations called for on Hawaii's Big Island as volcano continues to erupt lava and toxic gas. Audio