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Originally from Ashburton, tenor Simon O'Neill has just won a Grammy as part of his performance in a rendition of Mahler's Symphony No.8 conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Simon speaks to Jesse about the… Audio

The latest edition of the online anthology Orongohau - Best New Zealand Poems is available now. The 2021 edition was curated by acclaimed poet Kate Camp. She speaks to Jesse. Audio

The White Ferns may not have made it into the final four, but the 2022 Cricket World Cup is being hailed as a success for the women's game. Audio

She made history as the first woman to be nominated twice for best director at the Academy Awards. And tonight New Zealand director Dame Jane Campion brought it home.

Her much lauded dark western… Video, Audio

The Mana Cavy Club judged their Virtual Guinea Pig Pet Show over the weekend, judging the best of Lower North Island. Club president and show secretary Kerryann Miller talks to Jesse about what they… Audio

The 94th Academy Awards is this afternoon and The Power of the Dog, directed by Kiwi Dame Jane Campion, has a leading 12 nominations, including being tipped as favourite for Best Picture.

The movie… Audio

New Zealand has completed its biggest Winter Paralympics medal haul for 20 years.

Four medals also left us 15th on the medal table at the Games in Beijing, with experienced alpine skiers Adam Hall… Audio

The tara iti or fairy tern is native to New Zealand and is the country's rarest breeding bird with fewer than 40 adult birds across Aotearoa. DoC ranger Shelley Ogle has some good news for us... some… Audio

Every year New Zealanders take the World on and return with the spoils of victory in the form of World Cups, Oscars, World Championships, Opens, Majors, Baftas, Scholarships, Masked Singer Wins, more… Audio

Nick checks out classic and contemporary jazz from Brazil, including Hermeto Pascoal, Abelita Mateus, and Eliane Elias. Audio

Founded in 1932 by Patrick Collins, his great-granddaughter Jessica Marks is currently running the business. She talks to Jesse about keeping the family business alive after 9 decades. Audio

Actor and comedian Laura Daniel joins the show to discuss what she has on at the moment, her desire to get overseas to perform, and why 'King of Wishful Thinking' by Go West should be viewed as one of… Audio

Tokoroa has won an unusual but impressive title at the Keep NZ Beautiful Awards - best loos! Audio

Performed by Indra Hughes on the Auckland Town Hall Organ, 13 August 2021. Audio

New Zealand actor and winemaker Sam Neill is in Sydney filming Australian courtroom drama The Twelve at the moment he joined Jim Mora to talk about Australia's "tone deaf" national day - and the best… Audio

We announce the finalists of Te KaIpuoro Taketake Toa Best Folk Artist 2022.

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New Zealand film director Jane Campion has become the first woman in the history of the Oscars to be twice nominated for best director.

Local film-makers are banking on The Power of the Dog becoming… Audio

A leading emergency doctor says that, even in the best-case scenario for Omicron, there's going to be big pressure on already busy hospitals.

Latest modelling suggests a peak of 800 people in… Audio

Ralph McAllister reviews three of his favourite reads from 2021: Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris published by Hachette NZ, Tenderness by Alison MacLeod published by Bloomsbury and The Man Who Died… Audio

Louise O'Brien reviews three of her favourite novels of 2021: The Devil's Trumpet by Tracey Slaughter published by VUP, Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen published by Harper Collins, Devotion by Hannah… Audio

Kiran Dass reviews three favourite novels from 2021: Some Answers Without Questions by Lavinia Greenlaw, published by Faber; Intimacies by Katie Kitamura published by Jonathan Cape and My Phantoms by… Audio

Hannah August reviews her favourite books from last year: No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood published by Penguin Random House, Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout published by Penguin and… Audio

Tilly Lloyd of Unity Books tells us about her favourites from last year - "three marvels of non-fiction". Audio

Harry Broad reviews three of his favourite books from last year: Wai Pasifika by David Young published by OUP, Too Much Money by Max Rashbrooke published by BWB and Performer a Memoir by Paul Maunder… Audio

Paul Diamond reviews three of his favourite books from last year: The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey by Julia Laite published by Allen and Unwin; The Forgotten Coast by Richard Shaw published by Massey… Audio