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Bougainville's government is planning to re-open the long closed Panguna mine, and operate it with a company that's majority-owned by Bougainville.  Audio

The author of the Rosie series Graeme Simsion talks about his mid-life career change which led to him becoming a best-selling writer. Audio

There are tracks and trails all over the Wellington region - but many locals don't know about them, let alone visitors. So a project is underway to change that - it's called find your wild. Audio, Gallery

Niki Ward from Ekor books shares her picks for the best books of 2018: The Mental Load: A feminist comic by Emma, The Working Mind and Drawing Hand by Oliver Jeffers and The Moomin Craft Book. Audio

Manus Islanders are doing what they can to help refugees detained there by Australia, the Catholic dean of Papua New Guinea's Manus Province says. Audio

An immigration lawyer on Guam says new restrictions on Filipino workers will turn a labour shortage in civilian construction into a crisis. The removal of the Philippines from the US H-2 temporary… Audio

Stella Chrysostomou from Volume bookstore shares her picks for the best books of 2018: The Long Take by Robin Robertson, Census by Jesse Ball, and Women in the Field, One and Two by Thomasin Sleigh… Audio

Kiran Dass from Timeout bookstore shares two of her "best books of 2018": Normal People by Sally Rooney, and This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman. Audio

Robert Kelly shares his picks for the best books of 2018 which include; Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne, Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. Audio

The Frank Burkitt Band have won the 2019 Best Folk Artist Tui, which was presented at the Auckland Folk Festival this evening.

David Best helped establish the UK's first recovery-focused prison, which some are looking to replicate in New Zealand. "Why should we support recovery?" he tells Kim Hill, "because recovery will lead… Audio

Charlotte Graham-McLay shares her picks for the best books of 2018: Less by Andrew Sean Greer, He's So MASC by Chris Tse, and Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. Audio

Louise Ward from Wardini books shares her picks for the best NZ Children's books of 2018: The Fire Stallion Author: Stacy Gregg Pub: HarperCollins RRP: $25.00 Whetu Toa and the Magician Author: Steph… Audio

Ralph McAllister shares his picks for the best books of 2018: Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton, The Ladder in the Sky by John Boyne and The Spy and the Traitor by Ben McIntyre. Audio

Chris Tse shares his picks from NZ poetry released in 2018; The Farewell Tourist by Alison Glenny, which is published by Otago University Press, and There's No Place Like The Internet In Springtime by… Audio

Leah McFall shares her picks for the best books of 2018. They are Calypso by David Sedaris, The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean and How To Own The Room by Viv Groskop. Audio

Science Fiction and Fantasy dominate the latest streaming TV releases with Netflix, in particular, piling the options especially high, reports Dan Slevin. Video

Now there's not much that's more subjective than taste in music. But is there a way to place an objective lens on the comparative merits of a band's efforts? RNZ Music's Nick Bollinger is on a writing… Audio

Film aficionado and journalist Kim Choe reviews four new movies – including contenders for the big awards of 2019 – and previews some coming up. Video, Audio

Kim Hill explores the  tackling diet-related disease with Prof Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Megan Tunks and Simon Kenny. Audio

Insight - Summer listening. A few of your favourite Insight programmes from 2018 including; the babies damaged by alcohol, the rise of loneliness, banning mobile phones in classrooms and should Te Reo… Audio

Mel Parsons, Tami Nielson and Lawrence Arabi are among the many fantastic live performances we enjoyed on NZ Live in 2018. RNZ's studio engineers got together and picked their favourites. Video, Audio