Features

Every photographer needs their muse, and for Kate Simon, Bob Marley has proved a lasting one. Audio

As wars continue in Gaza, Ukraine, and other parts of the world, a new book questions whether New Zealand ought to have a military force at all. Audio

Award-winning writer, musician, and broadcaster Nick Bollinger investigates what differentiates New Zealand pop music from its overseas cousins, and what that can tell us about our identity in the 2023 Lilburn Lecture. Video, Audio

If Christmas pop tunes have a negative impact on your goodwill to all, then we have good news. RNZ Concert's resident music fans share favourite classical, contemporary and jazz pieces to restore your Christmas spirit. Video

Lunchtime Concert: Top classical musicians visit the small Wairarapa town to perform stellar chamber music, including Elgar's Romance for bassoon, Rachmaninov's cello sonata, and Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence.

LISTEN: An exuberant and diverse crowd packed the Michael Fowler Centre for this, the first concert to a live audience by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (or any large ensemble worldwide) following the first COVID lock downs.

Chanelle Dickie helps working horses adjust to life off the track at the Selwyn Equestrian Centre. Audio

A 7,500m2 wetland at the bottom of South Wairarapa's Kaiwaiwai Dairies is reducing nitrates drained from paddocks.  Audio

Beloved entertainers Lynda and Jules Topp chat to Charlotte Ryan. Video, Audio

Enjoy music by Aotearoa composers Karlo Margetić and Louise Webster; Hiroaki Tokunaga from Japan, Kurt Rohde from the U.S., and Jae-Moon Lee from South Korea in this Asian Composers League concert recorded by RNZ Concert.

Hine Waitai-Dye (Ngāti Kurī) says an open mind is the number one prerequisite for learning to construct a traditional Māori canoe. Video, Audio, Gallery

Sufjan Stevens' new release, Javelin, has provoked William Dart to a week of deep immersion in the American's earlier music to find out just where his new elegiac songs fit in. Audio

We're celebrating the First Sunday of Advent today with some favourite Advent hymns including O Come Emmanuel, and Of the Father's Heart Begotten. Audio

English grime music pioneer Flowdan chats to Samantha Mythen before hitting the stage in Wellington.

This week, Nick Tipping focuses on jazz manouche, a genre created by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, and carried on by modern masters Angelo DeBarre, Stochelo Rosenberg, and Biréli Lagrène. Audio

Sociologist David Brooks believes treating others with kindness and respect is something we can all learn to do better. Video, Audio

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’ celebration of cheap and nasty filmmaking, Grindhouse, comes home in a paradoxically beautiful package, reports Dan Slevin.

Kelly Gibney shares a summer barbecue side dish from her latest cookbook Enjoy.

You don't really cook a Christmas cake as much as dry it out, says the NZ Agricultural Show fruitcake convener. Audio

Thousands attend the fifth NZ Sikh Games and the first NZ Kabaddi World Cup that took place simultaneously in South Auckland last weekend.

We tend to focus on the masters, but every musician has to start somewhere. And that's when Christopher Norton comes to the fore. Video, Audio

In the 135 years since Jack the Ripper's brutal murder spree in London's Whitechapel, numerous individuals have been named as the culprit, now a British author, Sarah Bax Horton, believes she has finally cracked the case. Audio

WATCH - Armed with nets and torches, Charlotte & her crew find some of our most unseen native fish species and build them a passage into the mountains.

A masterpiece of its genre, examining the history of the sport  from the inside out, Ryan Bodman makes us realise that rugby league has done well to survive, let alone thrive, writes Michael Burgess.