Features

Kiwi fiddle player Flora Knight and Canadian guitar-picker Sean Donald play tracks from their self-titled debut album. Audio

Like the Wicked Witch of the West, New Zealand’s parliament will dissolve on Tuesday morning. Audio

Eight Asian men are challenging stereotypes and baring all as they speak candidly about sex, love and dating in a new Loading Docs documentary. Video, Audio, Gallery

Trevor Reekie features a wonderful musician born in Barbados, regarded as one of the great treasures of British jazz culture. Plus tunes from Palestine, Mali and the Kronos Quartet. Audio

In Episode 4 of sex and relationships podcast BANG! Melody Thomas speaks with couples about the ways intimacy has changed over their years together.  Audio

Charlotte Wood’s latest book was inspired by one of Australia's most notorious state institutions, a story she says filled her with fury and pushed her to create the powerful novel, The Natural Way of Things. Audio

The finalists for the Silver Scroll Awards for best composition in classical music, waiata and music for film and TV have been announced.

Will a plan to beautify the river help or hinder its ecology?

Helen Clark and Gaylene Preston talk about Preston's film My Year With Helen and the process of making it. Video, Audio

Pasifika poet Selina Tusitala Marsh talks to Wallace Chapman about her idea to get more boys reading… and perhaps even reading poetry. Video, Audio

“This is an awesome vehicle to promote and champion and normalise te reo Māori within our community as a relevant, living language that can fully rock it next to 54 other languages” – musical director Rob Ruha.  Video, Audio

Midnight Oil, one of Australia's best loved rock bands, has reformed for a world tour after a 15 year break for political reasons. Trevor Reekie talks to the band's kiwi bass player Bones Hillman. Audio

“I’ve got a real knack with computers. I walk in the room and they all start working.” Audio

All you need to hit the rails and trails of Wellington with the Folding Goldies is a Gold Card, a bike (ideally a folding one) and some free time. Audio, Gallery

Candidates for the Māori seat of Te Tai Hauāuru discuss water rights, seabed mining, homelessness, economic policies, welfare and Treaty settlements. Audio

BBC Proms this week on RNZ Concert celebrates a 500th, a 450th and two 100th anniversaries and offers some popular classics and a world première along the way.

With elements of surf, twangy country and even Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti Western scores, the guitars are bright and trashy and Desert Centre is played with bite! Audio

William Dart looks beyond 'Rhinestone Cowboy' to the lesser-known, but equally brilliant and affecting Glen Campbell. Audio

A tribute to Taylor Swift's bravery, the new uniform of white supremacy is all-American and The New Yorker pays a visit to Julian Assange.

William Dart looks beyond "Rhinestone Cowboy", "Wichita Lineman", and "Galveston" to the lesser-known but equally brilliant and affecting Glen Campbell. Audio

Chook-lover Kelly Phelps has rescued and rehabilitated 15,000 battery hens at small farmlet in Mamaku. Audio

Too much pressure on young musicians can lead to performance anxiety and even social anxiety later in life, a psychology and music professor says. Audio

“I called and said ‘Hey, I’m thinking about putting a kitchen in this bus, how stupid is that?’ And she was like ‘Yeah, that’s pretty stupid. Let’s do it.’”

Khovanshchina gets a full-blooded performance at the BBC Proms 2017 with a cast of Russian singers, four choirs, huge orchestra and a Russian conductor in Shostakovich's version of Mussorgsky's 'national music drama'.