Features

Opinion - British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's short visit to small fry New Zealand is a political footnote and a sign of the man's ornamental impotence in his role.

"For me the focus was music, it existed everywhere in my young life." Audio

It's not too late to enjoy Michael Houstoun's remarkable odyssey through the 48 Preludes and Fugues. You can also listen here to Michael's insights into playing Bach, as he talks with Tim Dodd.

We visit SWIDT's studio in Onehunga on the release of their debut album; chat to the director of new Head Like A Hole documentary; chat to Randy Newman and loads more!

Molecular biologist and musician Mark Temple has developed a way to 'hear' a genetic mutation. Audio

Drugfree Sport's Scott Tibbutt talks about why secondary school students will be tested at an upcoming rugby tournament and Katrina Grant re-signs with the Central Pulse. Audio

Award-winning Wellington musician Grayson Gilmour plays songs from his latest album Otherness. Audio

Cynthia Morahan checks out composers once considered British, English or even Australian, who were actually Irish. Audio

The Wellington band's notoriety is about to go up a notch with the release of a film that follows them from their reunion in 2008 and delves into the history that led to their demise the first time around. Video, Audio

Paris Can Wait is a melancholy debut feature from a woman who has been around the movie business for nearly 60 years, says Dan Slevin.

Donald Trump's new director of communications, Anthony Scaramucci, has launched an expletive-laden attack on two senior colleagues. RNZ's Washington correspondent says he has never seen anything like it. Audio

At RNZ we love giving you great, new ways, to experience the best stories from New Zealand and the Pacific. So we've started rolling out our new app.

Simon Green – AKA Bonobo – loves NZ, a fact he told us three times during his show last night. It’s one of his favourite countries and he’s been here many times. He’s just never played a show.

In the fourth episode of Caucus, Bill English's Epsom and Ohariu urges, whether the Greens are losing control, and the link between New Zealand First's vote and immigration. Audio

Trevor the caterpillar and Julie the dragonfly are soft robots that can walk and flap using electricity that powers artificial muscles, without a printed circuit board in sight. Video, Audio

On At The Movies and this week auteur alert; Dan Slevin reviews Dunkirk, Baby Driver and Paris Can Wait. Video, Audio

Pablo Sainz Villegas - one of the greatest classical guitarists Spain has ever produced, performs live at the RNZ studios. Video, Audio

The pianist tells us about the technical challenges, about the demands on a pianist's imagination, and about the work's perfection. Video, Audio

A Marlborough farmer who struggled to function under a cloud of depression after eight years of drought is now out to raise awareness of mental health issues in the rural community. Video, Audio

A group of scientists is taking stargazing, blowing stuff up and exploring the bizarre world of quantum physics to the Chatham Islands. Video, Audio, Gallery

What better way to highlight the issue of too much plastic in the ocean, than setting sail on the ocean in a boat made of more than 200,000 plastic bottles?  Marcus Eriksen did just that. Video, Audio, Gallery

Behind every flag there is a story, says British Journalist Tim Marshall, and those stories go beyond interest in just vexillology.  Audio

At 22, Al Deere became a hero shooting down German planes during the Dunkirk evacuations, inspiring Tom Hardy’s character in the new film.

When Herbs’ ‘French Letter’ spent eleven weeks on the charts in 1982, it represented a mainstream peak for a musical movement that began some 50 years earlier. Audio, Gallery