Features

Over the past six months, Australian singer-songwriter Amy Shark has enjoyed the kind of overnight success many only achieve after six or seven years of slogging it out unnoticed. Video, Audio

The Apra Silver Scroll winner plays tracks from his new album Floating in the Darkness. Audio

A medical device inspired by Star Trek and powered by artificial intelligence can test for 13 different medical conditions without a doctor in sight. Audio

William Dart takes a personal journey through the music of Rachmaninov, starting off with the perhaps unfortunate fact that his melodies have been fodder for writers of pop songs. Audio

In part four of The 9th Floor, Guyon Espiner talks to our first female prime minister about coups and coalitions, welfare reform, Winston Peters and her commitment to change.

Dr Robert Raven is a world-leading arachnologist - despite having a fear of spiders. He has recently discovered 50 new ones in Australia. Audio

The ability to have difficult conversations with compassion should be part of a doctor's skill set, says a palliative care specialist. Audio

Matt Sweeney has played guitar for everyone from Iggy Pop to Adele, Run The Jewels to Johnny Cash. Unsurprisingly, he has some amazing tales to tell...

A new generation of female hip-hop artists are changing the game, says an Auckland ethnomusicologist. Video, Audio

Seventy years ago, New Zealand’s various small airlines were amalgamated and nationalised into the National Airways Corporation (NAC). Audio

A spotlight has been shone on New Zealand troubadour Delaney Davidson in a new documentary that shows him both on and off stage. Audio

You might have heard local Balkan brass band Niko Ne Zna featured in the soundtrack of What We Do In the Shadows. Their new album is a feast for the ears - and the stomach. Audio

With the 2017 International Comedy Festival upon us The Wireless has some etiquette tips for comedy fans.

Kirsten Johnstone visits Grayson Gilmour's attic-space studio for a live performance and to find out about the tools of his trade. Video, Audio

Wireless Docs: Apollo Taito is a vegan, and a trained killer – a sergeant in the New Zealand Army to be exact. Watch his story here.

Having never wanted a nine to five job, Canadian comedian Lilly Singh, better known by her digital moniker Superwoman, says she’s now working 24/7. Video, Audio

Three films aimed at a grownup audience fail to impress this week. Simon Morris casts an eye over Going in Style, Beyond the Known World and From the Land of the Moon. Video, Audio

Katia Rostem Agha and her parents fled Syria in 2012 to escape government security forces. Now settled in Wellington, her story is retold in a series of children’s story books.  Video, Audio, Gallery

Auckland Libraries say they will save $1.8 million by cutting 5 percent of staff. But what about the human cost? The Wireless investigates.

Women scientists in New Zealand have been shut out of our history, a cultural historian says. Audio

When self-described ‘bad feminist’ Roxane Gay joked about the ways she was ‘doing feminism wrong', she struck a chord with women all over the world. Audio

Imagine a New Zealand without introduced wasps, rats and possums, and a world where diseases such as malaria and heritable blindness have been eliminated. Audio

My Heels Are Killing Me - Caitlan Mitchell is the editor for one of the longest running industry magazines in the country. She talks to Sonia Sly about a family passion for fashion. Audio, Gallery