Features

Canadian singer Allison Russell was on Joni Mitchell's Newport and Hollywood Bowl stages, stood alongside Rhiannon Giddens and Leyla McCalla for Songs of Our Native Daughters and has released two splendid solo albums. William Dart follows her career. Audio

This week, we’ve hymns that focus on peace, unity and consolation, including Make me a channel of your peace (The Prayer of St Francis), and Margaret Rizza’s In the Lord is my joy and salvation. Audio

Geneva Alexander-Marsters (aka Geneva AM) is a singer and beatmaker based on Waiheke Island. Video, Audio

As Dune: Part Two opens in cinemas this week one pair of ears will be tuning in more than most - those of Wellington based, Emmy award winning sound editor Martin Kwok. Video, Audio

Ben and Louis Helliker-Hales are Chaos in the CBD, the New Zealand brother DJ duo making waves across the world. Audio

Maggie Tweedie catches up on their touring life abroad, and a special music collaboration with another Aotearoa treasure, Nathan Haines.  Audio

Masterton is buzzing this weekend for The Golden Shears - a shearing competition billed as the world's best. Video, Audio

Julie Legg shares her own story and those of other Kiwi women in The Missing Piece – a new book about the experience of adult ADHD. Audio

Make the most of the last summer fruit with Jess Daniell's twist on an Italian classic.

After 35 years, the New Zealand news service is facing closure. The Detail looks at whether a white knight may still appear on the horizon. Audio

Frances Moore from NZ Opera talks about company's efforts to encourage New Zealanders to write new ones. Audio

Former British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman chats to Kathryn Ryan about the state of fashion. Audio

Comedian Alice Snedden explores our curiously apathetic response to environmental damage in the doco series Bad News. Video, Audio

When Canterbury photographer Shoshana Schande hits the hills, it's usually with her five-year-old son and 18-month-old daughter in tow. Audio

The second instalment of Denis Villeneuve's space sage is long, dense and exciting, writes Dan Slevin. Video

You might have seen your favourite wellness or fitness influencer sporting a small white spot on their upper arm. It’s a continuous glucose monitor (GGM) and it’s the latest biohacker ‘wearable’.

Jazz guitarist and composer Callum Allardice has gone seriously big band for his new album, Cinematic Light Orchestra. Video, Audio

It is 20 years today since Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King swept all 11 categories it was nominated for at the Oscars, including costume design and makeup - for which Wellington's Wētā Workshop was responsible. Audio

Wellington-born Samoan singer Aivale Cole is back into full-time singing, and back in Aotearoa to perform in the Auckland Festival gig The O.Gs, a celebration of the first wave of Pasifika opera stars. Video, Audio

The Voice of Tangaroa - Crackle, pop, woof, crunch, click. In the ocean, an undersea orchestra is in full swing. Journalist Kate Evans discovers who’s playing in it and why, and what happens when human noise drowns out this symphony in the sea.  Audio

The Zone of Interest is a harrowing film about the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp and his family - the pictures are almost home movies, the sound is pure horror, writes Simon Morris. Video, Audio

Lithuanian-born, New York-based jazz singer Simona Smirnova accompanies herself with a very home-grown folk instrument, the kanklės. Video, Audio

Christopher Tin's oratorio about the history of flight premieres at this year's Hamilton Arts Festival. RNZ Concert's David Morriss talks with one of the performers, soprano Jayne Tankersley. Video, Audio

Leap day babies might be only able to celebrate on the actual day of their birth every four years, but they say being born on 29 February makes that day even more special.

Lithuanian musician Simona Smirnova is in Aotearoa for concerts with NZ jazz musicians. She came in to the RNZ studio to talk with Bryan Crump and demonstrate her instrument, the kanklés. Video, Audio