Features

The Human Cell Atlas is an ambitious project that aims to map the 35 trillion plus cells in our body that make us who we are.  Audio

Auckland's youngest ever mayoral candidate tells The Wireless why she's standing for the Green Party next year.

Nonplussed, gobsmacked and shaken by the thought of an ochre-tinted villain in the White House? This week’s longread roundup is a bumper Trump edition, with the best writing on the how, why and what-now of the US election.

The political world may have gone up in flames, but for pop culture it was another week in paradise, writes Katie Parker on The Wireless.

Mixing in the wrong company and enjoying the risky delights of the brothels of Vienna led to an early death for young Franz.  What if he'd made some better choices? Audio

Poet Sam Hunt, Cohen's biographer Sylvie Simmons, and Professor of Religious Studies Paul Morris join Alex Behan to reflect on Cohen's life and craft.  Audio

Still putting the pieces together? Make sure you didn't miss any RNZ coverage and analysis as the week unfolded.

Netherlands-born writer Huberta Hellendoorn tells of sheltering with her family in their cellar in the last days of World War II and her remarkable reconnection with that fearful past 50 years on. Audio

The president of American organisation Catholics for Choice, says no religion, including his own, should have political influence in a secular society. Audio

A local insurer is encouraging its customers to try in-vehicle eye tracking technology as a way of reducing road accidents Audio

It took Austrian-born winemaker Rudi Bauer four years of hard work to transform the stony semi-arid slopes of Bendigo into a successful biodynamically sustainable vineyard. Audio

Remember that as a parent you have more capacity to handle your emotions than your teenager does, says an expert – avoid being authoritarian or emotionally overreactive. Audio

The 18 year old country folk singer from Lyttelton visits our Christchurch studio to perform a track from her new album Evergreen. Video, Audio

In the wake of Donald Trump's election to the US presidency, some people have talked about leaving America; others have joked about taking drugs to escape into an addled haze. Well, RNZ can help you with the latter. Kind of. Audio

This week, the All Blacks attempt to bounce back from a historic loss to Ireland, Joseph Parker secures a home-town advantage for his world heavyweight title fight, and much more. Audio

Brilliant Brass tips a miner's hat to the great Maurice André who spent his early years shifting coal for a living. Audio

'One night during a storm I found myself staring into the ominous, enveloping darkness of Cook Strait from Owhiro Bay on the south coast of Wellington'. This is the inspiration for 'Dubina' composed by Karlo Margetic during his last year at school. One of five varied pieces in this week's offering from music recovery project Resound.

Wi Pere Trust in Gisborne has a mixed portfolio of horticultural crops from kiwifruit to oranges, mandarins, grapes and persimmons. It's looking at expanding its citrus because of market demand. Audio

Leonard Cohen has left the building, but gave us fair warning with his last album, released just weeks ago. Cohen Fans Kim Hill, Hollie Fullbrook, Steve Abel and Nick Bollinger discussed You Want It Darker. Audio

The global market for humble H20 is booming. And even if you aren't all that thirsty the marketers are making sure there's a water to suit every lifestyle, and hydrate the inner You.  Audio

William Dart explores a few other choice slices of plucking heaven: Mandolin Orange, Vivaldi and Prokofiev, Bill Monroe, David Grisman and the Punch Brothers. Audio

By 2018, cigarettes will be sold with plain packaging in New Zealand. But an academic recommends our government take further measures against the promotion of 'healthier' cigarettes. Audio

NZ soul singer Hollie Smith lends her voice to the White Ribbon Trust campaign to raise awareness of domestic abuse. 

Enticing poetry about lost Englishness, the glory of war and the nobility of death was of strange comfort to shocked soldiers in the trenches of 1916. Kate Kennedy describes the procession of composers and poets sent to the Somme. Audio, Gallery