Features

Nick Bollinger discusses a concept album from South-East London spoken-word artist Kate Tempest. Audio

Spider orchids that smell like mushrooms are fooling fungus gnats into pollinating them, and on scientist wants to know more about this botanical trickery. Video, Audio

Twenty two minutes. That's how long Stig Severinsen, a four-time world freediving champion, once held his breath underwater. Audio, Gallery

Drew Ackerman aka 'Dearest Scooter' is the creator and host of Sleep with Me, a podcast that aims to bore insomniacs to sleep. Audio

Kapiti Coast has just voted in its first ethnic mayor, Malaysian-Indian K. Gurunathan. dubbed the 'Guru of Paraparaumu'. Audio, Gallery

A new book - Hand-Coloured New Zealand- the photographs of Whites Aviation - looks back at the iconic, hand-painted aerial photographs of New Zealand. Video, Audio, Gallery

Anabela Rea talks trends, landing a job in fashion and the importance of promoting cultural diversity and clothing that works for all types of women. Audio

Black Sheep: In the 1880s Andreas Reischek stole four mummified corpses from an urupa near Kawhia so he could sell them to a museum in his native Austria. Audio

Ray Columbus, who died Tuesday aged 74, was the first and biggest New Zealand star of the beat group era.

Brooke Fraser checks in from L.A., where she is loving motherhood, on the eve of A Sides, a collection of some of her biggest hits from the past 14 years. Video, Audio

Trevor Reekie features music from a new album Brexit Blues, tunes from Angola, Brazil, Sudan, Morocco and an interview with Mexican singer Lila Downs. Audio

A New Zealand journalist and documentary maker has uncovered a network of sexual predators who are targeting children on YouTube. Audio

Pioneering Wellington DJ Clinton Smiley was struck down with a brain aneurysm 10 years ago, but his influence can still be heard on dance floors around the world. Audio

Kaikōura was once a sleepy village where people stopped for "fish and chips or a pee'' on their way to somewhere else. What changed? Video

Police reporter Carla Penman talks to two women living in fear of their abusers and asks whether Protection Orders are worth the paper they are written on. Audio

New Zealand’s role in the Pacific slave trade is "a dark piece of our history" that is often overlooked, Scott Hamilton says. Audio

Unusual weather shifts around the North Pole are worrying scientists who see them as evidence the climate is changed beyond repair.. Audio

Foodie Judith Cullen and photographer Michelle Chalkin Sinclair have published a book showcasing "everything delicious and colourful" about their southern city. Audio, Gallery

Novelist turned screenwriter Eleanor Catton says filming for a TV miniseries of The Luminaries is due to start late next year.  Audio

Auckland rapper Kings talks with Alex Behan about making tunes on the marae and raising a daughter while trying to break into the music game. Video, Audio

A Captain Beefheart-loving vegan from Castlemaine creates funky, psychedelic layers, African rhythms and an agile tenor delivering surrealist lyrics. Meet D.D. Dumbo. Video, Audio

The host of The Daily Show tells Jesse Mulligan how growing up mixed-race in post-apartheid South Africa shaped his life and sense of justice. Audio

We look at a drug that is rarely out of the headlines – methamphetamine, or P. Are we seeing a new epidemic of use? Audio

Public Address' journalist, drug law reform advocate and long-time music fan Russell Brown compiles a C60 of his favourite music. Audio